Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-21
Tornado Fatalities
 Now Placed at 14O
Storm Swept Portions of Mis- sissippi, Alabama and Ten nessee-Property Loss of of Many Millions.

Birmingham. Ala, April 20.-A death list which tonight stood at 40 sand property loss of many millions of dollars was the toll exacted by a tornado which and isolated farms in eastern Mi'sissiD- pi, northwestern Alabama and the southern counties of Tennessee.
 Communication with many of the stricken districts was difficult, but frag- mentary reports agreed that tn tornado swept down with deadly suddenness. ob- literating everything that lay in it's patl ] In at least one case-that of Rose Hill, Miss.-virtually thes entire town is be- lieved to have been destroyed and in several instances all members of a fam fly were reported to have been killed The storm apparently striking first in Lauderdale county, Miss, about 10 O. 1 clock this morninf. swept narrow path across the state carrying destruction to l a dozen or more communities. About the | same time death and damage from the same or a similar disturbance was re- | ported from counties in the northwestern l corner of Alabama, the extreme force of the wind being expended before the Ten nessee line was reached, in Williamson and Maury counties
 Meridian, Miss, the heart of rich | farming district, suffered heaviest, ac- cording to late reports, with a known death list of 21.
 The village of Glen, Alcorn county numbered its dead at 10; Aberdeen 10
 Ingomar 6; Egypt 5; Baker 5, and Bay Spring '. A lumber camp near Philadel. phia, Neshoba county, lost twelve work
 CTS killed and thirty injured, severa probably fatally.
 In Alabama. the rural districts around Sheeffild Gurley, Little Cove and Waco | fo1f full 0f 4I,o | some sections still cut off, a score oi
 bodies have been recovered.
 Across the Tennessee line, 160 mile
 from Meridian near where it originated
 the storm still had force sufficient t,
 wreck homes and farm buildings, and t,
 cut a swath through forest and field
 Only three deaths are known to have oc
 cured in the state, however.
 The wide territory covered by the tor ' Pnado led to a belief tonight that ther
 was more than one atmospheric disturb . ance. Reports today describe the loca
 destruction as having been confined to
 path measuring from 100 to 800 yard wide, within which the cyclonic winC
 when at it's height left nothing but tn most solid structures standing. Sixteen persons were killed, scores ir
 jured and property valued at hundred
 of thousands of dollars destroyed by tn g fstorm in the northwestern part of Mario 9 county.
 , Twenty-one persons were killed on g single plantation near Aberdeen, Mis-
 Harbold's hog ranch, near there, or
 of the largest in the south, was wipe e tout, 800 of the stock killed.
 Assistance from the outside world f urgently needed in districts which wei ? in the direct path of the tornado Hul
 dreds of injured require medical attel
 tion, the force of physicians and surgeon C available locally being inadequate to co, e with the situation. Tents and other ten h porary structures will be necessary f a those whose homes were destroyed and
 shortage of actual food is feared. Il Roads traversing the track of il II storm are completely blocked, reports t night said. Dead cattle and horses m; ', be seen in every field.