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ECHOES FHO.M THE DEATH DEAL*ISO TORS ADO IS TES'SESSEE.Tli* Hickman County News published at Cent rev llle. Tennessee, the old home of The Reporter solicitor. Issued what it termed a storm-edltiom last week, graphically and pathetically portraying the death-dealing tornado thta visited that old state on the 30th uli. In Hickman county nine persons were killed, more than .*»lt; injured and the property loss over $200,000.The writer had relatives killed and seriously wounded of which The News says: Little l-ot suffered severely from the tornado Hritt Neely's house was swept away, and he was killed by flying timbers. Ilis wife was stripped of her night clothes end in the midst of the catastrophe she saw her 11-year-old daughter boine away by the winds, and hear! her agonizing screams. The girl wes carried more than one hundred yard* from her home and dashed to d-uth. When found, she had a ghastlx hole hi her breast from which her h-ait ,md one lung protruded. The oth« i lut.g was torn away, her body presenting a gruesome sight. One of theli. i—- ■■■■■—i. ...... ..T| 1 *ttie sons had his leg broken In two j pieces, and the othed had a wrist ■ broken. The greatest loss o.* llle i was In (tiles county, howeve-, the j home of our honored townsmen. Ju .ce ; J. M Wagstaff. R. .1 Reed and many j t'hers. In this county says the News tO people were killed. 23 being interred in one cemetery and the value of property destroyed will run into the : hundreds of thousands of dollars.W cat her Indication*.Maximum temperature 84.Minimum teni|»erature *16.Mean temperature If*.Rainfall 0.Hast Texas. North tonight unsettled weather, cooler in extreme west portion Thursday cloudy and probably threatening weather cooler In the In-; terior.Hast Texas. South tonight unsettled weather. Thursday cloudy and pro’oa- j bly threatening weather Cooler in j the Interior.West Texas. North tonight general-; ly fair, colder. Thursday fair colder.West Texas. South tonight and 1 Thursday generally fair colder.
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Abilene Daily Reporter
Abilene, Texas, US
Wed, May 12, 1909
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