The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-22

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. H.-Advtces re-
ceiVed tonight from the storm swept sec
tlons of Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten
nessee indicate that the loss Of life and
damage to property is far greater than
at first reported. The difficulties in me
way OF securing information from the
devastated sections are almost insur-
mountable. The places affected are re-
mote and isolated and at best they are
not we'll equipped with means of COM
munication and the storm which last
evening carried devastation across the
country, at the same time swept away
the wires, so that telephone and teIe-
graph wires alike were put out of serv-
Ice. Dependence has necessarily been
placed in railway men and travellers
coming from affected parts.
In Mississippi the greatest loss of life
ana damage to property occurred near
Tunica, Lula and fernando. A report
oy carrier from point thirty-five miles
from Tunica says the tornado's devasta-
ton was so great that it will take weeks
to calculate and repair it. Five negroes
lost their lives on the Hamlin place.
In Tunica, the school house, church and
number of buildings were totally de-
molished. More than fifty negroes are
missing and it is feared all of them have
perlshed. Cotton is reported badly dam
aged. At Harnando a white man was
ing debris. Numerous saw mills, several
residences and hundreds of negroes cab
ms were blown away.
At Love Station, J. S. Doney, a white
man, was crushed by flying timber and IS
expected to die. The storm passed down
Coldwater river, leveling trees and
houses in it's path.
At Batesville considerable property
damage was wrought and several per-
sons were seriously injured, but no ia
talites are reported. Several dwelling
houses q number of CuthouSes and many
miles of fencing were torn down and
scattereA. The roof of the Methodist
church was twisted off and blown some
distance from the building.
WORST MAY NOT BE KNOWN.
News of terrible havoc southwest of
Batesville is expected, as generally the
| houses in that section are not securely
built.
At Guys plantation the residence and
| large mill building of John D. Guy were
torn down and their tinbers hurled some
distance. Miss Guy, who was in the
residence at the time, escaped with slight
injuries.
shanty in which two negroes had
taken refuge from the storm, was shat
tered and both were killed. The two
story residence of ]. D. Higgins was de-
molished and several others wrecked.
Seven cabins were demolished at Mas
SeY's plantation and three negroes We're
killed. At La Grange four persons were
killed and a score or more seriously in
jured. The town is practically wrecked,
nearly every building gone or damaged.
The tornado struck the county from
the southwest, but veered a little to the
northwards on its exit 1t appears to
have made a revolving motion and played
many pranks.
FREAKS OF THE STORM.
In one instance it demolished both the
Methodist and Baptist churches, a block
apart, and left standing a residence be-
tween them. About 1900 residences,
mainly those of poor people, were de-
stroyed.
AT Moscow, ten miles west of La
Grange. several buildings We're swept
away by the wind. No fatalities are re-
ported, although many persons were in
jured.
The storm visited Arkansas, and
wrought much havoc in Monroe and Lee
counties.
Information today was that the storm
came from the southwest. crossed the
tracks of the Arkansas Midland railway,
twelve miles west of Helena, at Whit
| ley's, where fences, timbers and cabins
were blown away, but no lives were lost
in that neighborhood.
At Blackton, on the Pine City branch
of the Arkansas Midland railway, Miss
Robinson was killed while trying to es-
cape from a wrecked building, and at
Morrow, Lee county, the child of Prof.
Richardson Blount was killed by flying
| timbers, the Blount home being burned
down. All along the track of the storm
there was more or less damage, the loss
in fences, timbers and track houses be-
ing especially heavy. The wind was ac-
companied by a dOwnpour of rain that
filled the fiat woods, and many bridges
We're swept away The rainfall in Helena
! amounted to 4 Is inches.
BLOWN OUT OF THE BOBI.s
Passengers on the incoming trains sav
| that in many places trees along the edges
| of cotton fields We're covered with cotton
| that had been blown out of the bolIs. The
! damage to unpicked cotton cannot be