Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1909 — STORM AND FLOOD [ARTICLE]

STORM AND FLOOD

JANUARY. L 35 deaths in * tornado near Wesson, Miss. FEBRUARY. 16. Highest water of the Pittsburg flood, which caused damage estimated at 83W.000. MARCH. L An avalanche crushed a hotel at Goppenstein. Switzerland, killing 13 persons and injuring 15. APRIL. IL 11 deaths in a gale which swept over New York city. 28-4. Nearly 400 persons killed, many thousands injured and much property destroyed by a tornado which swept the southern states from Texas to Georgia. MAT. IX 12 people killed by a tornado at Bellevue, Neb. 13. 50 deaths by a tornado in Louisiana. 38. 10 persons killed by a tornado in Alfalfa county, Okla. JUNE. 6. Windstorms and flood caused heavy loss of life in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and lowa. august. CT. Climax of flood in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, which resulted in the loss of many lives; dam- . age in the three states estimated at over 32,000,000. 3L 15 persons drowned by a cloudburst st Folsom, N. M. OCTOBER. 2L Destructive cloudburst and flood In Oklahoma. NOVEMBER. 38. 26 killed and 48 injured by a tornado in Arkansas.