The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-07-07
A CYCLONES TERRIBLE WORK.
Ten Persons Killed and Others Injured at
Baton Rouge, La.
A HOSPITAL LEYELED TO The GROUND.
Many Buildings Demolished and Great Dam
ago Done-Tbe Governors Mansion
Not Spared.


Baton Rouge this morning brought death and
destruction to that city. The penitentiary
walls were blown down and many convicts
are reported killed The steamboat Smoky
City was blown TO pieces. there being nothing
lett If her but the hull Several of the crew
were badly injured. Eight dead and twenty
four wounded lave been taken from the ruins
at the penitentary. Two squares in the east
side of Baton Rouge were destroyed he
fatalities are variously estimated at from
thirty to forty.
TEN PERSONS KILLED.
Later.-The cyclone passed over the lower
portion of the town. unro0flng houses tear
ing up immense trees and carrying missiles
along the air fol many blocks. The Governors
mansion was directly in the hurricane, which
made clean sweep of every chimney and
cleared the front lawn Of It's large trees The
top of handsome residence belonging 20 MI
Marsha was carried away and other damage
done to the place. The boulevard 10 one
mass of trees that have been torn up by the
wind, and the street is filed with house-tops
and other timbers of almost every description.
The penitentiary wal IS were blown down and
ten persons killed and thirty wounded. 1he
factory building was demolished. and the
hospital of the penitentlary. What household
goods have not been carried away by the
wind was ruined by water.
SOME PERSONS PROBABLY DROWNED.
Cellars are filed and it is feared that some
persons have been DIR wne1 IN the lower part
Of the cty At the penlt ntiary the scene was
q terrible one. without 9ny warning what
ever the walls of the factory in which 100 con-
victs were at work. were crushed in as if they
had eel mere pasteboard. The guards were
helpless. as most OF tue men at work were
either killed or wounded little could
be done toward extricating the unfor-
tunate victims until help arrived from
the main prison uilding. To add 10
the horror of the situation the ruins caught
fire from the furnace in the eugine-roou but
owing 70 the heavy rain which WAS falling the
threatened holocaust was ayerted. The rescu-
ers went quickly TO work and began the task
of extrcating the dead and dying from be-
meath the ruins. of the force at work when
the storm struck the building II was discover
ed that ten had been killed and three seri-
ously in ured, aud all the others more or less
bruised.
THE HOSPITAL DEMOLISHED.
This was not the worst The hospital of
the penitentiary, in which were lying num-
Der Of manned and helpless cOnyicts. was also
leyeled to the ground by the fury of the
storm. The work of rescue at the factory
where the largest number of lives were IN
danger, diverted attention from the unfortu-
mates in the hospital. and it was not until
most of tbs working force had been rescued
that the prison officials found time TO turn
their attention to the hospital Here
the work was even more difficult han at the
factory owing 10 the weakness of the inmates
who were unable even to give rescuers an midi
cation oI their presence in the debris 10y shouts.
The work, therefore, proceeds but slowly
Up TO noon however, it is believed that most
of the patients have been rescued. Ram 10
still falling in torrents. and shows no signs OF
abatlng.
TREMENDOUS LOSS.
The storm approached from a southwesterly
direction and swept a path three hundred
feet or more in width diagonally across the
city, leveling every thing as it went
The southern portion of the city. styled
"Catfshtown,n suffered great loss and damage
to property. 1t is the greatest loss atom
Rouge has ever sustained, either from a
cyclone or fire. The total damage will
reach several hundred thousand dollars.
Cyclone in Mississippi.
MEMPHIS. Tenn. July Ga telegram re-
ceived in this citv at 1870 this afternoon re-
ports a cyclone as having passed through
Madison. Miss. this morning. several build
ings were demolished and considerable dam
age was done No further information IS OBJ
tainabla 40 the wires eouth are all down.