The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-04
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Cyclone, Nth Results Truly
appalling.
FPightful Destruction OF Life cad
Property.

on the afternoon or sunday, April -, ana
laid the four towns Of Beauregord, Wesson,
Tillman and Lawrence in ruins Thence IL
struck north and east through Georgia and
wrought great devastation at Albany, East
man, and other towns and villages The
number of persons killed is estimated at
over 100, and the wounded at more than
double that No catastrophe of like charac-
ter has been recorded in many years and IL
is feared that the worst is not yet known
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss, says that
for three days the wind had blown gale,
and lowering clouds indicated coming
storm At Wesson the storms approach was
marked by deep rumbling sounds, fattling
windows and quiver1ng earth. Thunder
roared, and the lightning flashed With
dreadful force and dazzling vividness.
Then, with the fury of ten thousand demons,
the gale burst upon the town. Fences were
torn TO pieces and sent whirling through tho
air; trees that had stood the fiercest storms
for ages were uprooted and hurled hundreds
of yards Houses were demolished, and the
pine forest encircling the town was blown
out Of existence. AS soon as the wind 8
violence had somewhat abated, and the
citizens had begun TO look about, the
church bells rang out in loud peals the sig
nails of distress and death. Men ran from
all directions toward West Wesson, though
the rain was pouring down in drenching
torrents When Peach Orchard street had
been reached, o scene terrible in the eX-
IRENE, hut simply indescribable, burst upon
the view. There the houses OF large num-
Der Of the operatives Of the Mississippi
Mills had stood, and there the greatest de-
struction had occurred Dwellings, on al
sides had been torn to atoms, while under
dying were heard, striking terror to
the stoutest heart A momentary
hesitation only occurred, and then the work
OF removing the dead and eXtricating
the wounded began The MANNED were re-
moved to the nearest houses which had es-
capped the tornado. The dead were taken
from the ruins and laid on the grass, while
the rescuers turned hastily from them to
answer o cry Of distress Several of the
corpses lay out in the storm and rain for
more than an hour, but as soon az the
wounded and living were cared for they
stretchers in the churches Sixteen persons
were killed. outright, and eighty wounded,
at Wesson-
A correspondent gives the following
graphic description OF the scene at Beaure-
gard: Many people in Beauregard saw the
black wind coming, for its roaring and
moaning had brought them TO the doors Of
their houses and stores These people
described it as like black smoke, filled with
flame, rolling along the earth, while high
above 1t were tossed trees and plants and
bricks The smoke seemed to do little harm,
but in the vortex which was behind it every
thing went down. 1t was about minute in
reaching Beauregard and three seconds in
passing over it, and when 1t went by, the
town was no more the houses and trees
being beaten down and ground into dust
and splinters The route OF the cyclone was
followed by the cries OF fear and the walls
OF anguish OF those who were buried under
the ruins of the buildings
A deiuge followed the blow. The rain
came down in sheets, and the bitches and
cutters became raging rivers The Mayor
states that when he came TO himself he act
ually feared that he and his family would be
drowned The darkness OF the night fol-
lowed the darkness OF the storm SO closely
that It was impossible to realize the terrible
destruction, but the morning sun laid bare a
scene of desolation, with every house. save
three, swept away and nothing bat splint-
ers left behind Even beyond the town
where stood heavy pine forest the trees
had been felled and carried away in the
path OF the cyclone. Martin Moody, APRON
inent merchant was found close by tree
his face buried in his hands and fatally
wounded, his wife near him. also badly in
jured They were out walking when the
storm came up, and sought refuge in box
car in which seven negroes were playing
cards The car was lifted from the tack
and carried away hundred yards, three of
the negroes being instantly killed Dr.
Lampkin's residence was in the center Of
the town. When he emerged from the
ruins of his house he found his wife
painfully wounded, and her little boy
seriously injured They had been blown
away a hundred yards. On the
porch of the house were John s Terrill, DIR.
Jones, his wife and two children, and lit
tie boy. All were dead. Only ono child of
the Jones family L. alive Mr.. George Hol-
nd II tal1 in
deep gully, but were struck by flying tim
bers u d Westerfield injured and Holloway
killed Mr. viii Parker, his wife and son
were buried beneath the timbers of their
house. Mrs Parker will lose an arm.
The other two are dead The cyclone
and south, nearly .long the line
OF Main street, the chief business street,
demolishing the most solid brick stores, and
leaving only three houses standing in the
upper portion of the town, and killing
twenty-six and wounding 100 persons TIE
scene in the town is fearful 1t looks rs ii q
fire had swept over it The houses are not
blown upside down, but are tlattened oul
and torn TO splinters. Twenty-six persons
were found dead in the ruins of the town.
and over 100 were wounded, many Of them
beyond the hope Of recovery.
The town Of Tigblman was almost In the
track of the tornado. Several houses were
demolished, and four or five people Xxi led
The cyclone passed over that portion OF
Aberdeen known as Freedmen's town, in,
habited almost exclusively by blacks FIT.
teen lives were lost, and about fifty people
wounded, mostly negroes. At Caledonls
several houses were blown down, three
persons killed and ten wounded. At Stark.
vile, many houses were RACED, five per.
sons were killed and sixty manned
Meridian, West Point and Other
towns suffered heavy losse in life and prop.
erty. Through the rural districts the cy.
clone swept everything before it, leveling
houses, fences and trees, and killing many
people. section of the tornado was also
felt in Alabama and Georgia, though not 50
severely as in Mississippi At Albany, Ga q
house was blown down, killing man and his
wife. Ahoat on Flint river were six colored
men, named Edward Jones, Pink Simmons
Chancey Griffith Ned Lester John Kim.
brough and Peter Smith, who ran against
the shore and in padding in the darkness,
for land all were drowned At Cruger's
Postoffice, near by, six were killed and
eighteen wounded At Eastman and vicin.
ity half a dozen we're killed and some forty
wounded In and about Preston, four Oh
five were killed and many injured The
track of the storm was about 40 yards in
width; it did not blow more than fifteen
minutes, and was followed by torrents OF
rain and hail Some of the hail-stones were
four or five inches in diameter, and weighed
apound
MINOR NOTES.
GOLD has been discovered in Alachua coun-