The Lewisburg Tribune
Friday, April 1, 1921. Headline:
Heavy Toll From Thursday's Storm.
Another death-dealing Tornado has
visited Marshall County and left a
heavy pall upon us. On Thursday
afternoon of last week, just after last
week's paper had come from the
press, the news reached The Tribune
office that both lives and property
had just been destroyed. ...
The residence of Mr. Clarence Reynolds
was the worst torn of any. In
this building were four people,
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds and daughter and
Mr. Will Lane. Mr. Lane was
at the Harris shop at the time of the
approach of the storm, and went
across the street to the Reynolds home
as a better place, hitching his
horse in front.
Those who stood at the store of
Mr. Ike Green and others nearby places
saw the work of the storm, and
said that the house arose from the
ground, chimney and all to a height
of about forty feet and while in
mid-air whirled around and broke
into thousands of pieces, scarcely no
two pieces of the building being
found together.
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds
and Mr. Lane and the little girl were
all found about 175 yards from
the seat of the house in close proximity
to each other. The two men
were dead when found and Mrs. Reynolds and
her little girl were alive but
unconscious. All the bodies were bloody
and bruised. The little girl
died at 1 o'clock that night. Mrs.
Reynolds survived, but it was many
hours before she was conscious, and she
is now seriously disfigured and
crippled.
Mrs. Reynolds for a long time did
not know the fate of her
husband...When asked about her
experience when the house went up, Mrs.
Reynolds said that they all got
into a small hall in the house close
together. They felt the house
rise up and whirl, but she could not
remember no more.
The entire county feels for Mrs.
Lane and family and Mesdames Reynolds
and Hopper and their families for
their great loss, but all of this is
ineffective, they know.
The victims were all buried at their
respective burying grounds Saturday afternoon.
submitted by Eston Lane (Butch)
Garrett coachgarrett@home.com
Note: William Jones Lane was
born December 27, 1874, and died in a tornado
that came through Chapel Hill,
Tennessee, in March 1921. He was my
grandfather. |