New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-14
and the entire front of the buildings was blown
down.
DISASTER IN TIE SOUTH.
AT RCBINSCNvILLE. MISS. SIXTEEN PEOPLE
WERE KILLED.
EVERY HOUSE IN TIE TOWN RAZED-DtMAGE
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AND LOSS OF LIFE ELSEWHERE.
Memphis. Tenn. April Blowing t. the fact that
the station and telegraph Office at Rolnson,c. Miss
wrecked and the wires blown down for Il mile
the details of the disaster al that yesterday are
meagrc. but enough Is known to show that North
Mississippi has been visited with second calamity
az appalling as the that laid waste Tunica and
Kellys short time ago.
Thee were sixteen people killed ard half a hun
dred woLndcd. The killed are: Mrs. Emma Ln,k.
wife OF the night operator: tho Rev. X. r. shipp.
Of Olive Branch. Miss: Isaac Chapman. Ben RAY
and his mother. Annie spcicht three children OF
Manuel Murray Jere 1aylors infant. William War
ren. Maria smith and fonr unknown.
TIT wounded whites are: A. ". Mccormick,
Holmes Heron. J. +. MtNcly, Miss Adm scott, Mrs
". B. Morley W. Il. Morley b. Il. scott, DIR. y.
shaw. Mrs. {. NJ. Foster, oscar Kline. Dr.. ." Y.
Taylcr's two children. Il. A. MCNcy. Probably Il
hundred negroes received slight injuries. bat none
Of them will die Mccormick and Holmes Heron
will die. Five hundred people are homeless. y
number OF the wounded were brought 10 Memphis
to-day.
Mrs Emma Lusk, wife of the night telegraph
operator at the railroad station. WAS in her hou>c
with her husband ard three children. The huSlanl
GOT out, the woman llllcd and the thnc chil-
drcn blown a hundred yards through The air.
They were naked when found. tu, uninjurcd. lsanc
Chapman was caught under the ruins of his house
and crushed and turned. along with three other
negroes whose names are unknown. I'll" @oiv
of an old ncsress was found TO-DAY in an open
field /; is probable that she was oppcd there
by the wind.
The property loss in the town will reach 100000.
Thirteen stores. six houses. three churches ana nm
drcd negro cabins destroyed.
TIE tornado struck the town soon after O'Clock.
Tho cloud that marked the approach OF III" acl Eil
destroyer flnncl-sbapcd and seemed TO grow out
Of the west. Driven indoors 10 seek shelter from
the downpour Of rain. III" buckles, population Of th"
doomed village numbering 3CO souls. could scarcely
realize their impending danger before The rapidly re
volvng cloud stru1h their dwelling 1t ~aN zone
again In twinkng. hut In that brief instant every
house or structure OF any kind whatever. with the
exception Of the houses Of Colonel C. l.. Robinson ana
Mr. West. rizcd to the ground. aud the mat"ria!
Of which they constructed was scattered over
wide area TO add 10 the horror OF Tie situation. the
ruins Of the business portion Of the village caught
fire from Chinese laundry. and the flames licked
NJ, tho debris Of the dwellings that had been hld III
waste Al wires are down and further details can
not now be gotten.
Tunica Miss, April I3.-Thc TORNADO swept the
country west and east OF Robinsonrllle and killed
many people mostly coiorcd. 1t Is reported mat a
rolored >coolhCusc on Indian Creek, one mil" west
Of R0binsonvill. was swept of and about twenty
fve children ale killed ana missing. The teacher 4
woman who narrowly 'Hfulnu VIII pups 'V'"'
three weeks ago in the cyclone AZ Trnica. kill"i
New orleans, April ia dispatch TO The DAILY
states" from 4. Joseph. in TcflSaS Parish. LoHiNahi
saws: a tornado passed through this par'sh Ses'cr
DAY afternoon between and O'Clock, leaving h'-
,,tuc,ion In IL, wake. The first damage lepir'cd Is
from the lower end Of the parish between NatrpT"'
md the Trusas River. ON tie Midway ana l'nDHhhy
plantation, five houses and the gin are reported blown
to pieces. ON the Moore place one hou'" was de-
stroycd. Fiom there the course Of IN" storm Wa
cast northeast. accompanied by a h'Hvi fall "i MAJ
stones some as large eggs. Passing from Midway
II uprooicd the gin and dwelling on the Onconti plan
tation doing slight damage on Aubr =. 'dmoda and
Cidgfa pla,,ta ~. but entirely dcmolishnG "'eV'n
ua r All one a H. lin one NJ r. an ara ever
r. Igllrin. several women and c.1ld.cn on the O. 'Oi
,iacr FROM there II rcs'od tho lake into lcilcvnr
blowing down two house,. and rccrOacd the LAX" Into
the Lake ST. Joseph country. From uie" reports 6
cIca, damage are made. All places not r"ard
from yet.
Brownsville. Tenn. April ia severe storm
struck slcpa.dS II small station about seven mile
southwest Of here, yesterday afternoon and totally
dpuIol he'd the houses there. Everything was de-
s,roy,d except the railroad tank. a negro cir! WAS
killed and several reported injured No damag" was
DOM in this city, bat houses al1 barns III Oth"r
carlton. of IN. county were destroyed. I'll" resi-
deucr and all outhJs"s of W. II. Duprcc, Of Browns
VILE Landing destroyed but none oi The family
injured. several persons III that nrish"rhood w'i"
injured slightly.