Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-04
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Great Many MISREPRESENTATION OF
Towns.
Jackson, Miss, Special: Alta o'clock Sun
day evening a fearful cyclone passed over
Beauregard and Wesson, contiguous towns
lorty miles below here, on the New Orleans
railroad. Thu wind had been blowing a
gale fer three days. 4 ~rumbling sound and
violent shaking of houses, heralded the ap-
proach of the cyclone, and caused intelligent
people to believe it was an earthquake.
Then thunder. ]igEtnin~, wind and rain
came with terrific force, sweeping every
thing in their path. In the western part Of
Wesson fences were tore down. Trees that
had stood storms for ages were uprooted
and hurled 100 yards. Houses on Peach
Orchard street, where operatives of Missis-
sippi mills domiciled, were demolished. A
pine forest adjacent to town was blown out
of existence. AT this hour thirteen are
known to be killed and wounded; estimated
number seventy-tive. Several are missing.
Fifteen or twenty dwellings were blown
down in the eastern portion, but not
much damaged. AS soon as sthe storm had
somewhat abated and people began to look
about, loud peals from the church bells rang
out, and people were seen running in all di-
r~ections toward West Wesson. The rain
!heoIttAno was pouring III toIIeiitss lleacu-
ing Peach Orchard street, an indescribable
scene was witnessed. Pere the greatest de-
struclion occurre . People were seen on
all sides sobbing, and the groans OF the
wounded beneath the ruins were perfectly
appalling. The work of removing the dead
and extricaitng the wounded from
the ruilsthen began. The wounded were re-
escaped injury. Several of the dead lay out
in the violent rain for more than an hour
after the catastrophe, One little boy was
found in the woods. He had been blown
several hundred yards unhurt. Beauregard,
a mile north of Wesson, has about 900 in
habltants, and was entirely swept away.
The destruction to life and property is in
kind is lett standing. Large brick build
lngs were blown down; frame houses torn
to atoms; trees swept away like straws;
loaded freig At cars lifted from the track and
carried 200 yards; and trees timber from
houses were scattered for miles around.
Aside from the losses in the towns men
toned the devastation of of the country in
the path of the hurricane was very great
crops, far houses and stock, with come
loss of life.
A special reports the passage of a cyclone
through the lower part of Georgia with de-
structive results, also very general wind
and heavy rains all over he State. At a
negro church a short distance from Stark
vile, Miss, a negro man was taken bodily
up. The last seen of him he was high up,
wildly beating the air as il seeking some
thing to stay his progress.
The extreme southern portion of the city
ofAberdeen, Miss, commonly known as
freedman's town was almost entirely de-
stroyed. Many cattle were killed. Eight
or ten negroes were killed and fifty wounded,
some of whom will probably die.
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Another Disagreement in the Dublin
Trials.
The trial of Timothy Kelly, charged with
participating in the Phoenix park murders,
was continued Tuesday morning. The
Judge, in summing up the evidence
taken. spoke most strongly against the pris-
oner's claim to an alibi. The jury, after
being out a short time, returned and an.
nounced that they were unable to agree on a
verdict. The jury was sent back to recon-
slider the case, but after returning the fourth
time, and reporting that they could not
agree, they were discharged.
Iowa Cyclone and Waterspout.
A cyclone and vaterspout passed through
the eastern part OIL Woodbury. and Mona
counties Saturday evening, causing the de-
struction of property and injuring ofpeople.
The house of a family named Kissinger,
three miles east of Questionable was taken
up by a funnel shaped cloud, carried eigh.
rods and thrown down, much damaged.
The eight people in the house were all
somewhat bruised, but none seriously in
jured. A barn was completely demolished,
and wagons and agricultural imple-
H Rsats T horses blown IN th sntir ssgn av Wsy;
uninjured. The village of Danbury was
struck by the same cyclone. The Catholic
c~hurch-costing So, 0oo-was entirely de-
stroyed. Three houses and several barns
were demolished. The people had warning
after the com ng of the wind, and fed to
cellars. All escaped. The house Of George
Spencer, six miles east Of Mapleton, Mopona
county, was struck and destroyed. Spencer
was somewhat hurt, and Mrs. Spencer. i'll
with childbirth, was badly injured. -Four
children were more or less injured. The,
total destruction of property is estimated at
ST. 5000.
Railroad to the Yellowstone Park.
A dispatch from Livingston, Montana,
says: Winston Bros. & Clark, who have
the contract for building the Park Branch
railroad from this point to Mammoth
Springs, are pushing the work through rap
idly. Already some distance is graded. The
track laying will begin as soon as the grad
ing advances far enough to keep clear o fthe
track layers. The line is to be ffty-three
miles in length, and they expect to finish it
in ninety days. The Park improvement
company is pushing work on the hotel at
Mammoth Springs, and will soon be in
readiness for visitors to this wonderland Of
America.
Notorious C~ountcrfeiter Arrested.
William Gritfis, q notorious couaterfe it.