The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-22
F|FTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST
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five were killed at Popular Bluff, Mo.
one met death and twenty-five were
injured at Hoxie, Ark.
Several negroes were killed and
their cabins destroyed, near Macon.
Miss
At Decatur, Ala. one white boy was
killed and a number of negroes have
lost their lives.
Mississippi Is Swept.
Memphis also reports that Missis-
sippi was swept from Grenada to Wa
ter Valley, the northern part of the
State, and that at senatobia the loss
was also large.
At Murfreesboro, Tenn, the scene
of one of the bloodiest battles of the
Civil war, the storm was unusually
severe. Half a million dollars is es-
( timated as the loss in that imme diate
section. Residents were awakened
/ from their sleep and thrown into a
panic. Resort hotels in that section
were damaged and a number of
| houses in the town square at Muir
/ freeshoro wrecked.
A Louisville and Nashville train
from New Orleans to Chicago was re-
! ported from Nashville to have been
swept by fallen tree. Eighteen win
dows We're broken and the train de-
layed six hours; there was no one in
jured.
Birmingham reported high winds
and damages to a furnace.
Twenty-one Killed.
Al Townsville, Ala, twenty one
persons are known to have been
killed, all but two of them whites
The greatest apprehension Is felt
here for scores of Southern towns still
! cut off from all wire communication
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Of the big winds.
/ Most of the larger Southern towns
were reported at some time, but COM
/ muniCation tonight continued largely
a matter of accident
! Railroad losses will be enormous.
/ Every line in the South has wires;
! down, trestles and bridges damaged
and in numerous places tracks strewn
! with debris
! Taking the towns heard from as
: an indication, the life loss IL is esti-
/ mated here, will be one of the heaviest
! in the history of the South Crop.
| timber and general property damage
| tonight is inestimable.
| Storm i'm Alabama.
MOBILE, ALA, March 21.--That
1.-THE most destructive storm in many
years visited south Alabama Thursday
! night and early Friday morning, is
indicated from delayed reports re-
| ceived this afternoon. Probably a
score of lives have been lost and the
number OF injured can only be sur
| missed until delayed reports OF the
extent of the disaster are received.
Reports received from Pine Hill are
| that the town of Lower Peachtree,
about fifteen miles from that place on
the Alabama river, has been prac-
tically wiped out, and a call for doc
tors and nurses to care for the in
jured has been sent to Pine Hill.
Owing to the damage wrought by
the storm passage over the roads in
Wilcox county is difficult, but an eff
fort is being made to get help to the
stricken people. Fifteen people are
reported dead at Lower Peachtree.
Tornado Hits Dyas.
A tornado of great violence struck
the little town of Dyas. on the Louis
VILE and Nashville railroad. a short
distance above Bay Minette, shortly
after midnight. wrecking a number
OF buildings and prostrating telegraph
wires for miles in every direction.
number of people are reported
injured but as far as can be learned,
no fatalities occurred.
The list of dead at Lower Peach
tree, so far obtained, are;
l.. d. Bryants family, James Clark