Omaha daily bee., 1883-04-24
Every Obstacle In the Path
Picked Up and Torn Into
Fragments.
Houses. Trees and Fences
Crushed and Carried from
One County to Another.
The Loss Of Life Appalling and
the Number Of Injured
Countless.
Some Tall Stories Of the Freaks of
the Wind.

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Special Dispatch to THB Bee.
WEssoN, Miss, April ga fright
full o. clone passed over Wesson and
the town of Beauregard. a mile above,
about o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
wind for the past three days has been
blowing a gale and lowering clouds
indicated a storm. Its approach was
known for some minutes by deep
rumbling sounds. Windows In dwell.
lings were shaken with violence which
many thought an earthquake. The
thunder rosred and lightning flashed
with alarming force and vividness.
Fences we're torn down, trees uproot-
ed and cast hundreds Of
yards away. East of the rail.
road, In Wesson, the damage
was light, but In the western portion
of the town the destruction was awful
In Its character. As soon as the storm
had somewhat abated and the people
began to look about, the loud peals Of
church bells rang out and people were
seen running from all directions
toward West Wesson. The rain In
the meantime was pouring In torrents.
Reaching Peach Orchard street, Oil
indescribable scene was witnessed.
That street was lined with Q large
number of houses, In which the opera
tives of the Mississippi mills are domi'
ciled, and here the greatest destruc
tion occurred. People were seen or
all sides sobblng, and the groans Of
the wounded beneath the ruins were
perfectly appalling. Dwellings had
been torn to atoms. The pine forest
Just beyond was blown out of exist.
ence.
The work of removing the dead anc
extracting the wounded from the
ruins then begun. Calvin Reed, liv.
Ing in the vicinity, died from excite
ment. Doctors Sexton, Rsass ant
Butler we're soon upon the q and
did all In their power to relieve the
suffsrings of the wounded. The es'
timated number killed is twelve. Two
or three children are also missing ant
one hundred and fifty or two hundred
dwellings were blown. The number
of people with broken limbs is esti'
mated by the physioi ans at seventy
FIVE. The wounded were removed n
fast a. possible to the houses which
escaped injury. Several of the dest
lay out In the violent rain for NOR,
than an hour after the storm
The dead are now laid on
and coffins are being made To-
them. The mills did not run to-day,
Citizens are doing all In their power
for the wounded, but many, 1t 1
feared, will die. Aspeolsl train, Will
physicians from MoComb City AM
Brooklyn, arrived last evening at
O'Clock. Another extra special will b
here with additional help from Mag
nolia aud Summit. Some of thes
~physicians 60 to Bsauregard, wher
the destruction to life and property 1
simply ind escribable. Among tn
killed In Wesson are Mrs. Causty ant
two children, and several children O
j. E. Gibson. Two persons were 9
mangled as to be unreoogniza able, an
several others, whose names could no
be obtained In the confusion. A littl
boy was found In the woods, ssvera
hundred yards away, unhurt.
Wesson, except In the locality men
toned, suffered little except from
general destruction of fences an,
trees. The dead will bs buried to
morrow.
Beauregard was visited last even
Ing. 1t is only q mile above here an
lay In the direct path of the cyclone
The scene Is absolutely appalling; tn
little town Is no more. 1t Ia in trut
q mass of ruins and 1t Ii with dificul
ty one can ride through, 40 thick
are the trees strewn across the roadt
There Ia not a house of any ohsracse
standing In the place. Two brio
stories Of Thompson & Go. and N
Daniel & Co., the largest Of the place
were swept away. Even out In tn
country two and Q half miles dwelling
were swept away. The list of dea
and wounded Is ssfollows: John RosI
MORALLY wounded; young Milto
Story, killed; Morgan James, mortal
ly wounded; Isaac Bloom, seriously
William Daniels, MORALLY; Mr. Turr
bull, of Brook Haven, fatally; Cap
Lambkips, wife and child, all deaf
George Holloway, mortally wounded
Mrs. Holloway, leg broken; WILCOX
both arms broken; A. j.. Fsrguuo
and family, including ten person
dangerously wounded; DR.. A
bert G.. Pierce and chill
mortally wounded, their heuI
falling on them; j. o. Williams kille'
Besuregard is a small town In O.
piah county, Miss, on the New o
leaus, ST.. Louis & Chicago %rsilroa
A miles southwest Of Jackson, vi
population of 400 to 500. Wessc
Is a more important place ON the san
road, one mile from Besuregard.
IL q sort Of summer resort for peop
from New Orleans and has = popul
ton of 1,600 and q large cotton OIL
wooden factory employing GOO hand
BEAURIGARD WIPED OUT
A special from Beauregard, Mis-
states thst the cyclone Gar
from the northeast, aud was Wide o
ough In scope to cover the entire Of
Of Bsauregard. From Bsursgard
passed In . southwssterly dirsotio
skirtine the real part Of Wssson, q
dsstsoyins uasly 20 hoasss. r