Daily picayune., 1921-04-16
TEN KNOWN DEAD-MANY IN JURED IN WORST STORM
 IN HISTORY.

The most destructive cyclone that ever visited Hampstead county struck yesterday afternoon at , 20 in the neighborhOod sOuthewest of Blevins, leaving death and destruction in it's trail.
 The storm travelled in northeasterly direction. and laid waste to everything in it's path. Going from Prescott on tn pike the first evidence of the terrific force of the cyclone was the mass of ruins where X. J. Brooks and family lived
 There were thirteen persons in the Brooks home when the storm struck, and their secape from instant death was miraculous The house was liter ally crushed to the earth, but the oecu- pants huddled together in one room were able to lift themselves from the wreckage uninjured, with the eXcep tion of little Miss Laura Brooks slight ly hit on the head by falling plank.
 Esq. Wade's house was only slightly damaged as was the widow Bolls. Dr. Williams old home was destroyed. F R. Woods home destroyed, but no one killed. At Roy Bonds the storm de stroyed his home. severely injured his sister, Miss Eva. who was cut in the throat by broken glass. Roy himself was painfully injured, as was also Mir. l.. H. Thomas. the tomato man. who happened to be at Bonds. Mir. Thomas suffered several cuts and bruises. and his big new automobile was destroyed. Mir. Bonds auto was torn up by tn ter rble wind. Roys mother received q broken arm. It was more than remark able how so many escaped death.
 Grover Smiths home was swept away, but all escaped serious injury. Zack Smith suffering a broken trm and two broken ribs.
 Bells Chapel church was swept off the earth The fury of the cyclone in creased near old Wallaceburg, 12 miles north of this city, when it hit the home of Henry Griffin. Mir. Griffin, his wife and two children were watching the clouds as they approached in whirl- wind of death He and his little fam fly were pinioned down by the falling walls, but in some unexplainable man ner escaped death or even injury. The hous was torn into kindling wood, and trees were twisted up by the roots and smashed off at the tops.
 At Tom Bolts everything was de- stroyed. but no one killed. Mrs. Bolt was very seriously injured and has been broughr to the Park Sanitarium.
 Leaving MT. Griffin's house a pile of wreckage the cyclone whipped over to Tom Shackelford's and laid waste to that home. seriously injuring Mrs. Sha ackelford. A splinter was driven deep into her chest and for time her life hung in the balance at the Park Sanitarium, this afternoon, however, she is reported getting along nicely. Although the house was completely de- molished. Mir. Shackelford and others of the family were permitted to escape uninjured.
 To the northeast little farther the cyclone struck Thede Shackelford' < home. lifting it from it's foundation and hurling it through the air dis tance of 100 yards, crushing the life out of Mir. and Mrs Thede Shackelford, their two children and MT. Julian Har- ris, who had stopped in for shelter when the storm approached.
 The scene of destruction at this home was heartrending The house laid right in the path of the awful whirl wind that took it's toll of deaths in the twink ling of an eye.
 The suction of the wind moved con crete block weighing 5000 pounds a distance of some feet and left light cHiChtH cup uHtouNhSu Sit'ih- hN"i "' . It lifted the heavy closefitting curbing from well, but did not move light keg that stood by the well. In the trail of the storm, we saw in the midst of the splintered ruins the spot where the mangled victims fell in their quick and horrible death. Bloodspots on pieces of furniture. and finally part of the brains we saw clinging to warp ed and twisted blanks. It is impossible to describe the havoc wrought In this territory.
 At s. H. Battles the cloud dipped and struck this magnificent home full in the face, tearing it apart and felling the