Evening star., 1933-03-31
T0RNAD0ES KILL 25
IN four STATES
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Mississippi Swept
by Fatal Winds.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Twenty-Five persons were known
today to have been killed by tornadoes
which dipped down into sections OF
three States late yesterday and early
today, causing damage to property, in
juring dozens and leaving narrow but
we'll defined paths.
Without warning, the first twister
struck Lindale, a small community
north of Tyler, Tex, killing two colored
persons, demolishing four garages and
leveling trees and telephone poles.
A tornado next struck Mabank, Tex,
to the west, destroying homes and
causing other damage. The sewing
machine of one family was found a
mile and half away from the house.
Chickens were picked clean. Con-
siderable loss was anticipated from the
nearby heavily -timbered areas. A heavy
rainfall accompanied the storm.
Deaths by Localities.
Shelbyville, San Augustine and Hunt
ington, In extreme East Texas, then
felt the tornadoes.. At least IA, persons
were killed in those communities and
many more were injured. Six more
deaths were reported from Hall Sum-
init, in Northwestern Louisiana, and at
Mount Holly, Ark.
Additional disturbances today in Mis-
sissippi and South Louisiana further
boosted the total of fatalities and in
juries.
Two women were killed on the out
skirts of Brookhaven, Miss, when the
wind tore through that section this
morning demolishing many homes. A
preliminary check showed IL others in
jured in that community, where damage
extended over a l0-mile strip about a
half mile wide.
Shortly befcre noon terrific wind
struck at Zachary, near Baton Rouge,
La, tearing down communication lines,
and parry of physicians started for
that point in anbulanceS on uncon-
f1rmed reports of loss of life and heavy
property damage.
At Davenport, Miss, one was killed
and several others injured as tornado
winds swept the MisSis Sippi Delta DUR
ing the morning. Property damage
there was estimated at $4,000. More
than 20 Davenport homes were reported
demolished.
A tornado dipped into a rural section
north of Laurel, Miss, destroying a half
sons.
The death toll by communities was
Huntington, S; Lindale, 2; Shelbyville
S. San Augustine, 4; Hall Summit, S.;
Mount Holly, !; Brookhaven, 2, and
Davenport, l.
No accurate estimate of the number
injured could be made but reports over
crippled communication channels in
the storm area indicated more than
100 were hurt. No large cities were
struck.
List of Those Killed.
A revised list of dead:
Texas.
Huntington.
George Knight, SO.
Infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. S
Woodrum.
Mrs. Alonzo Linton.
r. E. Welch, IA.
Mrs. Oscar Roebuck, 81.
Lindale.
Lorell Shaw, Is, colored.
Luella Wimberley, 10, colored.
Shelbyville-C Center.
Mrs. Jessie Vale, 80, expectant mother
A colored school teacher.
Miss Graves. 20.
Unidentified white man.
Unidentified colored man.
San Augustine.
Mrs. Polly Sanford.
Ferris Andrews, tenant farmer.
Mrs. Andrews
Andrews child.
Louisiana, All at Hall Summit.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Jones.
| Two Jones children.
| Mrs. Jones sister-in-law.
Arkansas.
Mrs. Floyd Boyett, near Mount Holly
Mississippi.
Mrs. Fannie Rufkin, 63, Brookhaven
Miss Emma Campbell, 40, Brook
haven.
Unidentified colored man, Davenport
Relief Work Begun.
Aided by ideal weather, relief work
ers plunged quickly into the task O
aiding the injured and caring for thos,
left homeless by the disturbance.
Members of a Texas highway en-
gineering crew saw the storm approach
ing farming settlement IL miles soutl
of Center, between Shelbyville and Sal
Augustine. They said it came from
the south, "out of nowhere" and misSet
their automobile by only few hundret
feet, tearing up trees and scatterin,
houses like straw before it. 1t tore
strip about half a mile wide and thre
miles long, collapsing houses befor
the occupants knew the storm was upol
them.
THREE DIE IN FLOODS.