Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-04-29
!. sourH oARon1NA. WEDNESDAY, Arm 20, 1908.
MANY KILLED IN STORM.
Cyclone Sweeps Over Five States.
Loss of Life and Property.

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Loss OF Life and Property.
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Atlanta, April 27.--Reports up to
midnight indicated that 15O persons
were killed and about 400 injured in
storms of cyclonic proportions which
passed over sections OF Louisiana.
mississippi and Alabama last Friday
night. Several towns were almost
totally swept away and the property
damage will run into large figures.
Most OF those killed were negroes,
whose cabins were swept away like
SO much paper. Natchez, Miss. re-
ports that Of 64 persons killed in
that section, only two were whites.
Late reports from 3mite, a small
town In southeastern Louisiana, say
that the town was almost entirely de-
stroyed and the estimates place the
number killed at between 25 and SO
while at least rs were injured
At McLain, Miss, eight are report
ed to have been killed; at Vidalia, La,
one white woman and six negroes
are dead; ut Quitman Landing, IL
negroes were killed; at Purviss
Landing, MISS, three whites and
nine negroes were victims of the
storm, and reports OF from one to five
deaths come from many towns scat
tered over the storm swept area.
New Orleans and Mobile were cut
OF from wire communication with
the outside world for several hours
and the telegraph companies report
wires down in all directions.
In Louisiana score of small towns
were, destroyed or partially wrecked.
These include Amite City and Ar
cadia, and Independence, Gelle
Grove, Melton, Lorman, Pine Ridge,
Quitman landing, Fairchilds Greek,
Puryius and Lumberton, Miss, are
reported seriously damaged by the
storm.
In Alabama, Dora was the chief
sufferer. This town is also known
as Bergen. Four persons were kill
ed. Fifty persons at the lowest esti-
mate were injured. Those most seri-
ously hurt were carried to hospitals
in Birmingham, Ala.
At Bergen cars were blown from
the railroad tracks and considerable
say that the storm struck Albert
willie, Ala, late in the afternoon and
destroyed nearly the entire northern
portion OF the town, doing much de-
struction to life and property. The
death list Is from 80 to 35, with
scores of persons injured.
At Meridian, Miss, Mrs. John
Minniece and her child were killed
outright and John Minniece was Sc
riously injured, while a number Of
other persons were hurt and there
was consid BILE destruction Of
property.
Richland and Laplourie, La, were
struck by the storm and nearly a
fifth of their population injured.
Winchester, Miss, a small town,
IS reported practically wiped out,
though only two persons are known
to have been killed.
Natchez, Miss, reports 60 are
known to be dead In the northern
Louisiana storm. Hundreds Of plan
tation cabins are reported destroyed
in this section.
Az Columbus, Ca, ten were killed
and four wounded by the storm at
North Highland Park.
| At Cedartown, Ca, ten dead and
twenty wounded as result Of the
tornado.
Summing the Damage.
New Orleans, La, April 2S.-The
caused in four Southern States by
| riday's tornadoes are at hand in
approximately correct form. Briefly
stated they are:
Killed about BOO.
Injured, painfully or seriously,
1900.
Homeless, several thousand.
Towns reporting serious wreck
age, 46.
Habitations and business houses
practically complete ruins in these
towns are about $500.
Following is list by States of the
46 towns reporting more or less
damage, and most of which are quite
| small: ME.Htr r.5
| Louisiana-Lucerne, Kenmore, La
mourie, Richland, Amite; Essie, Pine,
Angie, Franklinton, Sheridan, Award,
Eunice.-Total 12. ita,
Mississippi-Giles Bend, Purvius,
| Church Hill, Lorman, Tillman, Mel
| ton, Baskerville, Braxton. Sunfiower,
Wahalik, Wingate, Columbus, Walls,
Fairchilds Creek, Quitman's Land
ing, McLaurin, McCullum, Winches-
ter, Pine Ridge.--Total 10.
Georgia-Columbus, ChipleJ, La
Grange, Harris, -Griffin, McDonough,
Locust Grove, Cedartown. Cave
Springs. Total 8. @r
| Alabama--Albe Leesburg,
High Mound, Hatton. Blountsyille.
Total 6.
The four members of the Raiburn
family reported killed at Baskerville,
Miss, were not killed, but were In
jured, two OF them, Robert Raiburn
and wife. seriously.
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Death was ON His Heels.
...Jesse p. Norris, OF Shippers, va,
had s. close ealltn the spring of 1905.
| He eaya: "An attack OF pnanmonia