The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-03-30
A CYCLONES FURY.
Portions Of Tennessee and Missis-
sippi Swept Over.
Ore Tow Wiped OF the Face Of the
Earth and Great Destrucs ion of Prop.
*erty in other Places - Nu-
Lives

.erty in other Places Nu-
merous Lives Lost.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 25.-The
damage done by Thursdays cyclone ii
the Mississippi valley is enormous.
While the loss OF life is not as great as
at first reported the damage to prop
erty will reach S2.O,D,OoO. The tel
egraph wires are still democrat
lied and reports are coming in
slowly from the storm districts and it
will be several days before the full ex-
tent Of the disaster will be known
The death list at Midnight fLots up
twentythree, while the list Of jnred
will run un into the hundreds.
SWEPT ALI. BEFORE IT.
KELLY Miss, Mare. - A thorough
inve >tlgation of the damage by the
cyclone Thursday showed that matter,
We're Ho">e than expected. Every
counlr, nan who came in added hor-
rors t. the situation. Kelly is only u.
small place Of about thirty houses, OF
which Twelve or fifteen were en-
tirelv swept away, and there re-
mains nothing to show there
was ever a residence there except
by the mass of debris which is seat
tered in all directions. As far as can
be learned there was not house left
stand ng within the scope of the cy-
cone. which range from a quarter to
a half mil. in width southwes of kei-
lv. i he trees were moved down As
though a scythe had clipped IL I'm. I he
fatnilv injured number six. 1t is also
SAID that several lives We're lost. but
this rE!n"r has not been verified.
NATCHTZ. Miss. March 25.-1 he east
ern portion of Rich and parish, es-
peciai!y the Archibald neigh borhooo,
was feartully damaged by Thursdays
storm. A number of buildings were
blown down and several lives are re-
ported lost.
LOSS IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. March 25-The
heavy slo: M Thursday night did great
damage at Bowling Green and the sur
rounding country. 1t was in the ma
ture of a cyclone. At Bowling Green
the roofs of between fifteen and
twenty houses were blown over. The
most serious damage was that to
the Louisville & Nashville round house.
which was wholly wrecked. Several
engines were badly smashed. One
colored man was caught in the debris
and badly though not seriously in
jured. The loss to the railroad on the
building and locomotive, is $4,000 to
$500 900. Among the roofs blown off
at Bowling Green was that of the War
sidered the finest public building in
Kentucky outside of Louisville.
Passengers on the delayed fast ex-
press on the Louisville Il Nashville
from the south stated that all along
the road evidences of the storm could
be seen. Many farmhouses were
noticed to be roofess and scores of
stables and outhouses totally demol-
isned Trees were blown across the
railroad track at many points.
The town of Rawiins was almost de-
stroyed The post office building
owned by Frank Cordice was swept en-
tirely away together with all the mail,
some of which was found ? miles off.
Mr.. Cordice's loss is S4l.OO
The storehouse occupied by Stephens
& Knox was demolished and their
stock, valued at $1,000, ruined by the
rain. Isaac Hamilton lost several tene-
ment houses and storerOoms, besides
having his residence badly damaged.
His loss is $4,000. The Shelton house
was unroofed, as were the other build
ings near by. Judge Shelton is out
about $1,000.
Every house in Stanford was dam
aged The track of the tornado was
not over $500 yards wide. but it swept
everything in it's way. The losers did
not have the tornado clause in their
insurance policies.
At Murray, KY, twenty residences
and fifty stables and barns were de-
molished. Only one person, Miss Alice
Stabblefield, was seriously injured A
dozen were slightly hurt The loss
will reach $25, 900. Much timber,
fencing, etc. was also destroyed.
KILLED IN ALABAMA.
MOBILE, Ala, March a5.-Early Fri
day morning cyclone passed mile
north of Shubuta, Miss, going south
west. At Arista Johns place tene-
uICuV lOuSC COuGdlulug negroes was
leveled and two negroes were killed
and three injured. A mile east of this
two houses were blown down. Ten
miles further east three tenement
houses were destroyed. No one was
hurt in these houses. Much timber
was felled.
A PRISON IN RUINS.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March o5.-Half
of the big state penitentiary, which
covers eighty acres of ground, was torn
to pieces by the cyclone, entailing an
enormous loss. The convicts, 500 in
mum Der, had just moved out of the
mess hall when the building collapsed.
and had they remained longer would
| have been killed.
LOSS IN INDIANA.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 25.-A
storm which assumed the proportions
of cyclone before it departed visited
Indiana at9 o'clock Thursday night and
left devastation and suffering in it's
track. In Indianapolis fifty houses
were wrecked in one neighborhood in