The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
Communication Facilities Suf-
fer Generalization.
MUCH DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
Nearly 80 Deaths Reported,
and Many More Injured.
Greatest Disasters Reported
From Southern States.

Lower Peachtree on the Alabama
river, about thirty miles from Pine Hill
Wilcox county, was practically wiped
out by tornado, which struck the
town late last night, according to re-
ports from Pine Hill
The mayor of Pine Hill has been
asked to send doctors and nurses to
the scene.
Reports are to the effect that IA peo-
pie have been killed and many injured.
The tornado passed directly through the
town and but a few houses escaped
destruction.
Late advices are to the effect that
fifteen people were killed at Lower
Peachtree, among them the following
prominent citizens:
Family of L. d. Bryant, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Clark, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs.
g. E. Williamson and SON. G. E. Will
hanson is seriously but not fatally in
Jured.
st. Louis, Mo-, March 21-A special
to the Post Dispatch from Poplar Bluff,
Mo-. says that one person was hurt
seriously in the tornado that struck
that town last night. Dozens of homes
and business houses were unrOOfed,
and hundreds of windows were shat
tered. The lighting and telephone plants
were badly crippled.
Indianapolis, Ind, March 21.-Two
lives were lost and several persons
probably wer, fatally injured today
by the windstorm, which wrought
havoc throughout the state, causing
thousands of dollars damage to
property.
Frankfort, was killed when the roof
of a building struck him.
Henry Walters working man of
Lafayette, was crushed to death by a
S-ic hot 10 n on h i'm
At Terre Haute young girl was
fatally injured by brick which fell
on her.
A smokestack, blown over by the
high wind, struck an employee of the
Western Drop oFrge company at Mar
ion, fatally injuring him. A large cleo
trio sign here took part of a building
with it when it was blown down and
q falling brick struck Patrolman ROben-
ovitz and a working man, probably
fatally injuring both of them.
Bette Hill, colored was struck by a
falling sign here and her skull frac-
tured. She will die.
Memphis, Tenn, March 21-Five per-
sons were killed and more than fifty
injured by the storm last night at Pop
lar Bluff. Mo, according to members
of the crew of the St. Louis & San
Francisco railway passenger train, !
which arrived here today
They also reported one dead and 25
injured at Hoxie, Ark, and the town
practically destroyed.
Great damage was done at Poplar
Bluff and the country between that
point and HoXie
Sandusky, O., March 21.-Two boats
are missing one is on the rocks and !
another is in distress in the sixty-mile /
gale that is sweeping Sandusky and /
vicinity today.
1t is feared six or more men have !
been drowned. Life savers have gone /
to the rescue of six others. who are /
il. extreme peril.
Meridian, Miss, March 21.-Several |
negroes were reported killed by a wind
storm which struck settlement last
night five miles north of Macon, Miss. !
1t was feared severe damage was
wrought by the storm in the northern
with that section was impossible be-
cause of the demoralized condition of !
telephone and telegraph wires.
Columbus, Ohio, March 21.-At Tiffin,
Ohio. William Wick. IS, was instantly
killed and six or eight others are be-
lived to be buried in the debris of the !
smokestack of the county infirmary
which was wrecked today by the high
winds. Three others are known to be
injured Tottering walls make rescue
almost impossible.
Fierce Winds at Chicago.
Chicago, March 21.-Only two tele
graph wires connected Chicagowith the
outside world for several hours today.