Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-03-30
THE CYCLONES PATH.

Great DevustatIon In tho 11fssisalppt Val.
ley by the Recent Cycloao-The De.
structlon or Property supplemented ~
Heavy Loss OF Life and Much ParsonnI
Injury--The Worst Storm In Its History
B Experienced ut Bedford, Ind.
CHICAGO, March %. "A special to the
Herald from Memphis says: The dam
age done by Thursdays cyclone i'm the
Mississippi valley is enormous. While
the loss Of life is not rs great as at frst
reported, the damage TO property will
reach 1000, 900. The telegraph wires
are still demoralized, and reports arc
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 thus far foots
up eighteen, while the slist of injured
will run up into the hundreds
The first heard Of the cyclone was In
northern Louisiana and southern Ar
kansas It crossed the Mississippi .
few miles above Greenville, devasta-
ting plantations, wrecking farm houses
and uprooting giant forest trees Tho
path of the storm was about half q
mile wide, and nothing was left stand
ing in it's track.
The first fatality occurred at point
near Shaw's station, Miss, where the
house Of Drury Summerall, prosper
GUS and industrious colored farmer.
was leveled to the ground, killing the
entire family Of nine persons. The cy-,
clone passed through the suburbs OF
Shaw's and demolished several small
stores, but no one was killed.
The hurricane then changed its di-
c1:n kvsou olad the ri0hk
of way of the Yazoo q Mississippi
Valley railroad until it entered Cleve-
land, Miss, where the public school
building. several houses and stores were
RACED to the ground.
No fatalities occurred at Cleveland,
but several people were struck by
flying timbers and more or less in
jured. Leaving Cleveland the cyclone
passed within mile of GAINESVILLE, q
town of 1000 inhabitants, and next
struck Tunica, the county seat OF
Tunica county. Nearly every build
ing in the place was wrecked. The
new courthouse went down before the
winds fury. The colored school build.
ing was wrecked and over thirty chill.
dren MANNED.
As the cyclone left Tunica it divided
into two sections, one portion travel
ing in q northerly direction, while the
other took a north-northwesterly
course, and again crossed the MISSES
sippi river into Arkansas, where 1t
spread ruin through three counties.
The towns of Charlottesville and
Vincent were nearly wiped off the face
of the earth. and the storm then took o
northeasterly course, reaching Kelly,
Miss. about o'clock in the afternoon.
Here the greatest damage was done.
Six people were killed outright and
scores wounded. Not a building was
left standing. the fragments being
strewn over the country for miles. The
damage to property in the vicinity OF
Kelly will reach $3.50. 600. After leav.
ing Kelly the cyclone passed into Ten
nessee, the next place to fall in ITS
path being Spring Creek. small town
in Madison county, where several peo-
pie were injured, but no one was killed.
There has beenono confirmation here
of the report that Tupelo, which is in
the eastern part of the state, has suf-
fered severely from a cyclone.