Among those whose homes are wrecked are Postmaster C. H. Underhill, Asa Hickerson, Mrs. Lizzie McPherson and Jim Butler. Part of a larger outbreak that started a few days earlier, the unrelenting barrage of . FROM THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN, MAY 2 1909, PAGE 4, section FOUR DEATHS IN MONTGOMERY: CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., May 1. Following are some of the more serious losses: Lee Smith, house and barn; J. S. Bryan, house and barn; Werner Stevenson, house and barn; W. H. Watson, house and barn; Otha Young, house and barn; W. S. McLaurine, house and barn; Irby Scruggs, residence, outhouses and tenant houses; - barn escaped, Mrs. Eliza Wilkinson, residence; Hood Wilkinson, orchard, shop and barn, resident damaged, but not wrecked; T. J. Hardy, residence and barn; Ike Shapard, gin, The Scruggs' school house, near Conway, and the school house and church at Bee Spring were utterly swept away. Just a few rods east of the McGrew place stood the home of Bud Guffey. In its track, which was about half a mile in width, practically all timber was uprooted or twisted to the earth.
These pictures show the damage in Centerville in Hickman County where there were 9 deaths and 32 injuries. NWS WATERTOWN, Tenn., April 30. A damage rating of at least F2 intensity seems likely based on the newspaper descriptions. FROM THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN, MAY 2 1909, PAGE 5, "PERRY COUNTY": LINDEN, Tenn., May 1. From almost every section of Tennessee are reports of fatalities and property loss, while Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and even Indiana and Illinois report touches of the cyclone. The cyclone struck Rudolphtown about 8 o'clock and traveled in a northeasterly course. The most terrible cyclone in the history of Giles County struck with great fury between 11 and 12 o'clock Thursday night. A colored child on W. R. Anderson's farm was killed, making the fourth death so far reported. The total list of those killed in Giles County, so far as could be learned the day after the storm was eighteen white people and four negroes, making twenty two in all. The stock barn of Rural home Stock farm was torn to pieces, and there were many other houses, barns, and outhouses destroyed.
A list of the top 10 worst tornadoes in Texas history The cyclone went from Primm's on to Centreville. The property loss cannot be estimated. Only two houses were left standing. The property loss will mount into the thousands. The tornado was a mile wide at times, and its winds reached 300 mph, putting it at the top of the Fujita scale for tornado intensity. Twenty-two others lost their lives that fateful night across Middle Tennessee in tornadoes that struck Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Wilson, Grundy, and Fentress Counties. This massive tornado then passed into Lincoln County where much of Millville, Cyruston, Clardyville, and Harms were damaged or destroyed. This massive tornado then passed into Lincoln County through the northern suburbs of Fayetteville before lifting northeast of Fayetteville. The tornado continued into Giles County where nine more people lost their lives.
List of Upper Cumberland tornadoes | UCpedia Wiki | Fandom - This place was visited Thursday night about 1 o'clock by a cyclone traveling in a southeasterly direction. In addition to those killed outright many were more or less seriously injured. Damage:
A number of houses have been damaged by falling timber, one or two thrown off the foundations and one large two-story building completely demolished. There were no additional fatalities from these tornadoes. After striking Nolensville, the storm moved into Rutherford County. Please Contact Us. 22 people were killed here in Giles County from this tornado. It cut a huge path over a mile wide through the area. Several negro families lost their homes. There were also numerous reports of livestock killed by flying debris. "November 20, 1900 Tornado Outbreak." Undated. Tornado destroyed six homes at Moreland. When the tornado outbreak was over, at least 62 people had been killed across Middle Tennessee, and over 200 more were left injured. The barn of William Gillam was blown down and his house twisted. The village of Harms, five miles west of Fayetteville, was almost completely destroyed. Result of the Work of the Storm in Dickson County": DICKSON, Tenn., April 30. A path about 100 yards wide was swept clear of timber. The half-mile wide tornado moved across the Brewster Community causing two injuries (F2), then passed just south of Rugby into Scott County.
