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EASTERN PART OF MISSISSIPPI 18 THE HEAVIEST LOSER FROM TORNADO. DEATH LIST IS NEARLY 200 ‘Two Separate and Distinct Storms In dicated From Reports Received— Greatest Damage and Loss of Life In Mississippi, Memphis.—Reports received in this city indicate that the tornadoes which swept this section Tuesday reaped a death toll of nearly 200 and caused property losses aggregating many mil lions of dollars in eastern Mississippi, northwestern Alabama and the south ern counties of Tennessee. Late reports give the death totals as follows: Mississippi, Bay Springs, Jasper County, 7. Aberdeen, Monroe County, 21. Amory, Monroe County, 3. Rose Hill, Jasper County, 6. Meridian, Lauderdale County, 21. Runnels Bridge, Lauderdale Coun ty, 2. Neshoba County, 19. Clayton, Noxubee County, 5. Egypt, Chicasaw County, 5. Glen, Alcorn County, 10. Ingomar, Union County, 6. Keownville, Union County, 2. Baker, Union County, 5. Starkville section, Oktibbeha Coun ty, 2. Alabama, Nehama section, Colbert County, Madison County, 18. Little Cove, 2. Waco, Franklin County, Marion County, 20. Tennessee, Williamson County, 1. Maury County, near Burwood, 2. Communication with many of the stricken districts was difficult, but reliable reports indicated that the tor nadoes swept down with deadly sud denness, obliterating everything that lay in their paths. In at least two causes—those of Rose Hill and Ingo mat, Miss.—the entire towns are be lieved to have been destroyed. In many instances all members of fami lies were caught in the debris of their homes. That there were at least two sepa rate storms was indicated by the fact that the tornado in North Mississippi , struck in as its intensity between 6:20 o'clock and § o'clock. The storm that apparently originated in the southern part of the state and which started taking its deadly and expensive toll in Jasper County began sweeping everything before at about 10 o'clock. Both disturbances moved in a north easterly direction, carrying destruc tion to scores of communities. The one In the north appears to have spent its force in the Northern Alabama counties. Atrossa the Tennessee line the storm still had force sufficient to upset resi dences and farm buildings and to cut a swath through forests and orchards. Only three deaths are known to have occurred in the state, however. The wide territory covered led to the discovery that more than one at mospheric disturbance was respon sible.
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The Aberdeen Weekly
Aberdeen, Mississippi, US
Fri, Apr 30, 1920
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