The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-04-06
ANOTHER CYCLONE.
WILD WORK OF THE WIND IN MlSSIS-
SlPPI AND TENNESSEE.

, A"re" Deal OF property ID Destroyed and
Many Persons Killed and Injured
Some Of the Freaks and Full Partlcu-
lars Of tho Storm.
MEMPHIS, March PA severe storm
swept across the Mississippi Delta yes.
terday morning, doing considerable
damage to early crops. and created
much excitement. News from various
points indicated that, while the storm
was cyclonic, early rumors of damage
done were exaggerated. One man is
said to have been killed at Kelly's, and
another injured by falling buildings
The damage elsewhere was TO property
only. Reports that Water Valley had
been wiped out and the Inhabitants
killed cannot be authenticated, and is
considered canard. No special trains
have gone out from Memphis.
The path of the cyclone, which en-
tered tennessee yesterday afternoon in
a southwesterly direction from Missis-
sippi, appears to have been about twen-
ty miles in width, although serious
damage was confined to much SIN ,ll-
er area. The wires are down in all di-
rections. There is no telegraphic COM
munication with Nashville and inter-
vening points, and little news is OBJ
talnable from the places visited by the
cyclone. This city barely escaped. A
heavy rain fell and high wind blew at
the time the cyclone ragged and it be-
came as dark as night for thrifty min
utes. Heavy damage was done to trees
and small loutbuildings. The train from
birmingham, Ala, which arrived late
last night, reports much damage be-
| tVapn hpra and Ruho o1io fuo
east.
At 23O o'clock this morning the wire
at Kelly, Miss, Was tapped and details
telegraphed show that the early reports
were not exaggerated. Not house
escaped the storms fury. and only a
few are left standing, and they are
badly damaged. The house of Roland
Cox was lifted bodily and blown away,
not piece of timber being left. The
mousse OF Robert Stevens was levelled
to heap of ruins. The residence of
d. N. Harris. a wealthy planter, was
wrecked, and the houses of four of his
tenants were blown awav. Three
houses belonging to S. Huduell were
blown down. The wind in6ulged in a
queer freak with the dwelling houses
OF w. q. Boggs, which formerly faced
the north. 1t still stands in damaged
, condition, but it now faces the south.
LIE STORM AT NASHVILLE.
; NASHVILLE, Tenn, March PA Sc
we're WIND and rain storm swept over
Nashville last night, doing much dam
age In the northern part of the city. Ir
South Nashville a store filled with peo
pie was blown Gown and number were
injured. One bo5was killed and anothe
will die.
Half of the big State penitentiary
was torn to pieces. entalling an enor.
nous loss. The convicts, i've hundred
IN number, had just moved out Of th G
mess hall when the building collapsed.
a tWo-story brick building in North
Nashville was blown down, killing
Alex and Eugene Drumright outright
and horribly MASKING A. II. Bradford,
who was fatally hurt. w. r. Wright,
his Wife and two children, who were in
the building, were buried in the debris
and were more or less wounded.
AT Derdem, a suburban town, the en-
tire place was obliterated by storm and
fire. The damage to Nashville proper
ty alone is over 100000. The cyclone
land Valley and destroyed property and
life, but the wires are down and moth
ing definite can be earned.
| w. f. bradford was also injured In
the building In which the Drumrights
were killed. Three tenements near by
were unrOofed. and Miss Luella Oliver
was knocked senseless by falling brick.
Mum ~ Ziegenthaler's grocery was
completely wrecked. The heavy plate
glass in the Nicholson House was bro
ken by the wind. The Episcopal
church In Newtown was smashed to
kindling wood, and the New Bethel
Baptist church, a brick building, in the
nineteenth district, was blown down.
All over this section houses and
barns were unroofed. but no other fa-
talilles have been reported. The re.
port that the penitentiary was badly
damaged was exaggerated. One small
building was unrOofed, causing only a
trifling less.
WORSE THAN WAS EXPECTED.
| KELLY, Miss March 24.-This morn
Ing more thorough investigation
was made regarding the damage done
by the cyclone yesterday, which showed
CnaC matters were worse than was eX-
pected. Reports we're numerous. Ev-
cry countrman who came in added hor-
rors to the situation. Kelly, itself, is
only a small place of about thirty
houses, of which twelve or fifteen
wore entirely swept away and there
T r. aims nothing to show that there
was ever residence there except a
mass Of debris which is scattered in all
directions. AS far as can be learned,
there was not a house left standing
within the scope of the cyclone, which
ranged from quarter to half a mile
; in width, southwest of Kelly. Trees
T were moved and blown up by their
roots as though a cythe had clipped
them. The latest casualties known
embrace thirteen negroes injured and
one killed. One white child was fatal.
r ly injured. All sorts of singular freaks
= of the storm are reported.
DEVASTATION IN INDIANA.
Q INDIANAPOLIs, March 24.-A storm,
t which assumed the proportions of cy-
! clone before it departed, visited Indiana
r about 8 o'clock last night and left IC-
|. vastation and suffering in its tracks.
At Indianapolis fifty houses were
wrecked in one neighborhood in the
northwestern portion. Many families
:. were rendered temporarily homeless
r The magnitude Of the storm was not
8 known until day dawned. at Tuxedo
| q anburb MANY houSpq wore wrppk OIL