Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-01-03

Telegraph Wires Down in all Di-
rectionS and Details Impossible
to Secure-A Few of the Killed
and a Partial Account Of the
Damage.
Memphis, Tenn, January 81 n. m.
"A cyclone, leaving death aud devas-
tation behind, descended upon the lit
tie town of Morringsport, La, at $3.50
o'clock this afternoon.
The reports from the stricken town
are very meagre, owing to the COM
plete prostration of all telegraph and
telephone wires, but a report received
at Texarkana at midnight says that
ten people were killed outright and
three are known to have been fatally
injured
The entire family of Mr.. Good
man, five in number, were killed. w.
j. Morgare was slightly hurt by fall
ing debris, but other members OF the
family did not fare so we'll. Two of
his children were badly crushed and
cannot recover, while his mother-in-
law received fatal injuries. Mornings
port is a town of 500 or 1000 inhabi-
tants, situated on the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad. 20 miles
west of TeXarkana. The town is an
old one, but its population has been
considerably augmented by the advent
of the Gulf railroad a few months ago.
The railroad officials despatched a
relief train at s o'clock to the scene Of
the disaster, but at midnight no fur
ther details have been received from
the little town.
Advices from southwestern Kansas
state that a violent wind and light
ming storm prevailed there this after
noon. Wires were blown down and in
some instances railroad travel is inter-
rupted.
A report from Benton, Ark, on the
Iron Mountain, twenty miles south of
Little Rock, says that a tornado struck
that place late to-day and twenty
houses were demolished. There was
no loss of life mentioned in the dis
patch All communication with Hot
Springs has been cut off.
At Cameron. a small lumber ST ,iod,
ten miles north of TeXarkana, on he
Cotton Belt Railroad, the storm ragged
furiously doing considerable damage.
One man is reported killed at this
place.
Every effort has been made by the
telegraph companies to establish COM
munication with Lewisville, Mcneil,
Magnolia. Pine Bluff and the larger
towns located in the southwestern part
of the State, but no reports have been
received from that section up to this
hour.
Railway officials report heavy
storm on the southern division of Iron
Mountain and the st. Louis cannon ball
express is delayed several hours. Lit
tie Rock was visited by the storm but
no damage of consequence occurred
there.
Little Rock, Ark, January 2.-South
ern Arkansas, Northern Texas and
a terrible wind and rain storm this
evening, causing the loss of number
Of lives and destruction Of property.
Telegraphic communication is pros
trated to such an extent that details
cannot be had tonight, but enough Is
known to warrant the statement that
not less than ten and probably great
er lumber of lives were lost.
So far as heard from. the greatest de-
struction occurred at Mooringhouse. La,
about thirty miles from Texarkana, where
the entire town was blown away and seven
or eight persons killed outright and as
many more injured. some of them fatally.
rhe wires went down in the storm and
no details can he had from that place.
The railroad has sent a train with a
corps of surgeons and other relief to the
town. Rumors of great destruction at
Benton reached here tonight
The Iron Mountains south-bound pas
senger train was caught in the storm at
that station and had to be held there till
the storm subsidized It is reported that
twenty-five houses were blown down at
Benton and a number of people injured.
Benton is but twenty-five miles south of
Little Rock hut the wires to that point
are also prostrated and up to the present
hour. no definite information concerning
the cyclone has been received here. What
destruction the cyclone has caused south
of Benton TO TeXarkana is not known.
There are n number of good sized towns
i'm that portion of the State. communica-
ton with all of them being interrupted.
A private telegram from Cameron states
that the storm struck that place with
terrific fury. demolishing nearly the
entire town. One man is known to have
been killed. The storm was very severe
at Little Rock. the rain falling in tor
rents for over an hour. and was accompa-
MED by magnificent electrical display.
but the wind did no damage here so far
as known at 10 p. m.
SHREVEPORT. La. January 2.-The
relief train from this city reached Moor
ingsport at 7:95 p. m. in downpour Of
rain. \ relay wire was rigged up. and at
late hour the report is that four are
dead. three are fatally wounded and will
die. and twenty others more or less IN
jured.
The dead are:
Willie. Maud. Hail. and an infant son
and daughter of Jesse Goodman, who is
also injured. with his daughter Alice. his
wife and nephew, Claude. Their home is
a wreck.
The injured are reported TO be Mrs.
Fife Morgan and infant: Mrs. Gillian and
two children: Mrs. Thomas Elgin, Thos.
Elliott ]. q. Harris, Tom Teat Mrs. Tom
Teat Miss Tcat and Joe Renders colored.
The houses left standing are w. II. 3.
Croom's store; J. S. Noel's store and resi-
dence: the Methodist church; Mrs. Caid-
,,.a,,.s residence. and the railroad station