Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-03
STORMS
IN SOUTH
CONTINUE
Fury Of TOrnadoes In
Several States Costs
Many Lives.
SNOW COVERS WEST
Freak Weather Causes
Enormous Damage To
Crops And Property.
(By United Press Leased Wire)


cd south today, as destructive
winds moved eastward. Tempera-
lures fell generally over the south
eastern states, ana widespread frost
damage to crops was feared.
Temperatures throughout Dixie,
east of the Mississippi, were from
ID to 30 degrees below normal May
readings.
The death toll s;ood at 50, count
ing nine killed by tornadoes in
Arkansas Wednesday. At Gate City,
Va, Is school children and tea
cher died in the wreck of school
house Four persons were killed at
Weaverville, Virginia.
Tennessee had three dead, and
Florida Georgia and Alabama one
each.
Treatment for more than $50 in
.iured and assistance for the many
homeless became the paramount
task of relief workers today. Geor-
gia, Alabama and Florida suffered
widespread loss.
ATLANTA, Ga, May 3. U.H--
The south today looked upon death
and wreckage left in the wake of
devastating winds which swept
through sections of five southern
states east of the Mississippi river,
levying a heavy toll in lives and
property damage.
Only today did the full destruc-
tive extent of the winds of yester-
day, which in some sections became
roaring tornadoes, begin to be un
folded.
Sympathetic interest turned par
ticularly toward the little CONSOLE
dated school at Rye Cove, Va,
where Is young lives were snuffed
out when the building was demol-
ishod by a tornado yesterday after
noon. More than 100 children were
injured and seven were missing.
Another storm center was Wood
vile, Va, where a school boy was
killed and a dozen other persons,
including teachers and several
children, were injured when extre-
mciy high winds razed school
house, two churches and four homes.
Oak, Ala, reported one death and
several seriously injured by an
other wind Of cyclonic proportions
and Il youth was killed and his
companion seriously injured hy a
falling trees uprooted by high
winds at Lafayette, Ga.
The death list in Virginia, Ten
nCssee, Georgia, Alabama and
Florida stood at 21 while the iniur
cd was placed at upward of $50.
Property damage was extensive.
The Rye Cove catastrophe came
shortly before l o'clock when 125
students and teachers were in the
two story frame building. OF this
number, few, if any escaped death
or injury of some sort.
Children Trapped
The eight room school was at.
tended by children from radius
of 10 miles around in the pictur-
esque mountain valley. The build.
ing, struck with sudden and shat
tering force, collapsed in a twink
! ling as the roof was torn away.
! The children were trapped in the
wreckage, some being killed out
right, others were pinned helplessly
under heavy timbers.
Alva Carter, high school teacher.
ard IA children were killed.
Probably six others will die,
physicians said. Tots seven years
old, to high school seniors Of Is
were among the dead.
/ A special train was dispatched b
| the scene from Clinehport and ear
ried 50 injured to Bristol, Tenn.
Thirty seven others were taken to
Clinchport, and four to Kings
port.
Jim Morrison, a poultrymaH liv-
ing near the Rye Cove school, wit.
messed the destruction Of the build
ing where two of his children were.
He saw the tornado approaching and
ran toward the school house. Ii col-
lapsed before he reached it.
Searching frantically among the
ruins, he found his two children.
They were badly injured. He aided
/ others who arrived on the scene
shortly after to free the dead aud
injured from the heaped timberA
CHICAGO, May 3. WP) Frigid
gales which lashed destructive lake
waters over the shores of the Great
Lakes and snowstorms which dam.
aged crops in several states held tbs
central states in the grip OF I'M
seasonable weather today.
In the wake of tornadoes and hail
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