Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-29
INJURED ESTIMATED
AT MORE THAN 800;
BIG PROPERTY LOSS
(continued from Page ons.)


Hickman. where the storm apparently
wrought its greatest havic. more than
two score of injured have been recovsr-
ed from the wrecksge of farm dwellings
and the more substantial buildings in
the towns of Bondurant. Bardwell.
Clinton and Ledford. Near Gates Land
ing the number injured was reported as
between % and so; in the central part
OF Dyer county, near Dyersburg about
80 were injured and Sharon reported
81 injured. Latest reports from Sayre
~etimats the number injured at fifty
ar more.
No estimate of the damage to prop
earty or TO crops could be made with
accuracy early today. Hundreds Of
buildings. however. were demolished or
badly wrecked and large areas OF grow
ing cotton and food crops leveled by the
wind and heavy fall of hail which ac-
oompanied the storm.
Reports indicate that the storm first
made its appearance on the Arkansas
side Of the Mississippi river in Missis-
sippi county near the town of Manila,
where eight persons lost their lives.
Crossing the river. Gates Landing,
Dyersburg and the territory about Hick-
man felt the full force of the storm late
yesterday and last night. the mining
10 the south. was swept by a tornado.
In Hickman a number OF residences
were damaged and in West Hickman the
power plant which supplies the city
with light was wrecked. putting the
city in darkness last night and adding
to the confusion. besides making diff
cult the caring for the injured from
the surrounding territory brought there.
In Hickman two persons were killed.
OF the other known dead in that vicin-
ity rs lost their lives when tenant
houses on the farm Of sgd. l. Dodds. at
Ledford. were blown down.
OF the villages in southwestern Ken
lucky through which the storm cut its
path. .Rardweu- and Clinton were report
ed badly damaged. Virtually the en-
tire business section OF Bardwell was
wrecked and at Clinton a number OF
residences and several school buildings
were demolished.
South Dyersburg suffered severe prop
erty damage. and most OF the dead and
injured reported from Dyer county Were
residents Of the village. In Dyersburg
the storm cut a patch half a mile IN
width and a mile long and in the area
swept not a house was intact today.
Available smbulsnces in Dyersburg
were inadequate TO remove the injured
TO hospitals and business trucks were
impressed into service Among the
buildings wrecked near Dyersburg was
an historic antebellum residence known
as the Parker home.
Al Sharon thirty-fve buildings were
TORN from their foundations and badly
damaged Fire started in a negro sec
ton OF the town in the wake OF the
storm. but was extinguished before ii
gained Roadway. OF the injured at
Sharon three are believed to be fatally
hurt
All Of those dead at Gates Landing
were negroes, while virtually all the
known injured in that section are white
persons Several Of the injured were
reported in a critical condition today.
Other towns in Tennessee which suf-
fered minor damage included Troy and
Newbern-
Rescue parties began a systematic
search OF the storm-swept areas at day
break and il was believed that before
nightfall virtually all OF the more re-
mote sections Will have been visited.
Wire communication to a number of
points was interrupted today. but with
large forces OF linemen and railroad
employees at work repairing the broken
wires communication gradually was be-
ing restored