Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-22
Recent STORM aftermath
Reports Show That 1t Was
Worst in Years.
MANY people have been KILLED
Denmark, Tenn, Now q Heap Of ASH
es, and Two Hundred Persons are
Homeless. Many Monuments
in National Park Damaged.

Memphis, Tenn.-With the known
death list already reaching a total of
thirty-seven human lives and with
thirteen others reported dead, with
scores seriously injured and many
others painfully bruised and SCARED
and with the property damaged run
ming to a million or more dollars,
the havoc and destruction of the
storm which swept middle and west
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and
portion of Arkansas and South Caro-
lima last Saturday grows as reports
are received from remote districts
and as wire communication is gradu-
ally restored to a normal condition.
The storm was probably the worst
that has visited this section of the
south in years, being intense in its
destructive fires, and widespread
area. Whole sections of counties
were laid in waste and ruin. Towns
were destroyed, plantations were
damaged to untold extent and from
all sections of the storm swept area
came reports Of loss of life, ruin and
desolation.
Apparently the storm broke in all
its fury over Middle and West Ten
nessee and proceeded in a south
easterly direction across the state in
to Alabama and Georgia, assuming
the proportions of a West Indian
hurricane as 1t swept along, leaving
desolation and ruin behind. 1t came
practically without warning and In
some places 1t is reported that the
wind attained a velocity of ninety
miles an hour.
While only { lie death occurred at
Denmark, Tenn. the horrors OF the
storm we're greatly heightened by the
fire which started amid the ruins
and debris Of what was once a
flourishing little town in Middle
Tennessee. The fierce flames un-
Quenched by the heavy downpour of
rain and hail, rapidly consumed what
few dwellings and storehouses were
left standing and a scene of utter de-
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people were rendered homeless and
have appealed to neighbornig towns
and cities for immediate aid.
Reports of FIVE deaths and heavy
damage come from McNair county,
where is located the famous battle
field of Shiloh, and which was direct
ly in the path of the storm. Homes
and stores were leveled to the
ground and great trees in the ma
tional historic cemetery were up
rooted to be tossed about by the rag
ing tempest.
Many handsome and imposing
state monuments In the national
park were torn from their pedestals
and the superintendent's lodge and
other buildings were destroyed. The
property damaged in this section 10
estimated at 100000.
The heaviest known loss here oc-
CURED at Hamburg where in the i'm
mediate territory, the storm claimed
fifteen victims and did great proper
ty damage.
At Russellville, Ala, II is report
ed that forty inhabitants were seri-
ously injured by the storm.
A property damage of at least
$4,000 Is estimated at Gainesville,
Ca, while that at Atlanta will run
between $4,000 and 100000. One
life was lost at the fromer place
but Atlanta escaped with only the
property damage. Hardly a house
in the city Escaped damage to some
extent. Many were unroofed, others
had windows blown out and Chin
neys were blown down by the scores.
The interurban line from Atlanta
to Marietta. Ga, was put out Of
commission and many passengers
had to resort to the railroad trains
or remain In Atlanta over night. At
East Lake. a suburb of the city,
thirty-five head of stock were killed.
Reports from Rome Ca, indicate
that heavy damage was done the
corn crops and vegetation Of all kinds
by the storm but no loss of life was
reported.
From Montgomery and Decatur.
Ala. similar reports are received, all
Indicating that the damage to prop
erty throughout the area of the
south swept by the storm will
amount to a million or more dollars.