Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-05-02
Loss Appears to Be the Heaviest in
Tennessee and Alabama.
BLIZZARD IN LAKE REGION
Snow is Reported in Parts Of
Wisconsin and Michigan.
COLD WAVE IS MOVING EAST
RcRiOn west Of the Mississirpi River
is Comparatively CIesr--FreeE-
ina Temperature ss Far
south aa MissOuri.

CHlCAGO, May line STORM wnlch De
san Thursday and the death list OF which
approximates 200 persons in the states OF
Illinois Tennessee. Arkansas, Mississippi,
Georgia, Alabama, Missouri and Penn
sylvsnia took the form OF a mild blizzsrd
in the upper lake region today, including
Chi ago, where a moderate wind was sc-
companied by snow.
At Superior. Wis, there was snow enough
for seishing. winnipes reported many
cattle Killed and from the southwest came
stories of blasted orchards.
Wire conditions. according 90 the tele-
graph and telephone companies, were much
improved
The weather bureaus summary of condi-
tions today, said:
THE storm this morning Is centered over
the Lake Superior region. while secondary
disturbance covered the Atlantic coast
states. The weather In the rear OF the
storm is slowly clearing. snow still falling
in the western lake region and the upper
Mississippi valley. The weather. however.
beyond the Mississippi valley Is now fair.
Abnormally cold weather has advanced
from the Rocky mountain region eastward
over the central valleys. freezing tempera-
lures being reported as far south as south
ern Missouri and trosts as far south as
Texan and Arkansas"
Hundreds Dead in south.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. May 1,--whne some
sections in the pathway OF the storm ate
still to be heard from, information so far
received from Arkansas, western Tennessee
and northern Mississippi bring the total
number of killed by the tornado of Thurs
day night to 100, the injured, some Of whom
are believed to be fatally hurt TO twice
/
OF the monetary loss is not yet possible
each dispatch describes the storm as this
most destructive that has ever swept over
this portion of the country. II was almost
the most remarkable as to the extent oi
the territory affecte5
The greatest number Of dead and injured
is reported from Horn Lake, Miss. Here
eighteen bodies have already been discov-
cred among the ruins of the farm dwe.
lings. OF this number seven are those OF
white people The number Of injured is
placed at fifty, many of whom are seriously
hurt. The property loss is roughly esti-
mated al 100000 In this vicinity Caddo
Gap Ark, reports a similar number OF
dead and many wounded.
Al Fayetteville, Tenn. the death list is
placed at fifteen and the injured at fifty.
Other towns from which reports have
been received here are:
In Recommendations. four dead,
twenty injured; near Hot Springs, four in
jured; Palestine, fifteen injured; Bee
Branch, two dead, three injured; Heber
two dead, eleven injured; Wnburn one
dead; Wheatley, one dead, three injured;
Charlottesville, one injured Marion, five
dead eight injured; zebuon. one dead, one
injured.
In Tennessee-Somerville. five dead four
injured; Bolivar. one dead thirteen in;
jured; Dechard, four dead. twelve injured;
Monezums, twelve injured; Humboldt, four
dead; Medina, three dead, eight injured;
Whiteville, two injured Bells, six dead,
twenty-tlree injured; Qulllo, three dead.
twelve injured Lula. four dead; Deliach.
two dead; Hanley. two dead. ten injured;
Clarksville, one dead, six injured
Forty Deaths In One Comfy.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, May l.-EarIy re-
ports this morning OF yesterdays storm
add to the gravity of the situation at Pu-
lsski. Giles county; Centervnie Hickman
county Fayetteville. Lincoln county:
Franklin. Williamson county. and othAr
sections OF central Tennessee. Giles
county's death list, It is said may reach
forty. while the property damage ap-
proximates $4,000. Hickman county re-
ports seven dead and 100000 damages; Lin
coin county reports eight killed. a long list
of injured, and the hamlet OF Harms al
most completely destroyed. Half a 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 de-
stroyed, live stock killed, and in several
instances fires
At Bells, In Crockett county, six persons
were killed and a hundred others rendered
homeless.
Tennessee Pivot of Wind.
LOUISVILLE, KY, May Inlay day, fol-
lowing the wlndstorm. which caused per
haps 100 deaths throughout the southern
states, will be spent by the telegraph COM
panies in repairing their wires. With the
overland line OF communication from Louis
VILE to New Orleans once established an
thentic lists OF the Victims OF the storm
may be secured.
II has been years since the winds have
gathered so many victims. Tennessee
sloplng westward from the Virginia noun.
tsins to the dunes along the Mississippi
provided an angle for the wind 10 pivot
upon, and the list of sixty dead In that
state seems TO have been corroborated
Arkansas, Alabama Mississlppi and Geor-
gia also suffered. Word from Guthrie Ky,
early today is that three persons were killed
there TO-DAY, the only fatalities in Ken
lucky, so far as is now known. Louisiana
and Texas seem to have been unscathed
but poor communication makes even this
doubtful.
As far east as Mount Sterling, Ky, barns
and houses we're unroofed, tobacco sheds
washed away iurnpikes made rivers OF
water and fires started in overturned
dwellings.
At Frankfort the same conditions me-
vailed, only less severely.
Other counties from the Mississippi river
TO the Big Sandy have similar reports
Tuenty-Ohe Ht Norfolk.