The Mena weekly star., 1921-04-21
FIVE STATES SHOW
 DEATH LIST OF57
Tornado Sweeps the South From East Texas Into Georgia--Hempstead and Miller Counties With
 50 Dead

Memphis, Tenn, April 16 Seven ty-five persons dead, several hundred injured and property damage roughly estimated in the millions made the in- dicated toll of a series of tornadoes which broke late yesterday in north east Texas and sweel eastward today over sections of five Jtates into Geor- gia.
 Arkansas, with 90 persons reported killed in Hempsted and Miller coun- ties, suffered the heaviest loss of life. In Alabama the number of dead was estimated at 10; seven were killed in Texas and six in Mississippi. In Ten nessee, the other state which felt the effect of the storm, no dealhs we.s reported.
 Owing the interrupted wire com munication only fragmentary reports have been received thus far from the sections reported to have suffered the greatest loss in life and property. Re- lief parties tonight still were search ing the storm swept areas and until the yreport the full toll taken by the wind will not be known.
 The storm apparently broke in Smith county, Texas, swept sections of Good, Gregg, Case and Bowie coun- ties and passed into Miller and Hemp stead counties, Arkansas, where the reported death list tonight had reached 30. Six of the seven persons killed in Texas were crushed to death when their homes in the village of Avinger were wrecked. Another death was re- ported at Atlanta, Tex.
 Every Swoop Is Fatal.
 Five persons were reported killed at Steen, small town near Columbus, in eastern Mississippi, and one at Sontag, 16 miles east of Brookhaven.
 Leaving Mississippi the storm swooped again in northern Alabama. In the Aycock community near Tus- cumbia seven persons were reported killed, and three others lost their lives in the town of Ralph, in Tusca- loosa county.
 In Birmingham 10 persons were in- jured and 100 homes in the northern and eastern suburbs of that city were damaged. The property damage there was estimated at $30.0 900.
 In Memphis a torrenital rainstorm damaged streets, sewers and drainage canals to the extent of approximately $l0,000. Newport. Lynnville and Con- nersville, in the central and eastern part of the states also reported prop erty damage.
 At Rome, Ga, where the storm struck shortly after noon, several per- sons were injured and property dam ages estimated at $200,000.
 Torrential Rainfall.
 The rainfall in Mississippi was re- ported the heaviest on record. At Jackson 6.5 inches of rail fell from noon yesterday until early today, in- stores and causing other pro- perty damage. Train service thruout the state was disarranged and in some instances suspended because of wash outs and damage to the roadbeds.
 One wreck was reported, a South ern railway mail train running into a washout near Laurel, Miss, and top bling into ditch. One passenger was killed.
 Announcement was made tonight at headquarters in St Louis the South western division of the Red Cross that all available resources would be of fered for relief of the storm, while re- lief funds already have been started at Hope, Ark. to afford immediate re- lief to the storm victims in that state.