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Show 24 DEAD AND 46 HURT Sunday in Meridian Was a Day of Funerals and Sorrow. MERIDAN. MIks.. March u. The revised re-vised list of the dead and Injured as tho result of the tornado shows a total of twenty-four dead and forty-six Injured, a number of whom are not expected to live. No additional dentils have been reported since Inst night Tho property loss Is estimated at one and one-gunner million dollars, the number num-ber of destroyed residences alone being placed at COO. , Before an army of determined men. attacking at-tacking Meridian s stormswept and debris-strewn streets, tho vast amount of wreckage Is giving way slowly but surely. The Sabbath following tho disastrous storm of Friday was a day of funerals. The merchants and residents of Meridian Meri-dian had never protected themselves with storm or cvclone insurance, so Insurance agents will have Utile or no auditing be-vond be-vond the lire losses. After leaving Meridian and entering Macon, a suburban town, live miles distant dis-tant nil trace of the storm seems to hnvc diBnppeared. Little If any damage Is reported re-ported from the country. Of the sufferers from the tornndo only five carried tornado Insurance, amounting QVetfcomjMinleu of the State militia aro sMIl on guard and enforcing work by negroes, 1W being at work today removing the debris. An order was Issued tonight ordering the removal of the troops on Tuesday. |