The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-14
THE CYCLONE AGAIN.
Jackson and vicksburg Struck
BY It This Morning.
NO PARTICULARS osTA,MAsLE.
Oota1lo of Storms Awful Work IN Mis-
seuri aaa Tennessee-eeores Of
Corpeeo In the Buius.

Z:l5 .. "a. says . cyclone has Just struck
Jackson and vicksburg. All wires arc
down, and it il impossible to learn the ex-
tent Of the damage.
81. JosUH, La. April ia cyclone
passed through Tensas parish yesterday,
doing great damage to plantations. The
whole of its course has NOT vet been
heard from. So far one negro has been
reported seriously hurt.
YPsLASrI, Mich, April 1.-THE total
loss BY last nights storm in this city Was
about 100000. No loss Of life was re-
ported. and but few people were injured.
There were uncon6rmed rumors that
Saline, village ten miles south of here,
was destroyed.
DETRoIr. April "a wind and rain
storm passed through the township of
Royal OAK last night and nearly every
thing in ito path was leveled. The house
OF Christian Brick was demolished and
took fre. Brick and his wife and chill
dren escaped, but his father 3nd brother
were burned to death. The indications are
that the report that the town of Saline,
near Ypsilanti, was destroyed by .
cyclone last night 10 true. Nothing has
been heard from there since last night.
The town contained !, 200 inhabitants.
DUNDEE, April IA terrific windstorm
passed over here last night At Rea, three
miles west Of here. only one building was
left standing. Mrs. jacob Heiser was
killed and her husband fatally hurt. Hun.
dreds Of acres of orchards were ruined.
MILAN. Mich, April ia cyclone
passed south of here last night. and ct
GAINESVILLE house was blown down and q
woman killed. Much damage was done in
the country.
ST. LOUIS, April 13.-Though two nights
and days have passed since the cyclone
tore through the small towns in the
southeastern part of the state, reports
Of tho damage and loss of life are
still coming in. Southwest from the ter
ritory already heard from it is feared that
much further loss of life has taken place,
but communication il slow. Casualties
% far reported are: At Hawkins-bank
six persons were fatally and twenty-five
seriously hurt. At Lexington the dead
are: Anna Walker. Mrs. John Luke and
her brother. Ferris Walker and . negro
boy. Three were fatally injured. At
Stanbury Mrs. Ward and two unknown
women were killed and two fatally hurt.
At Steeleyille the dead are: Charles
Adair, d. NJ. Green and five unknown
persona At Page City. Daisy Stanley,
colored, was killed, and three were fatally
and three seriously hurt. At Higgins
vile, eight persons were killed, and three
more will probably die. Twenty-Five were
wounded. Tho killed are: Mrs. Mary
Lake and two brothers, two children of
William Walker, Hugh McElroy, Mrs. A..
II. Kelly, J. Breuggen, and Mrs. John
Breuggen is reported killed, but the report
has not been confirmed. The fatally in
jured are Mrs. William Walker, Daisy
Stanford, colored, and Mrs. William Viii
liams. Much damage and the loss of
several lives were reported from Texas
county. Doctors have gone to Hawkins
bank and other points to look after the
wounded. Many persons have been with
out food for twenty-four hours, the storm
having swept away all the food supplies.
FARGO. N. D., April 13-The temperature
fell to II degrees above zero last night.
Snow ceased falling by noon today. The
ice is badly jammed in the river between
here and Grand Forks. and gang Of men
10 trying to break up the big foes with
dynamite. The temperature is still below
freezing.
MEMPHIS, April 13.-It is hardly possible
to exaggerate the havoc made by the cy clone
and fire at Robinsonville. There are parts
of two houses and water tank still stand
ing, everything else having been RACED to
the ground ana mostly burned. The num-
Der of people killed, as far as ascertained
by the bodies found. was seventeen, one
white and sixteen colored. and about ten
moro were injured, two 20 seriously that
they are expected to die. Probably 100
negroes received injuries. but none of
them will die.
DETROIT. April 1S.-A dispatch from
Yysilanti this evening states that there is
no truth in the report that the village of
Saline has been wiped out by q cyclone.