Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-04-17

hEhI illo, E.N4N-, ApTH 10
rornadoes which swept eastwar
from Texas to South Carolina Ia.
night and today claimed a total G
about 100 lives. injured sever;
hundred persons and damaged pre-
Derty and crops 70 the extent of mi
ions Of dollars. according 10 r,
ports filtering into point, of con
tonight from the sec
ion Of the storm swept area half
iOZcn states.
The storm toll in lives. indicated
in dispatches received up to
midnight, was as follows:
Texas-six dead at the town of
Avinger; one dead at Atlanta
and several others reported kill
ed near O'Farrel.
Automatically dead near
the town of Hope, lS an the vi
einity Of Texarkana; is near
Prescott; ] at Gravely. Yell
County and at Delight. Pike
County; three near Russellville,
Pope County, Several other
deaths were reported in isolated
sections Of Hampstead County
but the reports had not been
verified tonight
Mississippi-five killed at Steen,
near Columbus; one at Sontag,
one at Rural Hill near Aber-
deem, one killed in Derailment
southern railway at Laurel.
Alabama five dead at Cave
spring, near Tuscombia; four at
Ralph, Tuscaloosa County; three
at Sulligent, Lamar County
one in Dallas County.
In Tennessee property damage
was reoorted at Newport and
Lynnville and Connerville at
Memphis at torrential rain
storm damage roads and bridges
to the extent of approximately
ten thousand dollars.
Alabama-Ten persons were in
jured at Birmingham and dam
age in that city was estimated
at two thousand dollars.
Other towns in Alabama where
property was reported includ-
ed Waverly and Opelika.
I'm Mississippi considerable damap
was reported at Jackson due to
record breaking rainfll. and III
town of Sumrall was flooded by th
breaking Of a mill dam. At ROM
Ca. property damage was estimate
Al two hundred and twenty fly
thousand dollars The storm damap
in South Carolina 20 far reporte'
was confined to the wrecking Of Y
yeral buildings near Anderson.
IN Arkansas no accurate cStima'
NJ the number injured where Nv
storm apparently wrought the grea
pst havoc was available tonight III
were that the tot'
would BE- 4 hundred or more.
The storm was followed hy " VI,
-idcd drop ion the temperature.
III Tennessee, Arkansas. MISS:
-ippi and Alabama frost WAS m
ncctcd IN some sections tonight. IT.
cold wave following the rain an
wind was expected to increase N
suffering WI those whose homes ha
been destroyed
Owing w interrupted Wit" con
only fragmcntHrN III
ports have been received thus "a
from thr sections reported tn ha'
suffered the greatest loss i'm hfe an
Relief parties tonight -tiIl WEI
searching the storm swept areas an
until they report the full toll take
hv the wind will not hr known.
The storm apparently broke
Smith County Texas. swept section
II Good. Case, Gregg, and Bow
Counties and passed into Miller an
Hcmpstcad Counties. Arkans;
where the reported death list Il
night had reached 5O Six NJ n
seven persons killed in Texas weI
crushed IL death when their hons
in the vicinity Of Avinger WEI
wrecked. Another death was repor
cd nj Atlanta Crossing into ArI
ansas. the storm skirted the city I
and cut a swath a ha
mile wide through the heavily Woo