The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-29
rs DEAD RESULT
STORM IN SOUTH
Hundreds Injured-0ver 100
Homes Destroyed in Geor-
ola and Alabama.
LISTS NOT YET COMPLETE
Pontoon Bridge Across Chat
tahoochee Washed Away.
PropertY Loss, 100000.

Atlanta, March 29.-With seventy
eight dead, several hundred injured
and thousands rendered homeless, the
list of casualties growing out of the
tornadoes which swept sections OF
Georgia and Alabama yesterday con
tlnued to grow today. Additions ta
the list are expected as wire conl-
municatIons with the stricken terri
tory il restored. The casualties
LaGrange, Ga. 90 dead, 100 inJnrct
West Point, Ga, 10 dead, inJui
unknown.
Miner. GA, / dead.
Macon. Ca, / dead. number iniur
Agricola, Ga, dead. several i,
iured.
Alexander CITY, Ala, IL dead,
West Point, Ga, was still cut o
from the rest of the world at noon 20.
day. all efforts TO get into communi-
cation with the town proving un-
available. The last report was re-
covod from there at o'clock this
morning by the Red Cross headquar-
ters here, stating the pontoon bridge
across the Chattahoochee river had
been washed away
Telephone reports today from La
! Grange, whore the loss OF life was
| heaviest, stated that of the NIFTY dead
there, twenty-five or thirty OF the VIC
! tins were white. There were eighty
wounded In the hospitals and score
or more being cared for in private
! homes. The property damage was
estimated at 100000 More than loo
homes were reported destroyed.
Telephone Report.
IaGrange, Ga, March 29,-(By
Long Distance Telephone to Atlanta.)
Twenty six persons at I.aGrange
were killed and i6S Injured by the
| tornado Sunday afternoon. Ten OF
the dead are white.
! Nine persons were known TO have
| been Killed at West Point, farther
! down the Atlanta q West Point rail
way. which q short time ago suffered
a terrible loss by floods. Many more
| were Injured,
Tho dead and injured were among
the prominent residents, II was re-
ported.
The Red Cross relief train Of auto
mobile trucks which left Atlanta at
midnight with surgeons and relief
workers reached here at 10 o'clock
this morning after a terrible trip
over the storm washed roads. j. Y.
| Mcmillan, division manager OF the
Red Cross, at once telephoned ]. g
Logan at Atlanta headquarters q
send 100 cots. two Kitchen tent cut
"A hts and six steel ranges. lie sait
between 500 aud 400 houses had beer
blown down In tho mill villages. The
negroes were the worst sufferers, he
| said
Property damage ut I@Grange IL
estimated at more than Si,000,e0o.
All the school buildings have been
converted into emergency hospitals.
The business section Of BaGrango
was not touched by the cyclone.
which was confined TO the district
near the Unity mills. In West Point
the main business section was struck
and the damage is said TO have been
worse than In the recent floods.
Citizens Of I.nGrange, Ca. un-
dauntcd hy the disaster, are busy to-
day with relief measures.
Of the dead ten were white reai-
dents Tho only dead identified at
noon were;
V. l.. tIopson, superintendent Swift
Fertilizer works.
Mrs. Myrtle Clark mill operative.
Mrs. ---- Wood, mill operative.
Mrs ---- Smith mill operative.
Horton Haynes. Swift employe.
Mrs Willie Brooks, Blanton Place.
Infant OF j. G.. Thatcher.
The negro dead:
Jim Morgan. Swift employo: John
Chanoy, Matt Chaney his wife. Lucy
Chancy. daughter; VIII Snipes. Louis
T.. Jackson, Matte Long Harrison
and four unidentified negroes.
Late accounts place the number of
homes damaged at 400. all In the
mill district and near the fertilizer
plant. Seventy seven homes were
occupied by cotton min workers and
the rest by negroes, most OF them
fertilizer works employees.