The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-25
WAATON WINDS
Whirl Up the Valley Of the
Mississippi.
AND SWEEP ENTIRE TOWNS THAT
STOOD in THEIR WAY.

Great Destruction of Property and Some
of Life-villages Obliterated from the
Suffers, Too. ~
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March PA oy
clone visited Indiana last evening and
left devastation and suffering in its
track. Fifty houses were wrecked in
the northwestern portion of Indianapo-
lis. Many families were rendered tenn
porarily homeless. At Tuxedo, suburb,
many houses were wrecked and several
smaller ones were carried away piece
meal.
Many of the residents passed the night
in their cellars. The storm was accom-
panied by heavy fall of rain and a fan
tastic play of lightning. The coraline
mill on the northwestern edge of the
city, three story brick, suffered much
damage, its walls being wrenched and
its roof taken off,
Capitol City coffin mill lost it's first
story and $50 men are rendered idle. Ad-
vices from all parts of the state indicate
much property damaged and some per-
sons manned. No lives were lost in this
city.
At Loogootee the three-story Touring
mill was wrecked and part of the debris
was thrown against the Central hotel.
The Catholic church and another hotel
were also partly damaged. The loss on
the Touring mill will reach several thou
ands of dollars.
AT Evansville the southeast end of the
southern Indiana insane asylum was
damaged and the suburban railway depot
was blown down.
AT McCordsville, the farm house of
James McCord was blown to pieces and
Mrs. McCord fatally injured.
Brazil, Ind, was visited by the cyclone.
Out buildings and fences were leveled to
the earth, trees carried great distances
and several coal mines flooded. The
Swamp Angel Mine, belonging to the
Hoosier Coal Co., was flooded till it can
never be reclaimed. Loss many thou
sands. Additional particulars from
Alexandria say the tornado damaged
residences, business houses, destroyed
the Lippincott Glass Factory, crushing
it down upon machinery and employees.
One man was instantly killed and a num-
ber very seriously injured. Three hun
dred and fifty men were thrown out of
employment till the factory is rebuilt.
Whole Towns Swept Away.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, March .24.--A scy-
clone of death and destruction swept
Tennessee last night. Only this morning
could anything definite be learned. Half
of the big State Penitentiary which
covers so acres of ground, was torn to
pieces, entailing enormous loss.
The convicts, 500 in number, had just
moved out of the mess hall when the
building collapsed.
A two story brick building in North
Nashville was blown down. killing two
men and fatally injuring another. A
man, wife and two children were buried
in the debris and more or less wounded.
At Derden, suburban town, the entire
place was obliterated by storm and fire.
Damage to Nashville property is over
100000. The cyclone ploughed its way
down the Cumberland valley and de-
stroyed property and life. Wires are
down and nothing definite can be learn
ed.
The Damage in Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 24.-Damage
Nashville, KY, railroad property at
Bowling Green last night was $75, 900 to
100000, to other property $4,000.
The town of Rowland is nearly all de-
stroyed. At Stradford 12 houses were
wrecked and several persons injured,
loss $4,000. At Murray 20 residences,
and so stables and barns were demolished
and dozen people seriously hurt. The
loss will reach S25.000 Much timber,
fencing, etc., is destroyed.
In the town of Bedford, Ind,, num-
ber of residences were demolished, en-
failing loss of $4,000
Not House Left Standing.
KELLY, Miss, March 24-The cyclone
yesterday swept away Is of 80 houses
was killed and seven other persons in
jured. AS far as can be learned, not a
house is left standing within the track of
the cyclone, which, ranged from quarter
to half mile in width.
Loss of Life in Mississippi.
MOBILE, March 24.-Early this morning
the cyclone passed mile north of Shu-
buta, Miss. A house containing ten me-,
groes was blown away. Two negroes
were killed and three injured. A mile
east of this two houses were blown
down. Ten miles further east three
more houses were destroyed.
Whirled Up the Valley.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 24.-Scattering
reports are coming of the cyclone which
whirled up the Mississippi Valley from
the southwest yesterday afternoon.
The damage at Tunica. Miss, was
great About $50 o'clock the sky in the
southwest began to darken inkily, and
low, wailing sound announced a storm.
Within few minutes the wind came
along with terrible velocity. and with
swish and whirl that portended danger.
The fisst hard blow gave way to the cy-
clone, and houses were crushed like egg
shells.
The ruthless, visitor fingered over the
town scarcely two minutes, and yet in
that time the greater part of the town
waa destroyed. The Knights of Pythias
and Masonic hall is heap of timber.
The roof of the court house was carried