Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-03-30
A CYCLONES FURY.
Portions of Tennessee and Missis-
sippi Swept Over.
One Town wiped on the Face of the
Earth and Great Destruction of Prop
erty In Other Places NJ
merous Lives Lost.
TwENTY-rHREr KILLED.

| Nhllc the loss OF lie Is not as great as
at first reported the damage to prop
erty will reach 81, 600, OOO The tel
egraph wires are still democrat
ized and reports are coming in
slowly from the storm districts and it
will be several days before the full ex-
tent of the disaster will be known.
The death list at midnight foots up
twenty-three, while the list of injured
will run up into the hundreds.
swEP- ALL BEFORE IT.
KELLY, Miss, March IS A thorough
investigation Of the damage by the
cyclone Thursday showed that matters
were worse than expected Every
countryman who came in added hor-
rors to the situation. Kelly is only a
small place of about thirty houses, of
which twelve or fifteen were en-
tirely swept away, and there re-
mains nothing TO show there
was ever a residence there except
by the mass of debris which is scat
tered in all directions. As far as can
be learned there was not a house left
standing within the scope of the cy-
cone, which range from a quarter to
| a half mile in width southwest of KEEL
! ly. The trees were moved down as
though a scythe had clipped them. The
/ fatally injured numb Der six, IT is also
| said that several lives were lost. but
! this rumor has not been verified.
NATcHEZ Miss, March 25.-The east
ern portion of Richland parish, es-
peciaLy the Archibald neighborhood,
was fearfully damaged by Thursdays
storm. A number oi buildings were
blown down and several lives are re-
ported lost
loss IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 25.-The
heavy storm Thursday night did great
damage at Bowling Green and the sur
rounding country. II was in the ma
ture II a cyclone. At Bowling Green
the ioofs of between fifteen and
twenty houses were blown over. The
most serious damage was that 10
the Louisville & Nashville round house,
which was wholly wrecked Several
engines were badly smashed. One
/ colored man was caught in the debris
and badly though not seriously in
/ iured. The loss to the railroad on the
building and locomotives is $4,000 to
500, 600. Among the roofs blown off
at Bowling Green was that of the War
rem county courthouse, which is con-
sidered the finest public building in
! Kentucky outside of Louisville.
Passengers on the delayed fast ex-
press on the Louisville & Nashville
from the south Stated that all along
\ the road evidences of the storm could
be seen. Many farmhouses were
noticed to be roofiess and scores of
stables and outhouses totally demol-
i iehed. Trees were blown across the
railroad track at many points
The town of Rawlins was almost de-
stroyed. The post Office building
owned by Frank Cordice was swept en-
4 some Of which was found miles off.
MIR Cordice's loss is Sal, GOO
4 The storehouse occupied by Stephens
& Knox was demolished and their
stock, valued at s., 600, ruined bv the
rain Isaac Hamilton lost several tene-
ment houses and storerooms, besides
having his residence badly damaged.
I His loss is So, 500. The shelton house
was unroofed, as were the other build
ings near by Judge Shelton is out
about $1,000
Every house in Stanford was dam
aged The track of the tornado was
not over 3, 800 yards wide, but il swept
everything in its way. The losers did
not have the tornado clause in their
insurance policies.
At Murray, KY, twenty residences
and fifty stables and barns were de-
molished Only one person, Miss Alice
Stabblefield was seriously injured
dozen were slightly hurt The loss
viii reach s25, 600 Much timber,
/ fencing, etc, was @lso destroyed.
BILLED IN ALABAMA
MOBILE, Ala, March 25.-Earlv FRI
day morning cyclone passed ! mile
north Of Shubuta, Miss, going south
west At Arista Johns place a tene-
ment house containing negroes was
leveled and two negroes were killed
/ and three injured. A mile east Of this
+ two houses were blown down. Ten
miles further east three tenement
houses were destroyed. No one was
hurt in these houses. Much timber
was felled.
A PRISON II RUINS.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 90. Half
Of The big state penitentiary, which
+ covers eighty acres Of ground, was torn
u pieces by the cyclone entaling an
enormous loss. The conyicts 800 In
number hao just moved out 81 the
mess nall when the building collapsed
and had they remained longer w>uld
have been killed.
LOSS ~ INDIANA
sBIANAPoLEs, Ind, March Is a
storm which assumed the proportions
II a lone before il departed visited
Iaa.ana4too'c Thursday night ana
.eft devastation and suffering % its
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