Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-24
TOWNS PLOTTED OUT
Destructive Cyclone Visits
 Mississippi and Tennessee.
SNOW AND RAIN IN THE NORTHWES1

Very Meagre Reports from the Stol m, Swept District-An Telegraph Wires
 Down-The storm Also in Kentucky and
 Indiana Many Reported Killed and In urea-Hundreds of Thousands of Dol lars Worth of Property Destroyed
 Milwaukee Cut on.
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 24-The only reports which have been received from the points in Western Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, which were visited by yester days cyclone have b cen brought in by carriers and over the railroads. They indi- cate that a terrific cyclone whirled up the Mississippi valley from the Southwest crushing and sweeping away everything in it's mad path. Telegraph wires in every direction were twisted into tangles and communication with the storm swept dis trict has since been exceedingly difficult and unsatisfactory.
 Trains from the East reaching the city late last night brought reports of wide spread destruction. Passengers on the Yazoo S Mississippi valley train told of the destruction of Tunica, Miss. The Birmingham train due in Memphis at 5:30 o'clock could not get to Memphis | until very late. men being compelled to chop and remove trees off the tracks be tween here and Kelly, which is station | about 12 miles out of this city The swath of the storm as it crossed the Eansas City, Memphis & Birmingham | road seemed to embrace territory between l Carerville and Olivebranch. Dozens of l houses, huge trees and barns were razed to 1 tEc ground by the violence of the storm. | ha nt TnpiCp Mise ,yaS crrant | About 3:30 o'clock the sky i'll the north west began to darken inkily. and a low l wailing sound announced storm. Within | few minutes the wind came along with ! terrible velocity. and with swish and a wLrl that portended danger. The first l hard blow gave way to the cyclone follow l ing. and houses were crushed like egg | shells.
 The ruthless visitor fingered over the | town only two minutes, and yet i'll that short time the greater part of the town was | destroyed.
 The Knights of Pythias and Masonic hall .S now only Il heap of timb>
 The roof of tue court house was carried away.
 When the storm subsidel cries and screams of children were heard from the colored school house, where l50 children had been gathered at their lessons The building, two story frame, had ben blown down, and beneath the ruins w,ls mass of struggling children.
 | So far as known, none was kille,l, but there were many maimed and bruised some with broken arms and some witt ! fractured skulls
 The full extent of the damage is no known, but the loss to property will E into the hundreds of thousands.
 Tranmen on the Kansas City. Mcmphi X Birmingham railroad report that Kelly | Miss, was wiped of the face of the earth not a soul being left to tell the tale | special train has left Memphis for kcll to investigate
 INDIANAPOLIS, March A-A windstorr of remarkable violence visited this cit , last night. doing, s:1 far can be learned
 about $iOO, ,O00 damage and injurng tw | pcrsons. The damage was confined to tn
 suburban district, northwest.
 The Brown ketcham Iron works wrl
 partially unroofed. One of the big mil of the Cerealine co npany was unroofet and tie roof in falling struck Chas Meyer:
 Il workman, breaking his leg.
 The third story of the Indianapolis Golf
 factory, three blocks away. was blown of
 Next to the factory is the boarding hous
 and saloon of Charles Bcnkhe which WE
 unroofed, and Mrs. Benkhe hal her fot
 crushed. Her husband was bruised.
 number of sheds, stables and two houses course of construction were demolished.
 It is reported at Louisville, Ky, that u
 cyclone has devastated Bowling Greer
 in that State. All the wires a.'u down
 that point and nothing definite can I
 learned concerning the disaster. I The town of Cleveland, TeHn., is ali n reported as wrecked, how serious can nt ! be learned