The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-26
TELEGRAP 1IC
THE CYCLONE.
The Raging-iEIements.
Sad Loss of Life and Great De
struction of Property.

was killed and two persons. fatally IN
jured.
Reports Hom Crawford, show consid-
cradle damage by the storm. Many
houses were blown down, and many per-
sons injured By lightning and the falling
OF houses.
Charleston. S. c., 24.-The cyclone in
Cornwell County, yesterday. cut path
three quarters az q mile!in width through
Saltkehatehie swamp as il the timber
had been felled for q railroad. Many
houses were swept away.
New Orleans, 24.-The -PicayaG11e'S
Aberdeen: A cyclone passed through
Monroe County on Sunday, killing sew
eral persons, and woun9ing many col
ored citizens seriously and carried away
house at Briefs bridge, sGd everything
elsein the way.
A Times Democrat special gives the
/ following complete list of deaths in
Beauregusrd from the cyclone: Mary
Mitchell, Ann CHASING, Mrs. Huber,
George White, Ernst Baker, Mrs. West
erfeld, an infant child, John w. Ross,
Miss E. Terrell, Jerry Mercer (colored),
j. a, Williams, w. Sanford, Eula
Benton, Louis Parker, q child Julia
Shrslt (sged ien), Milton Story, Captain
LSmpkin, D. Luther Jones. wife
and two children, Georgia Mitchell,
T. Green, Sfs Crystal Springs w. A.
Heating, Of Wesson; John s, Terrell,
Sandifer, and wife; Joe Hurst (colOred)
Caleb Ellis, child Of Melisson Bush,
child Of Fireman EAsterling. At Beau
regard, to-day, all is hustle and confu-
sion. Gangs of men are at work getting
out goods from wrecked Stores and
scores Of teams are hauling recovered
property. Homeless people have gotten
together their remaining effects, and are
moving them in. wagons and in carts. A
construction train is removing the debris
Of broken box cars. a relief committee
headed by l.. O. Budwell, is systemati-
cally at work issuing rations and distri-
buting clothing. Doctors Lesmsn and
Fitz were also assisting the wounded.
Assistance also came from jackson,
Utica and other points, In the rounds
among the wounded sad scenes are wit
messed. The grOens and means are
heartrending. It is particularly touch.
them scarcely more than babies. Scarcely
murmur was heard from the little ones,
and none complained. One little girl of 8
years;wanted Mama, tome and fix arm"
1t was poor battered and bruised little
arm, No one could fix it but S'Mama,"
and mama was in the next room all un-
conscious that her baby was hurt unto
death. There was q FIVE year old boy
whose face was bruised and battered aud
whose head was n shed by an ugly
wound, He was unconscious, but even
With his brain clouded and not knowing
where he felt pain, he moaned and rolled
in bed. The little boy is Still unconscious
tonight, The wounded at Beauregard
are j. Bloom, 81 little girl name unknown,
Miss e. Hamilton, Ell. Shoape, Alice
Benton, Jennie Benton, Miss Eveline
Benton, Belle Cato, j. Weeks, Chas.
Dunbar, Mrs, N. Carter, Ruth Highdon,
Mrs, 81. Nichols, Mrs. Dele Schrett,
Mrs. Wm. Parker, Mrs. Lampkin, Henry
Lampkin, g youth; Mrs. Terrell and
four children, Mrs. Frank Thomas and
daughter. John Ross and wife, Morgan
Jaynes, III. Daniels and son, Mr.. Tim
bull, of Brookhaven; John Holloway
and wife, w. Wilcox, telegraph opera
tor; A. Ferguson and family, DR.. Pierce,
Henry Clay, Mr. Levison, Chas. Ed
ridge, Charles Lane, j. f. Robertson,
Miss Cata Hamilton, Mr. Moody ard
wife, j. +. White and wife, L. Damn
and wife, Mrs. Poets.
Times Democrat special from West
Point: Two cyclones passed over Clay
County on Tuesday, one about IL o'clock
over the western part of the county, the
other about l o'clock, over the Central
and southern parts. Both were terrific
in the extreme, leveling houses, Fences
and trees to the ground, and spreading
death and destruction in their path. Near
Hohenlinden thirty persons are reported
killed, and near Pine Bluff seventeen are
reported killed. A number were killed
In different parts OF the country, but how
court house, law buildings, Central Hotel
and several stores were unroofed. A deco
was found in the country that had
been blown fifty miles. The afflicted
and distressed are being provided
for by the more fortunate. No
estimate can yet be put upon
the property destroyed. It was intended
to start the mill at Wesson, to-day, bu.
there was so much sorrow in town and so
much misery that hands could not be got
together. The town is quiet and Sab
bath calm prevails in the ruined district.
On Peach Orchard street some families
are searching among the ruined houses
for bedding and clothing, but as the day
advanced they left the scene and it was
almost deserted from noon till night. The
killed at Wesson are Ssllie Ford, Mrs.
Wilkersen and son, VIM. Blackburn and
child, Sam. Bincen, Nathan Lotus and
child, fou. nepheWs Of j. T. Gibson,
Mrs Dunbar and child, Mrs. OanceSry
and child, Anne Clsnding, James Smith
(colored). John Hunter (colored), Willie
White, three negroes, names unknown,
George Holloway and child, Mrs. Fl. F.
Carter. The wounded at Wesson, partial
list, are: Mrs. Duncan and child, VIM.
blackburn, Mrs. Ford and daughter,
Mrs. Benton, Mr.. Lee and wife, Henry
Nixon, Mrs. Beard and daughter, Mrs.
Ratord's daughter, Mrs. Henderson, A.
e. McMillan's little daughter, Mrs.
McManis, George Williams, Mrs. Pink
Williams, Mrs. Joe Williams and baby,
Turner Gibson, Mrs. Finch, Mrs. Allen,
Mrs. Tabor, Mrs. Drsne. Mrs. Lewis,
MISS Walter, Mrs. Hurst, Mrs. Heating,
Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Mary Shilds and two
sisters.
Wessen, Miss, 24.-In its course. sew
enteen miles northeast from Beauregsrd
and sixteen miles from HsZelhurst, the
first town reached by the cyclone on Sun
DAY, was Georgetown, q small village on
fearl River. Many residents Of that
toWn and vicinity we're assem- led at the
Methodist Church, quarterly circuit