Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-05-06
HUNDREDS. MEET DEATH
IN THREE DAYS. STORM
Atlantic Coast, Central and
Southern States Swept.
CROPS RUINED BY FROST
Heavy Wind and Hail in Many States
Followed ~ a Tempest Left a
Trail of Death and Destruction
Unprecedented in This Country.


Trail of Death and Destruction
Unprecedented in This Country.
Chicago, In.-On top OF h ter
rife storm which has swept the Cen
trail and Southern States for three
days. leaving a trail Of death n de-
struction, came a new disaster OF
tempest, raising the death list to a
total of nearly 500. Property worth
millions has been totally destroyed
all over. the storm racked area,
traffic is demoralized-naRd lines a i q
communication cut off on all sides.
The Atlantic coast was a heavy
sufferer, In passing out to sea the
storm seemed to gain in fury, and a
gale passed up the seaboard from
Charleston, S. c., to Philadelphia,
working great havoc at many points.
The great lakes were dashed by an
other arm of the tempest, many YES
sells are missing and the total of per-
sons lost on the water will not be
known for many days.
In the Northwestern States n
storm took the form Of a blizzard,
with a snowfall great enough to block
roads and hold up trains. This con
dition gave way to freezing tempera-
ture, causing suffering among ami
mails and ruin to crops. Throughout
the Mississippi Valley the destruction
is enormous Snow, rain, hail ana
wind have made the devastation OF
crops complete, buildings have been
blown down and in many cases whole
towns wiped out.
In Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Mis-
souri, and Pennsylvania wild billiards.
have prevailed, with almost zero
weather in many places. At Supe-
rior, Wis, there was enough snow for
sleighing. Many cattle are dead from
cold and exposure in Southern Can
ada and ruined orchards add to the
%desolation in fruit growing regions.
Three vessels wrecked, even lives
lost and many ships and crews miss
ing is the news of the big gale on the
great lakes. The storm has ragged
there necessarily for four days
with sleet, rain, hail and snow. The
cold is reported intense and the dam
age to shipping is estimated at hum
dreds of thousands of dollars.
The storm in the Mississippi VAL
ley passed to the northwest and was
reported in Wisconsin, Minnesota and
the Rocky Mountain foothills.
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and
Colorado reported heavy frosts. Great
fear is felt for the winter wheat in
these States. Six inches of snow fell
in parts of Wisconsin.
A forty-mile gale, accompanied by
snow, struck Chicago. Estimates of
that city's loss in the four days
storm are put at $2%,OO0,OO0. The
Canadian Northwest is frozen up and
showed under. From Des Moines 1t
is wired that the ground was frozen
two inches about there. The grip Of
lingering winter extends to Oklaho-
ma, New Mexico and Arkansas.
The greatest loss of life at any
one point is reported from Bee
Springs, Tenn, where the death list
numbers twenty. Tennessee, in fact,
bore largely the brunt Of the storm
and the death toll in the State is
large.
Arkansas sustained the next heav-
lest loss of life.
Southern Missouri, likewise, suf-
fered heavily, evidently from the
same storm that swept Arkansas.
Temperature in Southern Missouri.
following the storm, dropped almost
to freezing point. causing great dam
age to the fruit crop. Mississippi
perhaps came next with it's heavy list
OF dead. At Horn Lake frightful de
y~astation was wrought.
Two Hundred Dead.
Atlant>, Ga.-The storm which TO
thr~> days blew with DESTRUCTIVE
effect eastward across the Southern
States passed out to the Atlanti
Ocean. The havoc wrought in it
path included probably 200 killed
twice as many injured and propert
worth several millions of dollars dc
stroyed and business and communics
lions we'll nigh demoralizcd.
Late in the afternoon wires, sudde1
ly re-estab1ished, flashed the news
thirty-four more deaths in George
lives taken by a storm of the comm
of which some of the victims had bee
reading for two days in the new
papers. y
The Georgia death list by towns
reported is: Buchanan, 13; Alban
6; Meigs, 1; Cedartown, IL; Bodde
/; Gainesville, /. a;
Vessels Lost OF Lakes.
Detroit, Mich.-Three vessels lo'
one of chem with her crew of sew
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