The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-19
THE COURSE OF THE CYCLONE.
A Path of Destruction Through Many States
Towns Completely yDestroyed-Some
Persons Killed and Number
More or Less Injured.


More or Less Injured.
TUNICA, Miss, April 13.-Thr down
train at o'clock yesterday evening
brought news that the town of Robin
sonville, ten miles north of Tunica,
was completely destroyed by a cyclone
at 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Not house was left in town Of about
three hundred inhabitants, and as
finishing touch to the destructive hor-
ror the lamps burning in the stores set
the houses on fire and all are in ashes.
Even the depot building was not
spared. The night operators wife was
killed and the day operators wife badly
injured. All the wires are down and
no communication can be had save by
Vicksburg and Jackson.
The cyclone swept the country west
and east of the fated village and killed
many people, mostly colored. 1t is
reported that colored school house on
India Greek, one mile west Of Robin
sonville, was swept off and about
twenty-five children were killed or are
missing. The teacher, woman, who
narrowly escaped with her pupils about
three weeks ago in cyclone at Tunica,
was killed.
THE DAMAGE AT JACKSON, TENN.
JACKSON, Tenn, A pril l3.-This city
was struck by a cyclone at s o'clock
yesterday afternoon and dozens Of
buildings were wrecked, but there was
no loss Of life, though number of per-
sons were slightly Injured. Every
thing in the path of the storm was lev
elled, but the extent of damage in the
rural districts cannon be learned.
sHEPARDs, TENN, SWEPT AWAY.
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, April ia
severe storm struck Shepard's, a small
station southwest of here, yesterday
afternoon and totally demolished all
the houses there. Everything was de-
stroyed except the railroad tank. A
negro girl was killed and several are
reported Injured. No damage was
done in this city, but houses and barns
in other portions of the county were
destroyed.
SEVENTEEN PEOPLE KILLED.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April l3.-Seven-
teen people were killed at Robinson
vile, Miss, by yesterdays cyclone,
and half hundred wounded. A few
minutes after the tornado struck the
town fire broke out in the debris of a
Chinese laundry and mass cf wreckage
burned all night and to-day. Several
bodies of those killed by falling houses
were burned to crisp.
Two clouds, one from the east and
one from the west, met over the town
and then began rotary motion, which
tore up houses and snapped huge trees
like stems. The cyclone then moved
from the west from the Mississippi
River, distance of seven miles, and
swept all before it. Mrs. Emma Lusk,
wife Of the night operator, was in her
house with her husband and three
children. The husband got out, the
woman was killed, and the three chill
dren were blown one hundred yards
through the air. They we're naked
when found, but uninjured.
Isaac Chapman was crushed under
the ruins Of his house and burned along
with three other negroes, whose names
are unknown. The body of an old
negress was found to-day in an open
field. It is probable that she was
dropped there by the wind. The prop
erty loss in town will reach 100000.
Thirteen stores, sixty residences, three
churches and hundred negro cabins
were destroyed.
The residence, gins and negro cabins
on the plantations of G. L. Robinson
and G.. w. Foster are all swept away.
Five hundred people are homeless. A
number of wounded were brought to
Memphis to-day.
THE DESTRUCTION OF YPsILANTI.
DETROIT, April l3.-12 45a. m.-The
following dispatch has been received
from Ypsilanti; This city is in ruins.
A cyclone struck it tonight, coming
from the southwest and sweeping
everything in its path. Thousands of
dollars of damage has resulted. The
storm took strip through the business
portion of the town, moving houses
from their foundations and raising
others. The Clary Business College
and Curtis Carriage Factory are in
ruins. The Hawkins House and the
Occidental Hoted are badly damaged.
The roofs of half the stores have been
blown off: Twenty store fronts were
smashed in. In Huron street the rub
bish is piled ten feet high. The post
Office building was demolished and the
mail scattered in the street. All tele-
graph, telephone and electric light
wires are down, leaving the city in
complete darkness. Everybody is up
watching property that has been ex-
posed to the storm. No one was hurt
severely.
Later o'clock.-The work OF clear
ing up is going on as rapidly as posi-
BILE at this time of night. No dead
bodies have been found, although it is
thought that some persons were killed.
A few were probably fatally injured.
The loss of property, it is now esti-
mated, will reach $500, 600 or more.
ISoTuEP M1ctJJcA TOWN DEcrpovED