Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-01
U. sANGLED DEAD
fARK PATH OF
Z TERRIFIC STORM
CASUALTIES ALREADY RUN
{ INTO MANY HUNDREDS
SOUTH AND GREAT LAKE REGION
SUFFER GREATEST
Floods and Tidal Wave Follow II
Wake of Tornado, Manning
and Destroying Life
and Property
rBy Associated Press.l

4 TLANTA, Ca, April 30.-An cpl
n demic of tornadoes swept through
IA the south last night and today,
leaving in their wake hundreds of man
gled bodies and the dismantled wrecks
of property worth many millions. AT
least 100 persons are thought to be
dead.
An exact list of the dead and ac-
curate estimate of the monetary loss
may not be completed for many days
but from all along the path of the
storm come tales of fearful loss of life
and whole towns and villages are COM
pletely wiped out.
The storm wave seems to have had
its origin in the north and swept from
the lake region south in Irregular
fashion.
there was much loss of life. The lat
ter town is said to be virtually de-
stroyed. while at CenterVille and ad-
Joining villages the damage is reported
very heavy.
Near Pulaski the death list reached
twelve and many were injured.
The tornado followed the CumDer-
land valley, wrecking small towns and
destroying farm houses. At Ebenezer
eighteen houses were blown down. AT
Charleston the storm swerVed up tne
Hiawasse river in the Tennessee valley
destroying much property. At Fayette-
Vile three persons were killed.
At Cuba many houses were ploWn
down and at Gilestown not even shed
was left standing.
Memphis reports heavy loss from
towns within a radius of 100 miles IN
three states.
AT Horn Lake, Miss. three lives were
lost and the damage was very heavy.
From neighboring towns come reports
-. and children Killed ana
homes wrecked.
The tornado swept over into Arkan-
sas and killed eight persons near Mann
moth Springs and wrecked score OF
buildings.
Other points in Arkansas report
heavy losses.
striking Alabama and heading south
westerly, the hurricane continued its
course of destruction tonight. Hunts
willie reports heavy loss of property,
with prohaDly several persons killed.
1T Dan,ille, Ala, the storm struck
with terrific force.
At Har,zell at least one is dead and
many hurt.
The storm still was raging late to-
night. Wire connections between At
lanta and Chattanooga and Knoxville
: had ceased entirely. -,
ming at Monroe, Ga, today.
Battlefield Is Torn UP
Wires are down throughout the dis
trict traversed by the storm. This
may be responsible for reports of large
casualties from various Tennessee
towns.
1t is said eight or ten persons are
dead IT Jackson.
Yo8y9ys Crossing has five dead. AT
Franklin one woman is dead and two
are fatally hurt at Henderson.
The storm played many fantastic
tricks 1t hurled James Jackson, an
aged man of Montgomery county, Ten
nessee, twenty yards from his ruined
house. swapping his neck, and he was
found dead today.
1t ripped twenty church steeples
from their belfries, stood them point
UP in the earth and then hurled them
into tree tops. 1t tore up the battlefield
of Franklin, Tenn, like the cannon
balls did in the Civil war
After scattering all the benches in
the grand stand at Latonia race track
1t whirled fence scantling through
the front window of George Tibbett's
house into a pile of dishes and through
the kitchen wall into the yard.
At Decher, Tenn. a man and child
were buried under the roof of their
home, torn off by the gale.
\ The storm crossed the Mississippi
liver many times in its wild career
through Dixie and at times tore patches
a mile wide over country and town,
later narrowing into a belt the size of
q eity street.