Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-03
MANY HOMELESS
AFTER TORNADOES;
HOSPITALS FILLED
Casualty Lists May Grow
Longer as News Comes in
From Sections Isolated by
Wire Trouble :. !,
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AA'OhOO
With 10 persons known dead, more
than score missing, approximate
ly 500 injured, some perhaps fatal.
ly, and hundreds homeless, the
southeast set about today to relieve
its regions stricken yesterday and
Tuesday by tie worst storms in its
history.
Tornadoes, descending with devaS-
tating violence upon widely sepa-
! rated sections, caused damage esti.
mated at $10,000,000 in South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Alabama, North Caro-.
lima, Virginia, Louisiana and Arkan-
sas.
Early today incomplete reports,
| delayed by crippled wire facilities.
distributed the total list of dead as
follows:
South Carolina 81.
| Georgia, Is.
| Alabama, IL.
North Carolina, 3. .
Louisiana, !.
Arkansas, 1.
With many points in the path Of
| the storms yet isolated, reports of
additional casualties were antici.
| pated.
Relief Work Proceeds
Relief work is proceeding rapidly.
| Hundreds of survivors Of the storms
have thrown open their homes to
the sufferers, while in virtually ev-
cry locality in the affected districts.
temporary kitchens have been set UP
to dispense food to the hungry.
A picture of iesolation and wreck.
age was left in the wake Of the
storm, which traversed a path rough.
ly estimated at more than a thou
sand miles long. Its destructive
t>force, however. seemed partly to.
have been spent as it spread east
ward through Virginia last eve
ming, no deaths having occurred
there so far as known. and but
slight property damage caused COM
pared with other sections in which
it struck.
Dead and injured and many Of
those unhurt were picked up by the
fierce winds and hurled through the
air some hundreds Of feet. Miles
of telephone and telegraph lines
were torn down. hundreds of dwell
ipgs and other buildings were rip.
ped from their foundations and de-
| molished, trees were uprooted and
| number of live stock were killed;
| while bridges were washed away and
I roads flooded in many sections by
| torrential rains which accompanied
the storm.
Women and children made up a
large part of the known dead
Entire communities were destroy.
ed in some sections and there was
not a place in the storm path
which escaped wholly unscathed.
Carolina Hard Hit
In South Carolina, where the tor.
nadoes were most disastrous, Horrell
Hill, II miles from Columbia. was
wrecked, II being killed and num-
bers Of others more or less seriously
hurt. Among the dead were four
school boys who with IS other pupils
were buried beneath the wreckaga
of the school house when it was de.
molished.
Eight persons, five or them chill
dren, were killed and more than a
score injured when they were trap.
ped in their houses at Anderson.
Nearly 50 residences were RACED in
the Riverside Mill village. near there,
while numbers of dwellings in the city
proper were demolished.
Early today, so members Of the
local American legion post. armed
with rifles, were patrolling the
stricken mill village. Property dam
age III that section alone was placed
at $1,500,000
At Florence Is persons met death,
so were injured and 80 houses were
destroyed by the storm which en-
tered the county from the west and
cut swath 800 yards wide to the
Atlantic coast, so miles away. An
undetermined number Of negroes
were reported missing.
Other fatalities were: Twelve in
Sumter county, s.. in Lee county.
six in Lexington county, one in
Darlington county and one in Co.
lumbla. Many of the dead and in.
jured are negroes.
Ficl1len, Ga, Wiped Out
The village of Ficklen, Ca, near
Augusta, virtually was wiped off the
map, when the storm struck there,
killing the postmaster, injuring
many and destroying nearly everl
building.
AT Chipley, near Columbus, nine
persons, two of them white women.
were killed, so injured and unde.
termined property damage caused.
Due to disrupted wire facilities
there, as in many sections Of Geor-
Sia, only the barest details could
be obtained.
Near Macon, a white woman, her
infant child and d negro man were
killed when the houses in which
they had taken refuge were demol-
ished.
Many other points in Georgia
were struck by the storm. including
LawrcrcevilIe, where several per.
sons were injured, but available re.
ports chronicle no further loss OF
life.
four negroes were killed at Union
Springs; four negroes were killed
at Opelika; 10 negroes were killed
near Clio; a white woman was
killed near Roanoke and many suf.
fered injuries in these and other To-
calitles. Heavy rains flooded
streams in various parts of the
state to overlooking, washing away
bridges and damaging highways.
North Carolina Gets Touch
AS the storm spread with undi.
minished fury into North Carolina,
a white man. his wife and son were
killed near Bynum and eight per-
sons injured. Two children were
slightly hurt at Charlotte. At Rob-
e 'sonville, near Rocky Mount. near
ly two score were hurt, several