The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-04-23
TORNADOES CAUSE
MANY CASUALTIES
Mississippi and Alabama Especially
Hard Hit While Tennessee is
Less Seriously Hurt.

nessee show the following casualties
Mississippi: Bay Springs, Jasper
county, I.
Aberdeen: Monroe county 21.
Amory, Monroe county 3.
Phila delphia, Neshoba county 3.
Nuxubee and Winston counties 5.
Rose Hill, Jasper county 6.
|. Meridian, Lauderdale county 21.
Runnels Bridge, Lauderdale coun-
ty 2.
Deemer Lumber camp, near Phil
adelphia, Neshoba county l6.
Egypt, Chicksaw county 5.
Glen. Alcorn county 10.
Keownville, Union county 2.
Gomar, Union county 6.
Baker, Union county 5.
Starksville section, Okltibbeha
county (severaD.
Alabama, Nehama section, Colbert
county 4.
Gur'cy, Madison county 3.
Little Cove 2.
Killingsworth Cove, Madison coun-
ty Is.
Waco, Franklin county l.
Marion county 20.
Tennessee, Williamson county l.
Maury county, near BurWood 2.
Birmingham, Ala, April 20.-A
death list which tonight stood at more
than 40 and property loss Of many
millions of dollars, was the toll eX-
acted by series of tornadoes which
today swept a score Of towns, vii
lagos and isolated farms in eastern
Mississippi, northwestern Alabama
and the Southern counties O. Ten
nessee.
Communication with many Of the
stricken districts was difficult out
fragmentary reports agreed that the
tornadoes swept down with deadly
suddenness, obliterating everything
that lay in their path. In at least
one case-that of Rose Hill, Miss
practically the entire town is believed
to have been destroyed and in several
instances all members of family
we're reported to have been caught
in the debris of its home. Striking
first apparently in Lauderdale county,
Mississippi. about 10 o'clock this
morning the storms swept a narrow
path across the remainder Of the
state, carrying destruction to a dozen
or more communities about the same
time effects of the same or similar
disturbance were reported from coun-
-; 4l,o b,-o corpcT
Of Alabama, the extreme force of
the wind being expended before the
Tennessee line was reached, in Will
hanson and Maury counties.
Meridian, Miss, the heart of rich
farming district, suffered heaviest,
according to late reports with a
known death list Of 21. The village
of Glen, Alcorn county, estimates the
dead at 12; Aberdeen, 10; 1ngomar,
six; Egypt, FIVE; Baker, five and
Bay Springs, seven. A lumber camp
near Philadelphia, Neshoba county,
lost 16 workers killed and 80 were
injured, several of whom may die.
In Alabama the rural districts
around Sheffield, Gurley, Little Cove
and Waco sustained the full force of
the storms and with some sections still
cut off, score of deaths have been
recorded.
Across the Tennessee line, 160
miles from blasted Meridian, lorna
does cut swath through forest and
orchard. Only three deaths are known
to have occurred in the state, how
ever.
Hamilton, Ala, April 2O.-Six-
teen are known to be dead, scores in
jured, many so seriously that others
will die, and property loss estimated
at hundreds of thousands of dollars
as the result of a tornado which swept
over the northwestern part of Marion
county this morning at 9 o'clock.
The dead and injured were brought
into Hamilton during the afternoon
and the court house had been con-
verted into a temporary hospital.
The stricken community will un-
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