Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-06-01
LITTLE TOM TAYLOR

VI uedQ anu injured TAKEN Oy
the storm which late Sunday af.
ternoon swept four counties OF
Western Kentucky continues to
mount rapidly to-day as a con-
fused mass Of conflicting reports
from many sources was shifted.
Tonight it appeared proba ble
that the death list would approach
seventy and that the list of those
more or less injured would num-
Der several hundred.
Investigation to day at Hick-
man. in Fulton county, and at
Clinton and Bardwell, in Carlisle
county, the sections most affect
ed by the storm, revealed cOndi-
tions even worse than had been
indicated by earlier reports.
At Hickman a check of reports
from various sources apparently
estimated that the death list In
Fulton county wOild exceed for
ty. These reports told Of forty
two deaths in Fulton county, of
which twenty two were at Bond
urant, a small mill town. The
list of injured is prOlematical,
but it was estimated that the
numoer would approach 200.
Twenty two persons are in the
hospital at Hickman, of whom
seven teen are expected to die.
SUPPLY OF CASKETS
EXHAUSTED
BY E O'Clock tonight thirty
bodies has ben brought into
Hickman from outlying points
to be prepared for burial. The
supply of caskets In the town
had been exhausted and five
bodies are being held at the pub
lie library until ffiore collins could
be secured.
At Clinton, in Hickman coun-
ty, check of the death list re-
ported showed that FIVE persons
were killed there and that twelve
others lost their lives at Cypress,
a small nearby village. The list
Of injured in the two towns was
estimated to be upward of forty.
At Bardwell, in Carlisle county
three persons are known to have
been killed and twenty FIVE
others more or less injured.
At Dublin, in Gravee county,
FIVE persons were killed and
twenty five injured.
Many isolated points In the
stricken district are yet to be
heard from, because of the de-
struction of virtually all lines of
communications. Reports from
Ledford and Greenfield. both of
which towns were reported to
have been hard hit by the storm,
tonight still were unavailable.
STORMS COURSE ERRATEC.
The course of the course was
cratic Reports its course and
direction even were confusing,
but apparently it first struck near
Dublin and passed through that
town, creating havoc. Bardweil
the next town in its path, suffer,
ed heavily, while much of the
territory in the immediate vicin-
ity escaped almost unscathed.
The storm then passed on to
Clinton and created havoc in the
residence district, wrecking mort
than fifty houses. As the storm
approached Hickman it apparent.
ly divided and went around the
place, leaving wreck and ruin on
all sides, but doing little damage
in town itself beyond .unroofine
a few houses and putting tele
phone, tele graph and electric
light wires out of commission.
Bondurant was next In the
path of the storm, which thel
passed into Tennessee.
The property damage in tn
stormswept district was large
1t has not yet been possible t
estimate it. The loss about Hick
man and other parts of Fulto
county is expected to reach be
yond $500 600. At Bardwell whe
the loss probably will aggreg
ate $500. 00o,. every bushes
building in the town was d.
| stroyed. In and about Clinic
the damage will probably reac
$500 600. 4
No losses sustained elsewhel