Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-27
MISSISSIPPI STORM
KILLS TH|RTY-ONE
IN THREE STATES
Seventy Reported Injured.
Ohio River on Rampage,
but No Serious Flood Is Ex-
pected

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. PA
storm which last night and early to-
day swept on both sides of the low
er Mississippi river, took toll OF
thirty-one lives, injured about sew
enty, according to reports reaching
here. The storm first struck In
eastern Arkansas, and continuing
southwark passed through north
west Mississippi and northeast
Louisiana, sweeping a number OF
plantations and small farming COM
munities.
Reports from Monroe, Louisiana,
announced the destruction Of the
village of Spencer, in Union parish,
on the Monroe and Little Rock rail-
way, with the loss of seven killed
and twenty-five injured. Two planta-
lions in the neighboring parish OF
Morehouse were struck and Mrs.
Mary Spain; white woman, and six
negroes were killed and two children
injured.
Two plantations near Greenwood,
Miss, were struck with three ne
groes reported dead and a score in.
jured.
William Turner, white, and four
negroes were killed when planta-
lion near Marks, Miss, was swept.
Last night a dozen farming set
Elements in Crittendon county, and
the town of Clarksdale, Ark, We're
in the storms path, resulting in the
deaths of Payne Harrison, white.
and eight negroes, when a store col
lapsed. Reports indicated the in1ur-
ing of a score of persons.
OHIO RIVER ON RAMPAGE,
BUT NO FLOOD EXPECTED
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 24.-Un-
usually heavy rains the last two
DAYS caused the Ohio river and some
of it's tributaries in Ohio and west
Virginia to go on a rampage today,
but government weather bureau OIL
Gals said that the rain was over
and that much colder weather pre-
dicted for tonight would prevent Sc
rious flood conditions. An average or
from one to two inches Of rain has
fallen in southern, Ohio and some
places reported as much as four and
one-half inches.
The government weather bureau to-
day issued flood warnings for the
Scioto river, south Of Columbus. The
Kanawha river in West Virginia
was reported to be at flood stage.
The Ohio river was reported high
est at Cincinnati, where the flood
stage of fifty feet was expected to
be reached late today. The fore
caster there predicted the river
probably would reach a crest of 81
feet tomorrow and then lrecede.
The Ohio at Gallipolis rose ten
feet during the night and was rising
at the rate of five inches an hour
today. The river has reached stage
Of 35 feet and river men expected 1T
to go SO or IS feet The Hooking
Valley railroad bridge at Glenn was
washed out this morning.
The weather bureau announces
that flood conditions exist at Circle
vile, Chillicothe and Portsmouth
along the Scioto river late today.
but that the flood would not be Sc.
riouS.
The Miami river at Dayton, the
scene Of the disastrous 1918 flood,
todya had reached stage Of only
five feet. This was attributed to
the practical completion Of an ex-
tensive flood prevention project in
the Miami Valley.
LOUISIANA VILLAGE
WIPED OUT BY STORM
MONROE, La, Dec. 24.-Spencer,
a village on the Monroe & Little
Rock railway, 16 miles from Monroe.
in Union parish, was. wiped out by
storm today, seven persons were
killed, and 25 injured, according to
reports received here. A special
train, carrying doctors and nurses,
left Monroe for the scene this aft
ernoon.
INDIANA LOWLANDs
FLOODED BY WATERS
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 24.--
Rivers and creeks in counties in
southern Indiana rose rapidly today
after continuous downpour Of rain
Friday night, according to reports
reaching here. Lowlands are flooded
and traffic on many highways cut
off.
Notoy;o,,e R,nd;+