Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-30
s. LOSE LIVES IN
SOUTHERN STATES
La Grange, Ga, Is Heaviest
Sufferer With 2o Reported
Dead.
MANY HUNDREDS ARE HURT
Two Georgia Towns Alone Sus-
tain Damages of More Than
Two Millions.
MANY HUNDREDS ARE HURT
lBy Associated pressl


LA GRANGE. GA. March 90
Thirty-siX lives were lost. nearly 200
people injured and property damage
estimated at nearly S2.o0O.O00 ro-
suited in La Grange and West Point
from the ravagcs of the tornadoes
that swept these two cities Sunday
afternoon. II was shown today by
investigation.
white and twcnty-four negroes. and
of the zoo persons injured In various
ways and degrees as result of tho
storm. approximately seventy &C
were whites.
La Oranges storm casualties were
seven whites and nineteen negroes
killed, and nifty whites and 100 ne
Sroes injured. Five whites and five
negroes were killed in West Point
and twenty-five whites and an equal
number OF negroes were Injured In
the same city.
I'm Oranges Lows Over Million.
Property damage in La Grange ms
estimated by Mayor S. II. ,Dunsor
and ]. II. Edmundson. who is inter
eSted In several cotton mills here
will total between IA million and a
million and quarter dollars.
West Points property losses will
be In the. ncighborhood of three
quarters OF n million dollars. 1t was
estimated today by Mayor Mark
been made to oalciais in either her. city it
Monday night. and II may be that
the number of both dead and injured
seemed to be little probability to-
night, however. that any important
revision in tho figures would Sbt
The known white dead in wea'
Isom Stanley. IS years, confedcr-
Ate veteran, who met death c,, when
collapsed upon him:
president OF the local school board,
snd @nto drnfFTst ~ . s,ors wno
! r. l., Horn, 40 years of age, pro.
| prietor> of local restaurant. and
| former railroad man. who was killed
| In his own establishment.
Blake Henry. of LII Grange, killed
| In the Horn restaurant collapse.
| Ben Aughtmon. 10 years OF age,
also killed in downtown store.
In Grange Death List.
The known white dead In la
| Grange are:
under a wrecked acid vat in the
| Swift Fertilizer Company. He was
40 years old. and foreman of the
Mrs. Myrtle Clark. mill worker
slain when her home was demoi.
| ishcd.
Frank Sachcr. years old. recov.
| cred from the wreckage OF his
parents home.
Horton Haynes. 10 years old. sla!r
under falling roof Mt tho home OF
| his parents.
Mrs. Wood. employee of a local
! cotton mill.
Mrs. Smith. also mill worker.
Mrs. Brooks, wife iof farmer
| who lives four miles from LA Grange
There has been no disorder in either
La Grange or West Point. authori.
| ties rcnort In West Point the river
| was rising RAPIDLY this afternoon
several residence sections being mum
Red Cross relief workers. who
reached both La Grange and West
Point this morning. were busy today
aiding the injured and homeless
Emergency physicians called out OF
Atlanta returnd tonight. their work
being completed in both cities. Red
Cross nurses remained on the scene.
In La Grange the chief damage was
a the mill section; where several hum
siroycd The Swift & Co fertilizer
plant was described as a total wreck.
and loss to mills also was heavy.
The storm struck La Grange about
half an hour after the one that dam
aged West Point.
Property loss near Alexander City.
a Ia, was put at nearly 100000. while
tho loss i'll Alabama was expected to
Continual on Second p,raI