The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-04-06
RUIN LEFT IN TRAIL
WIND SWEPTTOWN
Southland City Was Nearly
Wiped Out
TOLL PUT TWENTY
More Than. Fifty Homes De-
stroyed: Ruins Being
Searched

Associated Press Dlspatch'I
Alexandria, la, April 5-The
death toll as a result OF the tor
nado which late yesterday swept
Alexandria and Pinevlle, town
across the river from this city
was placed this forenoon at
twenty. A check by the authori-
ties developed that undertaking
establishments in this city had
bodies Of twenty victims, four
teen white and six negroes. The
list Of injured was placed at six
ty, more than thirty OF whom are
In the United States Veterans
hospital near Plneville, The
damage was placed at 100000.
New Orleans, La, April BIN the
wake of an unprecedented precipits
ton. tornado last night struck
Pineville, La, separated from Alex
andria by Red River killing four
teen persons, injuring at least hfty
others and laying waste to every :
thing in its path of several hundred
yards in width. The dead:
Harry McManus, Pineville
merchant; ]. M. Horace, Enoeh
Williamson and his fifteen
months old baby; Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed. Gates, Mrs. Avis Mccain,
Miss Bell Jenkins, Mrs. Ed.
Smith, Mrs. Burnett, daughter
in-Iaw of Mrs. Smith, and four
negroes.
Ali of those killed were residents
of Pineville and nearby sawmilI
settlement.
All doctors in Alexandria and
PinevillA> assisted by citizens 81 fbt'
two places, searched throughout =
night the NUNS of the fifty orr h
houses Destroyed for thef dsse and
injured. = 4
Came Fropy-sgsfthwest ~,
The tornado came from the north )
west and crossed over the northern
part of Alexandra. damaging a half
dozen houses. Swerving to an east
ward course il swept up the main
street of Pineville tearing away the
fronts of row of houses in two
blocks, demolishing several stores
and then moved to the southeast
ripping it's way through another sec
tion of the town. I'll.
Two miles east OF Pineville the
tornado turned its course again and
spent it's force over a cemetedy.
Many narrow escahes from injury
were reported. Two children who
we're in the McManus store sought
refuge under a counter just before
II collapsed and escaped injury. The
family of c. l.. Boye, who were in
their home when the roof collapsed,
we're uninjuured although furniture
in the adjoining room was wrecked
Wire Service Interrupted.
No news had been received early
today from Boyce and Good Pine.
near Alexandria reported last night
TO have been in the path of the tor
nado. Wire communication with the
two towns was still interrupted.
Heavy rains, hail storms, swollen
streams, interrupted train service
and floods were reported from a
number OF points in Mississippi and
Louisiana.
Hattiesburs reported severe hail
storm Tuesday night which did CON
siderable damage to property and
crops. Vicksburg was visited by a
hail storm last night.
The Ouachita river and it's tribu-
taries In the vicinity of Monroe
were overlooking, causing damage in
the lowlands of that section.
Passed Through North Caroline.
Wendell, n. c., April 5.-A wind
storm here last night injured ap.
proximately twenty-five persons, de-
stroyed fifty buildings, wrecked 9th
ers and badly damaged crops.
r Wreekase In Arkansas.
TeXarkana, Ark, April 5.-A tor
nado passed through Cass county, in
the northeast corner of Texas, late
yesterday. leaving along its six mile
trail about twenty wrecked houses.
The storm swept eastward from
Laws chapel four miles west of At
lanta, Texas, and turned southeast
at Alsmanoe community, where it
lifted.