The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-21
HUNDRED LOSE
LIVES in STORM
PROPERTY LOSS FROM WIND AND
RAIN AMOUNT TO MILLIONS. O.,
SOUTHERN STATES SWEPT.
Wire Connections Not Yet Establish
ed With Many Sections-Hun-
dreds of Homes Demolished.

Memphis, Tenn, April 17.-That
the death toll from tornadoes and
heavy rain storms which swept over
six southern states late Friday and
Saturday will reach 100 was indicated
by reports from isolated sections to-
night while the loss to property and
| crops will run into the millions. The
known dead tonight total 81.
Many of the storm swept sections
are still shut off from wire communi-
cation and reports of additional cas-
ualties are slowly coming in from
relief parties.
The list of dead and injured, ac-
cording to reports available early to-
night, is as follows:
Texas: Avinger six, Atlanta one,
Queen City, Cass county, two, and
several missing, and probably three
near O'Farrell.
Arkansas: Pike county, one dead,
two injured, four probably fatally;
Yelle county, one dead, ten injured,
two probably fatally; Miller county,
ten whites and seven negroes dead,
% seriously injured; Pope county,
three dead, a number seriously In
jured; Hampstead county, 20 white
persons and eight negroes dead, Ia
serious1 y injured, several fatally. A
number of sections hit by storm have
not been heard from.
Mississippi: Five dead at Steen, one
at Sontag, one at Rural Hill, and one
in railroad washout near .Mosell.
Alabama: Five dead at Cave
Springs, near Tuscumbia; five at
Ralph, Tuscaloosa county; three at
Sulligent, Lamar county, and one in
Dallas county. ...
Torrential rains VIII ich followed the
wind in all the states hit by lorna
does have delayed relief work and
hindered the compiling of accurate
lists OF caSualtleS.
In Arkansas where the greatest
havoc was wrought, the Red Cross
is at work in Hampstead and Miller
couties where hundreds of families I
are homeless. Tents have been furA
nished by the national guard and
blankets are being rushed to the suf-
ferers.
The extent of property loss can not .
be determined for days. In Arkansas
on many plantations in Miller and
Hampstead counties, rich farming
section, practically every building
was destroyed; newly planted crops
washed out, orchards ruined, roads
and bridges badly damaged, almost
all telephone and telegraph wires de-
stroyed and railroad tracks washed 5
out at many places. Farm houses
some distance from the direct path
of the storm were damaged. Esti-
mates of the property loss in these
two counties tonight exceed $2,000,-
900.
At Atlanta, O'FarrelI and Avinger,
across the Arkansas line in Texas,
many farm houses and outbuildings
were destroyed and crops in these
sections are said to be almost a COM
n1ofo 1occ
Heavy preporty loss in Tennessee
is reported at Newport, Lynville and
Connersville. In Shelby county alone
the county commissioners tonight es-,
timated the loss in roads and bridges
was $4,000.
In Mississippi, in addition to actual
loss from the high winds, much farm
land will be inundated by the rapidly
rising streams throughout the state.
A number of railroads in that state
report tracks washed out and damage
to road beds by the unprecedented
rainfall. A report received tonight
from Amite county says ten farm
houses were destroyed by a storm
late Saturday and ten persons in
jured, one fatally.
In Alabama property loss in Biz
mingham is estimated at 100000
with ten injured. Heavy rains and
high winds in several parts of North
Alabama, also are reported to have
caused heavy property and crop loss.
In Georgia, where heavy wind
and rain storm struck Rome, the
property loss will exceed 100000, it
is reported.