The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-04-14
SETERE SOUTHERN STORMS.
Many Lives Lost and Great Destruction OF
Property Reported.


NEW ORLEANS. April ia cyclone
s.rucll Tensas parish. in North louisiana
,ast evening and did great damage de-
e,ro,,inq many houses, barns gins ana
or,ortors one negro was killed IN the
ns,ohhorhood Of St Joseph, and seVeIai
women we're severely injured. hepoI,S
arc slowly reaching points OF comm I'M
cation. and are TO the effect that thele
has been much loss Of property.
BROWNSVILLE, TENN, April ia
so,,ora storm struck Shepards. a smaii
station about seven miles southwest Ul
here Yesterday afternoon ana tola"S
demolished all the houses there EVery
thing WAS destroyed except the rallr0du
tauk. 4 negro girl was killed ana Se'eId'
are reported injured No damage was
done i'm this city. but houses ana parhs
in other portions of the county were
destroyed.
VAN BUREN, ARK. April ia fuIl-
aedpad hurricane passed east and west
If here last night. tearing down houses
harms fences and trees. At Wan, !. Tr
fortv-sFen miles west Of here sores,
and telegraph poles were leveled All
trains are delayed from two TO ten hours.
Fatalities in Michigan.
ROYAL OAK. MICH. April 13.-AmoAg
tho houses wrecked was one belonging
to Cbristia Brick. Brick and his wife
we're caught in the wreck which took
fire. and they were burned 10 death. in
the vicinity Of Dundee. Mich. ? houses
and 30 barns were destroyed one woman
was killed and a number OF people were
badly hurt.
whole Town Swept Away.
TUNICA, MISS. April l3.-The down
10 az min
brought news that the town OF Robinson
viue ten miles north Of here, had been
completely destroyed by a cyclone at
49O O'Clock yesterday afternoon. Not a
bonse was left I'm the town Of about 300
inhabitants. and as the finishing touch
TO the destructive horror, the lamps burn
ing in the stores set the houses on iife'
and all are I'm ashes. Even the depot
building was not spared. The night ope-
rators wife was killed and the day ope-
rators wife badly injured.
All the wires are down and no com
munication can be had save by way Of
Vicksburg and Jackson. The cyclone
swept the country east and west Of this
fated village and killed many people,
mostly coored. 1t is reported that a
colored school house on Indian creek.
one mile west Of Robinsonville. was swept
away and about % children were
killed and missing The teacher. a woman
who narrowly escaped with her pupils
about three weeks ago in a cyclone at
Tunica, was killed.
The Damage in Tennessee.
JACKSON. TENN. April 13.-Thfs city
was struck by a cyclone al O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon. Dozens Of buildings
were wrecked. There was no loss Of life
though a number of persons were slightly
injured. Everything in the path OF the
storm was leveled, but the extent of the
damage in the rural districts cannot be
learned.
Michigan City in Ruins.
DETROIT, MICH. April lS.--At 1916
4. NJ. the following dispatch was received
from Ypsilanti:
This city is I'm ruins. Thousands Of
dollars of damage was done by a cyclone
which struck here tonight coming from
the southwest sweeping everything in
its path The storm took a strip through
the business portion OF the town, moving !
houses from their foundations and az |
and Curtis carriage factory are In the |
ruins The Hawkins House and the Oc-
cidental Hotel was badly damaged. The !
roofs OF half the stores were blown off, |
twenty store fronts smashed in on Huron |
street and the rubbish is piled ten feet |
high
The postofice building was demolished |
and the mail scattered in the street. All |
the telegraph. telephone and electric light |
wires are blown down, leaving the city |
in complete darkness. Everybody is up |
watching the property that has been ex-
posed TO the storm. No one was hurt
severely. The loss OF property, as esti-
mated now, will reach $2OO,0OO or more
YPSILANTI. MICH. April ia re-
port reached here that the town Of Sa-
inc. in Washtenaw county. nine miles
south OF here. was wiped out by the
cyclone last night. Saline is on the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern railroad.
and has a population OF 1900 or 1900.
Number of the Dead in Missouri.
ST. LOUIS. MO, April lS.-The latest
reports from the cyclone i'm Missouri
,how eight persons 10 have been killed
II Hawkins Bank, and thirty-one serious
v injured of whom five will die. At
Lexington there are five dead and three
'atally injured: at Stanbury, three dead
md two fatally injured at Steelton.
,even dead; at Page City one dead and
I've fatally injured.
SALEM, MO-. April B.-Seven persons
we're killed and seven seriously injured at
NJ A.. a.