New Britain herald., 1924-05-01
STORMS DEATH TOLL NOW NEAR HUNDRED!
i08 Known Dead, Many Missing
 and 300 on Injured List
DAMAGE IS TEN MILLION
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Louisiana and Arkansas Suffer-Path of Disaster 1000 Miles Long.

By The Associated Press.
 Atlanta, Ga.. May With 10S per- sons known 10 be dead, more than score missing, approximately 500 in- jured, some perhaps fatally, the southeast today set about measures of relief in regiois stricken yesterday and Tuesday by the worst high ten- sion storms in its history.
 Tornadoes. descending with devas- tsting violence upon widely separated sections, caused damage estimated at s10,000,000 in the seven states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Louisiana and Ar kansas.
 The last two were the first 10 suf- fer, being in the area in which the disturbance originated Tuesday.
 Many Places Isolated
 With many points in the path of the storms yet competely isolated, re- ports of additional casualties were an- ticipated hourly.
 Relief work is proceeding rapidly under the supervision of the American Red Gross, assisted by numerous lscal 1 fraternal and civic organizations, municipal and county governments 1 and individuals. Hundreds of the more fortunate survivors Of the i storms have thrown open their homes 1 10 the sufferers, while in virtually i every locality in the affected districts temporary kitchens have been set up ! 10 dispense food to the hungry. i
 1000 Miles of Desolation i
 ,.iotnr. ar 1asalaftan nd wreckage was left in the wake of the | storms. which trayersed a path rugh- ly estimated at more than thousand | miles long. Its destructive froce, however, seemed partly spent as 1t spread eastward through Virginia last evening, no deaths having occurred there so far as known and but slight property damage being reported.
 Hurled Hundreds of Feet
 Dead and injured any many of those unhurt were picked up by the iierce winds and hurled hundreds of efet. Miles of telephone and tele- graph lines were torn down. hundreds of dwellings and other buildings were lipped from their fnndations and de- irnlished. three were uprooted and U | while bridges were washed away and roads flooded in many sections by tor- rential rains which accompanied the storm.
 Women and children. make up a large part of the known dead.
 Communities Wiped Out
 Entire communities were destroyed l1 some sections and not place in the storms path escaped wholly un- scathed. In South Carolina, where the tornadoes we're most disastrous Horrell Hill. 12 miles from Columbia, was wrecked, IF were killed, a num- ter of others more or less seriously hurt. Among the dead were four school boys, who with 75 other pu- pills were buried beneath the wreck se of schpol house.
 Eight Die in One House
 Eight persons, five of tiem chil- dren. were killed and more than a core injured when they were trapped in their crashing houses at Anderson. Nearly 50 houses were razed In the Riverside Mill village. near there, while numbers of dwellings in the tity proper were demolished.
 Armed Vets On Duty
 Early today 50 members of the To- cal American Legion post, armed with rifles, were patrolling the stricken mill village area. Property damage in that section alone is placed at s1,500,000.
 At Florence, i5 persons met death. 50 were injured and 30 houses were destroyed by the storm which entered the county from the west and cut a path 300 yards wide to the Atlantic coast. 30 miles away. An undeter- mined number Of negroes are report cd missing.
 Other Fatalities | Other fatalities were 12 In Sumter county, six in Lee County, six in Lex ington county, one in Darlington county, and one in Columbus. Many of the dead and injured are negroes. [ The village of Ficklen, Ga. near Augusta. virtually was wiped out, { when the storm struck there, killing The postmaster, iniuring many and 1 destroying nearly every building. At Chipley, Near Columbus, nine { persons were killed. 30 injured and great property damage resulted. Due 10 disrupted wire facilities there, as [ in many sections of Georgia only the l arrest details could be obtained.
 Alabama end N. Carolina In Alabama. white child and four negroes were killed at Union Springs; i four negroes were killed at opelika: 70 negroes were killed near Ohio; a white woman was killed near Roan- oke, and many suffered injuries in I these and other localities. Heavy [ rains flooded streams, washing away E aridges and damaging highways. t As the storm spread into North | Carolina, a white man, his wife and | son were killed near Bynum, and 1 eight persons Injured. Two children z were slightly hurt st Charlotte. At ( Robersonville. near Rocky Mount, i neariy two score were hurt. Several [ buildings. including two churches, [ were destroyed: while word of other s casualties in localities cut off by the