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Show SOUTH VISITED BY TROPICAL STORM SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY LOSS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Buildings Blown Down and Crops Destroyed De-stroyed When Windstorm Sweeps Across Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. New Orleans, La. Loss of at least seventeen lives and property damage which may total several millions of dollars resulted from the tropical storm which swept the east gulf coast Wednesday and turned inland Thursday. Thurs-day. All the deaths reported occurred near Beloit, Ala., where seventeen negroes ne-groes lost their lives. There was no loss of life in either Mobile or Pensacola, the largest cities in the storm's path, but the property damage at Mobile was at least a million mil-lion dollars. Damage in Pensacola was confined largely to water front shipping. Laurel, Miss., reported that the property prop-erty loss there would aggregate $200,-000. $200,-000. There was no loss of life. Jackson Jack-son and Meridian reported considerable consider-able damage to crops and farm buildings. build-ings. Reports from Gulfport, Biloxi, Pass Christian and Bay St. Louis, Miss., told of little damage there, witn no loss of life. Buildings and crops in and around Beloit and Tallahassee in Alabama were damaged and crops suffered throughout the storm area. The storm did little damage In southeastern Louisiana, except to crops, according to reports of residents resi-dents of Grand Island and Barataria. In New Orleans there was practically no damage, this city being on the edge of the blow. |