The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-03-20
Death Toll of the Storm.

ST. LOUISA SLOru WHICH SQI0du
over the entire Middle West, the
Rocky Mountain region, the South and
the Southwest caused loss of life and
great property damage.
Late reports indicate that nearly a
hundred persons were killed, scores
seriously injured, and millions of dol
lars worth of property destroyed, in
the terrific electrical tornado which
swept Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Texas.
Ninety deaths have been reported,
and the total loss of life probably will
be increased when communication is
restored in remote sections devas-
tated by the cyclone. The damage to
property cannot be estimated, but will
have to be computed in millions.
Twenty-Five persons are reported to
have persisted in Georgia and the prop
erty loss in that State is roughly es-
timated at 100000. Calhoun, Gordon
county, Ga, and it's vicinity bore the
brunt of the storm in that State, and
eleven persons are reported to have
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in Georgia were nine at Tucker, four
at Eaglesville, three at Clarkson, and
two at Columbus.
Every message from the towns and
cities of the storm-ridden zone brought
its quota of disaster. Men, women and
children were overwhelmed in their
homes, in the streets or in the fields
where they had taken shelter. Cloud
bursts drove plunging torrents through
the hurricane belt. A wind of terrific
velocity uprooted trees, blew down
telegraph and telephone poles, tum-
bled big and little buildings, and even
blew railroad cars from the tracks.
The latest reports from Tennessee
have increased the death toll in that
State to twenty-six persons. Six per-
ished in Middleton, four at South Ber-
lin, three at Huron, two each at Cul.
leoka and Lexington, and one each at
Leesburg, Rally Hill and Bryant Sta
ton. The loss of life in Alabama is
estimated at thirteen. Five negroes
were killed near New Decatur, three
persons persisted at Calera, and two
each at Hoyles Bluff, Gayesville and
Duke.
A conservative estimate places the
number of dead in the lower Middle
West, Southwest and South at so, with
not fewer than 200 injured and prop
erty loss of 100000 or more.
Four persons were killed and IL in
jured as the result of blizzard In
Nebraska, which caused two wrecks.
A st. Paul engineer saved a train
load of passengers in Minnesota. He
feared washout, and ran slowly as
he approached bridge. His engine
plunged through the bridge. His fire.
man was killed and he was fatally
hurt
At Gothamburg, Nebraska, passen-
ger train crashed into the rear of a
Pullman sleeper, throwing it and the
coach ahead into the ditch. Four per-
sons were killed and 10 others are
seriously injured. Three were fatally
hurt
After two days of the hardest gales
ever known in the Ozark Mountain
district, the apple belt of Missouri, the
fell to % above zero. and
the wind died down. The freeze is
not believed to have done much dam
age to fruit
One person was killed at Jackson
vile, Ill. In Peoria, Woodford, Taze-
we'll, Morgan, Cass, Menard, Jersey
and Greene counties, in Illinois, the
wind created great havoc A church
steeple at Spring Hill, ILL.,, blown over
while meeting was in progress, caused
a panic.
Hundreds were rendered. homeless
in the eastern part of Wisconsin and
hundreds of lives were endangered.
The damage is estimated at $500, 1000.
At Fond du Lac the business and
residence sections experienced the
worst food in ten years, the causes
being ice jams. The water works
plant is flooded and newspaper press
rooms are out of commission.