Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-21

During the height of the storm wire
communication was lost with that point ONT
and has not yet been resafned this
morning. Up to that time no loss OF
life was reported
Fulton, KY, Feels Effects.
At, Fulton. KY. considerable damage
was done TO property
In Mississippi the storm was severe
from Grenada to Water Valley. At Sen
atohia the wind was unusually high and
houses are said to have been tossed about
as if playthings. No loss OF life occur
red there
Locally only minor damage was done.
Signs were blown down. houses unroofed
and windows blown out in the higher
buildings. heavy downpour OF rain
with continuous flashes OF lightning and
rolls OF thunder accompanied the blow.
Birmingham Hard Hit.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, March 21.-Hur-
ricane wind and rain storms struck Biz
ningham this morning about o'clock.
While no loss of life is reported. con-
siderable damage was done to property.
The Woodward Iron Company suffered
much damage and furnaces had to close
until repairs can be made.
Score Hurt at Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. March 21-A
score or more persons were injured and
damage estimated at thousands of dollars
was done today by the most severe wind
storms which have visited the state in
years. No loss of life had been re-
ported from over the state this morning
The wind, 1t was said, reached sixty
miles an hour at O'Clock.
The streets here are Uttered with
wrecked signs. parts of roofs, broken win
dows. bricks from chimneys and branches
of trees. The wire service throughout
the state was demoralized. some points
being cut offG0mpletely Interurban lines
also We're harG]hit by the wind.
Five Killed Fifty Hurt.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. March -i.xFive per-
sons We're killed and more than fftv IN
jured by the storm last night at Poplar
Bluff. Mo. according to members of the
crew of the st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad passenger train. which arrived
here today
They also reported one dead and
twenty-five injured at Hoxie. Ark. aid
the town practically destroyed.
Great damage was done at Poplar
Bluff and the country between that point |
and Hoxie.
Fourteen Reported Dead. 49,
MOBILE, Ala. March 21-Southern |
Alabama was swept by a cyclone last |
night. At Dyas. Ala, a short distance
above Mobile. several houses are re-
ported blown down and fifteen miles of |
telegraph lines Frustrated in one place
An unconfirmed report from Lower |
Peachtree, on the Alabama river, is to !,
the effect that fourteen people were |
killed and an immense amount of dam |
age done. |
n Several Fatalities Reported.
MERIDIAN. Miss. March 21-Several |
were reported killed by a windstorm |
which struck a settlement last night five
miles north of Macon, Kiss- It-~was
feared severe damage was Wrought by |
the storm in the northern part of the
state, but communication with that sec
ton was impossible because of the Se-
moralized condition of telephone and taieNf
srapn wires
House Blown Hundreds Of Yards.
SHREVEPORT, La. March 21.-Several
houses We're blown down in Gibbs Land,
another town in Bienville parish, and
several thousand dollars In property dam
age was done. The house OF Joe Dandall,
in Gibbs Land. was blown from it's foun-
dalton. carried through the air several
hundred yards and deposited outside the
town.
Lightning Frightens Prisoners.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. March 21.-Light-
ming struck the county jail at Covington.
KY hurting the fifteen-foot chimney to
the ground and bouncing the sixty prison.
ers. all negroes. from their iron cots.
The prisoners were thrown into a panic.
De foot
ductors. and the lightning created the
impression that the cell house was on fire.
The wind reached a maximum Of forty
three miles an hour here, and much minor
damage was done
Wreaks Havoc in Tennessee.
NASHVILLE Tenn. March 21.-Ten
nessee was visited early today by a dis
astrous storm which swept up from the
southwest through the heart of middle
Tennessee. concentrating it's fury on Muir
freesboro. injuring one man. Hall Jones.
fatally, and doing damage estimated at
half a million dollars.
The storm in middle Tennessee practical
ly followed Ike track of the hurricane.
which cost twenty lives last week.
The storm struck Murfreesboro from
tine southwest about o'clock, ripping a
path through the west side of the public
j: iuare and hitting the north side of the
sstuare with all it's fury. Nearly every
Is. ding there was leveed or practically
- iroyed. The Presbyterian Church, a.
m 5dsome brick edifice. was completely
rccked. One corner Of the courthouse
vas unroofed.
Dwellings, Lifted Bodily.
The people were aroused from their
beds by the terrific wind, and the early
morning hours were to them hours Of
terror.
Between Murfree0boro and Winstead.
to the south. train conductors reported
that houses were lifted up bodily and
deposited ON the opposite side OF the
tracks.