Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-16
MANY PERSONS
MEET DEATH in
SOUTHERN GALE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOST
BY STORM
FIVE STATES ARE VISITED BY
TERRIFIC WIND
List of Dead Expected to Total Fifty.
Devastation Worst in Tennessee
and AIabama-Houses
Unroofed
[By Associated Press.l

IKH th1rty-SeVen persons were hluSu
LIZ in the storm which swept por-
tions of Tennessee. Alabama, Georgia,
Arkansas and South Carolina yester-
day. From reports received tonight the
death list likely will reach fifty. The
property loss is estimated at a million
dollars.
The devastation was widespread,
whole towns being razed. The appor-
tiolnment of the known dead follows:
Denmark, Tenn, one.
Mulberry, Tenn, one.
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn, seven.
Near Stanleyville, eight.
Near Gainesville, Ga, one.
Scottsboro, Ala, three.
Wyeth Cove, Ala, eight.
Near Scottsboro, Ala, one.
Stanton, Tenn, one.
Nixon, Tenn, five.
Near Marmaduke, Ark, one.
Total, thirty-seven.
An unconfrmed report has thirteen
dead at Stauntonville, Tenn.
Denmark's Losses
The situation at Denmark, Tenn,
was greatly aggravated by fire, which
consumed the few dwellings and store
houses left standing after the storm.
Two hundred homeless people have
appealed for aid. Reports of hve
deaths and heavy damage come from
McNairy county, where is located the
famous battlefield of Shiloh, and which
was directly in the path OF the storm.
Many statues in the national park
were torn from their pedestals and the
property loss is estimated at 100000.
At Russellville, Ala, it is reported
that forty were seriously injured. A
property damage of at least $4,000 is
estimated at Carterville, Pa, While
that at Atlanta, Ga, will run between
$4,000 and 100000.
Bozeville, a small town ten miles
from Rome, Ca, was wrecked by the
storm yesterday. Three stores ana
thirty-thre dwellings were demolished.
Nine others Killed
At. Huntsville, Ala.,. nine fatalities
are reported as a result of the storm.
Mrs. r. II. Seton was killed In Jack
son and eight persons are reported
dead in Marshall county. Scores are
homeless.
At Riverdale, sixteen miles south OF
Atlanta, Mrs. Olga Grey was prob
ably fatally injured, and her two chll-
dren and Mrs. Joseph Stubbs were Sc
riously hurt by falling timbers. FIJI
teen others received slight injuries.
quarter of a mile wide. Reports from
Rome. Ga, indicate the storm damage
there was heavy. Crops throughout
that section are said to have oeen al
most totally destroyed,
Denmark, Tenn, in Madison county,
probably suffered most. This little
city was virtually wiped from the map
fire following the passing of the storm
and continuing the work of fdestruc-
ton.
At Whiteville a factory and church
building were wrecked.
More Buildings Razed
Az Ruford the Louisville & Nashville
deno+ and freight house were destroyed
and several other structures oadly
damaged.
Near Mulberry the dwelling and
farrnhouses on the plantation or ROD
ert Mattow were demolished.
At Wartrace a negro settlement was
leveled.
Gibson, Stanton, Byersburg and Mer-
Ger are other towns in tennessee re-
porting minor damage.
The storm played havoc with planta-
ton property, the wind tearing the
frail frame buildings to pieces.
At Denmark, Tenn, Albert Barnes
Thomas Helm were killed.
JJnroofed houses and uprooted trees
and shrubbery mark the wake OF the
terrific wind and hail storm when 1t
swept over Atlanta and surrounding
country AS far as known, no lives
were lost. The property loss is estl-
mated at from $4,000 to 100000.
At the height of the storm street car
traffic was stopped throughout the
city, and live wires, broken by the hall'
were stretched across many Streets
rendering travel dangerous.
Death and Desolation
Death and destruction were left in
f e wake of the storm at the national
cemetery of the battlefield of Shlloh
at Hamburg, Tenn.
fifteen persons were killed and many
more were seriously injured
The dead at Acton:
MRS. WORTH M'DONALD.
OTIS and LUTHER LITTLEFIELD.
.IARSHALL and RUBY JORDAN.
PERRY BANKS and four members
CHARLES MOORE, wife and baby.
Two guests at Pittsburg Landing
hotel, names not ascertained.
The most serious damage done to the
national cemetery was the wrecklng
of the Iowa state monument, which
was blown from its PEDESTAL
The superintendent's quarters were
destroyed.
One dead and a property loss esti-
mated at $50,O0O is the result of the
storm at Cartersville. Ga.