The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-10-15
STORM STRIKES
INLAND TOWNS
ESPECIALLY SEVERE IN TEN
NESSE AND GEORGIA.
Rain, Wind and Hail DO Much DAM
age-Several Persons Killed
At Denmark, Tenn, Fire Followed
After Storm.

! By Associated Press.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct Belated
dispatches reaching here early tOuay
| confirm previous reports as to loss of
! life and property damage resulting
! from a storm of wind and rain and
| hail which swept through North Ala
bama and middle and west Tennessee
during the earlier hours of last night
Casualties so far as known are three
killed outright and a score injured
Denmark, in Madison county, Tonnes
see is practically wiped from the face
of the map Fire followed the storm
completing the work of destruction.
Other towns suffering from the
storm are Whiteyille, BufordStation,
Mulberry. Wartrace. Dyersburg, Glib
son. Tenn. and COurtland, Ala In
many places. the heavy down pour
and hail injured vegetation. Tele-
phone and telegraph companies suf-
fered materially, wires being torn
down in long stretches
The known dead; Al Denmark,
Albert Barnes and child. Al Mulberry,
Thomas Helm.
Later advices state fifteen killed
and many others seriously injured at
Hamburg. Tenn Dead: Mrs McDOn-
aid. otis and Luther Littlefield, Mar
shall and Ruby Jordan, Perry Banks.
and four other members of the fam
lily. Charles Moore, wife and baby.
Two guests of Pittsburg Landing Ho-
tel, names not ascertained.
The storm struck the Hamburg
vicinity with intense fury, leveling
storehouses and dwellings and playing
havoc with vegetation.
At the national cemetery at Shiloh,
the Iowa State monument was wreck
ed and superintendent quarters des-
trOyed
Storm at Atlanta.
Atlanta. Ga. Oct 15-UnrOOfed
houses. broken windows and ruin
ed trees and shrubbery is the extent
/ of the damage left today in the wake
of terrific wind and hail storm
which swept over Atlanta and the
surrounding country early last night
SO far as is known no lives were
| lost The property loss is variOusly
estimated al from $4,000 to 500,
O0O.
At Biverdale, sixteen miles south
of Atlanta on the Southern railroad
Mrs. Grey was probably fatally III
iured and two children and Mrs
/ Stubs seriously hurt by falling
| timbers when the storm struck there
about 10 o'clock last night. Fifteen
others also received slighter MUIR
| les.
Reports from Rome. Ga. Indicate
that the damage from the storm will
reach far into the thousands The
railway and electric lighting systems
are put out Of commission, houses are
unrOOfed and windows smashed. Hail
stones the size of oranges are report
ed Crops throughout that section
are said to be almost totally de-
stroyed Crops in the vicinity Of
Athens are, also reported ruined by
the hail but little damage to other
property is reported.
One Dead in Gainesville,
Gainesville, Ga, Oct 15-One
dead and a property loss estimated
at $4,000 are the results of the
tOrnadO-like storm which swept TINS
section last night Miss Pritchard is
reported dead in the ruins of her
home.
Small Town Destroyed.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. ia
special to the News says BOOseville,
a small town ten miles from Rome,
Ga, was practically destroyed by
storm yesterday Three stores and
thirty houses were demolished by the
wind
Thirteen Killed in StantonViIle.
Ramer, Tenn, Oct News
reached here today that the tornado
struck Stantonville late yesterday,
killing thirteen people Many build
/ ings are blown down. Wires are
down and no further details could