Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-04-05

that it is hard. to gather up the de-
tails of its destruction in anything
like consecutive order, The dis
patches printed below will serve to
give some idea of the work wrought
by the wind. u
At Gallatin.
GALLATIN, Tenn, March 3S.-
The news that has been coming
in from the work of the cyclone
last night is sickening and harrow
ing.
At John Hibbett's the scene begs
CARS description. The brick resi-
dence was a complete wreck. The
roof and walls all fell in and under
the debris was John Hibbett, horri-
bly, mangled. His little baby, eigh.
teen months old, vas killed outright,
as was S ~l2-year-old daughter of Palo
Langford. A young son of John
Hibbett, a little fellow about u years
old, had his skull mashed and is dy-
ing. Mrs. Rebecca Hibbett extrica.
ted herself and removed her hus-
band, and others were soon on the
spot and got the dead children out.
Mrs. Hibbett wore her hands to the
bones removing the debris from fine
dead before she left to get aid. The
plucky little woman went over to a
neighbours for assistance. One of her
little boys, about 3 years old, also got
out from under the debris and wan
dered over to a neighbours.
The wind carried the Office with
four young men in it 100 yards. JEFF
McKamie was badly hurt about the
head, he having received an ugly
wound in the left temple. One Of
the Patterson boys was thought to be
dying last night, but is reported bet
ter to-day. This Office was carried
across the lawn and over several fen,
ces, and when it did strike the ground
the building fell into atoms.
Higher up the pike, at. James Pat
t~erSon's residence, the roof had gone
and the falling timbers injured jim
Patterson and his wife, Mrs. Anna
Patterson. There were two othei
ladies in the house at the time, blu
they escaped. Across the pike, a
the residence of l.. A. Green, every
thing was swept away. One old la
dy, Mrs. Tatum, had her thigh bro
ken. She is quite old and can't pos
sibly live.
On up to John Alexander's tn
storm swept everything in front of i
in its mad fury. Alexander wa
damaged some $1,000. His hous
was wrecked, and his barns and cut
houses are gone. He lost severa
head of stock, horses and mules. u
Deshen's Creek the scene was hOrri
BILE. D.. NJ. Phillips residence an,
outhouses were laid low, but no on
was killed. In one barn were thir
ty head of mules, and the barn wa
literally picked up and carried ava,
and not a mule killed.
, The big iron bridge, about eight
foot span, acroos Deshen's Creek o
the Chesapeake 4 Nashville Rail
!, road, was picked up and carried t
the bottom of the creek akout fort
feet Some 100 feet of tressle wor
to and from the approach to thi
, bridge was swept away. isa 1.
, AT Rogana, on the same roaC
eight miles from Gallatin, the seen
Z was even more appalling. Not
. single house stands at this little tow
q save one, and that belonging to a M
0 Sanford The scene there was terri
{ BILE. Men, women and childre
Z were running mall directions in til
4 widest, x confusion. Postmastt
y Woods Little, child was killed an
0 many people wounded. Nat Turf
. er's residence was blown to pieces an
). every person in the house was il
8 jured. Reports come in slowly, b.
4 the last is that Miss Alice Turner an
her brother Erskine are both hOrr
bly, mangled. All the doctors a
out in this section and all telephor
z communication is cut off.
{ iLATER.-The worst features of Il
cyclone have not been repOrte'