The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23
S1ORM.DEATHL|
MOUNTS RAPIDLY
Now Believed That About ESQ
Persons LostTheir Lives.
in Hurricane.
HUNDREDS ARE INJURED
Damage to Crops, Timber and
Property WIFE Reach
$lO,oOO,OOo
isnec,a, TO The rimes-Dispatoh. ]

ssiiSpecial to The Times Dispatch.l
st. Louis, Mo. March .22.-Reports
from tho storm-swept section OF the
Central Southern States continue TO
come in slowly. owing to the interrupt
ed telegraph and telephone facilities
Every report received however, tells
Of loss of life and great damage. and
IL now seems probable that the death
roll will be In the neiGhborhood OF
$50, while probably from 800 to sou
persons have been injured. The Gam
age TO crops timber and property OF
all kinds will amount to approximately
s1o,00o.0oo.
partial list, OF the towns In the
storm swept district OF Alabama. with
the casualties. follows;
pcnchtrec, forty killed and seventy
hurt; 'chomusviIIc. tucnty-four killed
nnd thirty hurt: Decatur. six killed anu
nine hurt; HUNTSVILLE, four killed and
eight hurt; Dysay, four killed and ten
burt: Mission. five killed and ten hurt.
In mississippi the casualty roll re-
norted is: Mncon, three killed ana ono
hurt; huntsville. nine dead and seven
teen hurt; Rurnl>iIlc. ono dead nnd len
hurt; Rcinsic, Eve killed md sixteen
hurt.
Ioutsinnn's list of killed and injured
40 far ns reported. foiiowsi
leonard, two killed md ono hurt;
Saline, three killed and forty hurt;
Weller. one killed and two hurts idH'
ono killed md two hurt: Burk Place.
two Killed and ono hurt, Sttlson, five
hurt, ono fatally.
Missouri was touched by the wind,
an eighty-hvc gale hitting Pop
lar Bluff and vicinity. causing 100000
damage and injuring a dozen persons
slightly. Telephone and telegraph
wires were torn down. Hundreds OF
homes, business houses and factories
wefo damaged roofs being blown
away and thousands OF winders shat
tered
A small church on Vinegar Hin was
carried twenty feet and set down
Other buildings wore lifted OFT their
foundations and crashed TO the ground.
The dairy farm Of John Brickell was
ruined and mo was hurt. Two resi-
denccs about eight large barns and
blacksmith shop OH the James r. lio9g
farm were wrecked and distiilery
damaged. Trees in two orchards were
torn out by tho roots on this place.
Medical supplies aud army surgeons
were ordered TO Peachtrce to-day from
OElethcrpe Ga. by Secretary of War
Garrison, in response to plea for as
sistance wired TO President Wilson.
The telegram, sent by c. c. Hare,
stated that the town had been abso-
lutely wiped out; that many persons
met death and. hundreds had been in.
jured. All medical supplies were de-
struyod. he declared.
The Red Cross SOCIETY to-day wired
tho government ,of -flabana !offerinE
assistance and notified agents At
Birmingham. 70 rush all aid needed TO
Peachtree and surrounding towns in
the path OF the cyclone,
Great damage was done throughout
Arkansas. particularly Al HoNic, which
was almost wiped out BY the storm.
The extent of the loss OF life and num-
Der OF persons hurt in that locality
has as yet not been learned.
Hundreds OF telegraph and telephone
poles were torn down. and y result
all wire service from that region is
hadly crippled. The railroad service.
lacking wires, mas also been crippled
Death List Twenty-EiEht.
Mobile Ala, March 92.--Accordine
to- The latest Information received from
Lowe Peachtree Ala swept Friday