Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19
5000, 900 DAMAGE
DONE AT ROME, GA;
BLIZZARD IN NORTH
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bers of small residences were laid
waste.
The storm, followed by a downpour
of rain. put the electric light and
power lines and gas plant out of
commission, caused property loss es-
timated at around $225,000, but in
jured seriously not more than half
a dozen persons and took no toll of
human life.
The roof of the courthouse was
damaged and the windows smashed
in, causing sudden adjournment
of automobiles and trucks on down
town streets were wrecked or dam
aged as the wind picked them up and
whirled them around faster than gas
oline had ever propelled them.
Narrow Escapes
In the wholesale district walls
were blown out of buildings and it
was estimated 5000 panes were brok-
en-, many of them heavy plate glass
ones. The tornado did some dam
age to farmhouses on its way in and
out of the city, but reports as to
actual damage in the surrounding
country were meager.
James Penn, son of a former pen
itentiary warden, probably was the
most seriously injured, and it was
said he might not recover. The Penn
home was partly turned oyer; Rob
was slightly hurt, and negro wom-
an had her teeth knocked out. A
farmer named Littleton, escaped with
painful injuries, when a falling pole
killed the mules he was driving.
Firms Damaged
Aside from fright and some in
juries the storm caused great incon-
Venience in those sections of the city
where the electric light and power
lines were blown down and through
out the city, by the loss of gas. Many
citizens had to depend on cold sup
pers for lack of gas and it was fear
ed tonight that neither the Tribune
Herald nor the News would be able
to publish their Sunday morning edi-
tions because both newspaper plants
are in the part of Rome where the
power lines went out.
Loss to stocks in the wholesale
district was heavy as the tornado
opened walls and roofs for the driV-
ing rain that followed. A partial
list of firms that suffered with con-
sentative estimates of loss to stocks
and buildings follows:
Stamps Produce company, Lanham
department store, 100000 eachs Glib
son & Dejournette, Rome Mercantile
company, $4,000 each; Arlington
Buick company, Dodge Motor Sales
COulpdIy anu OIIlllu IldIuW Lie COIIl-
pany, $4,000 each; Curry gton
DEATH TOLL FROM STORM
IN ALABAMA is THIRTEEN
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 10
Thirteen are known dead, more than
a score hurt, some seriously, a half
hundred farm houses destroyed, and
orchards, telephone wires and forest
trees RACED by a tornado that is
tied the northwestern, eastern and
central port ions of Alabama this
total half-million dollars.
Ralph, 2 small settlement in the
southwestern part of Tuscaloosa
county, was the hardest hit. -Four
are dead there, q score injured and
the town virtually demolished. Thirty
total wreck. The dead include Mrs
David Barton. an eighteen-months-
old baby, and two negroes.
In Colbert county, northeast cor
ner of the state, the storm swept
over vast area, killing five. Al
Cave Springs, a small settlement
near Tuscumbia. in that county, Bob
two unidentified men, all negroes.
are dead. Half score were injured
and hundreds narrowly escaped seri-
Gus hurts.
In Jefferson county, north central
part of the state, and in which is
located Birmingham, paid enormous
toll in property loss, but there were
no fatalities. The storm at this point
demolished houses, electric and tele-
phone and telegraph poles and wires
outhouses and other buildings.
The storm hit Birmingham at a
velocity of sixty miles an hour
wrecking scores of houses and un.
roofing hundreds of others. Prac-
tically all the serious damage was
in the western suburbs.
A number of persons were injured
Fifteen hundred telephones were put
out of commission, and every street
car in the city was halted for an
hour. Downtown streets were veri-
table rivers, the storm sewers being
overlooked by the excessive down
pour. The wooden fence and bleach.
ers at Redwood field were reduced
tn kindling, the damage here, it is
said, will reach $4,000. Total dam
age from the storm is placed al
| 100000 in the city.
| Three negroes were killed and sew
| e"al wounded by q storm which
struck near Sulligent last midnight
| Numerous houses were demolished
; and many trees blown down.
TAIL END OF STORM
HITS WEST POINT, GA.
WEST POINT. Ga, April 16.-The
| tail end of a stray tornado struck
here this afternoon, blowing down
shade trees and the roofs off Of sew