The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-06
THE ELEMENTS IN A RAGE.
Blizzard, Tornado and Flood Rival Each
Other-Brownsville, Tennessee, Swept
by a Storm that Unrocfs and De-
stroys Stores and Residences

Othez-BrownsvilIe, Tennessee, Swept
by a Storm that Unrocfs and De-
stroys Stores and Residences.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, February 26.-
Brownsville, Tenn, six miles North
east of Memphis, on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, was struck by a
cyclone at 4 a. M, yesterday. Half the
business houses of the town were un-
rooted and many were materially dam
aged, while several buildings were
totally destroyed. the cotton compress
was unroofed, the Northern Methodist
church was demolished and brick
mill was unroofed. It next struck the
handsome building of the Brownsville
Savings Bank. The roof was picked
off and fell to the ground with tre-
mendous crash. Three squares Of
buildings across the street, just north
of the bank, were unroefed except the
house of J. P. Phillips & Co. Only one
residence is reported as having been
damaged, that of Mrs. S. A. Baynes, in
Washington street.
Just following the cyclone came a
great food of rain that completely
drenched the goods in the compresses.
The loss aggregates $4,000. The only
loss of life is that of woman, about
three miles from Brownsville, who was
struck by falling trees and instantly
killed. Her two children were severely
injured.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
MEMPHIS, February 26.-A wind
storm of cyclone proportions, accom-
panied by hail and rain, swept over
this section of country yesterday, doing
an immense amount of damage to
property and causing the loss of at
least one life. The storm in Memphis
was severe, but no material damage
was done.
Brownsville, Tenn, fifty-six miles
Northeast of this city, was the worst
sufferer so far reported. The storm
struck the town while its inhabitants
slept and had done it's terrible work
before the real situation was realized.
It came from Southwesterly direc-
ton and was preceded by a rumbling
noise. which lasted few seconds, and
then burst upon the town in appalling
fury.
The Jewish synagogue, Methodist
church, Baptist female college and the
courthouse were also unroofed and
otherwise damaged. The only life re-
ported lost is that of Mrs. James Cooper,
wife of an engineer. A tree fell across
her house, crushing it in, killing her
and badly injuring two of her children.
ARKANSAS TOWNS DAMAGED.
MEMPHIS, February 26.-At Mari
anna, Ark, new Christian church
was completely demolished, Bessar's
cotton shed was blown away, and the
roofs of several other buildings were
lifted off. About three miles west OF
town a negro schoolhouse, with sixty
five children in it,J~Sas blown from its
foundation, but no one was hurt.
White river, at Batesville, Ark, rose
five feet in few hours, washing away
culverts and delaying trains badly.
Three houses were blown down near
the river side, and several buildings
fattened out in the southeastern part
of the county.
ThetHot Springs observatory, which
has stood for several years on the sum-
mis of Hot Springs mountain, and
rom whose windows thousands of vis-
itors have viewed the surrounding
country, was levelled to the ground by
the gale. The storm played havoc
with the entire country between Hot
Springs and the Onachita River. Many
farm houses were torn to atoms, and
the path of the storm is one mass of
wrecked timber.
Large trees were uprooted, and many
places the roads are completely blocked
bv fallen timber It is not yet known
whether any lives were lost, but that
there were is more than probable,
owing to the destruction OF so many
farm houses.
Considerable damage was done to
buildings and fences at Little Rock,
and at Alexander, near that place, a
school house was blown down and nine
children were injured.
WISCONSIN RoBED IN WHITE.
OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN, Feb. 25.-
Yesterday afternoon blizzard ofgreat
violence swept down upon this city.
In less than half an hour three inches
of snow had fallen, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that the street cars
could be moved. The storm is by far
the worst for years. The effect will be
keenly felt in the lumber camps, where
the snow is already so deep that log
ging operations are carried on with
difficulty.
WATERTowS, WIS, February 26.-
The most violent SNOW storm in two
years ragged here yesterday and last
night. The snow is accompanied with
fierce winds from the north, and the
mercury is lowering rapidly. The
roads are also drifted badly, and the
railroads are blocked to some extent.
A TORNADO IN ILLINOIS.
CARBoNDA1E, ILL, February 26.-
Monday night this place was visited by
the heaviest rainfall that has occurred
for the last fifteen years. 1t rained in
cessantly until noon Yesterday. The