Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-30
THE PATH OF THE CYCLONE
1t Was Marked by Desolation
and Death.
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED
Towns Wiped From the Face
of the Earth.
The Damage to Property VIII Reach
$4,000, OOO-- Further Details of the Great
Storm Which Spread Havoc and De-
struction Throughout the Southwest.

NltksBURG, MISS, NldTGn ~ AuultlOllal
cyclone news received from passengers on
the midnight train from Memphis is to
the effect that the storm spent its force
between Tunica and Shaw's Station which
are about 10 miles apart and on the rail
road.
At Shaw's some stores were blown down
and lev citizens wounded AT Iunica
the court house was seriously damaged. a
| church and other buildings destroyed and
a school house full Of negro children was
blown to pieces. Many Of the children
| were hurt but none killed.
SOME EXAGGERATED REPORTS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March M,-A severe
storm swept across the Mississippi delta
| yesterday, doing considerable damage, and
| the early reports of which created much
excitement The news from various points
indicate that while the storm was cyGlonic
the early rumors of the damage done were
| exaggerated. One man is said to have been
| killed at kelly's ana another injured by a
| failing building. The damage elsewhere
| vas 10 property only.
| The report that Waller valley had been
| wiped out and the inhabitants killed cam
not be authenticated and is considered a
canard. No special trains have gone out
| from Memphis.
SOME DETAILS OF TIE TENNESSEE STORM.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 2i.--Ihe path of
the cyclone which entered Tennessee yes
| terlay afternoon in south-westerly d.
rection from Mississippi appears 10 have
been about 20 miles in length, although
serious damage was confined TO a much
| smaller area.
Tie wires are down in all directions.
| There is 10 Geographic communication
| with Nashville and intervening points,
and little news Is obtainable from places
visited by tine cyclone. This city barely
escaped.
A heavy rain fall and high wind blew
| all the time the cyclone ragged and IL be-
came as night for ~ minutes. Heavy
! damage was done TO trees and small out
| buildings,
train from Birmingham Ala, arrived
| late last night and reports much damage
between here and Risley, 90 miles south
| The house of Roland Cox was lifted bodily,
not piece Of timber being left. The house
| Of Robert Stevens was leyeled and is a
heap of ruins. The residence OF d. NJ.
| Harris, wealthy planter, was wrecked
and the house of his tenant blown away.
| The wind INDUCED in queer freak with
| the dwelling house Of W. G. Boggs. 1t
| formerly faced north. II still stands in a
| damaged condition, but now faces south.
KENTUCKY GETS 4 TERRIBLE BLAST,
| BOWLING GREEN, KY, March 2i-A ter
| rible cyclone passed over this city last
night ut :. IS O'clock. Great damage was
! done. The Louisville 4 Nashville round
house was totally wrecked. About Is
engines Of the company were badly dam
| age. No lives are thought to have been lost
| William Ford's new house, one of the
| handsomest buildings in the city, was UNI
rooted, as were many others. There is
| much excitement and it is an imposslbility
to get any details.
BLAST THAT WILL BE DISASTROUS.
l A A
| norther set in here late last evening,
changing the mild, spring-like features of
the weather to freezing temperature. 1t
| is estimated that 25,00O "boomers" are
now on the border of Knansas, north Of
| the strip. Only few of them have any
| protection from ,the weather other than
afforded by their wagons. Only one III 200
can afford to build fires. 1t can not be
guessed how much suffering there will be
among the thousands here. There are
many children who, Of course, will suffer
| greatly. The situation cannot be relieved
! by the farmers on the border, for they are
in most cases having a hard time to
weather through alone.
| BOY KILLED AND ANOTHER BADLY HURT.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March "A severe
| wind and rain storm swept over Nashville
about $ o'clock last night, doing much
| damage in the northern part Of the city To
structures. lii south Nashville store
| filled with people was blown down. A
| boy, Eugene Drunig was killed. and
| another, Will DrtImg, will not live. Others
were injured, but not badly. Wires north
| of the city are not working, and no news
! can be obtained as to the extent Of the
| storm.
FATHER AND son CRUSHED TO DEATH.
ELwoop, ND, March 4-Last night a
severe wind storm passed just north of
| this city but did no damage until it reached
| Alexandria, 10 miles east of here, on the
| Lake Erie Il Western railroad, where it
| partially wrecked the mammoth lamp Hue
| factory of the Lippincott Company killing
| William Angel and his son aged 10 wears
| who were crushed to death BY the falling
| timbers. Reports up to this time are
| meagre, but Alexandria advices state that
| the loss will reach several thousand dol
lars, which is fully covered by insurance
MEMP1s, Tenn, March 25.-Thc dam.
| age done by Thursdays cyclone in the
Mississippi valley Is enormous. While
the loss Of life is not as great as at first
reported, the damage to property will
reach $200O,000. The telegraph wires
are still demoralizcd and reports are
coming in slowly from the storm dis
tricts, and it will be several days before
the full extent of the disaster will be
| known.
The death list foots up is, while the
list of injured will run up into the
hundreds, The names of the dead
at Kelly, Mississippi, so far as
known, arc Harriet Smith, Mary
Williams, Susan Williams and two I'M
known negro women. The dead else
where are Richard Heard and Thomas
Heard, Shubuta, Miss; Eli Prince, Ellis
vile, Miss; Drury Sumeralls and family
Of nine, Shaw's, Miss.
The first heard of the cyclone was in
North Louisiana and Southern Ar
kansas.
II crossed the Mississippi few miles
above Greenville, devastating planta.
tons, wrecling farm-houses and up
roofing grand forest trees. The path Of
the storm was about half a mile wide,
and nothing was left standing in its
track
The first fatality occurred near Shaw's
Station, Miss, where the house Of Drury
| Sumeralls,a prosperous and industrious
colored farmer, was leveled to the
ground, killing the entire family of nine
persons.
The cyclone passed through the
suburbs of Shaw's and demolished
several residences and small stores, but
no one was killed. The hurricane then
changed its course slightly aud travelled
the right of way of the Yazoo & Mis-
sissippi Valley railroad until it entered
Cleveland, Miss, where a public school
building and several houses and stores
were RACED to the ground. No Fatalities
occurred at Cleveland, but several
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