The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-25
PATH OF THE CYCLONE
GREAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY,
BUT THE LOSS OF LIFE SMALL.
The Story That Water Valley had

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Heavy Damage to Property.
MEMPHIS, TENN, March 24.-A severe
storm swept across the Mississippi delta
yesterday morning, doing considerable
damage TO early crops and creating much
excitement. News from various POINTS In
dicate that while the storm was oyolonic,
She early rumors of the damage done we're
exaggerated. One man is said to have been
killed at Kelly aud another injured by
falling building. The damage elsewhere
was to property only. The report that
Water Valley had been wip ed out and the
inhabitants killed cannot be authenticated
and is considered a canard. No special
trains have gone out from Memphis.
The path Of the cyclone which entered
Tennessee yesterday afternoon in q south~
westerly direoJicn from Mississippi appears
TO have been about twenty miles In width,
although serious damage is confined TO q
much smaller area.
The wires are down in all directions.
There is no telegraphic communication
with Nashville and intervening points and
little news is obtainable from the places
visited by the cyclone. This city barely
escaped. A heavy rain fell and a high
wind blew ct the time the cyclone ragged
and it became as dark as night for thirty
minutes. Heavy damage was done to trees
a ID small outbuildings.
a train from Birmingham, Ala, which
arrived late last night. reports much dam
age between here and Byhalis, twenty miles
east.
AT 2:3O o'clock this morning the wire at
Kelly. Miss, was tapped, and the details
telegraphed show that the early reports
were not exaggerated. Not house escaped
FtYru nd only fayu of
standing. and they are badly damaged. The
house of Roland Cox was lifted bodily and
blown away, not a piece of timber being
Left. The house of Robert Stevens was
leveled, and is heap of ruins. The residence
of d. N. Harris, wealthy planter, was
wrecked. and the houses of four of his ten
ants were blown away. Three houses be-
longing to s. Hudnell were blown down.
The wind indulged in queer freak with the
dwelling house of W. Z. Boggs. 1t for
merly faced north, and still stands In dams
aged condition, but now faces south.
A STORE BLOWN DOWN.
NASHVILLE, TENN, March "a "A
severe wind and rain storm swept
over Nashville last night, doing much
damage in the northern part OF
the city, In South Nashville a store filed
with people was blown down, q number OF
whom were injured, one boy killed aud
another will die.
A 2-story brick building in North Nash
vile was blown down, killing Alex and
Eugene Drumright outright and horribly
mashing A. T. Bradford, who was fatally
hurt. w. R. Wright, his wife and two
children, who we're in the building, were
buried in the debris and were more or less
wounded.
AT Derdem. suburban town, the entire
place was obliterated by the storm and
fire.
The damage to Nashville property alone
is over 500, ZOO. The cyclone plowed it's
way down the Cumberland valley and de-
stroyed property and life, but the wires are
down aud nothing definite can be learned.
w. f. Bradford was also injured In the
building in which Drum Wright was killed.
Three tenements near by we're unroofed
and Miss Luella Oliver was knocked senseless
by falling brick.
Mum & ZieRenthaler's grocery was COM
pletelY wrecked.
Heavy plate glass IN the Nicholson was
broken by the wind.
The Episcopal church in Newtown was
smashed to kindlinG wood and the new
Baptist church, brick building in the
Nineteenth district, was blown down.
All over this section houses and barns
were unroofed, but no other fatalities have
been reported.
The report that the penitentiarY here was
unroofed aud badly damaged was exagger-
ated. One small building was unroofed,
causing only trifling loss.
HOUSES DEMOLISHED AT INDIANAPOLIS.
INDIANAPOLIS, March "a. A storm
which assumed the proportions Of a cy-
clone before it departed visited Indiana
about O'Clock last night and left devasth-
tion and suffering In its tracks. At Indian
apolis fifty houses were wrecked in one
neighborhood. In the northwestern por-
tion Of the city many families were rem
dered temporarily homeless. The magni-
tude of the storm was not known until day
dswned.
At Tuxedo. a suburb, many houses
were wrecked and several of the smaller
ones were carried away piecemeal. Many
OF the residents passed the night in their
cellars
Advices from all parts of the state indi-
cate much property damaged and some per-
sons manned.
At Evansville, the southeast wing Of the
Southern Indiana insane asylum was dam
aged aud the Suburban railway depot was
blown down.
AZ Alexandria, on the Lake Erie and
Western railroad, the wind partially
wrecked the mammoth lamp factory of the
Lippincott company, killing William An
gel and his son, aged 10 years, who were
crushed by falling timbers.
THE DAMAGE AT TUHICA.
VICKsBURG, MISS, March 24.-Addi-
tionel cyclone news received from passen-
gers on the midnight train from Memphis
says the storm spent its force between
Tunica and Shaw's station, which are about
seventy miles apart and on the railroad At
Shaw some stores were blown down and q
few citizens were wounded.
At Tunica the court house was seriously
damaged, a church and other buildings de-
stroyed and school house full of negro
children blown TO pieces. Many children
were hurt but none were killed. 10 will be
a day or two before the full extent of the
disaster is known.
ROUND HOUSE WRECKED.
BOWLING GREEN, KY, March PA
terrible Cyclone passed over this city last
night at 7:45 o'clock. Great damage was
done. The Louisville ana Nashville round
house was totally wrecked. About fifteen
engines of the Louisville and Nashville COM
pany were badly damaged. No lives are
thought to have been lost William Fords'
new building, one of the handsomest build
ings IN the city was unroofed. as were many
others.
TWO NEGROES KILLED.
MOBILE, March 24.-Early this morning
a cyclone passed one mile north Of Shu buta,
Miss, going south wsst. at Aristo john
sons place a tenement house containing ten
negroes was leveled. Two negroes we're
killed and three injured. A mile east Of
there two houses were blown down. Ten
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