Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-04-27
SECOND TORNADO
VISITS GEORGIA
Fearful Southern
Storm Travelled
in Circle
FLOODS FOLLOW TW|STERS
Heaviest Rains in Years in
Georgia, Alabama and
Louisiana.

Atlanta, Georgia, April 27.--All re.
ports from the storm swept section
OF Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana indicate that the tornadoes
winch rolled up the death list to near.
" iour hundred and the list OF In
lured about l,200 has passed north
The storm was peculiar in that il
seemed to travel in circles. Yester
day 1t struck Georgia a second time
with terrific force, but the damage
was not so great as the path OF the
storm was virtually the same as thai
OF the former tornado and the onl,
erect OF the second twister was 10
complete the work of destruction.
However, unprecedented rains In
this state, in Alabama and Louisiana
has added to the horrors of the recent
storm. FRIGHTENED negroes who be
lieve second food is coming are
locking into Fort Deposit from the
country districts
Last nights tornado In this state.
practically destroyed Alencon. small
village near here, and fifteen people
were killed
Summary Of Dead and Injured.
New Orleans, April 27.--The totals
OF death and misery and ruin caused
IN four southern states by Fridays
tornadoes came to hand today In ap-
proXimately correct form. Briefly
stated they are: Killed about $50.
Injured painfully or seriously. 1900
Homeless, several thousand. Towns
reporting serious wreckage, 4; habi-
tatlonS and business houses practic-
ally in complete ruins In these towns
about $500.
The above figures do not include
The wreckage on plantations and
farms. scores Of which were struck
and damaged. The number of dead
may never be known accurately for
the reason that about 300 OF them
were negroes and they were buried
in many communities without careful
records being made of their numbers
While some of the first reports giving
apparently reliable death lists have
since proved unreliable. nevertheless
remote places which were late in re.
porting their dead have served to hold
the total death list uniformly around
800. The manner in which this death
list has grown for two days, In spite
OF continued subtractions from early
reports, has been a melancholy index
OF the interstate scope of the disaster.
Storm Travelled In Circle.
BY following the wreckage of towns
the general direction of the lorna
does can be tracked closely. Appar-
emily this storm struck in three sep
arate currents, each describing the
arc of circle and travelling toward
the northeast
The first OF these struck northern
Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee
before daylight Friday morning. The
second appeared farther south about
Z o'clock in Louisiana and Mississip.
pi. This apparently was the portion
OF the storm which had swept
through Alabama and Georgia on
Friday night and sunday morning.
The third portion of the storm ap,
peared during Friday afternoon fur
ther south than either of its predeces-
sors. This was the storm which de
molished Amite, Louisiana, and Pur-
vis, Mississippi, the towns in which
the wreckage was worst.
Fierce Hail Storm In Alabama.
Mobile, Ala, April 27.-Reports to-
day from adjacent territory tell of the
worst hailstorm in recent years. All
the railroads leading into Mobile ar~
tiedup. The storm was especially
fierce in the lower bay and many ships
at anchor were dragged some distance