The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-10-16
BY Associated Press.

Memphis, Tenn, Oct 15.-With the
known dead as forty-six and many
others reported, with scores injured
and many others painfully bruised,
and property damage running into
The million dollars, the havoc and de-
struetion of the storm which swept
middle and western Tennessee, Ala
bamas Georgia and a portion of Ar
kansas and South Carolina, late yes
terday and last night, grows hourly as
reports are received from the re-
mote districts.
The storm was the worst that has
visited these sections in years, being
intense in its destroying fury and
widespread in area Whole sections
of counties are laid in waste and ruin,
towns destroyed and crops damaged
TO an untold extent.
J, THE DEATH ROLL.
Denmark, Tenn, 10.
Mulberry, Tenn, I.
StantonVille. Tenn, 9 known and IL
reported.
Pittsburg Landing. Tenn, 6.
Cartersville, Ca, 1.
Scottsboro, Ala, 4.
Nixon, Tenn, ..
MarmadUke, Ark, 1.
Stanton, Tenn. 1. negro.
Wyethe Cove. Ala, 8.
OF CYCLONE PROPORTIONS.
Apparently the storm after strik-
ing Tennessee proceeded in a south
easterly direction across Alabama and
Georgia, assuming cyclone proportions
and leaving desolation and ruin be-
hind It came without warning and
in some places the winds velocity
MAS ninety miles an hour. At Dem
mark. Tenn, the horrors OF the storm
were heightened when the wreckagel
began e burn. ,wiplng out once
ft0orisiing town. On the Shiloh bae~'
tleheld many state monuments IN the
National park were blown down and
other damage in that section amount
ed to one hundred thousand dollars.
RUIN At SHILOH BATTLEFIELD.
Shiloh battlefield again today pre-
sents q scene Of ruin and desolation,
and the screams and cries OF the
stricken victims of the hurricane-like
storm which swept middle and west
Tennessee and northern Alabama last
night awakened echoes which have
silent for years. Fifteen lives were
lost at Hamburg, McNairy county,
Tenn. where Is located the National
cemetery of the famous battlefield and
a score or more were seriously injur-
ed. The death known list is now lS
and Is more lives are reported at
Stantonville. McNairy county, but this
report has not been completely veri-
fed. Telegraph and telephone service
which was completely interrupted last
night is badly crippled and reports
have not as yet been received from
ali districts. II is believed that the
total death list will run far above
the known dead, as the storm was one
OF the most intense in the history OF
the state
The property damage was except
Ionally heavy, as dwellings and store
houses were wrecked and the wreck
age blown about like so much kind
ling wood when the wind reached its
height. The accompanying hail and
rain did heavy damage to crops anC
vegetation of all kinds.
REPORTS OF death and destruction
have been received from Denmark
Tenn, where two lives were lost; from
Stanton. Tenn, where one negro wa:
killed. and Mulberry. Tenn, where
me victim was killed by the storm
The Iowa state monument in the
Shiloh National cemetery was wreck
cd as was the quarters of the Gene
faFv superintendent Giant foTes
trees were uprooted and now measure
their length upon the ground
No estimate Of the property dam
age can now be given, but 1t will run
well into the thousands, as the are
nf the storm was widespread and far
reaching.
"a INJURED, THREE
FATALLY, AT RUSSELLVILLG
Rv Associated Press.
RusselfviIle. Ala.s Oct. 15--TWenty
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