Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-19

eral dwellings and business houses
The Nicholas-Jones Furniture Co
| probably is the heaviest loser in the
business part of town.
The West Point Wholesale Groc.
| cry Co. and J. J. Hagedorn & Co. also
were damaged but the amount of loss
has not been determined. The city
/ will be in darkness for several days
and both telephone and electric light
are out Of commission.
Several big windows in the First
Baptist church were blown in and the
negro Baptist church on Freeman
Hill blown Down.
The report from Cusseta. Ala, ten
miles southwest of here. is that sew
eral houses were blown down and
several negroes hurt.
Reports from all directions out
of West Point are that many houses
and barns were unroofed. but no
lives lost or serious injury reported.
A big window in the second story
of the First National Bank building
was blown in today. last year the
cyclone took the third story off this
building. 1t is reported that La
Fayette, Ala. suffered considerable
damage from the storm. but it is i'm
possible to confirm or deny it. as all
wires are down.
The storm struck the west end Of
the big Lanett cotton mill weave
room, doing considerable damage, but
to what, extent cannot be learned at
this time. The terrific rain here
was like a cloud burst
5 KILLED, Is HURT
NEAR COLUMBUS, MISS.
COLUMBUS! Miss, April 16.-Five
persons were killed, fifteen serious
ly injured and great property dam
age done in a cyclone which struck
Steen, a small town east Of this
place, early today, according to re-
ports reaching here.
Several persons were killed and
numbers were injured and property
damage amounting to at least several
hundred thousand dollars was caused
bv a violent Windstorm. attended by
heavy rainfall. that swept over por-
lions Of Mississippi early today.
The storm extended as far south as
Wilson, La, according to reports re-
ceiVed here. While no serious damage
resulted, telegraph poles were blown
down and trees hurled across tracks
at many points.
Crippled wire service makes it diff
ficult to obtain informa ton from re-
mote sections that were visited py
the storm.
Countless acres of low lands. al
ready planted, appear to have been
flooded and badly damaged:
Jackson. Miss, was visited oy q
torrential rainfall and water rose to
a depth of three feet in the streets
in places.
Swollen streams are leaving their
banks in Kinds county and hoodlng
the surrounding country" High WlnuS
that accompanied the heavy rain un-
rooted houses and uprooted trees near
Swell.
FREEZING WEATHER COMES
IN WAKE OF TORNADO
CHICAGO, Ill, April 16.-Freezing
weather followed tonight in the wake
of the blizzard and tornado which
swept many persons to death and
left debris in it's wide path east OF
the Rocky mountains.
The gale was surging over the
Great Lakes tonight, endangerlng
shipping and flashing small craft
which were unable to reach ravens.
Relief expeditions dug out -FOUR
counties in northeastern Texas and
western Arkansas from the wreck
age. gathering bodies of the dead;
administering aid to hundreds OF
homeless and injured.
Latest reports coming over badly
crippled wires from the devastated
regions of Texas and Arkansas sald
that more than sixty were dead
hundreds were injured and the prop
erty damage will run into millions.
The Red Cross arranged to take
charge of the relief work and has
ordered experts into the region hit
by the tornado.
Colorado. Wisconsin, Iowa and Ne
braska were snowbound. Deep SHOWS
made railroads practically fmpassa--
+;a5 iOtnrlIrhaOG and local
street car lines and demoralized tele-
graph communication.
Snow, rain and sleet were swept
in the path of the blizzard.
The wind velocity in Illinois
where the storm centered on Satur-
hour. Rain fell in torrents. Build
ings were blown down and trees up
Gardens were frozen or blown out
by the wind.
The gale that surged through the
central states from the Great Lakes
to the Gulf of Mexico and from the
tains, originated in two d1stlnct
areas Thursday. One disturbance
started in the western plateau re or I
idaho and the other in Canada. The
two combined within twenty-fouf
hours, spread out over the centrai
United states ike d pla ani4 n evarv
Rain, snow or sIeet f fetl N Wi soon
sin was buried under a foot of snow
the heaviest fall in spring In
The storm, after covering the cen.
trail states, veered off over the Great
Lakes, hitting Lake Michigan espe-
cially hard. No. - Fere M nes-
sci still unaccounted for tonight.
She left Ludington, Mich, for Mil IL
wapkee with twenty persons aboard
and was due to arrive at noon sat
The storm also hit Lake Erie and
portions of Lake Huron. 1t was eat
pected to spend itself over the Great
lakes. northern Ohio, Pennsylvania,
o,od ,1'aIy reach into New York state.