The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-10-16
DEATH LIST IS LARGE
IN STATES OF THE SOUTH
Northern Alabama and tennessee
% Winds Path.
Fifteen Lives Lost ut National bury
ting Ground. While Many Other
Deaths Are Reported From
Points In Tennessee
and Other
States.

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Memphis. Tenn. Oct. 15.--with the
known death list already reaching
total OF thirty-seven human lives and
with thirteen others reported dead,
with scores seriously injured and many
others painfully bruised, and with the
property damage running to a million
or more dollars. the havoc and destruc-
ton Of the storm which swept Middle
and West Tennessee. Alabama, Georgia
and portions of Arkansas and South
Carolina. late yesterday afternoon and
last night. grow hourly as reports are
received from remote districts and as
wire communication is gradually re-
stored to q normal condition.
The storm of last night was proba-
bly, the worst that has visited this sec
tion Of the South in years being in
tense In its destroying fury and wide
spread In Its area. whole sections of
counties were laid In waste and ruin
Towns were destroyed, plantations were
damaged to untold extent and from all
sections of the storm swept area come
.eports OF loss of life. ruin and desola-
aon.
The list OF known dead follows:
Denmark, Tenn.~-AIbert Barnes.
Mulberry. Tenn.-Thomas Helm.
Stantonville, Tenn Thirteen people
,ported killed (unconnrmed.)
Pittsburg Landing. Tenn.--Mra West
eDaniel, Otis Llttieheld. Luther Lit
sfeld, Marshall Jordan. I. w. Lem
s. Of Kossuth. Miss. son OF Mr.. Lem
wear Stantonville-Charlie Moore.
4 o. Charlie Moore, baby of Mr.. and
4 s. Charlie Moore. Terry Wiibank.
;. Terri Wt.pank, two children OF
and Mrs. Wilbank. Mrs. Sissom.
near cartersviile. Ga.--Miss Pritch-
ard.
Scottsboro. Aia.--Msss Houston skei-
ton. Milus M Suder, a child of jan
Gale.
Wythe Cove. Aia.-Eight people
killed.
Near scottsboro. Ala-Mrs. r II.
SHELTON.
Stanton. Tenn.--Andy johnson. a ne
gro.
Nixon, Tenn.--Five people killed.
Near Marmaduke. Ark.-Arthur Lig-
gett.
Apparently the storm broke in all
its fury over Middle and West Tonnes
see and proceeded In a southeaSterly
direction across the State into Ala
bama and Georgia, assuming the pro-
portions of a West In4ian hurricane as
II swept along. leaving desoiation AMI
ruin behind.
1t came practically With out warning
and In some places IL Is reported tina.
the wind attained q velocity of ninety
miles an hour.
Denmark II Deaolate.
while only one death occurred at
Denmark, Tenn, the horrors of the
storm were greatly heightened by the
fire which started amid tie ruins and
little town In Middle Tennessee. TIE
fierce flames. unquenched by the heavy
downpour of rain anc hall. rapidly con-
sumed what few dwellings and store
houses which were left standing ami
tonight q scene Of utter desolation is
presented. Two hundred people were
rendered homeless ard have Appealed
to neighboring towns and cities for i'm
mediate aid.
Reports of Ave deaths and heavy
damage come from McNairy County.
where Is located the famous battlefield
of Shiloh and which was dirertly in the
path of the storm. Homes and stores
were leveled to the ground and great
trees in the historic national cemetery
were uprooted to be tossed about by
the raging tempest.
Many handsome ard imposing State
monuments In the national park were
torn from their pedestals and the su-
perintendent's lodge and other build
ings were destroyed. The property
damage in this section Is estimated at
100000.
Wire communication with Stanton
Vile. where thirteen lives are reported
to have been lost, has not yet been re-
established and tonight 1t Is impossi-
BILE to confirm the report
The heaviest known loss of life &C.
Cured at Hamburg, Tenn, where in
the Immediate territory. the storm
claimed fifteen victims and did great
property damage.
severe Mt Rus@ellvilIe.
At Russellvil.e. Ala. 1t is reported
that forty inhabitants were seriously
age of at least $4,000 Is estimated at
Cartersville. Ga. while thai at At anita,
will run between $50 900 and 500, 900.
One life was lost at the former place,
but Atlanta escaped with only the
property damage. Hardly a house in
the city escaped damage to some ex-
tent. many were unroofed, others had
blown down by the score.
\ The interurban line from Atlanta to
Marietta, Ga. was put out OF com mis-
sion and many passengers had to re-
sort to the railroad trains or remain
in Atlanta over night At East Lake.
a suburb of the city. thirty-flve head
of stock were killed.
Reports from Rome. Ca. indicate
that heavy damage WAS done the crops
and vegetation of all kinds by the
storm, but no loss of life was reported.
From other points reports were re-
ceived. al. indicating that damage to
property through out the areas swept
by the storm Will amount to a million
or more dollars
No damage was done in Memphis the
wind being hardly noticed.
It was not until late today that wire
communication with come of the strick-
en- districts was re-estahlished and then
the wires were badly crippled.
Wreekage at Shiloh
Memphis. Tenn. Oct. 15--Sh.loh bat
tlefield today again presents a scene Of