100 miles an hour tornado kills 40 in Southern states . Forty people were killed , many injured and hundreds made homeless by a 100 miles an hour tornado that swept a path of disttruction through the southern states of , Georgia , Alabama , and South Carolina , USA , Buildings torn down by the force of the wind , accounted for many of the deaths . Photo shows , a car smashed to scrap by a shower of bricks from a collapsing building at Greensboro , North Carolina . Eleven were killed in the Carolina town . 10 April 1936