San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-03
appalling DISASTER.
-. Completely wreeksd-Grea' Less OF
10 fswn' NATAL. OF the Casualty.

fol cy0m yer, If Beauregard, mile above,
aSou lind for the past three days has
Inc Th1owing a gale and lowering
been ~ indicated a storm. Its APP
eou s.6 was known some minutes be-
PrOaInM v rumbling sounds, the windows
iof SSw ~ shaking with violence, land
% .nv intelligent people thought it an
n .asthouake. The thunder roared,
e eaS lightning flashed with alarming
s s.a 20 and vividness. Fences were
i0l0o n down, trees which had stood
Sio storms of years were uprooted
Iud cast 100 yards away. East OF
any railroad in Wesson the damage
m '.so lioht, but in the western portion
w"t 3be town the destruction was aw-
=. o., IN its character. AS soon as the
~, , ~, had somewhat abated, and the
s '""nle began to look about, loud peals
PJb e church bells rang out, and they
o. .'aors seen running in all directions
Inward Wesson, the rain in the mean
t;me pouring in torrents.
'' Reaching Peach Orchard street, an
:,doscribable scene was Witnessed.
This street was lined with large
I I'm of houses in which operatives
n II the Mississippi mills are domiciled,
snd here the greatest destruction oc-
eurred. People were seen on all sides
sobbing, and the groans OF the wound
ID heneach the ruins were perfectly
appalling. Dwellings were torn to
toms, and pine forests just beyond
we're blown out of existence. The
wo,k of removing the dead and ex-
sracting the wounded from the ruins
,esen began. Calvin Reed, living in
the vicinity, died from excitement.
Drs. Sexton, Rowan and Butler
were soon upon the scene and did all
IN their power to relieve the suffering
Of the wounded, and up to this hour
estimate the number killed at thlr-
teen. and two or three children mis-
ang. One hundred and fifty or two
hundred dwellings were blown down;
from some of them escapes were mlrac-
Nous. The number of people with
broken limbs is estimated by the doc.
tors at seventy-fve. The wounded
we're removed as fast as possible to
houses which escaped injury. Several
dead lay out in the violent rain more
than an hour after the storm.
Citizens are doing all in their pow
err for the wounded, many whom, it
is feared, will die. A special train
with physicians from McComb City
and Brookhaven, arrived Sunday
evening, and DR.. Bowen at night.
Among the killed in Wesson arc
HRS. Causty and two children, severa
children of j. T. Gibson, one of whom
was found crushed under a chimney
Two persons were mangled so as to
be unrecognizable, and several others
whose names could not be obtained
in the confusion. A little boy wal
found in the woods, several hundred
yards away, unhurt. Our town, ex
eept in the locality mentioned, suffered
little except general destruction O.
fences and trees.
Beauregard was also visited Sunda.
evening. It is only a mile above here
and lay in the direct path of the cy
clone. The scene is absolutely appall
ing. Beauregard is no more. 1t l
in truth a mass of ruins. 1t is witt
difficulty thatany one canlide through
so thickly are trees strewn across tn
road. There is not a house OF an,
character standing in the place. IN
two brick stores of Thompson &c 10
and M. Daniel & Co., the largest IL
the place, were swept away. Timbe
was scattered for miles around, an
even out in the country for two and
half miles dwellings were swept ava
and wrecked. =,
List of the dead and wounded
John Ross, MORALLY; young Milton
killed; Morgan James, MORALLY; 'lsaa
Bloom, seriously; M. M. Daniels, bad
ly if not MORALLY; Daniels, badl
hurt; Mr.. Turnbull, of Brookhaven
fatally; Captain Lampkine, wife an
child, all dead; George HollenWaay
'mortally, and Mrs. Hollenway' lie
broken.
The depot was swept away, and nc
a sign of it now remains. MIR. Wlco
had both arms broken, A. j: Ferguso
and family, including ten person.
were dangerously wounded, and M
Cha-les Lane aud DR.. Albert G. PIert
and child MORALLY. Their house re
on them. J. o. Williams was klle'