The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-04
LEAST
DfAD|NPATH
Of TORNADO
Tornadoes, Finally Are
Passing On Into
the Ocean
PROPERTY. LOSSES Will
EXTEND INTO MILLIONS
Owing to the Damage 10
Lines Of Communication. 1t is Still
Impossible Accurately 20 Tell OF the
Extent of the Disaster Due to the
Raging Hement-Tales OF Great
suffering Come From the Great
Lakes.
CIV the Associated Press.)

Atlanta. Ga, May 1.-The storm
~hicil for three days has been sweep
}ug eastward across the Southern
states tonight was passing out OF the
South Atlantic States into the Atiant
Despite three days of snuffins- out
allman lives, crushing abItatlons, 90
ing perhaps millions OF dollars Dam
c4e and. for a few hours IN some, x
ransive sections. we'll nigh demeraila-
ing business and communications. TINS
tremendous atmospheric dlstufedIee
until late today apparently ioSt
none Of its vicious energy. Lat
afternoon wires, suddenly reSafneu,
flashed the news of thirty-fouT more
teaths in Georgia. lives taken by a
storm of the coming of winch some OF
The victims a been ID 'ioE Two
days in the newspapers.
Last night when the news or the ex-
rant-of destruction in Tennessee, win
oetween sixty and a hundred deaths
vas speeding by trains from tne
presses toward Albany and Cedarto"n,
Ca, and when even old hands al
predicting the course OF torhauoe
zee drawing a Sigh Of relief that 1t
vas all over, the winds were racing
with the trains toward these towns.
Pafore daylight the mad STRUCK
Doth places, killing twelve IN the VI
Unity Of CedartOWn and SIX q 1e"
niles south Of Albany.
The Georgia death list by towns as
~aceived by the Constitution tonight IS:
Ruchanan.- Is, reported Cead; A.
any, 6; Meigs, !: Ceoafto"n' ~
Gainesville, l.. 80.
the tornado had lost
rnch nfitslfury. 1t tore through the
-oTn- however: unroofeO many houSes
md destroyed much property not onls
IN the city but in adjacent country
From Norfolk came news. OF nasn
winds and some danaage prot'ea.y
uhiIe the towns in North Carolina ane
,any in Florida contributed tneA
0uota Of storm devastation. Inat ene
worst is over now seems CERTAIN aHu
r on!y remains to cast up the cost ~
human life and property.
THAT this list will be
tor several days is probable. tor "lres
49, down and railway communicative
* seriously interrupted in the interior
~ several States of the path OF TN
rarnaao. With the nIorn1allon q
hand, however. il seerNs certain 'Ha
a, least 2O6- have been killed. proc
aI,it twice as many injured ana T.iAa
property worth several rfl4llcflS GA uo'
l,rS has been destroyed
Three. Eesse3srlost on The Great Lakes
Detroit Mich, May .1.-Threer yes
sis. lost one Of them With ner creV
Of seven men and a fourth craft 1ount
floating, deserted on Lake Michigan
with the tate OF fef Gre" uihAio"i
is tn days summary OF dfsaster iron
storm and ice on the great axes.
On huron Island yast night tn
hoO Geo. Nester, Of Detroit, wa
torn to pieces and all Of her crew o
seven were lost.
On Lake Huron the package, freight
ar Russia, Of Port Huron, ~succunfbe'
70 the waves after her cargo ha'
shifted. and went TO the bottom. tn
p,Ccia'S o,roUy IF tFa,fv. m an~ however
succeeded in safely putting over thei
small boats and escaping.
On Lake Michigan the Ann Arbo
Railway car ferry number one pickle
up nineteen miles south of Fox Is
land, big steel lighter Batavia, de
serted by her crew and with no posi
1--WE evidence as te whether they DeI
asned or were taken Off the lighte
oS the steamer which Is believed
nave been towing her.