The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-07-10
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Deadly Work OF a Hurricane at Baton
Rouge lathe Governors Mansion
wrecked and the PenItentiary DemOi-
isaed-At Least a Dozen Persons Ailted
and . Great IaHy Seriously Eni el--1-he
Storm in Mississippi.
BATON ROUGE, La, July IA cyclone
passed over the lower portion of town
yesterday morning, unrOOfing houses,
tearing up immense trees and carrying
missiles along with IT The governors
mansion was directly in the path Of the
cyclone and it made a clean sweep Of
every chimney and ell the trees around
it The roof of the handsome residence
belonging to Mr.. Marshall was carried
away and great damage was done II
the place.
The boulevard was one mass OF trees
torn up by the wind and the street was
filed with debris. There was scarcely
q pane of glass left IN town and few
houses are completely unroofed. Resi-
dences were taken up by the wind and
carried for miles
At the penitentiary the scene was a
terrible one.
Without any warning whatever the
walls of the factory in which 100 con-
victs were at work were crushed In as
If they had been mere PastebOard- The
guards were helpless and as most OF
wounded little could be done toward
extricating the unfortunate victims un-
til help arrived from the main prison
building.
To add to the horror of the situation
the ruins caught fire from the furnace
in the engine room, but owing to the
heavy rain which was falling the threat
ened holocaust was averted- The res
cuers were quickly to work aud began
the task of extricating the dead and dy-
ing from beneath the ruins OF the
force at work when the storm struck
the building il was discovered that
ten had been killed and thirty seri-
Ously wounded, and all more or less
bruised. This was not the worst
The hospital of the penitentiary,
in which was lying a number OF
MANNED and helpless convicts, was also
leve1ed to the ground by the fury Of
the storm. The work of rescue at the
factory building, where the larger num-
Der of lives were in danger, diverted
attention from the unfOrtunates
in the hospital and it was
not until most OF the working force
had been rescued that the prison Off
to the hospital.
In the city fifty houses at least were
unrOOfed or destroyed.
The storm was attended by a most
violent rain in which the rescuers
worked and which lasted for several
hours.
The wounded include nine white and
four colOred cOnvicts from New Orleans
and sixteen white and seven coIored
cOnvicts from other parts of the state.
OF these about six are expected to die
and the recovery of several of the
others is extremely dOu btful.
The total damage to the penitentiary
buildings is estimated at $50, 900.
THE TORNADO IN MISSISSIPPI
BBoOKHAvEN, Miss, July s.-Y ester
day morning after 6 o'clock the south
west portion of this county was visited
by destructive cyclone which demOl-
ed houses and fences and uprOOted
trees. Nearly all houses on the follow
ing places were destroyed AID a num-
Der of persons injured: Amos Hodges,
David Reeves. Sam Chambers and the
Davis logging camp, where one man
was killed and three wounded. Another
cyclone passed twelve miles east Of this
place at 5 o'clock, doing great damage,
but no details have been received.
MADISON, Miss, July IA cyclone
struck this place about II o'clock yes
terday from the southeast.
At Il. Z. McKay's plantation the
storm destroyed the negro cabins, killed
| Wesley Young, cOlOred, and wounded
several others At Dr.. J. Il. McKny's
/ every building was wrecked.