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Show -MANY MEET DEATH IN SUNNY SOUTH SERIES OF TORNADOES BRING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO FIVE STATES. Seventy Persons Reported De?d and Several Hundred Injured, While Property Loss Is Enormous as Result of Widespread Storm. Memphis, Tenn. Seventy-five persons per-sons reported dead, several hundred injured anil property damage roughly rough-ly estimated in the millions made tiie toll of a series of tornadoes which broke late Friday in northeast Texas and swept eastward Saturday over sections of five slates into Georgia. Arkansas, with fifty persons reported report-ed killed in Hempstead and Miller counties, reported the heaviest loss of life. In Alabama the number of dead was estimated at ten; seven were killed in Texas and six in Mississippi. In Tennessee no fatalities were reported. re-ported. Belief parties are still searching search-ing the storm area. The storm apparently broke in Smith county, Tex., swept sections of Good, Gregg, Case and Bowie counties, and passed into Miller and Hempstead counties, Arkansas, where the reported report-ed deatli list had reached 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 Texarkana and cut a swath a half mile wide through a heavily wooded section of Miller and Hempstead Hemp-stead counties. Near Hope, Hemstead county, the list of reported dead bad reached twenty, fifteen others were said to have lost their lives near I'rescott and a like number near Texarkana. Five persons were reported killed at Steen, near Columbus, in eastern Mississippi, and one at Sontag, sixteen miles east of Brookhaven. Leaving Mississippi, 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 in 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. |