The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-03-21
DEATH LIST NOW
MORE THAN "a
Property Loss In Gulf Stat,
Up In Millions.
North Central and Western D..
tions of Country Are Buried
Under Snow Drifts.

Chicago Indications from late ,.
ports are that more than 80 pe,.o,.
were killed, scores severely ipiu,aa |
and great property loss sustained =
the disastrous electrical storm wh;a
swept parts of Georgia, Tennesss.a
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi ~,
Texas.
Eighty odd deaths have been renou
ed and the total loss Of life probah1,
will be increased when wire commun;
cation is restored in remote section,
devastated by the cyclone. The DAM
age to property cannot be estimata
but will have to be computed in mil
lions.
Twenty-Five persons are reported h
have persisted in Georgia and damars
to property is roughly estimated Il
81, 900, 900. Calhoun, Gordon county,
Georgia, and vicinity bore the brunt
of the storm, and IL persons are 70.
ported to have been killed. The othe,
fatalities in Georgia were nine At
Tucker, four at Eaglesville, three at
Charleston and two at Columbus.
Late reports from Tennessee have
increased the death toll in that state
to % persons.
The loss of life in Alabama is est.
mated at Is, although several persons
still are reported missing. Five ne.
groes were killed near New Decatur,
three persons persisted at Calera and
two each at Hoke and Bluff, GAINESVILLE
and Duke.
Late reports from Northern Missis-
sippi raised the death list from seven
as first reported, to Is. These fatal.
ties occurred in seven counties. Wire
communication with a number Of
towns struck by the storm still is in.
terrupted.
No more deaths have been reported
from Louisiana, the death list remain.
ing at seven.
Six persons were killed by the cy.
clone that passed over Gadsden, Ala.
A Southern railway train was
wrecked, presumably by spreading
rails, near Round Mountain. The
crew and passengers escaped injury.
The storm, which continued for two
hours, was followed by earthquake
shocks, and devastated wide section
of country between Curryville and Re-
sacca late at night. Eleven are known
to have been killed.
The storm west of the Tennessee
river reached its gravest fury in Ben
ton county, sweeping a path froms
quarter to three-quarters of a mile
wide diagonally across the country.
1t is estimated that the damage done
by the severe wind and rain storm
which swept Chicago and Illinois will
aggregate nearly 81, 100000. In Chi
cago the wind attained a velocity Of
so miles an hour for several hours and
thousands of plate glass windows and
doors in all parts of the city were de-
molished.
Dispatches from Northern Wiscon-
sin say disastrous floods have been fol-
lowed by one of the most severe snow
storms of the winter. Railroad traffic
in the northwestern part of the state
is paralyzed, telegraph wires have
been put out of commission, but the
change in temperature is moderating
the floods, which were working great
havoc.
Wind storms, accompanied by rain
and hail, in the southwestern part Of
Kansas, did great property damage
Two carpenters were killed at Louis
vile, KY, when a high wind blew
down construction tower at the
Louisville Railway company's repair
shops. The wind reached a velocity
of so miles an hour.
Burlington railroad traffic imme-
diately west of Alliance, Neb., was
demoralized as result of heavy
blizzard which swept Northwestern
Nebraska and Southwestern Wyoming,
Freight traffic is at a standstill anu
overland passenger trains are reporteo
stalled in snowdrifts.
Culebra Cut Pushed Up.
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