Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-11-05
DEATH IN ITS WAKE.
SEVERAL PERSONS ARE KILLED
BY A CYCLONE.
New Orleans Suffers Damages TO the
Extent of 600, O,OOo-And at Many
Points In Mississippi, Oklahoma and
Indian Territory Lives Are Lost.
D,.aster In the Southwest.

About 4:3O o'clock Thursday after
noon n cyclone struck New Orleans on
the river front. just above Pension
street. and swept over distance OF about
a mile and a half, or thirty blocks from
Peniston street to Robin street, the track
of the storm being about 1900 feet wide
from the river to Annunciation street.
The first building damaged was the lnde-
pendence oil mill, situated at the head OF
Pension street 1t was unroofed ana
building and contents damaged to the
amount of $4,000. The conveyers OF
the new elevator Of the Illinois Central
Railroad were slightly damaged and John
White Meyer and John j. Buck, employed
at the elevator, were severely injured.
Hundreds of buildings in the track OF the
storm were damaged, many being partly
unroofed and chimneys prostrated, trees
uprooted and fences blown down. Inc
storm-swept section of the city is in dark
ness, owing to the prostration of electric
light wires, and details of the damage
are difficult to obtain. Some lives were
reported lost at first, but these reports
have not been verified. The property
loss Is estimated at 100000.
Tensas Parish, La, was visited by a
destructive cyclone at il O'Clock. Al
Lake st. Joseph the large brick gin on
the Mound plantation belonging to Jo-
seph Curryn was practically destroyed.
Twelve cabins on Locust Island were
completely demolished, and one colored
woman was instantly killed and several
were blown into the lake. At Johnson's
Bend. on Lake st. Joseph, leased by A.
Bland, the gin house containing guam
tity of hay, was totally wrecked. Three
barns containing corn were also destroy
ed and great deal of the corn was blown
away. Six cabins were in it's path and
all were blown to pieces. Telegraph and
telephone wires are down and the public
road on Lake st. Joseph front is COW
cred with fragments of houses, furniture,
clothing, cotton, corn and household ef-
fects. Two colored men and two colored
women and q baby were drowned in Lake
Bruen, where they were carried by the
wind.
The storm passed through the outskirts
of the town Of Delay, Miss, and demol-
ished several houses. The house of Mil
ton Eskridge was blown away, but his
wife and seven children who were in the
house miraculously escaped with slight
bruises. The extent of the damage can
not be given. Not tree was left stand
ing in the cyclones path.
A cyclone swept over a stretch of coun-
try about twenty miles east of Guthrie,
o. r., at 80 o'clock Wednesday night,
| devastating a district several miles long
and probably hundred yards wide. The
farmhouse of William Toby was first in
the path of the storm. The building was
6astroyaI mud Tnhu xx.as nrnha hly fa fa l.
ly injured. The other members of his
family escaped. Half mile further
north the Mitchell postoffice and store
was lifted bodily into the air, carried n
hundred yards and dashed to the earth.
The building was smashed into splin-
ters, and Postmaster NJ. l.. Mullin and his
wife, who lived in the building, were
killed. They died clasped in each 9th
er's arms. Two sticks were driven
through MIR. Mullins skull, but there was
not n scratch on the body of his wife.
The Mullins came from Rock Island, ILL.,
The farmhouse of Abner Jones was also
wrecked and many smaller buildings
were destroyed, trees uprooted and crops
ruined.
Rumors are current that the same
storm did frightful damage further
northeast. in Payne County, and that
several persons were killed. There was
tremendous fall of rain, and considera-
BILE damage was done by washouts and
the carrying off of crops.
At Wewoka. I. T., the cyclone destroy
ed Gov. Browns store, new church and
four other buildings. Several persons
were hurt, but none seriously. At mine
No. II, near Krebs, it is reported FIVE
people were killed. In Lincoln County
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mclaughlin have
been found dead in the ruins of their
home and Harrison Jones will die of his
injuries.