New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-25
HIGH WINDS IN MISSISSIPPI.
HOUSES TORN FROM THEIR FOUNDATIONS.


LITTLE GIRL KILLED-A BLIZZARD IN TTNNES.
SEE MoUNTArSs-rHR MAINLAND STORM.
New-orleans. Nov. ga dispatch to "The Plea
yune" from Newton. Miss. says "A tornado from the
southwest swept over Lawrence, four miles west Of
here. at about O'Clock yesterday. All the houses In
the track Of the storm lifted bodily from the
ground and carried away. many pieces Of timber falling
several miles distant The house Of Thomas Dennis.
in which were his family ard himself, was destroyed.
Mrs. Dennis severely bruised about the head and
had one shoulder dislocated while enc Of her children.
little GIRL had her brains dashed out by falling iost
and died shortly afterward. number Of negro cabins
were blown away leaving the occupants with bruised
bodies and broken limbs The Methodist Church was
almost entirely destroyed, as also the house Of
Mr.. Clay. whose family CHANGED to be absent.
The tornado moving in the same direction az
that travelled by the which passed through here
several years ago and destroyed the towns Of
gard and Weston
Knoxville Tenn, Nov. GA rumor reached this
city of snowstorm In the ChilhowIe Mountains south
OF here, to-day. wagon train Of immigrants, west
ward bound has been caught in the blizzard. The
train consisted Of six wagons and thirty three people
When the storm began all went into camp except a
farmer named George Akers. who with his family went
on up the mountains. 1t is supposed they lost their
way and rolled into the river or a ravne and were
frozen TO death.
Baltimore Nov. "a (spedaD.-Dispatches to-day from
Cumberland, Middletown, Frosburg Hagerstown Fred
click and other points in the Western parts of the State
give details Of the ravages Of yesterdays storm. 1t
was terrible In the valleys of the Blue Ridge and the
Alleghanies The village OF jefferson, in Frederick
County, was nearly swept away houses We're shaken
to their foundations and the walls cracked The worst
damage in Frederick done at the fair grounds, where
the machinery hall, large frame structure, blown
over Several hundred stock sheds were demolished
and the fencing laid low. Adjoining the fair grounds.
the barns Of Colonel George T. Cline were blown down
and the crops scattered In Schleysvlle little south
OF the fair grounds several houses unroofed 1t
will cost 5000 to repair the damage at the fair
grounds. Maggie Reese, girl Of twelve, walking
the Frederick Pike when the storm struck her. The
wind lifted her up carried her hundred yards or
more and thew her against stone pile, where she
was found in an nsensibe condition. Along the roads
leading into Frederick srewn trees fences shutters
and portions of small buildings and in places the
roads impossible
In Allegheny County hundreds Of houses were nm
rooted and otherwise damaged and many poor families
on the eastern slope Of the mountains are homeless
Trains on the railroads have been delayed by the
trees blown across the tracks. Along Georges Greek
several frame houses picked UP and thrown into
the bed of the stream. For twelve hours after the
storm all telegraphic communion with Cumberland
and Homecoming was cut on
A dispatch from Frostburg says the storm ap
preached there with roaring sound heard for several
minutes before il struck the town. For fifteen minutes
the storm ragged, causing CONSERVATION among the
people In Homecoming there was panic In the Central
school. swtchman Preston was blown from bridge
into Georges Creek. freight car was hurled nom
the track at Frostburg and rolled down an embank
ment. . ,. IL, a., =
Hyndman Penn, near the Maryland line,
wreck The Reformed church was blown TO piece.
and a dozen houses were demolished One-tmro Oh
the buildings In the town were damaged ~
In the southern part Of the state many TOBACCO
barns were blown down and the crops utterly ruined
by water. Many farmers have lost their entire crop