The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-01
! STORM VICTIMS.
Number of Dead in the South
Estimated at 100.
Forty We're Killed in One COun.
ty in Tennessee.
TWO STATES ESCAPED
Louisiana and Texas Appear to
Ee Untouched.
Buildings and Crops Destroyed
and Live Stock Killed.

100 deaths throughout the southern
states, will be spent by the telegraph
companies in repairing their wires.
with the overland line of communica-
tlcn from Louisville to New Orleans
once established, authentic lists of the
victims of the storm may be secured.
| IL has been years since the winds
nave gathered SO many victims Ten
nessee, sloping westward from the Vir-
ginia mountains to the dunes along the
Mlsslsslppl, provided an angle for the
wind to pivot upon, and the list of so
dead IN that state seems to have been
ioorroborated. Arkansas. Alabama, Mis-
slsslppl and Georgia also suffered. Word
from Gutnrle, KY, early today is that
SIX persons were killed there, the only
fatalities in Kentucky SO far as is
knoWn. Louisiana and Texas seem to
nave been untouched but poor commun-
ication makes this doubtful.
AS far east as Mount Sterling Ky
parns and houses were unroofed, to-
bacco beds washed away; turnpikes
made rivers of water and fires started
in overturned dwellings. At Frankfort
the same conditions prevailed only less
severely.
All the counties from the Mississippi
to the Big Sandy have similar reports.
Forty Killed in One County.
Nashville. Tenn, May 1.-Early re-
ports this morning concerning yester-
days storm add to the gravity of the
treville, Hickman county: Fayetteville.
Lincoln county; Franklin Williamson
county and other sections of central
Tennessee.
ed may reach 40, while the property
damage approximates $150,0OO. Hick-
man county reports seven dead and
100000 damage. Lincoln county reports
eight killed, a long list of injured and
the hamlet of Harms almost completely
destroyed Half dozen deaths are
known of in Williamson county, where
the property damage is vast and from
every point in the central section come
stories of buildings and crops destroy
| ed, live stock killed and in several in
stances fires.
At Bells. in Crockett county, six per-
| sons were killed and a hundred others
rendered homeless.
Estimates Coming In.
Memphis, Tenn, May 1.-While
some sections in the pathway of the
storm are still to be heard from, in
formation so far received from Ark
ansas. western Tennessee and north
ern Mississippi, bring the total num-
Der of killed by the tornado Of Thurs
day night to 100, 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 de-
/ SlIuCtiN6 ltldt ildS ever swept over
this section of the country. 1t was
also the most remarkable as to the
extent of the territory affected.
The greatest number of dead and
! injured is reported from Horn Lake,
Miss, here eight bodies have been
4 discovered among the ruins of the
Afarm dwellings. OF this number sew
Ten are those of white people The in
jured is placed at so, many of whom
are seriously hurt. The property loss
is roughly estimated at 100000 in
this vicinity. Caddo Gap, Ark. re-
many wounded. At Fayetteville,
Tenn. the death list is placed at is,
and the injured at so.
Dead and Injured
Other towns from which reports
have been received here are:
In rkansas-Marianna, four dead.
20 injured.
Near Hot Springs, four injured.
| Palestine, Is injured.
Bee Branch, 2 dead, injured
Heber, 2 dead, IL injured.
| Wilburn, / dead.
| Wheatley, 1 dead, 3 injured
Charlottesville, 1 injured
Marion, 5 dead. injured.
| Seebuton. 1 dead, 1 injured
In ennessee-Sommervil dead,
four injured.
Bolivar 1 dead, 13 injured.
| Dechard, 4 dead. IL injured
Montezuma, 2 injured.
Humboldt, 4 dead
Medina. 8 dead, injured.
Whiteville, 2 injured.
Bells, 6 dead, 90 injUred
Quito, three dead, IL injured
| Lula, dead.
Deliach, dead.
Hanley dead. 10 injured.
Clarksville, l dead, injured.
Steel Bridge Blown Down.
Chattanooga. Tenn. May 1.-Two
are known to be dead as the result of
the destructive storm that swept up
ISequatchie valley yesterday. South
east of Jasper. IL houses and the steel
bridge over Sequa tchie river were
blown down
At Old Hollow. which is a few miles
west of Winchester, it is reported that
seven persons were killed.
There was much property damage
in Chattanooga
Storm Turns Into Blizzard
Chicago. May 1.-The storm which
began Thursday and the death list of
| which approximates 200 persons in
the states of Illinois, Tennessee, Ala
| bama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi
Missouri, and Pennsylvania, took the
| form of a mild blizzard in the up
| per lake region today, including Chi
cago, where moderate wind was
accompanied by snow
| At Superior, Wis, there was snow
enough for sleighing. Winnipeg re-
ported many cattle killed and from
the southwest came stories of blasted
| orchards
Wire conditions. according to the
telegraph and telephone companies,
were much improved.
The weather bureaus summary OF
conditions today said:
THE storm this morning is centered
over the Lake Superior region while a