Evening star., 1931-12-31
FIVE DEAD, 3 DYING
IN DIXIE TORNADO.
Fifty Others Hurt by Wind as
Flood Waters Sweep Over
Tops of Levees.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss. December 3l.-Five
persons dead, dying and so persons
estimated as less seriously injured we're
counted today in the trail of last nights
tornado that tore through Simpson and
Covington Counties, Miss.
A survey of the storms path through
the isolated communities revealed dozens
OF demolished homes. heavy live stock
losses and damaged timber.
Two of the dead were white persons.
They were;
Mrs. Anse Everett, Is, crushed to
death as she held an infant In ner
arms when her home, three miles south
west of Magee, was demolished. The
child was unhurt.
Paul Brown, tWo-year- old son Of Will
bur Brown, farmer, living five miles
south of Magee, killed in the collapse
Of the family home.
Three Others Killed.
The other dead:
Hattie, %, and Mamie Lou Lee, l6,
daughters of william Lee, colored farm
er, living five miles south OF town,
killed in the demolition Of their home.
The two-year-old child Of Aaron
Smith, colored, living at turpentlne
camp II miles northeast Of Magee.
william Lee, his wife and one son,
all believed fatally injured, were rushed
to the Charity Hospital at Laurel today.
John Rankin, Magee farmer, his wife
and one son, reported missing laSt
night after their home was blown two
and one-half miles to block highway
40, were accounted for today, but Mrs.
Rankin was reported as seriously in
jured.
Flood Rips Leyee.
Shortly before the tornado hit in
the southeastern part OF the State,
cloudburst struck the flooded area IN
the northwest, causing the leVee south
of Glendora TO break and the town was
inundated
A mile of private levee at the Jones
Frederick plantation, south Of Glendora'
gave way this morning. Water from
this creVasse will flood approximately
10000 acres In Southern Tallahatch1e
County. This break will somewhat re-
lieva the pressure on the Glendora
area. Live stock was moved to higher
ground. No loss Of life was reported
Four inches of rain in the valleys OF
the Tallahatchie, Coldwater, T1ppah
and Yazoo Rivers started them toward
higher stages and struck terror to tne
hearts of thousands of people, huddIeo
into the water-bound towns.
Convict Aid Asked.
Glendora, below the forks OF the
Tallahatchie and Coldwater Rivers
which form the YaZoo. today joined
Webb Sumner and other small Iatta-
hatchie County towns in sending emer-
gency calls to the Parchman Prison
Farm for convicts to strengthen the
trembling levees.
Glendoras battle against creYasses
in an 11-mile dixie was believed TO nave
been won early today when the new
cloudburst fell The entire leyee Is now
weak and water-logged the countryside
is flooded again and there are no Lhole
sand bags to place on the dikes.
Twice in week GlendoraS hunoreos
of residents have fed from the business
district across the railroad tracks 10 tne
white residential section to escape Ihe
water.
For the first time the great force OF
the flood began to be felt TO-DAY along
the Yazoo River in Leflore and part OF
Marshall and Tate Counties, 10 Inc
south of Glendora. The peak OF tne
Tallahatchie River flood is moving ooWn
there from Quitman, Tallahatcn!e Ano
Pamela Counties, where more than
thousand persons have left theF noiaeS