Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-11
LIVES SNuFFED OUT
| BY STORM IN SOUTH
Nearly Thirty Persons Are Reported
Killed and Many Injured in
Three States.
ONE TOWN IS BLOWN AWAY
Lake Steamer Lost in Hurricane on
Whitefish Bay-Blizzard Con-
6itions 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. The
storms which wrought this havoc APP
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, tive; 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
a gusty night, with here and 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 We're killed
and many injured In the vicinity of
Medina, Tenn, two were killed The
wind cut path half mile wide
through the towns of West Marion
and Weakley and vicinity.
In Northern Arkansas, 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 G. Pringle of Cleve-
land and a crew of twenty men were
in charge of the Aurania when 1t left
Buffalo for Lake Superior with coal
A terrific wind and rain storm struck
Chicago early Thurhday evening and
left death and destruction in its wake
One man was killed outright, one fell
dead from heart disease during the tu-
mutt, and nearly fifty were injured
some probably fatally Twenty-Five
houses were blown down, many more
unroofed. several set afire. and more
than fifty families rendered homeless
The extreme south end of the city
was cut off from street car service and
thrown into darkness by the destruc-
ton of electric light wires. A deluge
of rain accompanied the wind, and
west of the city hundreds of acres were
flooded. Two inches of rain fell during
the day and the evening. Telegraph
and telephone wires were down In near
ly every direction. tidal wave in
Lake Michigan did great damage in
Waukegan and Kenosha.