Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-22
Hundreds Injured by Violent Wind Storm Which
 Swept Nearly Dozen States
VELOCITY OF 88 MILES AN HOUR AT BUFFALO
Alabama the Worst Sufferer, 2s Fatalities Being Reported There-Property Loss Will Reach Mllions-Buidings and Wires Blown Down-Wind Accompanied by Snow, Sleet and Hail1CoId Wave Follows.

More than 50 persons are reported killed and hundreds were injured, some mortally, by storm of tornado in tens1ty which ragged over central. wes tern, southern and parts of eastern states yesterday. Property damage will run well into the millions.
 Definite advices have been received accounting for at least 40 persons dead. with reports from points tenn porarily cut off from wire communica- tion by the storm adding hourly to the list.
 Reports from Alabama show the loss of life was heaviest in that state, the number of dead there being already definitely placed at 2s, with additional fatalities Exported but not confirmed. The town of Lower Peachtree was practically wiped out
 Two are dead in Indiana, two in Tennessee, three in hio. two in New York, one in Michigan and two in Louisiana
 Accompanying the death lists are estimates of injured tota1ling more than 200 with additions coming in at brief intervals.
 Coming up out of the southwest early Friday morning just as spring was ushered in, the storm swept with startling suddenness diagonally across the country from northern Texas to western Pennsylvania and New York, bisecting the Mississippi valley and moving northeastward across the Ohio into the great lake region.
 Shifting winds Of great violence, ac- companied 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 it's sweep and the damage it did. Buildings toppFed before the blow in nearly a dozen states and death lay all along in its wake.
 The property loss was heavy all along the storms track Besides de- nolishing or unroofing buildings and felling trees the high winds, rain,- hail and sleet did serious damage to early crops according to reports from some loss by damage to property of all sorts from Indiana and Michigan alone to- tai 2,000, 900. about evenly divided be- tween the two states. Early reports l s500,000 or more from various cities 1 and sections scattered over the storm | region indicated that the sum total l would reach large figures.
 Wires fell in all directions before l the blow. Not in many years has there | been such prostration of telegraph and | telephone service. Chicago was cut l off for hours from communication with | was connection made finally. Last | night conditions had improved ma 1 terially but it will be several days be- | fore normal service is restored. Rail- 1 road traffic was seriously delayed in 1 many districts, where wire communi- | cation was crippled and washouts l cured.
 The wind which wiped out so much | property and cost so many lives at | tained record velocities at some | points. Buffalo reported 88 miles an | hour, the weather bureau high record~ in that city.
 Cold weather is trailing the destruc- tive blow. The storm seems to have | spent it's force and to be taking the accustomed route of such disturbances | out the St. Lawrence valley