Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01
DEAD STREWN
IN STORMS TRACK
Number Of Victims Of Thursday
Nights Tornado Now Placed
AT One Hundred.
INJURED ARE TWICE AS MANY.
Details Of Damage Wrought Arc
Meagre-Telegraph Companies
Busy Repairing Lines.

Memphis, Tenn, April 1.---While some
are still to be heard from, information
SO far received from Arkansas, vest
ern Tennessee and northern Mississippi
bring the total number OF killed by the
tornado OF Thursday night to 1Oa the
injured, some OF whom are believed to
be fatally hurt, to twice the number
and while an accurate estimate of the
monetary loss is not yet possible, each
dispatch describes the storm as the
most destructive that has ever swept
over. this section of the country. IT
was also the most remarkable as to the
extent of the territory! affected.
The greatest number Of dead and in
jured is reported from Horn Lake,
Miss. Here 8 bodies have already been
dwellings. Or this number seven are
those of white people. The injured are
placed at so, many Of whom are seri-
aously hurt. The property loss is rough
~ estimated at 100000 in that vicinity.
Caddo Gap. Ark, report a similar num-
&ber&of dead and many wounded.
At Fayetteville, Tenn, the death list
is placed ats15 and the injured a t 80.
Other towns from which reports nave,
beenaiccelVGd# here are: y55s ta
IN. ARKANSAS.
Mariana -Four dead. 20 injured
Near Hot Springs -Four injured.
Palestine Fifteen injured.
Bee Brancll-1Nwo dead, three injured
llnber--'rwo dead, II injured.
Nilburl1---0ne dead. 3
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dead. three injured
r. Crawfordsvill e-Qne injured,
a .,tS,y Il ~
seebutdn-One dead, one injured
IN. TENNESSEE
I Somerville-F;;ves dead. four injured.
Rolivar--One dead, l3 Injured.
Deehard-F -Four dead, 10 injured.
MonteE,,lnai--'r@ Twelve INJURED.
# HunSboldt-Fo dead
AIedinia;Three dead eight Injured
s5lWhitcvillc--Two injured.
Bells-Six dead. a3 injured
Qullto-Three dead, IL injured.
Lula-tFours dead
SDeliacl--'TWo dead
& Hanle 1.-TWO dead 10 injured
C.larksville--4Dne dead, six injured. s
REPAIRING TEIIEGFlAPII LINES
louisville. May 4 ~ ay day, follow
ing, the WindstUrnl which caused per
fl,aps 100 deaths throughout the SOUTH
ern states, will be spent by the tele-
graph companies in repairing their
wires. With the overland line of cons
nlunication from Louisville to New
Orleans once established, authentic
lists Of the victims Of the storm may.
be secured
It has been years since the winds
have gathered SO many victims. Ten
$nessee, slipping westward from Virginia
mountains to tho dunes along the Mis-
sissippi, proved an angle for the wind
to pivot upon, and the list Of 50 dead
in that state seems to have been cor
ruborated Arkansas, Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Georgia also suffered. Word
from Guthrie, Ky. early today is that
six persons We're killed there and the
only facilities in Kentucky so far as is
now known. Louisiana and Texas
seem to have been unscathed. but poor
communication makes even this doubt
full. sS
AS far east as Mount Sterling, Ky,
barns and houses were unroofed. to-
bacco beds washed away, turn pixies
made rivers of waters and fires started
in overturned dwellings.
AT Frankfort the same conditions
prevailed, only less severely. y
All the counties from the Mississippi
river to the Big Sandy have similar re-