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STORM SWEEPS
MANY STATES
Towns Are Wiped OGt and
Crops Destroyed.
MANY KILLED OR INJURED
Destructive Wind and Rain In Central
West, South and Western PennsyE

Destructive Wind and Rain In Central
West, South and Western Pennsyi
vania.
Washington, March PA terrific
storm that ragged over the central
western states throughout the night
was moving northeastward, leaving a
wake of destruction.
Heavy property damage was report
ed. Storm warnings were ordered dis.
played all along the Atlantic coast
from Hatteras to Eastport, Me. The
damage to property will run into the
millions.
Loss of life is reported from some
points in the west and south, and the
List of injured is expected to reach a
large figure by the time all storm
swept places are heard from. Scores
are already known to have been in.
jured.
The wind swept over western Penn
sylvania at a terrific rate. At East
Pittsburgh a house was wrecked and
three persons seriously hurt. In Mount
Pleasant, Pa, windows were blown
in, a church steeple toppled over and
telegraph and telephone wires were
prostrated. At Latrobe, Pa, horse
and wagon were blown across the
street. The damage will he heavy.
Eastern and central West Virginia
were swept with heavy property loss,
but no loss of life is reported.
The storm struck Buffalo, N. Y, the
wind there attaining a velocity estl-
mated at seventy miles an hour. The
ice broke up at the foot of the lake
there and massive cakes were blown
over the government breakwater wall
in the harbor. A fireboat rescued nine
teen fishermen. Others are believed
to be out on the ice.
Twenty children were imprisoned
under a falling wall, when the wind
blew out one side Of the Hill View
school house, near Greensburg, Pa.
Miss Mary Crissinger, the teacher,
was seriously injured. The children
were dug out of the debris by their
parents. One child, Alice Christner,
was missing several hours. She was
later found in the ruins, but large
blackboard had protected her from the
falling bricks.
All communication was restored
with points cut off, and it was found
that many sections suffered more dam
age than At first believed. This was
true of central portions of Kentucky
and Tennessee, Missouri and AlahaDas
At Somerset, KY, thirty-five frame
buildings were blown down. None of
the occupants was badly injured.
The town of Lower Peach Tree, Will
cox county, Ala, was practically wiped
out by tornado which struck the
town, according to reports from Pine
Hill. Reports are that fourteen peo-
pie were killed and many injured.
The storm which swept up from the
southwest through the heart of mid
die Tennessee concentrated it's fury
on Murfreesboro, injuring one man IA
tally and doing damage estimated at
100000. The storm struck Murfrees-
boro from the southwest, ripping a
path through the public square. Near
ly every building on one side was
leveled. The Presbyterian church was
completely wrecked. One corner of
the court house was unroofed. Be-
tween Murfreesboro and Winstead, to
the south, houses were lifted and de-
posted on the opposite side OF the
tracks. The roof of the main hotel
hui ut rnc0Tf
lifted.
The wind at Memphis attained a
velocity of siXty-four miles an hour.
The St. Louis, Iro Mountain & South
ern railroad station at Minturn, Ark,
was blown away. A heavy fall of hail,
lasting forty minutes, accompanied
the storm at Pocahontas, Ark.
A cyclone swept a belt a quarter OF
a mile wide through the northwestern
section of Madison county, Ala, kill
ing two persons and blowing down
many houses and barns. The wind
storm was followed by a terrific hail
and rain storm. The Methodist church
at Meridianville, the store of William
Mitchell, store of Clarence Thompson,
Hampton school and other buildings
were badly damaged.
At Walnut Ridge, Tenn, two ne
groes were killed and ten injured.
The country between HoXie, Black
Rock and Walnut Ridge, Ark, is
strewn with wreckage. Bed quilts,
sheets and clothing waved from tree
tops. At HoXie a new hotel was
blown down, the railroad station de-
stroyed, an adjacent building entirely
flattened, three brick stores partly
blown down and the school building
wrecked.
According to passengers and train
crew the storm swept path about
half a mile wide as far as could be
teen from Poplar Bluff, Mo-, toward
Little Rock.