Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-05-07
TORNADO SWEEPS COUNTRY

ing to reports received by the police
and coroner.
Storm conditions in this vicinity
are somewhat improved, although
showers and thunderstorms, turning
to snow fiurries and colder, with a
westerly gale, are predicted.
That, however, destruction has been
widespread, involving loss OF scores
of lives and much stock and other
property, is shown by such reports
as are at hand. Wires are down in
Iowa, Missouri and Kansas and trans
portation in central Illinois and the
northwest is partly paralyzed.
Freezing weather prevails over a
large portion of Nebraska, tempera-
lures ranging as low as twenty-four
degrees above at North Platte.
A twenty-mile an hour wind from
the north and the temperature forty
degrees above zero were the condi-
tions that prevailed generally in wes-
| tern Missouri and throughout Kan
sas. Freezing temperatures in the
pan handle of Texas is reported.
Chicago was just a way station OF
the storm, its area ranging from New
York to North Dakota and extending
as far south as the mouth Of the
Ohio river.
| PiQua, Ohio.-A tornado twenty
miles wide dived down in this sec.
ton and caused a property damage
estimated at 100000.
The path of destruction extended
over. several counties, and extreme
damage was done by the wind in the
towns of PiQua, Sidney, Houston,
Fletcher, st. Paris and Kirkwood.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Two lives were
lost and much damage was done to
property when an electrical and wind
storm passed over Pittsburg following
snow storm.
Indianapolis, Ind. - Governor Mar
shall was notified by Warden Reid,
of the northern Indiana prison at
Michigan City, that six hundred feet
of the prison wall had been bloT
down by the storm. The governor,
in reply to an appeal for militia, sent
General Oran Perry to Michigan City
with orders to call out compUny OF
militia at South Bend If needed.
Monroe, Ga.-As the result OF an
electric storm, which visited this sec
tion, Mirabeau b. Barrett, his wife,
and 17-year-old daughter are dead
while his little 10-year-old son lies In
a serious condition.
Mammoth Springs, Ark.-A tornado
passed IS miles east of here, killing
eight persons and injuring many oth
ers. Many houses were demolished
near Mammoth Springs, and much live
stock was killed.
Pulaski, Tenn.-Twenty persons are
reported TO have been killed and for
ty injured in a tornado which swept
over the eastern section Of Giles coun
ty. Bee Springs, a village In the
southeast section, 16 miles from Pu
laski is reported to have been totally
destroyed. The country in this sec
ton is devastated.
Carmil, Ill.-A tornado swept ovel
Texas City, 32 miles south OF here
killing four persons and injuring sew
eral more.
Cassville, Mo.-Eleyen persons were
killed and twenty-five or thirty hurt
fourteen seriously, by tornado tina
destroyed Golden. Mo. The numpel
dead may be even greater, as the re
ports are not complete.
Birmingham, Ala.-A fierce cyclon'
passed near Hartselle, Ala, in th'
section which has been visited by 81
many wind storms, and Henry White
young man, was instantly killed.
West Plains, Mo.-Six persons wer,
killed and fifteen injured at Alaon
Mo-, the county seat of Oregon coun
ty, when a tornado destroyed mos
of the buildings in the town.