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Show SOUTH SWEPT IT STORM; DEATH COMES TO MM! Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana Louisi-ana and Texas Visited by Destructive De-structive Tornado. Louisville, Ky. Death for nearly a score of people, losses of hundreds ol thousands of dollars in property and the crippling of many telegraph wires resulted between noon and dusk on Friday, February 5, from a series of small tornadoes that swept the south Tennessee line to the Texas panhandle. panhan-dle. Brinkley, Ark Two persons were killed and a third fatally injured In a tornado which struck Stuttgart early Friday. The dead: Mrs. Garfield and a child of William Story. Fatally injured: in-jured: Mrs. Story. The tornado destroyed de-stroyed one residence and five barns, besides doing considerable damage to property in the surrounding country. The residence destroyed was that of William Story. His wife and child were crushed by the falling timbers. The storm did extensive damage to the rice fields. Fort Worth, Tex. A heavy wind ot tornado proportions, which swept over northern Texas and southern Oklahoma early Friday resulted in considerable damage in several local! ties. At Ennis, Tex., a dozen houses were blown down. Waxahachie was also damaged. No loss of life is reported. re-ported. At Sulphur Springs the storm wrecked eight dwellings, and Mrs. James Ardis was seriously injured by Hying glass. The total damage from the storm in northern Texas will ha about $100,000. Birmingham, Ala. Mayor George H. Brier, of Cullman, Ala., wires that seven persons are known to have been killed in that county Friday afternoon af-ternoon by a tornado. At Kayosa, a mining camp west of Birmingham on the Southern railway, five houses were blown down, but only one man was injured, a Mr. Loga. The property prop-erty loss in the territory north ol Birmingham is heavy. Jackson, Miss. A long distance telephone message received here states that a tornado struck the town of Boiling Fork, Sharkey county, and that four persons were killed. The property loss was heavy. |