The Mena weekly star., 1920-04-22
SOUTHERN STORMS l
 FATAL 10 I4O
Tornadoes Sweep Mississippi, Ala bama and Tennessee With Heavy Loss of Life and Property
 Reports Incomplete.


 death list which tonight stood at more than 140 and property loss of many millions of dollars was the toll of q series of tornadoes which today swept a score of towns, villages. and isolated farms in Eastern Mississippi, North western Alabama and Southern Ten. nessee today.
 Communication with many of the stricken districts was difficult but fragmentary reports agreed that the tornado obliterated virtually every thing in it's path In at least one case. that of Ingomar, Mississippi practical ly the entire town was reported de- stroyed, andin several instances all members of family were crushed in the debris of it's home.
 Striking first apparently in Smith county, Mississippi, about 10 o'clock this morning, the storm swept a mar row path across the remainder of the eastern border of the state. carrying destruction to a dozen or more com munities.About the same time, effects of the same or a similar disturbance were reported from counties in the northwestern corner of Alabama, the extreme force of the wind being ex- pended after the Tennessee line was reached, in Williamson, Maury and Carroll counties.
 Meridian. Miss. reported at least 2f dead in that vicinity, while 20 ne. groes were killed and a white man fatally injured near Aberdeen. with three deaths reported a few miles from Amory, near there. Twelve were killed and 30 injured, some probably fatally, at Deemer lumber camp in Neodesha county, according to reports from Philadelphia. Glen reported 10 dead Ingomar 6; Columbus , Badger ,: Bay Springs 5 Rose Hill 6 and Keownville ?. with several fatalities in Bell schoolhouse near StarksviIle.
 In Alabama, the rural districts around Sheffield, Gurley, Little Cove and Waco sustained the full fierce of the storm. and with some sections still cut off score of bodies have been recovered
 Across the Tennessee line, 160 miles from Meridian, the storm still held force sufficient to upset residence and farm buildings and to cut a swath thru forests and orchards Only three deaths are known to have resulted in that state, however.
 Practically all reports of today's storm describe the local destruction as having been confined 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 structures standing.
 Birmingham, Ala, April 20. Re- ports have reached here that eight persons were killed by the tornado at Colinsville. Ala, about 60 miles north east of here.
 Tuscaloosa, Ala, April 20.--Five per sons are reported to have been killed by tornado which struck Columbus. Miss.
 Aberdeen, Miss, April 20. Ten per sons were killed and approximately 100 injured in tornado which swept thru Aberdeen today Property dam age is estimated at $500,000.
 Several of those injured are believed 10 be fatally hurt
 The towns of Muldon and Prairie, near this city. are also said to have been badly damaged by the storm.
 New Albany, Miss, April 20.-Six persons We're reported to have been killed in a tornado which struck the town of Ingomar near this city, today and four lost their lives at the village of Baker, in the same vicinity
 No damage was done here. Wire communications with the section swept by the storm is cut off and only meager reports have been received.
 Sheffield, Ala. April 20.-A tornado swept this section of Alabama today, killing J c. Blanton, q farmer, his wife and two children. in Colbert county. One man is reported to have been killed in Franklin county