Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-20
COLORADO LASHED
| BY WORST STORMS
OF WINTER SEASON
Red Cross and National
Guard Aid Sufferers.
Blizzard Sweeps Through
Continental Divide of West

MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 49,
The human toll in the tornado which
swept northwest Mississippi Thurs
day was increased to % on Satur
night with the death in Memphis
hospital of Mrs. M. H. Rich, injured
when her home at Savage was de,
molished, the receipt of belated adj
vices from Batesville reporting tha
death of five negroes in a farm set
Element near that town and further
reports of five negroes killed neal
Rock Hill, in Pamela county.
Mrs. Rich was brought to Memphis
Immediately after the storm, her
skull crushed by the falling tinbers
of her home. Her death had been
hourly expected.
The five negroes killed near Bates.
Vile in the Masadinia community
included man, woman, a girl and
two small children crushed in the
wreck of their homes. Twelve other
persons were injured, none of them
seriously, and twelve houses were
destroyed.
The report of the dead near Rock
Hill reached here by telephone Satur-
night. Three died under the debris
of their homes while the fourth was
found by road contractor under
tree which had fallen across the
| highway. The contractor was re.
pairing the damage to the road when
he made the discovery.
The motor transport unit of the
Mississippi national guard under
command of Lieutenant Albert T.
Callicott went from Senatobia Satur.
to Savage to aid in the relief work.
Miss Camille Akers, of Memphis,
was in Savage Saturday, making sur
vey of the needs of the wrecked
community for the Red Cross. Mill
tary tents have been ordered to
| shelter the homeless there and in
I other devastated settlements.
WORST WINTER BLIZZARD
SWEEPS COLORADO
DENVER, Col, March 1S.-Lashed
along by a. wind that ranged from
100 miles an hour in velocity at
Corona, Col, on the continental di-
vide, the worst blizzard of the winter
Saturday swept Colorado and Rocky
Mountains region. Snowfall was
general throughout the region, &C.
companied by rapidly descending
temperatures.
One death was attributable to the
storm, which caused damage esti-
mated at hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars in Colorado. Arthur Gullett,
Of Brighton, Col, was killed when
he was run down by a coal car at
45 miles an hour speed in Denver,
Corona during the storm.
| At Pueblo, Col, plate glass win
dows in the downtown district were
shattered by the wind and fire, start
ing during the storm, destroyed
every building at the Pueblo Stock
Yards in 20 minutes, with the excep-
ton of a hotel.
In Denver a number of automo-
biles were turned over in the streets
by the gale, but their occupants es-
capped unhurt.
On the Denver and Salt Lake
(Moffat) railroad, whieh has been
blockaded since Wednesday, the
snow was reported drifted Is to 20
feet deep. One snow pillow was buried
today under a snowshed and another
was stalled in the drifts nearby.
The storm extended into Arizona
and New Mexico and in Wyoming
fears were expressed that >loss on
livestock would be heavy if the snow
fall continued. e
SEVERE BLIZZARD HITS
PANHANDLE DISTRICT
AMARILLO, Texas, March IL
The most severe blizzard of the win.
ter swept the Texas Panhandle to-
night, the temperature dropping six
ty degrees in six hours. The Their
mometer registered 6S degrees at 5
o'clock this afternoon and at IL
o'clock tonight stoo dat eight above.
Sleet and snow, driven by fifty
mile gale, started falling tonight.