The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-19
THE STORM AT RoBINsoNvlLLE.
Seventeen Killed and several Are seri-
ously Injurei.

MIS-. IAMA LOOh, Wnltc, WIG Va snO h4b ~
The Rev. X. K. SHiPP, of Olive Branch,
Miss.
ISAAC CHAPMAN.
BENJAMIN RAY and mother.
ANNIE SPEIGHT. an infant.
Three children OF Manuel Murray.
Jere Taylor's infant.
WILLIAM WARREN.
MARIA SMITH.
-Four unknown.
The wounded whites are:
\. n. MCCORMACK and HOLMES HEBRON,
internally aud probably mortally.
j. r. MCNEELY. two rios broken,
Miss ADA SCOTT. severe scalp wound.
Mrs. ". b. MORLEY, two fingers mashed oil.
". 3. MORLEY. bruised.
r. Il SCOTT, scalp wounds.
D.. y SHAW, bruised.
Mrs. c. NJ. FOSTER. right arm broken.
OSCAR kLISE aged seven, bruised.
DR.. :. y. IAYLOKS two children, bruised.
X. 4. MCNEELY, finger broken.
Probably hundred negroes received
slight injuries, but none OF them will die.
Some OF the Freaks
One OF the curious features of the storm
was the experience of Mr.. J. l.. Elliston,
who had a 3S-caiber Smith q Wesson
pistol blown out of his pants pocket with
out suffering any injury. A man
named McCormck who WAS listen
ing to Elliston's story was hit in
the breast by barrel of flour that was
flying through the air and fatally injured.
Mrs. Emma Lusk, the only white person
killed outright, was the wife of the night
operator She and her two chi ldren and
her husband, who was at home. were in
the house when the cyclone struck. None
OF them got out, but Lusk and the children
were unhurt. The children were carried
some distance by the wind and they
were naked when found. The colored
preacher Shipp was crushed TO death.
Isaac Chapman was caught in the ruins
OF his house and burned with three ether
negroes. who are among the unknown.
By tue odor the four charred bodies wero
plainly discerned TINS morning. One OF
the unknown dead wns an old negress. Her
body WAS found In an open field today; il
had evidently been borne away by the
wind.
Mrs. Lusi TO Ee sent to Vincennes.
The dead, with the exception OF Mrs.
Lusk, who has been prepared for ship
ment to Nincennes. Ind, for interment,
are distributed about in negro cabins
north of the town, and will be buried to-
gether
The wounded who have not been sent to
Memphis, Tunica or Lake CordoavanI are
Quartered in the two houses still standing.
aud Messrs Mccormack and Herror, both
of whom are injured internally, ara ex-
pected TO die within twenty four
hours. They are too badly hurt
TO bear removal, and there are no
cOnveniences for their treatment where
they are. The other wounded will re-
cover. most of them being out today. The
property less will reach 100000.
Tue storm struck at 4 10 O'Clock yester-
day evening. Two clouda. one from the
west and one from the east. met, and then
began the rotary motion peculiar to the
cyclone. Everything the whirlwind
touched gave way. Trees several feet
in diameter were snapped like reeds, and
substantially built houses were crushed
like egg shells. The path of the cyclone
was about four hundred Yards wide and ex.
tends from the river seven miles west OF
Roblnsonvllle TO The hills, seven miles east
OF the town.
a fire started from stove in n Chinese
laundry and baker shop, and despite the
fact that it rained all night and all Of to-
day almost without cessation, the ruins
are still blazing. The people OF the town
passed terrible night. The women and
children were crowded in the houses left
standing and the men stood out in the
rain. The women and children have been
sent away today. and there are only men
around the ruins of the place.
high wind and terrific down-pour of
rain visited Memphis at IL O'Clock to-
night. Two houses on Front-st. were I'M
rooted. No one hurt as far az heard from.
TIE egraph wires are down in all directions
and the damage TO property can only be
imagined