The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-16
DEATH LIST TOTALS OVER THIR. " AND MANY OTHERS ARE
 REPORTED DEAD.
Property Loss Is Aggregated at Over Milton DolIars-statues Were Torn From Their
 Pedestas.

| known death list already reaching 4
 total of thirty-seven human lives and
 with thirteen others reported dead,
 with scores seriously injured anl
 many others painfully bruised and scared and with the property oam- age running to a million or more dol
 lars, tine havoc and destruction of the storm which swept middle and west Tennessee, Alabama Georgia and | portions of Arkansas and South Caro-
 lina late yesterday afternoon and last
 night, grows hourly as reports are re | ceived from remote districts and as i wire communication is gradually re- stored to a normal condition. The storm of last night was prob ably the worst that has visited this section of the South in years, being
 intense in its destroying fury ana
 widespread in it's area Whole sec
 tions of counties we're laid in waste
 and ruin
 ] Towns were, destroyed plantations were damaged to untold extent and from all sections of the sitormswepr
 area reports of loss of life, ruin and desol9tion.
 1 The list of known dead follows: 1 Denmark, Tenn. Albert Barnes | Mulberry, Tenn. Thomas Helm 
 Stantonville, Tenn.l Thirteen peo-
 ple. reported killed, (unconfrmed.) Pittsburg Landing: Mrs. West Nc
 Daniel, Otis Littlefeld. Mary Lttic- field, Marshall Jordan. Ruby Jordan,
 L. W. Lemons, of Kosisnth, Miss, son Of NJ. Lemons. Near Stantonville: Charlie Moore.
 Mrs. Charlie Moore, Baby of MT ana
 Mrs. Charlie Moore. Terry Wflbank, Mrs. Terry Wilbank, two children of
 MT. and Mrs. wilbank. Mrs. Slsson. Near Calterville. Ga. Miss Pritch- ard.
 scottsboro. Ala; Miss Houston
 skelton, Milan M. Suaer, a child ot
 Jim Gale.
 Wyeth Cove, Ala. Eight people i killed
 Near scottsboro, Ala Mrs. R 1T.
 slqelton.
 Stanton, Tenn. Five people kllle~..
 Near Marmaduke, Ark: Arthur Liggett
 Apparently the storm broke in all
 ts fury over middle and west Ten.
 nessee and proceeded in a south
 easterly direction across the state .n- to Alabama and Georgia, assuming
 the proportions Of West Indian
 hurricane as it swept along, leaving
 desolation and ruin behind. Il came practically without warning and in some places it is reported that the wind attained velocity of ninety i miles an hour.
 While only one death occurred at Denmark, Tenn, the horrors of the storm were greatly heightened by the fi,e which started among the ruins and debris of what was onoe flour. ishing little town ill middle Tennes- see. The fierce flames unQuenched by the heavy downpour of rain and hail rapidly consumed what few dwellings and storehouses were left standing and tonight d scene of utter desola. ton Is presented. Two hundred people
 were rendered homeless and have ap- pealed to neighboIing towns and cities for immediatee aid ReEorts of five deaths and heavy damage from Aesnairy County, where Is located the famous battlefield of
 Shiloh and which was directly in the rath of the storm Homes and stores were levelled t1 the ground and great trees in the historic national eeme, tery were uprooted to be tossed about by the raging tempest. Many handsome and imposing state monuments in the national park were torn from their pedestals and the su- peiinteldent of lodge and other buiid- ines were destroyed The property