The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-26
rEARruL CYcLosE.
AIissIssIppi Visited BY aTerrsbis Twister
which Leaves Death and Destroc-
ffnr, "a. IN, pain

ton In It's PATH
New ORLEANS. April 23-The Times
Democrats Miss, special says: 4
srightfnl cyclone passed over Wesson
md the town of Beauregard |
mile above, about 4 O'Clock yesterday |
afternoon. The wind for the past three
days had been blowing a gale and the |
lowering Of The clouds indicated a
storm. Its appearance was known some
minutes beforehand by deep rumbling
sounds. The windows IN the dwellings
were shaken with violence, and many
thought 1t an earthquake. The thunder
roared, and the lightning flashed with
alarming force. fences were torn down,
trees upFooted and carried hundreds of
yards away. East Of the railroad in
Wesson, tile damage was light but in
the western portion of the town the de-
struction was awful IN its character On
Peach Orchard street which is Tuned
with large number of houses in which
operatives o. the Mississippi Mills are
domicilcd, the greatest destruction oc-
CURED. The groans of the wounded be
meath the ruins were perfectly appalling.
Dwellings were torn TO atoms. The
pine forest just beyond was blown out
of existence.
The work of removing the dead and
extrIcating the wounded from the ruins
then began. Calvin Reed, living in the
vicinity, died from excitement.
Il is estimated that the num-
Der killed is twelve. Two or three
children are missing $50 or 200 dwell
Ings were blown down. The number of
people with broken limbs Is estimated
by physicians at rs. The wounded were
removed as fast as possible to houses
which escaped injury. Several died
while laying out IN the violent rain
more than an hour after the storm. The
dead are now all laid out and collins are
being made for them. The officials are
all doing ali in their power for the
wounded. Many more, 1t is feared, will
die. A special train with physician
from McComb City and Brook Haven
arrived last night another special Will be
here with additional help from Magnolia
and summit. Some of these physicians
will go to BeauEegard, where the de-
structlon to lite and property Is simply
lndescribable.
Among the killed in Wesson are Mrs.
Causly and two children, several chill.
dren of J. E. Gibson, one of whom was
found crushed under chimney. Two
persons were so maDgled as TO be IN
recognizable, and several others whose
names could not be obtained in the con.
fusion were killed. A little boy was
| found in the woods, several hundred
yards away, unhurt. WessOn, except
in the locality mentioned, suffered little
! except in the destruction of fences and
! trees. The dead VIII be buried to-mor-
row.
Beauregard was visited last evening
1 1t is only a mile from here and lay IN
the path of the cyclone. The
scene is absolutely appalling. Beaure-
gard is no more. 1t is in truth q mass
of ruins. 1t is with difficulty one car
ride through so thickly are the trees
strewn across the roads. Not house o.
any character is left standing in tbs
place. The timber is scattered for mile:
around. Even out in the country two
| and one-half miles the dwellings are
swept away The list of dead and
wounded are: John Ross, MORALLY
young Milton Stoney, killed; Morgan
Games, MORALLY; Isaac Bloom, serious
| ly; NJ NJ. Daniels, MORALLY, Mr.. Turn
bull, of Brook Haven, fatally; Captain
| Lampkins, wife and child, all dead
Geo. Holloway, mortally wounded; Mrs
HOLLOWAY. leg broken. The depot wa
swept away and not sign of it now re
mains. Wilcox, both arms broken; A
J. Ferguson and family, including tel
persons, dangerously wounded; DR.. Al
bert G. Pierce and child, mortally-thei
house fell on them; ]. .. Williams
killed.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
NEW ORLEANS, April ga Times
Democrat West Point special says: 1
terrific gale from the northwest strucl
this town yesterday afternoon, &C
companied by torrents of rain ant
the largest hail ever seen here. Tn
court house, lawyers row, the Contra
saloon, Henry house, W. A. Bibbs' stor
and Flanagan hall were unroofed ant
materially damaged. A barber sho]
was partially blown down, fences ant
trees Frustrated and considerable dam
age done. No lives lost.
THE STORM AT CHATTANOOGA.
| CHATTANOOGA, April 23.-Fully SO
900 damage was done this city by tn
storm last night. The depot, dwelling
and stores were unroofed, trees uproote'
and fences blown down, Reports from
the surrounding country show the storm
to have been very destructive. Wire
are down and particulars hard 10 oh
tain.
| FURTHER EaOA THE CICLONE.
JUcKsoN, Miss, April 22.-The repor
of the destruction by the cyclone is still
coming in. At Wesson thirteen wer
) killed and sixty wounded, and twenty
seven houses were DESTROYED. At Beau
: regard twenty-three were killed an
ninety wounded, and the entire tow
swept away. The suffering is very grea
and assistance needed.
A ST. LOUIS ACCOUNT.
ST. LOUIS, April 23.-Specials from
New Orleans about the cyclone whicl
destroyed WesSen and Beauregard
Miss, yesterday. give no particulars c
the storm In addition to those containct
in the Associated Press report. But the
say Beauregard Is a small town il
Copiah county, Mississippi, on the NeT
Orleans, st. LOUIS s. Chicago railroad
a miles southeast of Jackson, with
population of 400 to 500. Wesson is
more important place on the same road
one mile from Beauregard. 1t Is a sol
of u summer resort for people of NeI
Orleans; population, 1900. 1t contain
large cotton and wooden factory EN-
ploYing 900 hands.
On the Natchez & Columbus r r
the town of Tillman was destroyed, sew
eral killed and wounded. On the Vicks
burg s. Meridian r. R., the town G
Lawrence suffered terribly. Report
! from other places and from the countr
show the storm was widespread and de
structiVe. Telegraph lines are blow
down for miles.
IN IOWA.
Dies MONIES, April ga cycIon
passed up Maple River Valley carly las
night following along the spur OF tn
Chicago s. Northwestern railway who
strikes off at Manly Junction at Dar
bury The Catholic church was wreck
ed three houses blown down and othe
minor damages inflicted. No lives los
as far as known.
IN KANSAS.
HUTCHINSON, Kas., April 2l.-A stri
of country two miles north of this cit
and about quarter Of mile wide
ten miles in length, was swept by d.
; structivescyclone last night at 2 O'Clock
The wind had been blowing gale froI
the south all day, but at night the weatl
er became hot and sultry. A heavy raj
, came up from the west at O'Clock, an
! cyclone formed six miles west of tow
and pursued noTthcasterly course; il
track lay through thInly settled coui
try, but the few houses that were in i
track were blown away.
Not veStige remains oil the dwell
ings of John letters, John Brehm and
: Anderson. Feter's fine new barn wa
also blown to atoms. The house wa
: blown away from Anderson and vii
and they were-carSied up into the a
! and dropped 100 ards away tr'n- y Il
! the hoase s. ~. R-ln wtrc terr.bi
bruised, and Anderson cannot live. Mia
, Anna Paul, at Brehm's, was picked u
and hurled against an outbuIlding. seI
, eral rods away, and had her lers broke
and was otherwise injured, but wi
probably recover. None of Teters' fan
;; lily were fatally injured, but all wer
| bruised. Cedar fence posts at Teter
! were twisted from the ground an
blown away, and wire fences twisted il
to Thousand shapes.
; Nearly all fowls in the track of tn
: cyclone were carried away, and the fe'
left have all the feathers stripped froI
then. Physicians from this city attend
cd the wounded to day and most Of thei