The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-14
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oS.

Fire at RobinsonviIle, Mississippi.
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoS.
ST. LOUIS, April Is. - Though two
nights and day have passed since the cy-
clone tore through the small towns in the
southwestern part of the State, reports of
damage and loss of life are still coming
IN. Southwest of the territory already
heard from is large stretch of country
from which communication is slow, and
1t Is feared much further loss of life has
taxed place there. The casualties SO far
reported are as follows:
At Hawkins Bank the dead are: Will
lam Ashen, with a baby in his arms;
Andrew Lay, Mrs. James Wilson, Mrs,
William Ashen, John d. Lay, John Dill,
and an unknown babe. There were six
fatally and twenty-five seriously hurt.
At Lexington the dead are: Anna
Walker, Mrs. John Luke, her brother,
tarris Walker and negro boy. Three
were fatally injured.
At Stanbury, Mrs. Ward and two I'M
known women are dead, and two fatally
hurt.
At Steelville the dead are: Charles
Adair, D. NJ. Green and five unknown.
At Page City Daisy Stanley (colored) is
dead, three fatally and three seriously
hurt
At Higginsville eight persons were
killed and three more will probably die,
while twenty were wounded. The killed
are: Mrs. Mary Lake and two brothers,
two children of William Walker, Hugh
McElroy, Mrs. a. H. Kelly and Joseph
Breuggen. Mrs. John Breuggen was re-
ported killed, but the report is not con-
tlrmed. The fatally injured are: Mrs.
William Walker, Miss Daisy Stanford
(colored) and Mrs. William Williams.
Doctors have gone to Hawkins Bank
wounded.
Many have been without food for
twenty-four hours, the storm having
swept away all food supplies.
DESTRUCTION AT YPSILANTI.
YPsILANTI (Mich.), April 13.-This city
is to-day in lamentable condition. and
business is suspended owing to the havoc
caused by last nights storm. Almost all
OF the principal business blocks, stores,
opera-house, Postotfice, hotels and sew
eral dwellings were either demolished or
badly damaged. Houses were lifted from
their foundations, buildings unroofed and
walls tumbled into the streets a mass of
ruins. In some places the debris was
piled fifteen feet high. All the electric
light and other wires were blown down,
and the city is in darkness. A heavy
rain which followed the storm added
lor tO ha Il <1f &c
left exposed. There were many narrow
escapes, but SO far as known not a life
will be lost as a result of the storm.
Roughly estimated, the loss on business
houses is between 100000 and Sl50,OO0,
divided up among large number of per-
sons. Somewhere near a hundred and
fifty dwellings and barns were destroyed,
on which the loss is estimated at $50, 900.
The work of clearing up the streets was
rushed as fast as possible all day, and
considerable debris has already been re-
moved.
There is no truth in the report that the
village of Saline was wiped out by cy-
clone.
A wind and rain storm passed through
the township of Royal Oak last night.
The house of Christian Brick was demol-
ished. Bricks wife and children es-
capped, but his father and mother were
burned to death.
At Rea only one building was left stand
ing. Mrs. Jacob Heiser was killed and
her husband fatally hurt. one hundred
acres of orchards were ruined.
AT GAINESVILLE house was blown down
and woman killed. Much damage was
done in the country.
SAD HAVOC AT RoBINsoNvILLE.
MEMPHIS (Tenn.), April l3.-It is
hardly possible to exaggerate the havoc
made by the cyclone and fire at Robin
sonville. There are parts of two houses
and a water tank still standing, but
everything else was RACED to the ground
and most of them burned. The number
of killed, so far as ascertained by the
bodies found, is seventeen, one white
and sixteen colored, and about ten more
injured, two so seriously they are ex-
pected to die. Probably hundred
negroes received injuries, but none of
them will die.