Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-30
CYCLONES STILL RAGING.
LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY
DESTROYED IN TEXAS.

Two Out of Seven Refugees Killed at
the Altar-MiracuIOus Escape of Sew
enty Children i'm "A Demolished School
HOuse-The Devastated Districts i'm
Mississippi.
GALVESTON, April pa special from
Benton under date Of the 27th saws: AT
1 O'Clock this afternoon terrific storm
swept over the country four miles north
OF this place, tearing down houses and de-
molishing everything in Its path. Four
persons are reported killed at EmOrv's
farm. OF seven persons who took refuge
in a church, two were killed and four can
not be found. 1t is feared that the loss of
lie Is greater than is known at present.
Inc damage to property is very great.
Inc NetrS' Mineral Wells special dis
patch says: Friday evening cyclone
from the northwest struck the town of
PalO Pinto, demOlishing small buildings
and unrOoting more substantial ones. Sey-
eral persons were seriously injured But
none are known to be fatally hurt. The
loss is $2S.000.''
NEW ORLEANS, April 2S.-A special
10 the ItmeS-DemOcrdt from Arcadia, La,
says: Yesterday afternoon this place
and vicinity were visited by the heaviest
hall storm ever known here. The storm
passed to the southeast, stripping foliage
from trees, killing some stock and doing
great damage to crops. The track of the
storm was from four to five miles wide
The ground was literally covered with
hail stones, some of enormous size. weigh
ing three-quarters OF a pound and meas
urlng eleven inches IN circumference and
four inches in diameter.
ST. LOUIS. April 2S.-TeNas DISPATCHES
say that violent wind storm swept over
the northwestern portion of that State last
night, doing much damage. At BOnham.
PalO Pinto and BeltOn, a number of houses
were blown down, and in Bell county
several persons are reported to have been
Killed. y school house containing seventy
children near Fort Worth was demolished.
only one child is reported to have been
hurt.
NEW ORLEANS, April 2S.-The Times
DemocrdtS WessOn special says: 1.-TWO
additional deaths occurred at Wesson to-
day-a little son Of h. T. Gibson and Mrs.
Finch.
The damage by the cyclone at Beaure-
gard is now estimated at $45O.O00. Col.
IA. l.. Power, Of jackson, Miss. tele-
graphs as follows: A letter from French
Camp gives some particulars of the storm
IN Choctaw and Attala counties. The
cyclone originated six miles west of
French Camp Sunday morning at
l.
increasing in force until it
left ChOctaw in the extreme northeast
corner. Its track was nearly-a mile wide
and thirty long. The destruction of
property was complete. Hundreds of
people were stripped of everything but
their land. Ten persons were killed and
many wounded. The Lebanon PRESBYTERIAN
Church was destroyed. At 12:3O O'Clock
the cyclone struck Attala county from
the southwest, and followed along the
course through that county and ChOctaW
parallel with the 10 O'Clock storm. i'm
places two mreS wide. The number killed
by this last storm is not known, but many
were wounded. 1t will be impossible for
the sufferers to make crops unless as
sisted.
WAsHING1o ON. April 2S-The officers of
the Signal Bureau say that the reports
that the tornadoes which wrought such
destruction III Mississippi, Georgia and
Tennessee were one tornado are mislead-
ing. The tornado in Mississippi had no
connection with the tornado in Georgia.
They were different storms: they
were local affairs and were generated at
different points, as the great storm of the
last few days advanced from thenOrthWest
and met the warm currents from the
South. These local tOrnadoes are always
liable to occur; they are the Oti'ShOOtS of
a main storm, and are not, as has been
represented, themselves moving over the
country for any considerable distance.
They spend their strength and disappear,
as was the case with the Mississippi and
Georgia tOrnadOes, in the immediate
neiThbOrhOOd of their creation