Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-11-05
SOUTHERN CYCLONES.
They Do Great Damage in Lou
isiana and Mississippi
Many Buildings Blown Down and Others
Damaged-SeVeral Lives Lost-Okia-
homa and indian Territory
Also Visited.

New Orleans. Oct. 30.-About 1850
o'clock Thursday afternoon a cyclone
struck this city on the river front, just
above Pension street. and swept over a
distance of about lH miles. or 30 blocks
from Pension street TO Robin street.
the track Of the storm being about 800
feet wide from the river 10 Annuncia-
tion street. Hundreds or buildings in
the track OF the storm were damaged
many being partly unroofed and CHM
neys Frustrated. trees upTooted and
fences blown down. Some lives were
reported lost at first. but so far these
reports have not been verified. The
property loss IS estimated al 100000.
In Tnnsas Parish.
Nevellton. La. Oct. 3O.-Tensas par
ish was visited by destructive cyclone
Thursday At Lake st. Joseph the
large brick gin on the Mound plantation
elonging To Joseph Curryn was practi-
lily destroyed. Twelve cabins on Lo-
Gust island were completely demol.
ished, and one colored woman was i'm
stantly killed and several were blown
into the lake. At Johnson's Bend, on
Lake st. Joseph. leased by A. Bland,
the gin house containing a quantity OF
hay was totally wrecked. Three barns
containing corn were also destroyed
and a great deal of the corn was blown
away. SIX cabins were I'D it's path and
all were blown to pieces. Telegraph
and telephone wires are down and the
public road en- Lake st. Joseph trout
is covered with fragments OF houses,
furniture, clothing, cotton, corn and
household effects. Two colored men
and two coIored women and a baby
were drowned in Lake Brnen, where
they were carried by the wind.
In Mississippi.
Memphis. Tenn, Oct. 30.--A cyclone
passed over Lafayette county, Miss.
late Thursday afternoon, destroying
farmhouses, uprootiug trees and doing
other damage.
In Arkansas.
Pine Blum. Ark, Oct. 3l.--A terrific
cyclone passed through tie eastern
part Of Jefferson county. doing great
destruction to property and injuring
- person.. some fatally.
Ia Oklahoma.
Guthrie. o. l., Oct. So cyclone
swept over d stretch OF country about
20 miles east OF here at 1870 O'Clock
Wednesday night, devastating a dis
trict several miles long and probably
100 yards wide. The farmhouse of VIII
liam Toby Was FIRST in the path of the
storm. he building was destroyed and
Toby Vas probably fatally injured
HAN mile further north the Mitchell
post Office and store was lifted bodily
into the air. carried 100 yards and
dashed to the earth. The building was
smashed into splinters, and Postmas-
ter NJ. l.. Mullin and his wife, who lived
in the building, were killed. The bodies
we're found Thursday morning They
died clasped IN each Others arms.
The Mullin family came here from
Rock Island, III. There was tremen-
dous fall OF rain here and considerable
damage was done by washouts and the
carrying of OF crops.
Ia Indian Territory.
At Wewoka. /. T., tie cyclone de-
stroyed Gov. browns store, new
church and four other buildings. Sew
eral persons we're hurt. but none seri-a
ously. AZ mime No. II, near krebs, it
is reported i've people were killed.
In Lincoln county Mr. aud Airs. John
Mclaughlin have been found dead in
The RUNS OF their home and Harrison
Jones wln die az ms injuries