Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-05-07
One Hundred Lives Lost and
Over a thousand Injured.
SEVERAL TOWNS WRECKED
Storm Wave Had Its Origin in the North
State of Tennessee Was the
Heaviest Sufferer.

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states within radius of several hun
dred miles of Memphis, were swept
by storms of wind and rain, in some
Instances of tornadoic proportions,
which claimed as toll the lives of a
score or more persons, destroyed
property valued at many thousands of
dollars, interrupted traffic and rem
dered useless many miles of tele-
phone and telegraph wires, some sec
tions being completely isolated.
Memphis escaped injury, but Horn
Lake, Miss, had six killed and twenty
injured.
At Cuba, Tenn, one was killed and
two injured.
Five are reported dead at Frank
! lin, Tenn.
One was killed at Heber, Ark, and
one at Wheatley, Ark.
Serious damage is reported from
Marion, Ark, and it is believed a
number of people have been killed
in the country about there.
At Quito, Tenn, two were killed.
Locke, Tenn, a small village eigh-
teen miles from Memphis, was practi-
cally obliterated and a number of
persons injured.
At Youngs Crossing, near Jackson,
Tenn, five persons we've killed and
many injured.
Henderson, Tenn, reports three
persons injured and a large property
loss.
In the vicinity of Medina, Tenn,
two were killed and five injured
| A special from Forrest City, Ark,
says a cyclone struck that section,
killing two persons, injuring more or
less seriously six others and demol-
fshing a score or more houses, most
of them residences of farmers.
| At Knoxville, Ark, fourteen per
sons were injured.
At West Marion, Miss Nancy Young
was killed, and Miss Jena Young, Mrs.
Aaron Poland and Curtis Young prob
ably fatally injured.
Near Wheatley, Mrs. Thrash was
badly hurt and an unknown negro
killed. John Smith, another negro
was fatally injured. Reports of dam
oge also come from Mariana and
Rams Horn, Ark.
Horn Lake, small town in DeSoto
county, Mississippi, was practically
wiped off the map.
st. Louis, Mo.-Reports from the
cyclone zone in Arkansas and Ten
nessee make it practically certain
that the number of dead will reach
one hundred and the injured two
thousand.
The greatest damage was done in
the Mississippi valley.
Nashville, Tenn.-Late advices
from Centreville show that a score
or more lives were lost in the tornado
and that the property damage is s1O0,
900.
At Fayetteville, Lincoln county, the
storm razed many residences, blew of
one end Of the Elk Cotton mills and
killed three persons.
The town of Hillsboro, nine miles
west of Franklin, was practically
wiped out and three persons, names
unknown, were killed in a house de
molished by the wind.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-Railroad, tele
graph and telephone communication
was blocked for hours and much
property damage was done between
Chattanooga and Nashville by storm
that visited this section.
Charleston, Tenn, reports that the
storm turned up the Hiawassee rivcl
from the Tennessee valley and five
houses were demolished and severa
persons seriously injured.
Seven dwelling, two barns and two
school houses were demolished about
five miles north of Chattanooga, IL
this county. Two women were intur
ed. both seriously, and one perhaps
fatally.
A long distance telephone message
from Etowah, McMinn county, on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad
south of Knoxville, reports four hous
es demolished, freight cars blowI
from the tracks and several persons
injured.
AT Oakdale on the Cincinnati
Southern railway, poolroom wal
blown into the Emory river. At Har
riman. there was much damage u
Telegraph and telephone wires. Rock
I wood reports some damage to prop
erty.
Chicago, Ill-Six persons were XII
ed and forty injured in Chicago anC
environs during the storm, accord