1909 Oct 14, Tornado Outbreak, AL (11-21), AR (2), GA (1-2), TN (42 - Dickson County was swept by a terrible storm last night, and as a result more than fifty houses lay wrecked today, and the damage to property will run far into the thousands of dollars. BEE SPRING, Tenn. (WKRN) On April 29th and 30th in 1909, Middle Tennessee suffered its deadliest tornado outbreak in history. All NOAA, (The following newspaper article was transcribed from The Pulaski Citizen of May 6, 1909.). Web. FROM THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN, MAY 1 1909, PAGE 10, "AT WATERTOWN, TENN.". Damage:
This was the deadliest tornado outbreak in the U.S. since May 2011, when more than 170 people were killed. Reports from farmers are that crops will have to be planted over again. The tornado is included here with an estimated F2 intensity and 2 injuries based on the destruction of the Bush Brown home south of McEwen. The strongest tornado confirmed so far from. Based on all this information, the path location was adjusted to the south of Franklin, with the path width added as 300 yards based on reports in the Nashville American. This tornado is estimated to have touched down in Fentress County southwest of Gatewood Ford Road just west of the Morgan County border, then moved northeast to near where the Crooked Creek and Clear Fork meet destroying a sawmill (F1), and then on into Morgan County. For about one mile north of Florence the telegraph poles were twisted off and thrown across the N., C. & St. L. Railroad, which obstructed traffic for a considerable time last night. At Walter Hill the residence of Mrs. Upchurch was totally destroyed and she herself was fatally injured. It is thought that the dead and injured list will be increased by further reports. The storm extended over many states inflicting damage on widely scattered communities from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. It was an F-4 with winds 207 miles per hour or higher. BEE SPRING, Tenn. (WKRN) On April 29th and 30th in 1909, Middle Tennessee suffered its deadliest tornado outbreak in history. Their household effects are destroyed. A special thanks to the Nashville National Weather Service office and Lead Forecaster Sam Shamburger for his research on this tornado outbreak. At Rudolphtown, which lies between Port Royal and Clarksville, one man was killed whose name has not been ascertained here. However, descriptions of the damage appear to warrant at least an F2 rating, which was used here. The seriously injured are M. J. Farrar and daughter, of Gyruston, the former having a broken collarbone, and the latter a broken arm and leg; residence wrecked and burned. One brick home was completely demolished. Will Hudson, another farmer near Charlotte, lost his barn, and had several head of stock crippled by the storm. Following is a partia (?) Mr. Parkes had a cow killed, fruit trees destroyed and barn blown down. Did the tornado hit Gatlinburg Tennessee? FROM THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN, MAY 4 1909, PAGE 5, "THREE CHURCHES DESTROYED": ALEXANDRIA, Tenn., May 3. Track of Cyclone a Mile Wide and Vast Damage Done": MURFREESBORO, Tenn., April 30. On account of the destitution which is reported to exist in the stricken district, Mayor Northington has issued the following statement: "Reports having reached me of the destitution occasioned by Thursday night's storm, on account of which scored of persons have lost all of their means and been rendered homeless, it becomes my duty to make the fact known in our citizens officially. Jim Cheat, a prosperous farmer near town, lost his barn, and had one very fine mule killed by the storm.
December tornadoes among 20 billion-dollar disasters to strike U.S. in Only one member of this large family escaped unhurt. GRAZULIS: The entire town of Statesville had severe downburst damage. Greatest damage and the most horrible loss of life occurred in the community between Bunker Hill and Bryson, but the destruction was by no means confined to one place. GRAZULIS: Twenty-three homes were destroyed, and a hotel and depot were unroofed at Decherd. Prof. J. M. Coulson's residence destroyed and a number of other buildings greatly damaged. The path length was estimated based on a beginning point in the Bushtown area and end point just past Algood.
At Florence, a village about six miles from here, the large mill known as "Ward Mill", on the Stones River, was blown completely into the river. The damage in town is slight compared with the country. It is impossible at this time to estimate the damage. Rutherford County was visited last night by one of the most destructive storms of many years. In addition to those killed outright many were more or less seriously injured. The old Henry Wade residence, a two-story frame buildings, was demolished, and also several cabins on the place. His entire family was wiped out of existence. The storm was about two miles south of Alexandria, and the following farmers had their barns demolished entirely or unroofed: James Dinwiddle, J. S. Turner, J. D. Griffith, Oby Jenkins, G. G. Gibbs, Vick Groom, Bob Vannatta, John Midgett (two), Mort Foutch, and Hanison Self. His daughter, who had her leg broken, crawled to hear father's aid by the light of a flash of lightning and found him dying. One-half of the house where Attorney J. The tornado outbreak this week featured more than 400 tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings that spanned nearly two-dozen states. Much of the land was washed. FROM THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN, MAY 1 1909, PAGE 10: ALGOOD, Tenn., April 30 - At this place, four miles east of Cookeville, the Southern Methodist church was demolished. Coming as it did near midnight, when the people generally were asleep, many barely escaped in their night clothes.
March sets record for most tornado reports - NBC News This tornado appears to be from the same long-track supercell which tracked from the Memphis area and later produced the tornadoes in Hickman, Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, DeKalb, Putnam, Fentress, and Scott Counties. Following are some of the more serious losses: Lee Smith, house and barn; J. S. Bryan, house and barn; Werner Stevenson, house and barn; W. H. Watson, house and barn; Otha Young, house and barn; W. S. McLaurine, house and barn; Irby Scruggs, residence, outhouses and tenant houses; - barn escaped, Mrs. Eliza Wilkinson, residence; Hood Wilkinson, orchard, shop and barn, resident damaged, but not wrecked; T. J. Hardy, residence and barn; Ike Shapard, gin, The Scruggs' school house, near Conway, and the school house and church at Bee Spring were utterly swept away. The cyclone followed the course of Dog Creek, a small stream close to the springs, and followed it until it came to the mouth of the hollow, when it entered the hollow and laid waste everything in its path. The horror of the storm was greatly increased especially were people were (sic) severely hurt by the darkness and torrents of rain, which followed.
Dickson was left to the right of the storm's pathway, and fortunately little damage was done here. Their bodies were recovered the next morning at about daylight. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration At Cross Roads, Scott County, it demolished the home of Henry Reed, debris falling upon him and crushing his skull. For a strip more than two miles in width along the railroad between here and Tennessee City, and on through that portion of the county traversed by the storm, scarcely a tree is left standing, but all lie as flat as if rolled over by some immense road roller. Just like the previous storm, it caused widespread property damage. It began just before midnight and had destroyed three large sections of Zephyr by the early hours of the morning. Six people were killed in Hickman County, along a track through Shipps Bend, Centerville, and Little Tot. The Bee Spring community after the tornado was never quite the same and never really recovered. One son, Oscar, was hit by falling timbers and considerably bruised. The second F3 tornado flattened structures near Covington and Medina. Homes were destroyed in Marion, Arkansas, resulting in five deaths in Arkansas. A number of small barns was blown down. But the daily mail from Charlotte brings a letter from Circuit Court Clerk J. J. Taylor to the effect that about twenty-five residences were destroyed there.