The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1913-03-27
DESTRUCTIVE WIND STORMS.

DESTRUCTIVE WIND STORMS.
More than seventy five persons are re-
ported killed and hundreds were injured,
some mortally, by storm of tornado in
tensity which ragged from Michigan to the
Gulf last Thursday night and early Friday
morning. Property damage amounts to
millions.
Coming out of the Southwest early Fri
day morning the storm swept with startling
suddenness diagonally across the country
from Northern Texas to Western Pennsyl-
vania and New York, bisecting the Mis-
sissippi Valley and moving northeastward
across the Ohio into the great lake region.
Shifting winds Of great violence, accom-
panied in various sections by snow, sleet
and hail, characterized the storm easily the
most destructive of the year and rarely
equalled in the extent of its sweep and
damage. Buildings toppled before the
blow in nearly dozen States and death
lay all along its wake.
The property loss was great all along the
storms track. Besides demolishing or
unroofing buildings and telling trees, the
high winds, rain, hail and sleet did serious
damage to early crops.
Estimates of the damage to property
from Indiana and Michigan alone aggre-
gate S2,O00,0OO, about evenly divided be-
tween the two States.
The wind which wiped out so much
property and cost so many lives attained
record velocities at some points. Figures
given by the Weather Bureau in Wash
ington showed that at Detroit it reached
SO miles an hour, 81 miles at Toledo, 88
miles at Buffalo and Memphis "a miles.
Reports from Alabama show that loss of
life was heaviest in that State. Twenty
nine residents of Lower Peachtree, on the
Alabama River, we're killed, and the town
was practically wiped out. Nineteen per-
sons were killed at Thomasville. Hundreds
of other persons were badly injured, in
dustrial plants so badly damaged as to
throw 1900 or 1000 workmen out of en-
ployment, and extensive damage to other
property was done in Alabama.
The town of Hoxie, Ark, reports $780,
600 damage and one person killed.
At Ruleville, Miss, two negroes were
killed and the property loss is given at
$3.50 600. Two persons were killed at SAL
lis, Miss. Fifteen buildings were wrecked
in Louisville, Miss, and Senatobia was
also damaged.
Three persons were killed, two fatally
injured and damage amounting to $500, ZOO
was done in Middle Tennessee, two girl
telephone operators at Murfreesboro prov
ing the heroines of the storm.
Two students were drowned on Lake
Erie, off Buffalo harbor, N. Y.
Three persons were killed in Ohio, and
the property damage is said to be in excess
of 81 100000.
A negro woman was killed near Tyler, a
white child injured at Winona, and many
houses were damaged in Smith County
Texas.
/ A number of derricks we're blown dowr
and other damage sustained in the Cadde
Oil fields. Reports from Ida and Myrs
state that white baby was killed and {
number Of persons injured. Between thirty
and forty houses, mostly negro cabins
were demolished.
The village of Burkplace, in Bienvillt
Parish, this State, was practically destroy
ed. Aaron Drggers was killed and twt
other persons injured, and number o
houses and much farm property and stool
were destroyed, part of the damage being
, at Browns, three miles from Burkplace.
At Doyline, Webster Parish, there wa
some property damage. The Jackson stor
was tilted, but not blown down.
, Omaha, Neb., March 24.-One hundred
and twenty seven known dead and NOR
than 300 injured is the accurate toll up tt
6 O'Clock tonight of the tornado that swep
Omaha's residence district at 5:45 o'clocl
) yesterday evening. More than 1000 build
} ings we're damaged, including about 80.
which were demolished. Five thousan,
persons have been rendered homeless
! The property loss will exceed S5,OOO,O 600
, Six persons were killed in Council Bluffs
, Iowa, and greatproperty loss entailedther
> Terre Haute, Indiana, March 24.-Fift,
victims of tornado which swept th
southern part of Terre Haute and Wig
County late last night were in the morgu
; to-day and more than seventy-five wer
: being cared for in improvised hospitals
The property loss will exceed $500, 900.