The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-21
HUNDRED
ARE DEAD
IN SOUTH
Second Disastrous Wind Storm
Strikes Three States Leav-
ing Death and Ruin
Behind.
GREAT PROPERTY LOSS
Complete Reports Not Received from
Wrecked Towns in Mississippi
Tennessee and Ala
bama.
GREAT PROPERTY LOSS

/ United Press Leased Wire Service.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 21.-Toll
/, of the second disastrous series of
| windstorms to strike the, south this
season was being checked today.
| Reports reaching here over Grip
pied wires from portions of three
| states Mississippi, Alabama and Ten
nessee--which were in the path of
yesterdays tornado, placed the mum
Der of dead at from 100 to $50.
/ Two entire villages, Rosehill and
Ingomar, Miss, were reported to
/ have been demolished. Otner places
were badly damaged.
l Two separate storms occurring two
hours after the other, swept through
the central-western part of Miss1s
,sippi according to reports. The full
effects of the first tornado were fe
j in the country around Aberdeen,
Miss, where twenty lives were lost.
The second swept across country in
the neighborhood of Meridian, the
largest town in the state.
More than a score of deaths are
reported from Meridian.
Both storms moved northeast into
Alabama, but the northern storm
quickly spent it's force after crossing
the Mississippi boundary. The tail
end of the storm struck southern
Tennessee, but with lessened force.
Only three deaths were reported IN
Tennessee. .Me#
The southern storm which did the
greatest damage swept through Lau-
derdale county, Mississippi, claiming
twenty lives at Meridian and doing
heavy property damage. 1t swept on
into Neshoba, killed nineteen persons
at Philadelphia and several in the
country around that town.
The storm skipped one county and
was next reported from Oktibbeha
have been killed and hundreds of
farm houses were wrecked.
The next heavy loss was in Monroe
county. Communication with that
county was impossible today, but 1t
was believed many lives were lost.
A partial list of dead, collected
early today contained the following:
twenty; Bay Springs,
seven; Amory three; Meridian,
twenty; Rosehill three; Neshoba
nineteen; Clayton, five:
Egypt, five; Glens, ten; Ingomar, SIX;
Baker, five. .- H-.
Alabama reported the following !
losses: Colbert county, four; Madison |!
eighteen; Marion county, |
twenty, and other scattered losses.
More Than One Hundred.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 21.-More |
than one hundred persons were re-
ported dead and property loss |
amounting to millions Of dollars ,sus-
tanned as the result of tornadoes !
which swept southeastern Mississippi !
and a portion OF Tennessee yester-
day. Wires were down and%commu !
with many parts Of the !
storm-swept area completely cut off,
complete reports on the |
havoc being received,
Ten bodies were recovered in Aber-
deem, Miss. one of the storm centers.
Meridian, Miss, reported ten dead
Three were dead at Cedar Bluff |
Miss, and twelve reported killed in
a school house near Starkville, Miss.
Ala, and Philadelphia, !
Miss. reported twelve. Eight are
known to have been killed in Glans,
Miss, and the same number in Col
linsville. Ala Mckenzie, Tenn, re-
ported ten persons dead.
Hundred Fifty Dead III
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 21.-Full /
effect of the tornado which swept por-
ions of Alabama, Mississippi and Ten. /
lessee, was brought home today as
.eports reached here from the storm
swept districts.
The death toll reached one hundred t.
fifty late today, according TO reports
.eceived over railroad telegraph wires,
,nly means of communications. Latest
.eports place the dead at twenty-seven
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