Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19
Death List OF 100
Reported Wake
OfBig Tornado

MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 17.-Tor-
1adoes which swept eastward from
Cexas to South Carolina claimed to-
al of approximately 100 lives, injur-
Ids several hundred and damaged
property and crops to the extent of
millions of dollars, according to re-
ports altering into points of COM
munication from sections of the
storm-swept area of half a dozen
states.
The storm toll in lives, indicated
IN dispatches received to date fol-
ows:
TEXAS: Six dead at the town of
Avinger; one dead at Atlanta and
several others reported killed near
O'Farrelf.
ARKANSAS: Twenty dead near
the town of Hope: eighteen il. the
vicinity of Texarkana; fifteen near
Prescott; one at Gravely, Yell coun-
ty; one 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 persons killed
at Steen, near Columbus; one at
Sontag; one at Rural Hill, near
Aberdeen; one killed in derailment
Southern railway train near Laurel,
ALABAMA: Five dead at Cave
Springs near Tuscumbia; four at
Ralph, Tuscaloosa county; three at
Sullisent, Lamar county; one in
Dallas county.
Rome, Ga, Hit
In Tennessee property damage was
reported at Newport, Lynnville and
Connersville. In Memphis a torren-
tial rain storm damaged roads and
bridges to the extent of approx
mately $4,000.
In Alabama ten persons were in
jured at Birmingham. Property dam
age Nat that city was estimated at
5000, 0e0. Other towns in Alabama
where property damage was report
ed included Waverly and Opelika.
In Mississippi considerable damage
was reported in Jackson due to the
rainfall and the town of SumraH
was flooded by the breaking OF
mill dam.
AT Rome, Ga, property damage
was estimated at S225,060; The
storm damage in South Carolina, SO
far reported, was confined to tne
wrecking OF several buildings near
Anderson.
No accurate estimate Of the num-
her injured in Arkansas, where the
storm apparently wrought the great
est havoc, was available tonlgnt pus
indications were that the total Woulu
- b,,yodrad nr more
The storm was followed by a de-
cfded drop in the temperature In
Tennessee, Arkansas, MISSISSIPPI ana
Alabama and frost. was expected IN
wave, following the rain and WIND
are expected to increase the sufter-
Ing of those whose homes have been
destroyed.
The rainfall in Mississippi was re-
norted the heaviest on record. AT
jackson SIS inches of rain fell from
noon Yesterday until early today,
fnundating a number OF stores anu
causing other property damage. TRAIN
service throughout the state was as
arranged and in some instances sus,
nen DEF because Of washouts and
damage to the railway road beds,
One wreck was reported, a Soutn-
rem railway mail train running INTO
a washout near Laurel, MISS. ano
toppling into ditch. One passenger
was killed.
announcement was made tonight
at the headquarters in st. Louis OF
fhe southwestern division Of the Red
Cross that all it's available resources
would be offered for relief or tne
storm, while relief funds ALREADY
have been started at Hope. Ark, to
afford immediate relief to the STORM
, victims in that state.
citizens of Texarkana and Prescott
Arkansas, also have started SUB
scription lists. Thus far no out
side aid has been asked by the strlck'
en- sections of that state.
Queer pranks Of the wind were
told in tonight's dispatches. In one
instance a man and his family were
seated on the porch Of their home
in Miller county when the tornado
struck that section. The house was
wrecked but the porch On which the
family had gathered to watch the
storm remained intact. In the same
section several cars Of railroad
train were blown from the track.
1925, 900 DAMAGE
DONE AT ROME, GA
ROME, Ca, April ia tornado
that suddenly twisted it's way across
the Alabama line today wrecked a
dozen buildings on Broad street
here in the heart of the wholesale
district, killed several mules on
BROAD Street and lifted again, to de-
scend on the residential sectlon OF
North and West Rome, where num-
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