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Show ALABAMA TORNADO TAKES AUN1TLIVES WIND AND RAIN VISIT SOUTHERN STATE AND CARRY DEATH AND DESTRUCTION U. S. Troops Are Called To Guard Devastated - District; Intense Heat Is Given As Cause Of Tornado Troy, Ala. Sixteen persons were reported killed and more than a score injured by a tornado which struck Pike county, Alabama. Many homes were laid waste, causing thousands of dollars damage. Relief measures were undertaken and first aid was rushed to several communities which bore the brunt of the terriffic storm. Victims who fled here were sheltered by citizens of Troy and the local hospital was taxed to capacity in taking care of the injured. After sweeping through this1 section, sec-tion, the tornado rushed on its way southwestward. Loss of life was reported in the Good Hope section, at Luverne, in the Oak Grove neighborhood at Union Springs, in Comer and in Spring Hill, the last three places being in Barbour Bar-bour county, and at Eufaula, where three negroes were reported killed and several persons injured. In the Good Hope section, seven miles west of Troy, four members of one family were killed, and two others oth-ers probably fatally injured. Five negroes were killed near here and six near Union Springs. Persons near the path of the storm, aroused by the terrific wind and the cries of the injured, worked in a heavy downpour of rain and vivid flashes of lightning for hours, rendering ren-dering aid and searching for the missing. miss-ing. The dead and injured were scattered scat-tered along the roads, in the fields and near the demolished homes. An emergency call was sent to Troy for aid and many of the injured were brought to the Masonic hospital. According to reports reaching Troy, much damage was done at Brantley, Glenwood and Goshen, but no loss, of life was reported from either place. The tornado followed intense heat and threatening weather and was followed fol-lowed by a severe electrical storm. |