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Show MANY MEET DEATH ! IN SUNNY SOUTH SERIES OF TORNADOES BRING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO FIVE STATES. Seventy Persons Reported Dead and Several Hundred Injured, While Property Loss Is Enormous as Result of Widespread Storm. Memphis. Trim. Srvcnly-tive persons per-sons reporied dead, several hundred injured and properly damage roughly rough-ly estimated in ihe millions madr ihr toll of it serir.i of tornadoes which liroke hue Friday in northeast Texas and swept eastward .Saturday over sections of five stales into Georgia. Arkansas, with lil'ty persons reported report-ed killed in Hempstead and Miller counties, reported the heaviest lo.-s of life. In Alabama the number of dead was estimated at leu; seven were killed in Texas and six in Mississippi. In Tennessee no fatalities were reported. re-ported. .Relief parlies are still search-ins search-ins the storm area. The storm apparently broke in Smith county, Tex., swept sections of Good, Grepft, Case and Bowie counties, and passed into Miller and Hempstead counties, Arkansas, where the reported report-ed deatli list had readied fifty. Six of the seven persons killed in Texas were crushed to death when their homes in Avinger were wrecked. Crossing into Arkansas, the storm skirted Texarkann and cut a swafh a Imlf mile wide throttgn a heavily wooded section of Miller and Hempstead Hemp-stead counties. Near Hope. Hemstead county, the list of reported dead had reached twenty, fifteen others were said to have lost their lives near l'rescott and a like number near Texarkann. Five persons were reported killed at Steen, near Columbus, in eastern Mississippi, and one at Soiling, sixteen miles east of Brookhaven. Leaving Mississ;ppi, the storm swooped down again in northern Alabama. Ala-bama. In the Aycock community seven sev-en persons were reported killed and three others lost their lives in Ralph, Tuscaloosa county. In Birmingham ten persons were injured in-jured and a hundred homes iu the suburbs damaged. In Memphis a torrential rainstorm damaged sewers and drainage canals. At Rome, Ga., several persons were injured and property damage estimated estimat-ed at $200,000 was done. The rainfall in Mississippi was reported re-ported the heaviest on record. |