Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-05-01
HUNDRED DEAD
IN THE SOUTH
Terrible Havoc
Wroughtby byStorm
Yesterday
|NJUREDhUMBER MANY MORE
Arkansas, Tennessee and
Mississippi Were Principal
Sufferers

Memphis Tenn May while
some sections in the pathway OF the
storm are still to be heard from, in
formation as far as received from
Arkansas, western Tennessee and
northern Mississippi, indicate that
the total number of killed by the
storm is one hundred and more are
believed to have been fatally hurt.
An accurate account is not yet re-
ceived. The greatest number of dead
, and injured are reported from Horn
Lake, Mississippi. where eighteen
bodies already have been taken from
! the debris of farm dwellings, The
| injured list is placed at fifty, many
of them seriously hurt.
Caddo Gap, Arkansas, reports
/ similar number of dead and wounded
and Fayetteville, Tennessee. fifteen
dead and fifty injured The following
is the number of dead in Arkansas
towns: Mariana four; Palestine fif-
teen injured: Bee Branch. two dead:
Heber two dead; Wilbura, one dead;
Wheatly, Charlottesville, Seebutton,
one dead each; Marion, five dead.
In Tennessee the following towns
report dead: Somerville, five; Boil
var, one; Cebard, four; Montezuma,
twelve; Humboldt, four: Medina,
three; Bells, six; Quito. three; Lula,
four: Deliach two; Hanley. two;
Clarksville. one.
i Worst Storm in Years.
Louisville, KY, May MAY day.
following the wind storm which caused
probably one hundred deaths through
the Southern states. will be spent by
the telegraph companies in repairing
} wires. With an overland wire from
Louisville to New Orleans establish
ped, authentic lists of victims may be
}, secured. 1t has been years since the
storm gathered so many victims. Ten
nessee, sloping westward from the Vir.
ginia mountains to the Dunes along
the Mississippi, provided an antle for
the wind to pivot on and the list OF
!, sixty dead in the state seems to have
corroborated this. Word from Guthrie,
Kentucky, says that six persons were
killed there. AS far east as Mount
Sterling, barns and houses were un-
rooted, tobacco beds washed away, and
turnpikes turned into rivers.
Two Hundred Thousand Smudge Pots
Grand Junction, Colo, May 1.-Two
hundred thousand "smudge pots"
watched through the night by an
army of men, women and children,
probably saved the fruit crop in the
Grand Valley. estimated this year to
, be worth three million dollars. All
during the night the entire district
was lighted by the glare Of smudge
pots. The valley resembled a huge
charcoal bed but in the morning buds
were reported uninjured.
Blizzard Continues in Chicago.
Chicago. May 1.-The storm which
began OH Thursday and the death list
of which approximates two hundred
in the states of Ill.aois. Tennessee,
Alabama. Arkansas. Georgia, Missis-
sippi, Missouri and Pennsylvania,
took the form of blizzard in the
upper lake region today, including
Chicago where moderate wind was
accompanied by snow. Winnipeg re-
ported many cattle killed In Canada
and that the storm blasted the or
chards. The telegraph companies re-
iport wire conditions improved.
Passenger Steamer Sinks.
Port Huron, Mich, May 1.-The pas
senger steamer Russia sunk in Lake
Superior last night. All Of the crew
was saved. This was the first trip Of
the season.
Went Down in the Storm.
Marquette, Mich, May 1.-The
barge George Nestor struck a reef off
here yesterday and with crew Of
seven sank. The vessel was bound
for Baraga. in tow Of the steamer
Schoolcraft. The small boats could
not live in the heavy seas and the
barge was driven on the rocks. The
!, crew of the Lighthouse tender Mari
gold attempted the rescue with the
life lines but was unsuccessful The
I Nestor went to pieces fast and all the
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