Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-23
The Great Tornado in ETississippI.


From the Yazoo Democrat of W-dnes lay, Hin
inst we extract the following account Of the raw.
ages of the fearful tornado which on the evening
Of the 7th inst, swept over portions of Holmes and
Yazoo counties:
The storm first descended on the farm Of Mr.
S'4noTne Collins. tearing away about on half of
his clubhouse, destroying hi cntton- press, and
ouThng several hundre pa0nels Of fence In eV
~ erection. liking n n F. course, it attack
ed the ( I'm Of J. H. NOwlan, E O.. levelliug MANY
OF his houses with the round Theme over the
farm OF 5. P. King, t'.arug away portion of Ms
gln-nouse IL DESTROYED quantity of giuned cotton
.emoIishng seed pens corn cribs, etc, To
give some idea OF the fury of the storm at Mr. q.
two huge gate posts, planted to tn depth of uver
ten feet in mother earth, wrenched from
their be Ia, an one was hurled to the di@tsnc OF
hftv yards. The pl ,ntation of Mi. w NJ. Don !
son was literally torn pieces; hut the Major.
taking the thny cooIly, remark d TO a friend that
people might talk about long neck gourd-, crooked
neck sqna-has, rusty knives, dull forks the kr,
hut prshop8 that l0as TIE d-dest twister he ever
The tempest next made descent on tho farm of
A. King, destroying thing in it, headlong
fury. His dwelling stripped to its very walls
Will out houses an fenc r left perfect mass
of ruins Many bales Of seed cotton SC Uttered
to very point of The cOmptss aud his whole crop
is dead and total loss.
TIL in this painful catalogue of sufferers is
VIZ non Bour,, WhO with his wife and children !
w@r" In the house, when the buil ing suddenly
lifted from its foundation AID torn into a thous nj
fragments, Ieavi nothing 'ehind but the floor
occupied nv the famil' while they themselves were
LIFT Y TO the fury Of the rel. Mt S. st RIM For
tn nately none Of tn hte Ia K families ~-re
II jur d, what they -uff red from fear and the
p things of the storm.
Among the other principal suGf rers to th4 east
whose losses are very h, svy, ar DR.. Pearson. n
" 4Ilace, Esq } Luse, Messrs Bridg fort and
DR. n. Thomas. RI painful ppr he'll
sion- are enterane for Richard S ward, son of
n. Wstcr. W o is supposed to have been kill Il. |
as he has been missing since the storm up ull Mon
iav night
The tele rsph ire broken and thrown down
'etw en- here AMI Biz Black for some eight or n
niles but through the energy of our in iriati. bl
perrtOr a. this nj of the line, Mr. win, on
n"rc' ants receiV tn,ir regular New ORLEANS dis
atche- on Nonday night
The vein of III torn, which pl-sed to the st.
as not Deen folly heard from as that to the ST;
ut rnough has come to I'D 10 warrant in th.
Ell that the de-tru ton of property ~
TIL. It INV less than tat eastwar ".
ihr storm must have crossed tn, riv-r som, 8
"u TO tn, st OF is, and, epinl L. ,
\. + cours it crossed the plantation of Col J
Whit. prOsrratiug noes, demOlishing out hnus- 4.
, aud DESTROYING large quantity OF cotton. Ten
NJ 10 the northeast, it again crossed the riv = ,
ov., ant to the mort OF Us, N liking sad havoc
1errVer its felt. to
II Is r"Pore here that in crossing W. Coup
n pI zee, on the east side of Oh, river, il let
RI ct s"a Of isolation to marx it's Progress. Hi
op IL IN field VAS scatterei TO h. four WINS [
ON house, cOntaiDing-r.p ports diff fro 20
40 les pi KID ana Seed cotton, VAS tossed
oar, RI ct Pl,ythins 10 thu te pest, AMI tn" p,
TOR o"u Tx, autumu's wilhered ave-:
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