The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-04-29
southern TORNADO
DESTROYS A TOWN
WALLS, MISS, SWEPT BY AWFUL
STORM, KILLING THREE
PERSONS.
TEXAS ALSO FEELS
EFFECTS OF WIND
Deport Partially Wiped Out-Druggist
Is Slain and Several Others Are
Injured-Reports from Other Sec.
tions Tell Of Damage.

| Is Slain and Several Others Are
| Injured-Reports from Other Sec
tions Tell Of Damage.
Memphis, Tenn, Apr. ga tornado
swept over Walls, Miss. Friday and
destroyed the town. Three people
were killed and several injured. Tel
egraph and telephone wires are down
between Memphis and Walls. The
ley railroad depot was blown off and
the building otherwise wrecked. A
relief train left Memphis for the scene
of the catastrophe Walls is on the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad
a few miles below Lake View.
At the Memphis Offices of the Yazoo
& Mississippi Valley road it was re-
ported that several people had been
killed at Walls. The first train from
the south on that road arrived here
at noon.
Many Residences Demolished.
The train did not stop at Walls, but
the train crew reported the country
in that vicinity showed the effects of
severe wind. Conductor Hillirons did
not know how many had been killed.
Six or seven stores and many resi-
dences were entirely demolished in
Walls At Mason, Tenn the Method
list church was blown down and the
parsonage adjoining that structure de-
stroyed. The Presbyterian and Epis-
copal churches were both practically
destroyed. Several other houses
were blown down. In Memphis the
wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an
hour, uprooting shade trees, blowing
down telegraph and telephone wires
and forcing in plate glass windows
Telegraph companies We're badly Grip
pied.
Damage Reported Heavy.
New Orleans, Apr. 25-Railroad Of
ficials here have received reports of
tornado which swept across Rapides
parish in the neighborhood Of the
Louisiana Railway and Navigation
Companys line Friday. No details
are obtainable, but the damage is re-
ported to have been heavy.
Deport, Tex, Partly Destroyed.
Paris, Tex, Apr ga tornado de-
stroyed the eastern portion of Deport,
town 20 miles southeast of Paris,
killing w. R. Isbell, a druggist, and
injuring several others. The Isbell
family was at supper when the storm
came. and Mrs. lsbell and the children
ran to the storm house and were I'M
hurt. Mr.. 1sbell remained in the
house and was crushed to death when
it fell. Practically all the residences
on the east side of town were de-
stroyed, at least 25 or 80 being scat
tered over the country in fragments.
The Baptist and Presbyterian churches
We're destroyed. The cotton oil mill,
including the boiler house, seed and
sheds, was blown away, the entire
building being wreck.
Another Town Wiped Out.
Capt. George !. Terrell and wife, an
aged couple, were both hurt when |
their house was blown away. The |
school building was badly damaged, |
but not destroyed G. c. Baughn was |
seriously bruised. N. r. Sullivan and
wife were both hurt. Sullivan has
both shoulders broken and his wife |
one arm broken and their son has a
broken wrist. The path of the storm
was several hundred yards wide. Oak
Grove, town east of GAINESVILLE, on
the Texas & Pacific railroad, is re-
ported almost destroyed, many houses /
being demolished, but without ia
talities.
School Children Escape Death.
Hattiesburg, Miss, Apr 25.-Fifty or
more children had a narrow escape
from death Friday when cyclone
struck Baxter, small town between
here and jackson, Miss, on the Gulf
& Ship Island railroad The school
house was demolished, the wind carry
ing off the roof and then blowing down
the frame walls. The children were
gotten out hurriedly when the first
damage to the building was done.
Many other buildings in the town were
wrecked and the property damage will
be large
Five Are Killed.
Natchez, Miss, Apr. 25.-Five per-
swept over Vidalia, La, Friday. The
injured have been brought to the
Natchez hospital.
Storm in Arkansas.
Wichita, Kan, Apr. ga heavy
passed over Fratt county
Friday demolishing many small build
lngs and uprooting trees. Telegraph
and telephone wires We're damaged.
No loss of life has been reported.
Storm in Minnesota.
Pipestone, Mimi, Apr. ga severe
storm was reported at Flandrau, S. D..
Friday afternoon, demolishing several
Very heavy rain prevailed
here.