The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-04-28
Storms South and West.

was left standing.
| The following particulars were given by
telegraph on Tuesday:
! A frightful cyclone passed over Wesson and
! the town of Beauregard, a mile above, about
/ O. clock in the afternoon. The wind for the
past three days had been blowing gale and
! the lowering clouds indicated storm It's
| approach was known for some minutes by the
! deep rumbling sound, windows in dwellings
shaking with violence, and many people
! thought it was an earthquake. Thunder
roared and lightning flashed with alarming
| force and vvidness. Fences were town down,
trees which had stood storms for years were
uprooted and cast a hundred yards away.
! East of the railroad in Wesson the damage
was light, but in Wesson portion of the town
| is in destruction. The greatest destruction
/ pie were seen on all sides sobbing, and the
groans of the wounded beneath the ruins
were perfectly appalling. Dwellings were
torn to atoms. The work of removing the
! dead and eXtricating the wounded from the
ruins has begun. Calvin Reed, living in the
vicinity, died from excitement. Drs. Sexton,
Rease and Butler were soon upon the scene
and did all in their power to relieve the sui
fering of the wounded.
1t is estimated that the number of killed Is
twelve Two or three children are missing.
!
estimated by the physicians at seventy-tiye.
| The wounded were removed, as far as posi-
BILE, to the houses which escaped injury.
Several dead lay out in the violent rain for
more than an hour after the storm. The mills
will not run to-day. The citizens are doing
all in their power for the wounded, many OF
whom, it is feared, will die. A special train
with physicians from McComb City and Brook
haven has arrived. Among the killed in Yves
son are Mrs. Caustry and two children; sever
al children of j. E. Gibson, one of whom was
found crushed under a chimney. A little boy
was found in the woods, several hundred yards
away, unhurt. Wesson, except in the local.
ty mentioned, suffered little except a general
destruction of fences and trees.
Beauregard is only mile above Wesson,
and lay in the direct path of the cyclone. 1t
is a mass of ruins. There is scarcely house
standing III the place. Two brick stores OF
Thompson 4 Co. and NJ. Daniel q Co., the
largest in the place, are swept away. Timber
! is scattered for miles around. Even out IN
the country two and a-half miles dwellings
were swept away.
The cyclone passed within one mile Of
. Starkvlle. In that locality there was great
| destruction of property, and five or more per-
sons were killed. At the coored church
negro was taken bodily up, and the last seen
of him he was far above the earth, wildly
beating the air, as if seeking something to
stay his progress.
\ dispatch from jackson, Miss, says Is
persons were killed at Wesson and 60 wound
ed. Only few of the names of the victims
are given. The houses overturned were main
ly tenanted by operatives in the cotton-mill
at Wesson. No lives were lost at Lawrence.
At Tillman Mr.. Baggett was killed and Cal
vim Phillips, Miss Covington and Miss }aggett
were slightly injured. The town is in ruins
and property of all kinds in the vicinity is
tation, near Red Lick, the roof and walls Of
ii cabin were lifted away, leaving its five i'll
mates standing on the floor unhurt. Other
towns suffered less severely. Three and three
quarters inches of rain fell at Knoxville,
Tenn, on Sunday. A land slide on the Knox
Vile and Ohio Railroad a few miles north of
Knoxville, stopped the running of trains. At
Albany, Ga, eight persons were killed by
the storm and about % wounded. Heavy
rain fell in all parts of Georgia, which was
accompanied by vivid and continuous light.
ming.
Heavy rains fell the same day in Virginia
and North Carolina. The AppomattoX river
overhowed its banks at Farmvile, Va, and
the lowlands were submerged. There was Il
heavy hail storm at Weldon, North Carolina.
Considerable damage was done to gardens
and orchards. A tornado passed over the
western part of Iowa on Saturday night, over
turning houses and barns and killing much
stock The Catholic church at Danbury,
Iowa, was wrecked. Snow fell on Sunday in
Northern New York. Snow storms are also
reported from Colorado and points beyond,
but the officers of the Union Pacific Railroad
1 in New York say they have no advices of any
/ detention of trains.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
/ 1t was peculiarly of this hurricane that
/ it originated in Oregon, and, crossing the
/ Rocky mountains, passed through Idaho,
/ Wyoming, Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas to
. southern Missouri where it broke up into
three separate and distinct hurricanes, one of
which passed almost due south into Missis-
sppi, another south eastwardly in Georgia,
and the third eastwardly into North Carolina.
The storm in Iowa struck the village of Dan
bury, DESTROYED church and some houses
and barns, and injured severely several per-
sons, The country over which the hurricane
passed is a sparsely settled prairie, which ac
counts for the trifing injury that was done.
It's most dreadful effects were felt at the South,
and particularly at WessOn and Beauregard,
in Mississippi; i'll Sumter county, and at AL
bany, in Baker county, Georgia. The vii
lagos of Wesson and Beauregard are situated
in Copiah county, Miss. The former has Il
population of nearly two thousand, and pos
sesses three churches, and a large mill devot
ed to the manufacture of cotton and wooden
goods, and employing some six hundred
hands. 1t is also favorite summer resort
for residents of New Orleans. Beauregard
has population of less than four hundred,
but there are several mills located there. In
Wesson thirteen persons were killed outright
and sixty wounded, some of them MORALLY.
In Beauregard nearly every house was de-
stroyed, twenty-three persons are reported to
have been killed, and forty-f wounded,
seventeen of them mortally. Altogether the
number of persons killed in Mississippi is
reckoned at eighty-three, the number wounded
at three hundred. In Sumter county, Ga,
twenty-five persons are said to have been
killed and two hundred wounded. AtAlbany
eight persons were killed and twenty-five
wounded. The destruction of property all
along the track of the storm is said to be very
great. Much damage was also done by that
| division of the hurricane which swept through
| Tennessee and passed into the Atlantic ocean
at MOrehead City, North Carolina. Whether
we are to have this year a repetition of such
| hurricanes it is impossible to say, but those
who have Investigated the phenomena ofstorms
state that in the majority of cases the greatest
number of hurricanes occur in the years OF
the greatest sun spot frequency. OF the 600
| tornadoes recorded since 1895 there were 1854
| in the Southern States, and Of these thirty
were unusually destructive.