The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-19
Terrible Hurricane I'm Mississippi.
NINE PERSONS KILLED IN ONE FAMILY.


violent hurricane passed portion OF this county
ranging from southeast to northwest, Wednesday
morning Of last week. II struck In It's the resi-.
dence Of Josiah Moody, about nine miles west OF this
place where is effects exceeded In horror anything
the imagination conceive the pen portray. The
place swept with a bosom Of destruction, every
house the premises taken up and scattered Ia pieces
the four winds and what Is FAR distressing 20 relate
Mr. Moody himself and eight other members Of his "a
mily, killed, and several severely wounded.
Out Of fourteen persons the place but oneMr Jack
son, the naw VI Moody-escaped entirely unlnured
The storm about four clock and according TO
the account gwen by tho survivors, only few mi
nutes passing vet left behind scene OF dcSruc.
and suffering the like OF which those who Witnessed
II may never hopc 20 look upon again. When the
wind subsidized, three persons prescnt-Jackson, who
as We have said was uninjured, one Of the young
Moodys and young man named Turner, slightly
iniurcd-wcrc left, able TO give the alarm.
When the bodies OF the dead brought together
corpses Of various ages and sizes from HE rrag haired
grandsre down 10 the tender infant laid out SIDE by side
on rude boards gathered from the ruins Of their late
happy dwelling, sight 10 melt the heart of the he
holder The and 81 tho decreased correct,
ly given Ia the following list furnished by o. their
neghbors, who examined tho family record Josiah
Moody, aged hfiy eight James Moody, twenty years,
with his wife. Margaret j., aged twenty and his daugh
Ger MARY r. ten months Elizabeth q. Moody, sixteen
years, Martha A. Moody, fourteen years. George w.
Moody eight years Alkaline Moody three years Sarah
y. Moody two years.
Mr. Moody a minister ~ the Methodist Protestant
church, and school teacher. lie native Of south
Carolina but had lived in this State for many years Ho
has numerous fe uds who viii deeply rszret 10 learn tho
tragica fate which has boallen himself aud many Of
bis family.
The dwelling In which most tho family were Sleeping
newly built Of heavy green logs These carried
TO the distance of several miles, and others hurled
together against trees and broken Ike pipe stems The
heavy sls of the house taken up and carried
on like feathers The bodies q the dead we're picked up
Mt various distances and in different directions from tho
house, every ves,gc Of clothing having been stripped
from them by the wind and covered with dirt and mud
occasoued by the heavy rain Mrs Moody ST., who was
severely hurt, and whose recovery Is doubtful,
Gays that she and her husband heard tho roar
Of the storm; be sprang out Of bed and
commenced putting on his pantaloona She raised
herself and was also in the act OF stepping the floor
when terrible crash came, and she remembers nothing
else until restored 20 consciousness several hours aer
wards The Young man Moody who escaped with nothing
than some severe bruises was scarcely conscious
Of what happening Until he found himself about nfy
yards down the bill from the house, cngng 70 a stump
number of Incidents showing the extreme force OF the
wind well as Its singular freaks, noticed by those
been gathered and which had grown up in crab grass
swept nearly clear Of the grass, quantities Of which
was dred against the stumps and logs though ID had
been washed there by swollen stream. Acow which
must have been yards from the house when The storm
commenced. found bead foremost in the we'll An
other remarkable worth mentioning was the
preservation ~ parcel of stock. In Held heavily
six yoke OF and several horses After the storm
was over 10 look al H. would have thought hardly
possible that 10 have been there could have escaped
being killed Yet, singulary enough, OF the animals
fcrred 20 only one horse killed. and all the others
e,capcd without the slightest injury.
he course Of the storm as we have said, was from
southwest 10 northeast, and the whrlng current but
few hundred yards diameter, though the atmosphere
was disturbed for man! miles aroont. AZ ih4s lace,