Evening star., 1921-12-25
Scores Injured as Four Mis-
sissippi Valley States Are
Swept.
SPENCER is DEMOLISHED;
PLANTATIONS LEVELED
Ohio River Nears Flood Stage From
Heavy Storms and Threatens
Damage.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
/ MEMPHIS. Tenn, December "a
Thirty-six persons were killed and
more than 100 injured in a tornado
Which struck late yesterday in Crit
tenden county. Ark, and dipped into
Quitman. Coahama. Carroll Lefiore
and Yazoo counties in northern
Mississippi, early today before pass
ing to the southwest. leaving in its
wake a trail of wrecked farm build
ings.
Mostly all the killed and injured
are negroes.
Number Reported Dead.
Clarksville, Ark. reports nine dead
and thirty-five injured in that town
! and nearby farming settlements:
Coahama county, twelve dead and
a number injured: Carroll and Le-
i fore counties. five dead and approxi-
| mately fifty injured: Quitman county.
five dead and several injured and
Yazoo county. five dead and seven
| injured.
| Payne Harrison. crushed to death
when a brick store at Ciarks svillc COL
| lapsed, and William V. Turner. a
+! planter who rode into a fallen electric
wire while viewing the damage to his
! plantation near Marks. are among
| the white persons known to have lost
their lives in the storm.
! The storm struck first in the
vicinity OF Clarkevilie, Ark. late yes
terday. demolishing small farm
| buildings and damaging a number OF
| the more substantial structures
through a stretch of territory two
miles in width and 6fteen miles
| length.
| storm CrokScs Missi1Sippi.
| Crossing the Mississippi river. the
| storm apparently descepc ed next in
| the vicinity of Marks. :Iiss.. about
| fifty miles south of Clarkeville.
razing buildings on tn, Turner and
Marks plantations and. dumping into
the nearby counties of Leflore and
| Carroll. destroyed a number of build
| inGs north of Malmaison and Valley
| Hill and on the Roebuck. Rhoades
and Dawson plantations near Green
| wood. Several buildings on the
| Young plantation near Rising Sun
also Were demolished.
| In Coahoma county the storm
swept the Lacy and Oberst planta-
. tiors. Night were killed on the Lacy
place and four on the adjoining plan
tation. operated by W. J. Oberst.
Virtually all the negroes cabins on
several plantations seven miles south
of Vaughan station. in Yazoo county,
were leveled.
Killed as Store Collapses.
All of these killed in Crittenden
county, Ark. were crushed to death
in the collapse of the brick store
! building of Banks & Danner. at
CIarkeville. in which number Of
farm laborers had taken refuge from
a rainstorm which preceded the blow.
Several were injured at Booker. a
small village near Clarkeville. In ad-
dition TO the Banks & Danner store,
two cotton warehouses and a gin
| were wrecked at Clarkeville, and
farm buildings within a radius of
several miles about town razed or
| damaged.
| Ambulances sent from Memphis and
motor trucks hurried TO the scene
from nearby towns brought the more
seriously injured from that section
to hospitals in Memphis. while the
less seriously hurt were cared for
in Marion and other towns in the
immediate vicinity. Rescue parties
worked throughout last night in ex-
| tricating the dead and injured from
the wreckage of the collapsed store
building.
Property LOSS Million.
In Mississippi hastily formed relief
organizations and Red Cross chap
ters at Greenwood. Yazoo City and
other centers are caring for the in
jured and homeless.
While no definite estimate of the
property damage was available to-
night, unofficial figures indicate that
the monetary loss will exceed $1,000,-
900.
| MANY REPORTED DEAD.