Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-04-30

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- CLAY CESrEA Kas. AprI "a
eVTlons ~ tremendous forc, sped
through Clay coSan,y late saturday
night. As far a. known. tonight five
people were killed. three .%taliy
wounded and l. injured
A fall list Of the dead and In iure.i i
unOh,ainable. as the doctors have not
returned from the scene Of the dis
aster. II Il known. however. that
every member Of the families of John
Norris, +. Welkin. Peter Anderson and
Henry Gardner was hurt aud three of
them have wounds said 10 be fatal
large number of horses and cattle
were killed and the damage TO farm
property j. immense
The cyclone started about six miles
south Of Clifton and went in a north
essterly direction for IL or Is miles
and then lost its force by spreading.
IL passed about half way between
Clifton and Morganville- It's track
varied from $50 yards to a quarter of q
mile in width IL tore through a
farming community and Jeff nothing
standing. Houses and barns were
wrecked. trees torn up or broken.
fences leveled and haystacks blown in
every direction
The cyclone was followed bv ter
rife rain storm which lasted several
hour. flooding the devastated dis
trict
~ far - learned the victims % the
cyclone had retired The storm struck
Peter Ander~ou. home at IN O'Clock
This was about q mile from the start
ing point. The house was demolished
in an instant. Every menher % tho
Anderson family was injured. and
when they had extricate,i themselves
from the debris they discovered that
AnderSan'S <randchild waS missing.
The dead body of the child was found
yesterday morning in a ravine half
mile away IL evidently had heen ear
ri-,i there by the wind.
Anderson alarmed the neixhborS
who lived out of the track Of the
storm, and search was commenced for
victims. bat little headSay was made
in the rain CourierS were seat To
Clifton aud Morganville for doctors.
bat IL was daylixh; before they arrived
and the exent Of the injury and dam
age was known
Al nOon il was thought that all the
victims had been found Heartrend-
ing tales Of suffering are told By per
sons who visited the scenes % the
storm Many of the in iuresl lag all
night pinned down bv wrrckaxr.
hile others eravlesi or hsbbled across
the country to neixhbor's house.
The wife and daughter of John Nor
n was reading when the shock came.
The house was divided The ladies
managed IN get out when the wind
picked them up. and carried them stsl
yards and then let them safely down
ON a pile Of straw Just away frosn the
storms track
The people for miles around yester-
day gathered at different points where
damage had been done 4nsi rendered
assistance in every way possible.
The track of the storm looked like a
piece of ground that had been Ieveled
with a roller
TelegraPhie communication with
Clifton was cut of from the hour Of
the storm till late yesterday morning.
II : believed that much damage was /
lone in the vicinity of Palmer, Wash I
ington county. but the details can no. /
be learned
IL is impossible at this time 10 esti- /
mate the damage to buildings and
other property