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Severe cyclone devastates four states leaving 10 dead in Alabama
A massive Saturday cyclone near Edwardsville struck cautious towns across Alabama Mississippi and Tennessee. Ten Coffee family members died including Lewis Coffee tax assessor and his wife while numerous others were injured and many homes destroyed. The monster funnel walked 12 miles uprooting houses and dumping corpses and debris as witnesses described a bouncing cloud that lifted and crashed structures. Additional devastation hit Heflin Madison county and nearby areas with several farms wrecked and about 50 buildings destroyed. In Mississippi near Iuka a tornado damaged buildings and injured two while other reports across the region mounted as trains carried word of injured residents seeking doctors.
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Birmingham
Edwardsville
Lewis Coffee
Cleburne County
Bessie Coffee
Coffee
Rannells
Myrline Stansell
J. H. Cason
Tom Rannells
Wood Stansell
Andrew Stiepan
Mary Stiepan
Lizzie Runnells
J. E. Cason
Georgia Stansell
Gainesville
Stansell
Tosh Stansell
Coleman Stansell
Irion City
Louis Coffee
J. W. Wilder
Ben Stansell
Heflin
Madison County
Hazle Green
Tennessee
Pleyna
Ala
Steele
Bismarck