Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-04
DESTROYED By i CYCLONE.

r. DESIhU1ED 81 A CYCLONE.
Several Towns In Georgia. Mississippi and
louisiana Almost Entirely emolished--
Between Fifty and One Hundred People
Killed and Many Others Injured.
/ NEW ORLEANS, April 9.
The Times Democrats WeSson special
says: a frightful cyclone passed. over
Wesson and the town of Beauregard, a
mile above, about four o'clock Sunday
afternoon. The wind during the past three
days had been blowing a gale, and
lowering clouds indicated a storm.
! Its approach was known for some
minutes by deer, rumbling sounds,
and the windows in dwellings shaking
with violence, and many persons thought il
an earthquake. Thunder roared and light
ming flashed with alarming force and vivid
ness. Fences were tom down, trees up
rooted and cast a hundred yards away. East
of the railroad IN Wesson the damage was
| light, but in the remaining portion of the
/ town the destruction was awful in its char
I acter. i' t'-a -
As soon as the storm had somewhat abated.
| and the people began to look around, loud
! peals of the church-bells rang out The peo!
! pie were seen running from all directions
/ toward West WesSon, the rain in the mean
! time pouring In torrents. Reaching Peach
1 Orchard street, an Undesirable scene was
witnessed. This street was lined with n
I large humber of houses in which the opera
/ tFes of the Mississippi Mills are domiciled,
and here the greatest destruction occurred.
| People were seen on all sides sobbing, and
the groansi of the wounded beneath the
srnins were perfectly appalling. Dwellings
/ form IN of he =.
/ beyond was blown out of existence. The
| work of removing the dead and extricatinp
the wounded from the rains then began.
I Calvin Reed, living in the vicinity. died
from eXcitement-------~---
Doctors, Sexton, ReaSe. and Butler. uere
soon upon the scene and did all in the;r
power to relieve the sufferings of the wound
| ed. go .-iyfs, Ilssl, IT,. -
1t is estimated that the number of killed
Is twelve. Two or three children are miss
| ing.
One hundred and fifty or two bupdref,
| dwellings are blown down. Gl =
The number of people with broken limbs
Is estimated BY the physicians at seventy.
tye. The wounded were removed as fast
as possible TO houses which escaped injury.
! Several dead lay out in the violent rain
for more than an hour after the cyclone
passed. .st -. -
| LATER AND FURTHER DETAILS. .7..
NEW ORLEANS, April "A.
The electric storm struck Beauregard
about three o'clock, and in less than one
| minute prosperous town was complete
wreck, not one stone standing on
| another except i'm the suburbs. Large
and strongly-built brick stores and frame
shanties were ruined together. The
brick stores seemed to have collapsed in.
pFfllxr arNIf I,ah
structlon. What were neat and tasteful
houses are now pile of splnters. The
shrubbery was twisted up by the roots. and
! the leaves scattered for miles. Churches,
schOol-hOuseS and factories are a complete
| wreck The death-lSt was sometime
| fearful, and is hourly being added to.
The wOundet were carried to the few
houses left in the suburbs. A reporter
visited one house and found foul
corpSes and seventeen wounded. One moth.
or, widow, was badly hurt, and one child
killed. The mother lay on mattress lieI
husband dead, one child dead and two very
badly injured. Her arm had just been am
putated. Her condition is very critical. 4
freight car was carried across the town and
landed in the street Five darkies, playing
cards, got into car TO escape from the
storm, and four were killed.
At WeSsop, two miles below, the storm
missed the business part of the city and the
large cotton and woolen factories 1t struck
the western part, entirely occupied by OPP
eratlveS 4Twenty-fDur houses were de-
stroyed. Twelve are dead and seventy-fiye
wounded. Several will die-probably ten
or twelve more. The loss is estimated at
twenty thousand dollars. Assistance has
poured in from adjacent towns The
wounded are all cared for, and
undoubtedly relief for the homeless will
be sent. Reports of the storm .. in
dictate great destruction. At Georgetown
Methodist church was destroyed. Rev. II.
Z. Lewis received critical injuries. A young
man named Savage was killed; also j. w.
| CRAWFORD his wife, married daughter and
two children. Mrs. Ford and friends were
on their way home from church when the
carriage was struck by a falling tree and
the occupants all killed. The colored
church was destroyed and many injured.
At I1llghman, on the Natchez & Jackson
Railroad, two persons were killed. There
was great damage to farms in the track of
I the storm. Reports come in of killed and
wounded both east and west. Four tor
nadoes have passed over nearly the same
spot in ten years. 1t is very doubtful if any
attempt will be made to rebuild the town.
The salvage on the stock of goods can't be
over fifteen per cent. Most of the goods are
totally worthless. ...i t......O.
.1 The storm struck West Point, in CLAW
County, at I 80 o'clock The wind was
terrific, blowing down or unroofing a .Iarcei
number Of houses and sweeping away the
trees, Among the buildings damaged were
tue Courthouse, Central Hotel, uenly
House, Cotton Exchange, and a number OF
the leading business offices, which
were unroofed and To- otherwise g. In
Jured. Several small buildings were blown
nat with the ground. In Osborne County
great deal of destruction was caused by the
storm, many houses, cabins, trees and fences
being ~ blown down.. At Aberdeen
about, eight or ten lives were lost
and about fifty persons injured, some
OF whom win die. Most OF the sufferers
were negroes. Many houses were blown
down.. lAt Caledonia, twelve miles north of
Columbus three persons were killed. 1t is
very difficult to trace the exact course of the
cyclone, and II is probable there was more
than one. The; principal one, however. (
moved in straight line from northeast TO
southwest, passing through Chattanooga at
one, Aberdeen 1:15, West Point 1:40, and
Wesson and Beauregard at four. -
KILLED AND WOUNDED.
At Beauregard the following were killed.
Miss Mary Mikell; George White: NJ. Story:
w
Sandtfer: William Parker aud son; Miss Ben
ton; Ernest Bahr; DIR. L. Jones, wife and two 1
sons; Johns, Terrell; G. s. Holloway; Child of
r. Carter, not Found yet; Rev. Green, BaIS- l
fist minister; Mrs. Westerheld; Anne LANSING,
and six negroes a. ....-.
The wounded are as follows:
Wilcox, telegraph operator, both arms
broken. andsdislocated hip and scalp WOUNDS; 4
J; W; Ross, wife and child badly injured two
children of DIR. Price; Mrs. Robertson badly
injured; Gaptainf bite; Dudley White; Mr..
BIS wife and child; Miss Hiedon leg brokers;
Miss Cato; MF.-IIeelssS -G--E.- DuRhams-Mrs
Sweet and three children, badly; Mrs. Parker
viii die: Mrs Tyrren and four children ali
badly; Mr.. lambkin: Mayor Thomas, wife,
and three children 4Hi' - : ? ~
Several can not recover. The loss is esti-
mated at 5000, 900. l Er ~t-..ee..
= At Tillmanr-Miss Baggets, killed
Calvin Phillips, Miss CoTington, and Miss
Baggett, slightly injured III i"1 J
. The names of the killed and wounded at
WesSon. are not known here, but they are
Chiefly mill operatives, .,-.,
=. ASSISTANCE WANTED.
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