Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-29
REVISED REPORTS
SHOW ABOUT $50
INJURED PERSONS
Southwestern Kentucky
Pays Heaviest Toll
in Lives Lost.
ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE
HAVE BIG FATALITY LISTS
Full Extent Of Disaster Will Not
Be Known Until Wire Ser
vice Is Restored.
MONEY LOSS is IN MILLIONS
Little Effort So Far Made in Any
Section To Appraisc Property
Damage Wrought. ~
ALABAMA AND TENNESSEE
HAVE BIG FATALITY LISTS
MONEY LOSS is IN MILLIONS

re >iScu reports !aSt night and carly
to-day from the sections of Kentucky,
Tennessee. Arkansas and Alabama
swept by series of tornadocs on sun.
day place the number known TO have
lost their lives in the storm at l6o and
the injured at Approximately So
southwestern Kentucky. reports SO
tar received Indicate. paid the heaviest
toll in lives lost. In Fulton County, tho
southwestern tip of that State. sixty.
six persons were killed and more than
100 injured In Ala ALBANIA the mining
camps At Sayrc. Bradford and Carnon
lIill reported forty-six fatalities. and
in Tennessee. linton. Dyer and Carroll
Counties reported thirty-four dead.
The property damage in .llabama was
estimated at about 81 900. 900. No accu- &
rate estimate of tho monetary loss in
the other states is available, wire cons
munication still being badly crippled,
and hut little effort has been made to
hppraisc the damage wrought.
CLINTON HARDEST HIT
POINT IN KENTUCKY
The town OF Clinton. where twenty
five persons were killed and seventy
tive injured. reported the greatest loss.
Of life in Kentucky. Sixteen were
killed on the plantation OF sgd L..
Dodds. near Hickman, and thirteen per-
sons lost their lives in tho vicinity OF
Eondurant.
OF the known d. III II Alabama. where
tho storm struck widely separated
towns. the area extending from Hunts
VILE TO Tuscaloosa. the ma jori.v los.
their lives in small mining settlements
about Birmingham. Bradford. ono of
the mining camps. reported twenty-six
deaths.
In Mississippi County. Ark. across
tho mississippi River from the Ten
ncsscc and Kentucky counties swept
by the storm. ten were killed ,u
Dyer County suffered tho largest loss
of life in Tennessee. Near Dyersburg
seven were killed. and forty injured.
Other Tennessee towns reporting cas-
uaitics were Gates Lake. Trczevant Ore
Springs Sharon. Linden and Baker
town.
HOURS BEFORE FULL EXTENT
OF DISASTER Is KNOWN
Efforts to restore wire communica-
ton so far have been only partially suc-
cessfui. and it will be some hours be-
fore the full extent OF the disaster 10
known.
The destruction began last Friday In
Andale, Kansas where twenty-siX peo-
pie were killed and sixty injured.
Late Saturday a twstcr. proba bly, tito
most severe of the series. struck the
rich corn belt OF Central Illinois. kilt
Ing hfty-fuur persons and injurins
perhaps 500 in Mattoon At Charles.
ton. ten miles east of Mattoon, thirty
seven were killed and more than 150 +
injured. The property damage in tho
. ,.i, ,ss
Another destructive storm late Sat-
urday crossed a territory approximate.
ly 100 miles north of the center of IlIi-
nois. reached into Northern Indiana
and caused the loss of a dozen lives.
the injury of more than 100 and heavy
property damage
FORTY -sIX PEOPLE KILLED
IN ALABAMA COUNTIES
BY Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM. ALA May os.-
least il5 were injured in the storm,
which swept over Walker. Jefferson.
Blount and several other counties OF
this section OF Alabama late Sunday
night. according to reports reaching
here tonight. The property damage Is
estimated at as high as $1,000. 900
OF the killed. sixteen were white 4
people. and the remainder negroes.
mostly mine workers. twenty-six OF
the latter losing their lives at Brad
ford. small mining town In the y
northern part Of jefferson County. the
others being scattered among Carbon
hin, Sayre, Village Springs and Syla-s
cauSa. sss
The greatest loss OF life occurred at n
bradford. where twenty-siX negroes
were almost instantly killed and thirty.
six others were injured. many fataIly.s
Two white people also were injured az
this place. Ben lligginbotham, seventy
years old. one Of the few white in-sSs
habitants. and his granddaughter.
Nine of the white people who lost
their lives were killed at Sayre, four
at Carbon Hill and three at Kansas.
near Carbon Hill. lassa
Ecscue work WAS carried on win
difficulty at many points owing to the y
mass of fallen trees and strewn tin1ss g
ber retarding the progress Of. tAS q
workers. Efforts to succor tho woun6s 3