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Show DEADLY CYCLONE. I ' Many Teople Killed aud Much Property De-j De-j stroyed In Alabama and Mississippi. I Memphis, Tenn., March 20. A series I of windstorms swept through portions ' of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas yesterday, doing an immense amount of property damage and killing- a number num-ber of people. The storms covered a radius of several hundred miles, destroying de-stroying telegraph wires and cutting off com munieation with a large section of country. Cleburn county, Alabama, seems to have suffered the most severely, severe-ly, the storm assuming the proportions of a tornado. The reports of fatalaties in the county vary from six to twenty and many more are said to be injured. At Sellers and Luverne, Ala., much damage is reported, and at Rob Roy, Ark., one man was killed and several were badly injured. Dumas, Ark., was nearly wiped out of existence and sev. eral other towns in the vicinity suffered suf-fered severely. One person is reported killed atllickory Flat, Miss. , and as the farmhouses in the vicinity suffered heavily, it is not unlikely many fatalities fatal-ities occured which have not yet been reported. Reports from different points in Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Mississippi and Alabama indicate indi-cate that in the storms which swept over those states eighteen persons were killed outright and twenty-one injured, as follows: Alabama, sixteen killed, four injured; Arkansas, one killed, seven injured; Mississippi, one killed, ten injured. The property loss will run Into the hundreds of thousands. |