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Show SIM OF DEATH IK W STORM Two Hundred and Fifty Lives Lost in Louisiana, Mississippi Missis-sippi and Alabama. MANY WHITE PERSONS WERE AMONG THE VICTIMS Flimsy Cabins of Negroes Afforded Af-forded Them No Protection From Terrific Wind. 4- NEW ORLEANS, April 24. 4- 4 About thi rly white persons and 4 4 fifty negroes were killed liy- the 4- 4- tornado at Purvis, Aliss. 4- 4- This raises the total death list 4 4 to about 2o0. . 4 4. 4. ATLANTA, Ca.. April 24. Reports up lo midnight indicate that 250 persons per-sons were killed and about. 400 injured I in storms of great violence which ! passed over sections of Louisiana, AEis-j AEis-j sissippi and Alabama today. Several j towns were almost, totally swept awa3-' awa3-' and the propcrt.y damage will run into large figures. Alost of those killed were negroes, whose cabins were 'swept awa3- like so much paper. Natchez, ATiss., reports that of sixty-four sixty-four persons killed in that section on ly two wero whites. .Late reports from Amite, a small town in southeastern Louisiana, sa3-that, sa3-that, the town was almost cntirePy de-stro.vcd de-stro.vcd and the estimates place the number killed at between twcnt.y-five and lifty, while at least sevcnt.y-nve were injured. Wide Scope of Patalities. At Ale Lain, Aliss, eight are reported to have been killed: at Vidalia, La., one white woman and six negroes are dead; ar. Quitman Landing eleven negroes wci;e killed; at Purvis' Landing. Aliss., three whites and nine negroes were victims of the storm, and reports of from one to five deaths coine from main- towus scattered over tnc storm-swept area. New Orleans ami Alobilc were cut off from wire communication -with tho outside out-side world for several hours toda3- and the telegraph, companies report "wires down in all directions. Tonight the. 'storm is sweeping through Georgia, but beyond torrential rains, accompanied by high winds and brilliant electrical displa.vs. no serious damage or loss of life has been reported in the state. Scores of Towns Laid Waste. In Louisiana it is estimated that. a score of small towns were destro.vcd or part ial I3 wrecked. The3- include Amite Cil.y. Arcadia and Independence. Belle Grove. Vclton. Lorman. Pine Ridge, Quitman Landing. Fairchild 's Creek, Ptirvisc and Lumberton. ALiss, aro reported re-ported seriously damaged b.v the storm. Iu Alabama, Dora was the chief sufferer. suf-ferer. This town is also known as Her-gen. Her-gen. Four or more persons were killed, among them the wiie and daughter of Sectionmaster AToore. Fift.y persons at the lowest estimate were injured. Those most scrioush- hurt wero carried to hospitals hos-pitals in Birmingham, Ala. One woman, Airs. AlcCulh", died on tho train. At Bergen cars were blown from the railroad tracks and considerable other property destro3'ed. Reports also sa- that the storm struck Albcrtville, Ala., late this afternoon, after-noon, doing much destruction to life and propert.y. An unconfirmed report from this section gives the death list, as from thirty to thirty-five, with scores of persons' injured. A train' wns sent from Birmingham tonight cariwing pin-sicians pin-sicians and a squad of stato militiamen to tho district. From Meridian, Aliss., conies a report re-port that Airs. John Minnice and her chihl were killed outright and .Tolfn Alinnico was serioiisb' injured, while a number of ot her persons wero hurt, and there was considerable destruction of property. Richland and Lamourio, La., wero struck 113- the storm and nearly a fifth of their population-injured. Winchester, Aliss,. a small town, is reported wiped out. though onl.v two persons are known to have been killed. Alobile reported nine dead in Hatties-burg, Hatties-burg, Miss., but. this has not been confirmed. con-firmed. Five Separate "Twistors." In all nearly twent.v towns were struck bv the" ''twisters," of which there seems lo have been at least five. The tornado that first appeared in Concordia parish. Louisiana, appears to have been tin? most serious, both in respect re-spect to the number of victims and the extent of territory covered. Although it covered a rural district, and struck no largo towns, the known results of its work are sixt-four dead and at least one hundred injured, with the prospect that the list will be considerabl.v swelled by morning. More than fifty of the dead are negroes, ne-groes, whose log cabins proved pnrticu-larl.y pnrticu-larl.y fatal to Ihe occupants, being easily lorn l.o pieces, while tho weight of their timber crushed tho inmates to death. After leaving Concordia parish the storm crossed over into Mississippi and traversed portions of Adams. .1 offer-son offer-son and Claibonrne counties, its path being be-ing about 1,000 feel. wide. What appears lo have been two different dif-ferent tornadoes also struck western Alabama, one claiming six victims at Bergen and Thomas sawmill, small places, and another striking Albcrvillc, where thirty persons are reported to have been killed This, however, cannot can-not bo continued, as all the wires, are down. Relief for the sufferers is being dispatched dis-patched from all available points. |