Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1909-10-21
FATALITIES COUNT BY SCORES
Cyclone Carried Away Everything In Its Course.
Injured Will 90 Into Hundreds in Five
States-Property Loss Great.

Memphis, Tenn.-Special dispatches TO
the Commercial Appeal from the vast
scope Of country covered by the cyclone
and hail.torm of Thursday night in five
States give information of close to three
scure lives snuhel out. Doubtlsss the
entire death list will fall not far short
Of a hundred, making this one of the
most disastrou. storms from the stand
point Of loss Of life in recent years in
th< part OF the world.
In addition to the dead there are &C
counts Of people injured by the score.
They were swept away or sucked away
by the wind pressure. They were caught
under falling trses aud under oollap.ing
walls Neither young nor old. male nor
female. was spared. and under the ruins
Of homes fathers, mothers and children
we're caught and crushed. The list Of in
jured will run to several hundred
The property loss j. difficult to esti-
mate, and can be expressed only in gen
eral terms. The storm passed over an
opulent country, well settled up and in
a high state of agricultural and indus
trial development. Many cities. towns
and villages were visited. and none %
them escaped without more OF less loss.
Prom the Mi-.issippi river on the west,
and even across the river In Arkansas
the storm passed through West ami Mid
de Tennessee. touched the northeastern
corner Of Mississippi, swept over North
ern Alabama like a veritable besom Of
destruction. and with less force, Vet with
fatal results. il crossed into Georgia.
Millions of dollars will not account for
the homes thrown down. factories raze'i,
churches demolished, barns and outbuild-
ings swept away, fences strewn over the
ground. timber uprooted and twisted to
the ground, crops pulled out by the roots
and scattered over the fields, roofs curlcd
up and carried away. windows smashed.
cattle killed. electrical wires broken. rail
road traffic suspended and all the thou
sand and one items that must be reck-
oned in making up the tally Of the
storms damage.
This cyclone made its first disastrous
descent at DENMARK. Tenn, where two
people were killed. many were injured,
practically every house in the town was
blown to earth. and fire came along aft
erward TO consume the last vestige Of
the village.
Thence southcasterIy the funnel-shaPed
wind Travelled
Here Is a resume Of reports from vari-
ous points, showing the extent Of the
damage;
At Whiteville, Tenn. a factory and
the Presbyterian church were damaged.
In Haywood county the Christmas
school house was destroyed. and the
children escaped Ssath by having been
dismissed just previously. Tenant houses
were wiped off the plantations. ...d many
tenants were injured
At stanton che raan was killed and
the iresbyterian church was destroyed.
Vt Parsons, Tenn. houses were blown
down and one man was caught and killed
under the timbers Of his own home.
At wartraes. Tenn, buildings were
blown down and a swath was cut through
the timbers.
At Haley, Tenn, q negro settlement
was wiped out.
Selmsr and vicinity-e3 dead.
Storm Found Historic Stage.
At and near the Shiloh battlefield, with
its national park and it, many historic
associations. occurred the most frightful
loss Of life and greatest destruction of
property. TIE identity Of twenty.three
dead in that vicinity is fixed by the
dispatches at hand. and later reports
from isolated localities will probably
swell this death list. The number of
injured Is 80 great as to defy reliable
estimates. The injury tn the national
park property viii run up into the hun
dreds Of thousands Of dollars. The lit
tie hamlet of Pittsburg Landing. IA
miliar to students Of the Civil War. Is
wiped off the map. The hotel and the
little stores are blown away. and many
Of those who tenanted the buildings went
10 death In the general chaos of flying
lumber and falling timber. Not a tree
is left standing on the Shiloh battlefield
In the park, where many Of the States
of the North and South had honored the
memory of their sons who had fought
over those fields with monuments and
shafts, those mementoee are injured be
yond repair, such being the case notably
with the monument erected by the State
Of Iowa, a noble shaf. rising so feet il
the air, which was broken of in ths
middle by the force of the gale.
Continuing the roster of death and de
struetion into Alabama. It is found tha:
these records have been made;
Near Seottsboro, three were killed
many injured, tenant houses were de-
stroyed.
At Collbran. Ala. two are dead
At Rnssellvills. Ala. - are injured
three or more a-- dead. many are In
| jured at the Tennessee mines
There are accounts of wide damage "
t,~:rzia, hat though there was some ios'
Of life In that State. the destruction wa
BY no means as great as in Alabama snt
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