The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-05-06
Lives SNUFFED OUT
| BY STORM IN SOUTH
Nearly Thirty Persons Are Reported
Killed and Many Injured in
Three States.
ON TOWN IS BLOWN AWAY
Lake Steamer Lost in Hurricane on
Whitefsh Bay-Blizzard Con-
ditions in Northwest.

Between twenty and thirty persons
are dead in Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas, and scores of injured were
the total Thursday night of series
of tornadoes in those States. 1he
storms which wrought this havoc ap-
pear to have been little outriders of
the big disturbances which simultane-
ously were sweeping through the
North.
Although more fatal to life than the
Northern storm, these Southern lorna
does each covered only a small area
of a few acres or a few square miles.
They struck at widely scattered points
at intervals.
The death list as received was as
follows: Youngs Crossing, Tenn, five (;
Medina, Tenn, two; Horn Lake, Miss.
twelve; Forest City, Ark, two; West
Marion, Ark, one.
During the night telegraph wires
went down all over the South, with
the exception of the South Atlantic
States. On both sides of the Mis-
sissippi, for hundreds of miles. it was
gusty night, with here ard there a
puff of wind which knocked trees over
and which isolated many sections of
the South for hours.
Memphis, Tenn, was the center of a
storm that destroyed plantation build
ings, caused loss of life and injury,
and made useless many telephone and
telegraph wires.
Near West Marion, Ark, the storm
demolished twenty-four houses. Miss
Nancy Young was killed and four per.
sons were injured. Near Wheatley,
Ark, a negro was killed. Near Horn
Lake. Miss. plantation cabins were
wrecked and twelve negroes killed.
At Raleigh, Tenn. score of build
ings were blown down and trees up
rooted. Locke, Tenn, village Is
miles from Memphis, was practically
obliterated and a number Of persons
injured. At Youngs Crossing, near
Jackson, Tenn, five persons were killed
and many injured. In the vicinity OF
1hculud, lChu., tNO NClC hiiiCu. he
wind cut a path half a mile wide
through the towns of West Marion
and Weakley and vicinity.
In Northern Arkansas, a dispatch
from Fort Smith says, ninety persons
were injured At Plum Point dozen
houses were wrecked and one person
was killed. Near Jackson, Tenn, sew.
en- persons were killed and others in.
jured. At Medina three houses were
wrecked
Four persons were killed, at least
twelve injured, and great damage done
by a tornado in Golden, Mo. The town
was destroyed, every building being
RACED.
1t is the general opinion that it was
the Corrigan line steamer Aurania
which Capt. Boyce of the Peavey saw
sink in Whitefish Bay. A furious
storm ragged over the upper lake re
gion. Capt. Robert C. Pringle of Cleve
land and crew of twenty men were
in charge of the Aurania when 1t lef
Buffalo for Lake Superior with coal
A terrific wind and rain storm strucl
Chicago early Thurhday evening an(
left death and destruction in its wake
One man was killed outright, one fel
dead from heart disease during the tn
multi, and nearly fifty were injured
some probably fatally. twenty-five
houses were blown down. many more
unroofed, several set afire, and NOR,
than fifty families rendered homeless
The extreme south end of the cit!
was cut off from street car service ant
thrown into darkness by the destruc
ton of electric light wires. delug,
of rain accompanied the wind, ant
west of the city hundreds of acres wer,
flooded. Two inches of rain fell durin;
the day and the evening. Telegraph
and telephone wires were down i'm near
ly every direction. A tidal wave il
Lake Michigan did great damage IL
Waukegan and Kenosha.