The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-28
20 PERSONS
LOSE LIVES
in ALABAMA
Section Near Empire Gets
Burden Of Storms
Wrath
THREE FAMILIES
ARE WIPED OUT
Man, Wife And Six Chill
dren Killed In Lime
stone County
ASSISTANCE RUSHED
TO THOSE STRICKEN
Twister Moves In North
eastern Direction Leav-
ing Death And Sorrow
THREE FAMILIES
ARE WIPED OUT
ASSISTANCE RUSHED
TO THOSE STRICKEN

ATOKA., Okla, May 27.-Four
women were killed and six other
persons were injured by q tornado
which struck a farm community.
five miles north Of Stringtown,
Okla, late tonight, according to re-
ports reaching here over crippled
wires.
ATLANTA, Ca, May 27.-(By
Associated Press. )-Forty-one per-
sons are known to have been killed,
more than half q hundred injured,
some perhaps fatally; scores rem
dered homeless and property dam
age estimated at more than $1,000
900 caused by violent windstorns
which swept portions of Alabama
and Mississippi last night and early
today for the second time in less
than a month.
Probability that the death toll
will be increased as lines of COM
munication gradually are restored
lis seen in unconfirmed reports Of
persons killed and missing which
continue to trickle in over crippled
wires.
In one or two cases, whole commu-
mites were wiped out, while in every
section touched by the disturbance
path of ruin and desc lation was left.
marked by RACED dwellings and farm
buildings, damaged highways and dis
rupted telephone and telegraph facili-
ties. Railroad traffic was impeded in
certain areas.
Goes Into Carolina
Tonight the storm appeared from in
complete advices to be pursuing the
same course as the disturbance which
three weeks ago devastated sections of
the southeast, killing more than 100
persons. South Carolina, which bore
the brunt of the last disturbance, re-
ported minor damage in that state to-
day, but no casualties. --latest reports
were to the effect that the twisters had
been felt in North Carolina, but to what
extent was not known, due to damaged
wire facilities.
With 81 dead in Mississippi and 20
in Alabama, both states set about relief
and reconstruction work today, aided
by the American Red Cross and local
relief agencies.
Alabama In Path
In Alabama, the storm struck with
deadliest effect near Elkmont and EN-
pire, where all the deaths occurred, al
though numerous reports of injuries
and damage were received from other
rural points in that section. Frag-
ments of the bodies of some Of the vie
Tins were picked up by the wind and
hurled three-quarters of a mile near
Elkmont
Then. after crossing into Mississippi
near Vicksburg, it spread like a fan
through the delta regions striking more
than 20 communities including John
son Station, Pike county, Lauderdale
county, Waynesboro, Brewer and Col
Inns, which were hardest hit.
Not a house was left unscather in
Collins; while at Increase, near Me-
ridian the force of the storm virtually
destroyed the village.
A resident of Increase in describing
the force of the storm there, said that
it had torn the skin off a cat and blown
the horns from a COW.
From many vicinities came word
that some of the injured who were taken
to hospitals are not expected to recover.
Those known to have been hurt number
% in Alabama and 80 in Mississippi.
The complete list of known dead fol-
low:
Mississippi Dead
Ruby Anderson, three years old, and
young sister, Deval.
Jim and Lem Shupert, brother and
sister, Evergreen.
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