The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-21
STORM DEATH LIST IN THREE STATES
 STANDS NEAR l5O Tornado Sweeps Down With Deadly Suddenness, Ob- literating Everything
 Lying In Its Path

k "A death list which last night stood at more than 140, and a property loss of many mill lions of dollars was the toll of a series of tornadoes which to- day swept score of towns, villages and isolated farms in eastern Mississippi, northwest ern Alabama and the south ern counties of Tennessee.
 Communication with many of the stricken districts was difficult, out
 Assistance from the outside world is urgently needed in districts which were in the direct path of the torna- does. Hundreds of injured require medical attention, the force of physi- clans and surgeons available locally being inadequate to cope with the sit uation. Tents and other temporary structures will be necessary for those whose homes have disappeared and a shortage of actual food is foreseen as result of the loss of barns and ware 
 houses.
 Roads traversing the track of the storm are completely blocked, reports tonight said. Dead cattle and horses may be seen in every field
 ffagms1tary reports agreed that the tornado swept down with deadly sud- N denness, obliterating everything that May in it's path. In at least one case. ythat of Rose Hill, Miss.-practically the entire town is believed to have neen destroyed, and in several in- stances Gll members uf a family were reported to have been caught in the debris of it's home.
 Striking first apparently in Jasper County, near Bay Springs. Miss. about 1e o'clock this morning, the storm swept a narrow path across the re- inainder of the state, carrying destruc- tion to < dozen or more communities. About the same time effects of the same, or similar distWbance. were reported from counties in the north western corner of Alabama, the ex il eme force of the wind being expend- ed after the Tennessee line was reached in Williamson and Maury counties.
 Meridian, Miss. the heart of rich farming district, suffered heaviest, ac- ncrding to late reports, with known ceath list of twenty-one. The village of Glen, Alcorn county, numbered it's dead at twelve; Aberdeen, ten; lngo- r,ar, six; Egypt, five; Baker, five, and Bay Springs, seven.
 lumber camp near Philadelphia, Neshoba county. lost twelve workers killed and thirty were injured, several os whom may die.
 In Alabama the rural districts around Sheffield Gur1ey, Little Cove and Waco. sustained the full force of the storm and with some sections still cut off. a score of bodies have been recovered.
 Across the Tennessee line, 160 miles from Meridian, near where 1t orig mated. the storm still had force suf- ficient to upset residences and farm buildings and to cut a swath through forests and orchards. Only three deaths are known to have occurred in the state, however.
 The wide territory covered by the tornado led to a belief tonight that more than one atmospheric disturbance was responsible. Records of similar visit Ions show that they were con ftrra ts comparatively narrow limits, lsAeh s to length and width of ter-- filogy Affected
 rxctically all reports of today's storm describe the local destruction as n4.-inr aeen confined to path meas uf{n,s rom 100 to 800 yards wide. within which the cyclonic wind. when a4 it's height. left nothing but the nosI solid structures standing.