Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
DEATH LIST RISES
WITH REPORTSFRO
STRICKEN SECTIONS
Latest Figures Give More
Than 1870 Dead Southern
Georgia Among Districts
Ravaged by Windstorm

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 21.-
More than one hundred and eighty
killed, scores injured and two mil
lion dollars damage to cattle and
crops was the toll of the cyclone
which swept over portions of Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee
yesterday, according to incomplete
reports received today from the
stricken areas.
Fifty-four dead were reported from
Marion, Winston and Farnklin coun-
ties, Ala; 129 from Jasper, Monroe,
Madison, Lauderdale and Neshoba
counties, Mississippi and three in
Maury county, Tennessee.
Appeals for aid were received here
!. from many small towns and settle
,nents. Red Cross relief parties
were organized and plans made to
rush food and tents to hundreds of
people whese homes had been de-
stroyed.
Communication was still impaired
but authentic information today was
that the disturbance had wrought
greatest havoc in the three counties
of Alabama just north of Birming-
ham. The tornado apparently struck
first at Guin, Ala, and then zigzag-
ged through northwestern Alabama,
eastern Mississippi and southern
Tennessee.
The Death Toll
The death foil follows
ssissippi-Mecidian, 81; Neshoba
county, 10; Glen, A1corn county, 10;
Aberdeen, Monroe county. 81; Bay
Srring, Jasper county, Z; Ingoma",
Union county. 6; Egypt, Chickasaw
county; Baker, Union county, 8,
Clayton, Winston county, 8; Cedar
Fluff. Clay county, 8; Sterkville SEE
ton, Olltibbeha county. 8; Rosehill,
Jasper county. 6: Amory, Monroe
/. county, 5; Runnells Bridge, Lauder
dale county, 2; KeoWnville, Union
county, *
Naturalization county, 20; Kill
ingworth Cove, Madison county, Is;
Nehama section, Colbert county, 1;
Gur1ey, Madison county 8; Little
Cove, 2; Waco, Franklin county. 1.
Tennessee-Maury county, 2; Will
hanson county, 1.
Meridian, Miss, the heart Of rich
farmingI district, suffered heaviest
with a known list % twenty-one.
Hamilton, Ala, was next with nine
teen known dead. The village Of
Glen, Alcorn county. numbered its
dead at twelve; Aberdeen, ten; lingo
mar, six; Egypt. five; Baker, five,
and Bay Springs, seven.
A lumber camp near Philadelphia,
Neshoba county, lost twelve killed
and thirty were injured, several of
whom may die.
In Alabama the rural districts
around Huntsville, Florence, Shelf
field, Gurley, Little Cove and Waco
sustained the full force Of the storm
Many Bodies Recovered
A score of bodies have been re-
covered m this section, but the full
effect of the storm was not known
early today, as wire communication
was still impossible.
Across the Tennessee line, 100
miles from Meridian. near where it
originated, the storm still had force
sufficient to upset residences ami
farm buildings and to cut swath
through forests and orchards.
The wide territory covered by the
tornado led to a belief that more than
one atmospheric disturbance was re-
sponsible. Records of similar visi-
tations show that they were confined
to comparatively narrow limits, both
as to length and width of territory
affected.
Reports of the storm describe the
local destruction as having been con-
fined to a path measuring from 100
to 500 yards wide within which the
, cyclonic wind, when at it's height.
left nothing but the most solid struc-
lures standing.
Sixteen bodies were brought into
Hamilton, Ala, and the courthouse
was converted into a hospital to care
for scores of injured who were ar
irving throughout the morning.
Dead Terribly Mangled
Host of the dead brought in weer
terribly n.angled. In many cases ar us
and legs were blown off and several
Physicians and surgeons from Guin,
Winfield, Haleyville, Jasper, Sulli-
gent and Carbon Hill rushed to the
town and medical supplies were call
ed for.
Five members of the Taylor fam
fly were x11;ea.} One member of this
family young womaQ-had large
piece of lumber driven clear through
her body and child from the same
rarnfiy was blown over half a mile
and killed.
Mrs Vivian Thompson was blown
several hundred yards and her neck
was broken. Her husband. who re-
Gently returned from France, where
he served in the army, was severely
injured. They were married since
his return from abroad.
Five children of Mrs. Ida Thomp-
son, widow, had a miraculous es-
cape from death. They were left at
home by their mother, who was TAX
: ing the teachers examination in Ham
ilton and when the storm came up,
they went into a storm cellar.
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