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Show TORNADO STRIKES THE SUNNY SOUTH Two Hundred and Fifty Residents of Alabama, Louisiana and Mis-, sissippi Meet Death. Mo:t of Those. Killed Wre Negroes, Whose Flimsy Cabl- ere Swept Away JJke So I . Paper. Property Loss Enormous. Atlanta, Ga. Reports Indicate that at least 250 persons woro killed and about 400 Injured In storms of great violence wheh passed over sections of Loulslnua, Mississippi and Alabama on Friday. Several towns wero almost totally swept away and tho property damago will run into largo figures. Most of thoso killed wero negroes, whoso cabins wero swept away llko so much paper. Natchez, Miss., reports that of sixty-four sixty-four persons killed In that Bcctlon only two wero whites. Lnto reports from Amlto, a smnll town In southeastern Louisiana, say that the town wns almost entirely destroyed de-stroyed and the estimates place tho number killed nt between twcnty-ilvo nnd fifty, whllo nt least soventy-flvo were Injured. At McLnln, Miss., eight nro reported to have been killed; nt Vldalla, La., ono white woman nnd six negroes nro dend; nt Quitman Landing cloven negroes ne-groes were killed; nt Purvis' Landing, Miss., three whites nnd nlno negroes wero victims of the storm, nnd reports of from ono to llvo deaths come from many towns scattered over tho storm-swept storm-swept area. In Louisiana It Is estimated that n scoro of small towns wero destroyed or partially wrecked. They Include Amlto City, Arcadia and Independence, Independ-ence, whllo Hello Grove, Velton, Lor-man, Lor-man, Pino Illdge, Quitman Landing, Falrchlld's Creek, Purvlso nnd Lnnv Iierton, Miss., nro reported seriously damaged by tho storm. In Alabama, Dora wns the chief sufferer. suf-ferer. This town Is nlso known as llergen. Four or nioro persons woro killed. Fifty persons nt the lowest cstimato woro injured. Thoso most Boriously hurt wero cnrrled to hospitals hos-pitals in Birmingham, Ala. Richland nnd Lnmourlo, La., were struck by tho storm and nearly a fifth of their population Injured. Winchester, Miss., n small town, 1b roported wiped out, though only two persons nro known to havo been killed. Mobile roported nlno dead In Hut-tlcsburg, Hut-tlcsburg, Miss. What appears to have been two different dif-ferent tornadoos also struck western Alnbnma, ono clnlmlng six victims nt Dorgcn nnd Thomas' sawmill, .small places, and nnothor striking Albcrvlllo, whero thirty persons nro reported to havo been killed. |
