The Mena weekly star., 1921-12-29
A ARE KILLED BY
 VIOLENT TORNADO
Storm Sweeps From Arkansas Into Mississippi and Louisiana-Negro Homes on Many Plantations
 Wrecked by the Wind

Memphis, Tenn, Dec 25.-A total of A persons, four white and the rest negroes, are known to be dead, and probably 150 others are injured, many of them seriously as the result of the violent tornado which first struck late yesterday at Clarksdale, in Crittenden county, Arkansas, then crossed the Mississippi river south of here into Mississippi and re-crossed the stream into northern Louisiana yesterday. The deaths thus far re- ported are: Nine in Arkansas, 27 in Mississippi and nine in Louisiana.
 The tornado dipped into Guitman, Coahoma, Carroll, Le Fibre and Ya- zoo counties in northern Mississippi early today before passing to the southwest leaving in it's wake trail of wrecked farm buildings. Virtually the injured are negroes.
 Clarksdale, Ark, reports nine dead and 35 injured in that town and near by farming settlements; Coahoma county, Miss, 12 dead and a number injured; Carroll and Le Fibre coun- ties, five dead and approximately 50 injured; Quitman county, five dead and several injured and Yazoo coun- ty, five dead and seven injured
 Payne Harrison, crushed to death when a brick store at Clarksdale col- lapsed, and William V. Turner, q planter, who rode into a fallen elec- ft4 xxTire xrr,f Ia rfY,f hr Anx to his plantation near Marks were the only white persons known to have lost their lives.
 Huge Area Covered.
 The storm struck first in the vicin- ity of Clarksdale, Ark, late yester- day, demolishing small farm build ings and damaging more substantial structures thru a stretch of territory two miles wide and 15 miles long.
 Crossing the Mississippi, the storm apparently descended next in the vi- cinity of Marks, Miss, about 50 miles south of Clarksdale, raging buildings on the Turner and Marks plantations and Jumping into the nearby coun- ties of Le Fibre and Carroll, destroy ing several buildings north of Mall maison and Valley Hill and on the Roebuck, Rhoades and Dawson plan tations near Greenwood. Several buildings on the Young plantation near. Rising Sun also were demol- ished.
 In Coahoma county the storm swept the Lacey and Oberst planta- tions. Eight were killed on the Lacey place and four on the adjoining plan tation, operated by w. J. Oberst
 Practically all the negro cabins on several plantations seven miles south of Vaughan station in Yazoo county were leveled
 Many Are Crushed.
 All of those killed in Crittenden county, Arkansas, were crushed to death in the collapse of the brick building of Banks and Danner at Clarksdale, in which party of farm laborers had taken refuge from rainstorm which preceded the storm small village near Clarksdale. In ad- dition to the Banks & Danner store, two cotton warehouses and gin were wrecked at ClarksdaIe and buildings within radius of several miles about that town razed or damaged.
 While no definite estimate of the property damage is available tonight. NhNAhNthi Ahito tttdi1Abt tHdL tue HULL etary loss will exceed $1,000,000.
 The village of Spencer, Union par ish, La, about 15 miles from Monroe, was almost entirely leveled, with loss, it is reported, of one life.
 The home of E. l.. Spain on Bayou Bartholomew, four miles northwest of Bastrop, Moorehouse parish, was demolished Mrs Mary Spain, wife of K. l.. Spain, manager of the Tis- dale plantation, on which the house stood, and six negroes were killed. Twenty-Five were reported injured in this neighhorhood
 In addition to the seven killed in Warehouse parish, at least others are feared to be near death
 The Spain dwelling was torn apart, and furniture and other contents scat tered for miles on both sides of Bayou Bartholomew, huge fragments of wreckage being carried across the bayou. Miss Nellie Spain, IS, was critically injured, and is not expected to live. Mrs. Spain was blown 100 feet against q tree, meeting instant death, her body being crushed.