The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-03-31
LIVES AND PROPERTY
CLAIMED BY TORNADO
Fierce Tornado i'm GeOrqia
and Other States


and Other States
78 DEAD,
ACCOUNTED FOR
In Spite of the Long List of Dead and
Wounded, Additions to the List are
Expected When Wire Service Is Re.
stored. Traffic Paralyzed.
Atlanta, Ga, March 29.-With seven
e ty-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-
tinued to grow today Additions to
the list are expected as wire com
munication with the stricken territory
Is restored. The casualties:
Va Grange, Ga, SO dead, 100 in
jured.
West Point, Ga, 10 dead, injured
unknown.
Macon Ga, one dead, number in
jured.
Agricola. Ala, five dead, several in
jured.
Alexander City, Ala, II dead
Atlanta, Ca, March 2S. AT least 36
lives were lost, a hundred or more
were injured and property damage
possibly running into the millions, was
caused by tornadocs that swept
through Georgia and Alabama late to-
day. La Grange, and West Point, Ga,
towns near the Alabama-Georgia bor-
der suffered the heaviest, the estimat
cd dead at La Grange running as high
as 36, while at least a dozen lives
known to have been lost. West Point
which lost heavily last December
from the. flooded Chattahoocheo. re-
ported ten dead and severe damage in
the business section.
The tornado also was felt in Macon
and some persons were injured.
Washington, Georgia, a town near
Augusta, also felt the effects OF a
storm but apparently no lives were
lost Some damage also was thought
to have been caused in eastern Ala
bama.
Wire service, both telephone and
telegraph was partially paralyzed and
1T was almost impossible to ascer-
tain exact damage, or to get reports
from many sections of the state that
have felt the effects OF the storm.
Heavy rains fell throughout a great
portion Of Georgia during the day and
1t was feared flooded rivers might add
to the suffering.
Tie Red Cross here was preparing
tonight to rush supplies to La Grange
by army motor trucks as the Atlanta
and West Point Railroad reported it
could not despatch relief train be-
cause its wires were down. It's pas
sengcr train, New Orleans to Washing
ton, number SO, was not located late
tonight.
-'ihis ShSihSciS NClc preparing 10
go to West Point to rebuild a pontoon
bridge they threw across the Chatta-
hoochec River last December when
Hoods that inundated the town and
caused seven millions of dollars prop
erty damage
Most Of the damage in West Point
was said to be in the business sec
ton and It's effects on merchants and
other business men just struggling
from the heavy losses Of last Deccm-
Der were expected to be almost i'm
possible for them to boar. Half
dozen brick structures were said to
be severely damaged.
In La Grange the chief loss to life
and property was said to be in the mill
section, but the town was thrown in
to darkness as the electric lighting
plant was partially wrecked In addi-
ton to this the water works plant was
said to be out OF commission and Swift
and Company's plant was reported a
wreck.
Hospitals were filled with injured
In La Grange, according to telephone
reports and the court house had been
made into an emergency hospital. The