Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-21
WHOLE COUNTRY
 SWEPT BY STORM
Fearful Loss of Life in Missis. sippi and Great Destruction
 of Property All Over.
TERRIBLE FATALITY AT MILWAUKEE
 iNTHE CITY WATER WORKS.

The Tornado Strikes the Mississippi Val ley and Carries Everything Before It. People Carried for Miles ana Landed
 Fourteen Laborers Lose Their Lives by Sunooation and DrOwning---The Fair suf- rers-Damage iu the East.
 MER1pEN, Miss, April 21.-Clark and | Jysper counties, this State, have suffered | from cyclone more deadly to human life and destruction of property than the one of l three weeks ago. It followed almost in f the track of it's predecessor.
 Over 40 people were killed and 200 more or less injured. These figures may be in | creased when all of the stricken districts are heard from.
 | The destruction to property will amount | to hundreds of thousands of dollars | Entire neighborhoods have been literally | swept off the face of the earth.
 The cyclones path was through a vast | pine forest. broken here and there by farm | Huge trees were uprooted and carried for | a mile. .- Near the town of Pachuti lived the | W | himself, wife and three children. Their Dodies, except that of the youngest child | W, re picked up over mile away, man | gled ami entirely nude. Their brains had | been dasned out. ! The child had a miraculous escape It was found half mile from it's home un- inju. ed, but crying piteously for its mother. William Fisher lived near the station | with his mother, wife and five children. | They were blown away and searching par | ties have been out all day, but none of | their bodies have been recovered.
 A child of Sim McGowan was found dead | 4n tree top Il mile from its home. Foul negroes on the Aldridge plantation were killed outright and a family of negroes num- Derin.s nine perished. One of the children was found two miles from where it was playing Wien picked up by the deadly wind.
 The picture is indescribably a piteous | Jne-happy homes swept away and dashed vo pieces if they were cookie shells; children crying for their parents and ! fathers and mothers searching among the ..use piles ot debris for missing ones. Such Is the scene. The telegraph wires were snapped in twain as Lnousn they were pips stems and the poles lifted up and carried through the country at frightful velocity.
 The whole country Is in mourning. The | minister and physicians are at worA. Every messenger from remote districts now com ing In brings sorrowing tales of suffering ' and death.
 | MILWAUKEE, April 21.-In gale which for years has not been equaled on the Great Lakes, the crib at the end of the ''intake' tunnel, situated some ,, 900 feet out in the lake, was washed away, and of 17 men | who were employed there in the shaft
 which reaches to the shore but six are known to be alive. The balance are be- leved to have been browned
 Some were doubtless washed off by the huge pillows which have been tumhling on the shore, and others perished in the air shaft where they sought shelter and | which is now filled with water. A first effort made to reach the wreck | of the crib in tugboat was unsuccessful
 In a second trial an hour later the tug | Welcome took a lifeboat in tow and steamed | out to the crib. Only one man was found ! alive there, and he was brought ashore in
 an unconscious condition and will probably ! de.
 | lis name is John Miller. A search for | the bodies of the drowned men will be
 made as soon as the lake becomes little | safer.
 Miller was able some time later to give
 the story of the tragedy. He sui the crib ! house was so dangerous that all hands -15 | in number-went down into the air lock-
 They were quite comfortable there until
 the house was blown away. They knew it
 was gone when the air pump ceased work
 ing
 When the pump stopped the air kept | growing worse until it became so bad that
 it was proposed by some to leave the lock
 and take chances outside. The subject ! was discussed for some time, and finally
 all agreed to it, as it was found that they
 could not live much longer where they were.
 Accordingly the air lock was opened and ! the water allowed to come in. Six men
 succeeded in getting out of the lock and to
 the surface. To do this they had to climb
 up through 10 feet of water. The other
 nine, Miller says, could not find the ladder
 and he supposed, as they did not get on
 the crib, were drowned in the lock.
 When he got on the crib Miller wound
 the wire cable, which runs from a drum
 toward shore, around his arm and was then
 able to hold on until the life boat arrived.
 He says that four of the men held on about a half hour and then one by one were
 swept away. The fifth, McBride, held on
 until within 10 minutes of the arrival o
 the boat and he too succumbed, and was
 washed of with help in sight.
 INDIANAPOLIS, April 21.-While the winG
 was blowing at the rate of 60 miles ar
 hour, the workmen in the Big Four cal
 repair shops at Brightwood noticed tht | roof and walls of thu structure shaking, y and as precautionary measure they all climbed into box cars which were in the o building for repairs.
 l, The next instant the whole building col e lapsed but the ears were strong enough t' ), support the big timbers and not a man of th n twenty at work was injured. The building s was 6OO feet long and 150 feet wide. SoMERvILLE, N. J.. April 21.-A violent
 wind and rain storm visited this place yes r terday and continued throughout the en IT tire day. The small streams are filled t. overfowing. and the Raritan river is out o @ it's banks and still rising. The lowland
 south of hero are flooded with water iron
 four to ten feet deep. Roof of severa
 small buildings were torn oh and hurlet