Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-04-26
SEVERAL THOUSAND ARE INJURED
Property Loss Will Amount to Many
Million Dollars.
Loss HEAVIEST IN MISSISSIPPI
Over Three Hundred Dead in This
State and Thousand Hurt.
TORNADO COVERS WIDE AREA
stOrm Starts In Texas and sweeps
Across Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissipPi, Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia.

sissipPi, Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia.
NEW ORLEANS, April S.-Probably half
a thousand lives lost, 100 or more persons
fatally injured and many times this num-
Der seriously hurt, together with property
loss running up into the millions is tho
record so far for tornado that originated
in the west two days ago. sweeping across
Texas, Oklahoma. Arkansas. Louisiana
Mississippi Tennessee. Alabama and
Georgia. II has left a path of death, deso-i
lation and want In its wake, seriously in
terrupting all communication between
cities in the south. and brought about
choatic conditions in many smaller towns
Mississippi already a sufferer from more
than one tornado this year. has again
borne the brunt OF the winds and rains
Estimates Of the number of those who
| lost their lives in that state place the death
| list near 500 with 1000 or more injured
| In Texas. Louisiana. Alabama and
Georgia the death lists are also large. with
serious loss OF life in Oklahoma. Arkansas
and Texas Authentic information is IA
many instances lacking owing to the
crippled facilities for communication and
the lack OF time to form anything like an
accurate estimate of the damage done in
any sections.
Martial Law at Amtte.
Amte. La was so badly damaged that
It was put under martial law at once by
| order Of its mayor. The storm struck
there Just about noon, killing two white
persons and, thirteen negroes outright and
injuring many others, mostly negroes, so
badly that physicians, who were rushed
into the town in relief trains from sew
eral points. said the total death list OF
Amite would reach at least twenty-five
Rev. Father Felix Rumpf was possibly
the first person killed at Amite. He wss
in the bell tower of his church, having
Just finished ringing the MONDAY angelus.
He was crushed 20 death by the fallin,
tower Mrs. A. NJ ogden OF Amite was
caught by the tornado as she was driving
20 her home A tree fell across her horse.
killing the animal, but she was unhurt
Forty persons were at dinner IN the Com
mercial hotel when the storm struck and
the roof was carried away. but not one OF
the diners was hurt
Last Of the Dead.
A nearly cc:aplete list OF the dead fol-
lows:
Amite' city and vicinity:
REV. FATHER FELIX RUMPF.
| CAMILLE MGINNITY, II years
| THIRTEEN OTHER KNOWN DEAD
| Agnie La.
TWO NEGROES.
Concordia Parish. La:
MRS. DEVEREAUx SHIELDS.
/ TWELVE NEGROES
Lamouri. La;
ONE NEGRO.
l .Richlandy La:
EPRAIM PRICE.
MRS. PRICE.
! PRICE CHILD.
i NEGRO CHILD.
Purvis. Miss:
| J. II. MOFFATT.
MRS. ]. II. MOFFATT.
| MRS. LEWIS MOFFATT.
CLARA WEEMS.
GERTRUDE BRIGHT.
THREE MEMBERS OF LEE FAMILY.
CHILD or MRS. LEDBErrER.
CHILD OF MRS PALMER.
| MRS. GRICE.
TwENTY-FIvB NEGROES.
adams county, Miss:
TWENTY-FouR NEGROES
Churchill. Miss, and vicinity:
THIRTY FIVE NEGROES.
Near Port GIbson, Mics:
ONE NERO WOMAN.
L rman, Miss:
ONE NEGRO CHILD.
TWO UNKNOWN DEAD.
Raxteryille. Miss:
FoUR OF RAYBURN family.
McCElum. Miss.
EIGHT, FotjR OF WHOM WHITE
MRS. JOHN MANEES.
MRS. NAMES AND CHILD.
MRS. MONTFORD.
Albertville. Ala, partial death liatt.
MRS JOHN DECKER AND TWO
MRS. WILLIAM AVERY.
ERIcK MccoRD. aged IL years. son Of
Attorney Edward McCord.
MRS. SADLER.
MRS. BURKfIARDT. aged 70 ysarA
YOUNG BIRDSONG.
A -
Section FOREMAN MOORE. wife and
daughter.
MRS. GULLY.
Il 6. p. ADAMS.
Thomas MIL Ala.
HERBERT THOMAS
MRS. CALDWELL.
Path OF Rain Two Miles wide.
the path Of the tornado was about iva
and a half miles wide and when It had
passed Amits stood n wreck. Large num-
bers OF farm animals were killed
The greatest loss OF life among negroes
occurred in the vicinity OF Natchez. Misa
In Concordia parish. Louisiana. across the
Mississippi from Matches. thirteen lives
we're lost all except two OF the dead being
negroes
twenty-five persons were killed in Adams
county, Miss, near Natchez. and thirty
five were killed in the neighborhood Of
Churchill In jefferson county Miss Tne
tornadoes In this section were about ioo
, miles due north Of the Amite tornado and
struck about breakfast time. II was I'm
this section that a negro baby was caught
in the wind carried 800 yards and deposited
I in a swamp unhurt. An aged negro woman
was whiTisa into the air and her head
almost severed by flying timbers before she
fen In a cotton field 100 yards from where
her cabin had stood. The body Of a little
negro boy was found in field with a
: piece OF timber driven through the heart.
Physicians from Vidalia, La. and Matches
spent ali day going from plantation 70
. plantation and sending the worst wounded
] OF the negroes back to the cities 70 be
; treated. Part OF the humane work Of tho
physicians consisted In having scores OF
( injured animals relieved OF their suffer
ing by killing them.
The dead more than 80, the injured al least
/ 600-these were the grim facts which came to
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