OCR Text |
Show MISSISSIPPI SWEPT UK RAGING STORM VILLAGE IN TATE COUNTY WRECKED WITH HEAVY TOLL OF DEAD AND INJURED Relief Parties Hed for Stricken Area As Reports of Destruction Are Received; Wires Down; Vic-time Vic-time Hurled Into River Memphis, Tenn Eight persons were killed and fifty or more Injured In a storm which wrecked tho village of Savage In Tate county, Miss., late Thursday and swept through sections ef Fanola and Quitman counties, according ac-cording to word received Friday from the storm swept area. Chicago. The northeastward march of the two storms from the west, one from the northern Kocky mountain region and the other from the south, ern Kocky mountain reglon( brought relief to the upper Mississippi valley but destruction to the lower Mississippi Missis-sippi valley Friday. The storm that centered over New Mexico Thursday, on its eastward sweep, was marked by death and destruction des-truction as It crossed northern Mississippi Miss-issippi Thursday night. At Lambert, Miss., four negroes were reported killed. Virtually the entire town of Savage, Miss., was reported destroyed where twenty-five persons were blown Into the Coldwater river. Some still were unaccounted for Friday. Other towns In the vicinity were without lines of communication, and the damage In that section for that reason had not been checked early Friday. |