The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-25
SOUTH STRICKEN
r ornado Sweeps Three
States Leaving Death
in Wake.

.one hundreds OF miles Wide at places
md ran from east to west
Begnnlng at the western side OF
his storm belt. the towns struck
we're famoure Richland and Vidalia.
La. Walls and Baxter Miss, Ber
gen and Albertdlle, la la addition
shreveport. las experienced q storm
81 great intensity
Aleyandrla La, April 25 "A tor
nado which struck Rlchland Ia. 6 {
milIs south OF here, Killed four peo- 4
Die. fatally injurd1 two and destroy |
ed thousands of dollars worth of I
About q hundred or more /
people We're more or less seriously I
injured. Ephriam Pierce and big
wife and baby were killed when their
house was blown down upon them /
and negro child was killed Two
negroes wer fatally injured.
Pipesione. Mimi. April 25.-A se
we're storm at Flpndrau, S. d., demol
isned several buildings.
New Orleans April 25-Amite.
small town I'M southeastern Louisiana
was almost entirely destroyed by q
tornado The dead are estibated ni
from % to 30. The first details were
hrought to New Orleans by train
along with 81 injured and the dead
w.5H. placed at 46. Physicians. who
aave heen engaged in relief work al
Amite, assert that this estimate Is
correct. correspondents on the scene
however. assert that not more than
a dozen were killed outright but that
SO many sunered fatal injuries that
The list viii reach 25 before morning.
Hattiesburg. Miss, April 25.-The
towns of McCalmm, Puryis and Nc
laurin, Miss. were practically wiped
ont by sfOrm which swept over this
section and Il is believed that 100
persons have been killed in these
sections More than la0 injured have
been brought 10 the hospitals here
Tor treatment Every business house
Ia PurVis and a majority OF the res
iidences we're destroyed. Many FAM
HES ara destitute.
At Mecallum, on the Mobile, Jack
son and Kansas city road, eight are
known to be dead. four of whom are
white persons.
A relief train returned 10 this city
/ from Pnryis at midnight bringing 40
seriously inquired persona. many of
whom. st is said. Will die, The num-
! ber of dead at Pulvis Is placed at 30
land the inquired at 20.
Among the white dead are:
CARRIE DIXON.
MISS GRACE
MRS. JAMES MOFFITT
MRS. GERTRUDE BRIGHT
MISS CLARA WEEMS
MRS. VOWEL
Atlanta, Ga. April 25.-In al near
nv 20 towns were struck by the
.twister7 of which there seems 10
have been at least iive
The tornado that first appeared ~
/ Concordia parish La, appears 20
have been the most serious, both ~
4 respect 10 the number of victims and
1.-THE extent OF territory covered. Al
though IL covered rural district
and struck no large town. the known
results OF It's work are 6i dead and
al least 100 injured with the pros
peet that The list will be considerably
swelled BY morning More than %
OF the dead are negroes whose loe
cabins proved particularly fatal 70
1.-The occupants. being easily torn "a
pieces. while IN eweight Of the tim
lbers crushed the inmates to death
Il Afier leaving soncordia parish, me
storm crossed over into Mississippi
land trayersed portions of Adams, jef
ferson and Claiborne counties. iii
lnath heing about 1000 feet wide.
What appears TO have been iW'
ldifferent tornadoes also struck n
Western Alabama. one claiming si'
victims at Bergen and Thomas saw
min. small places. and another striI
ing Aibertville where several person.
lare reported TO have been killed tins
however. cannot be confirmed as al
wires are down
Relief for the sufferers is heing dia
patched from all available points
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