The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-21
Details Meager and Full Extent of the
Damage VIII Not he known TIL
Later in the Day.
AT LEAST TWO SCORE KILLED
ACCORDING To REPORTS RECEIVED
AT MEMPHIS AND ELSEWHERE.
Loss OF Life and Details Of Great DAM
age Briefly Told over the TeIe-
phone-Some of the Dead.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Nov. 2o.-A tornado
bounding through narrow stretch Of ter
ritory extending from a point three miles
north Of Lula, Miss, to Lagrange. Tenn.
this afternoon. The storm so completely
upturned the telephone and telegraph COM
munications that neither the origin nor end
OF IL can be ascertained or the extent Of 1t
be learned. From the details obtained COW
ering three points II appears nineteen lives
were lost and that the destruction of prop
erty was heavy. 1t is believed that be-
tween the towns heard from numerous
farmhouses and interior communities of
more or less considerable population were
struck, and these. being cut off from the
outside. were unable to give notice of their
distress. Accompanying the tornado was
rainstorm of terrific proportions.
The tornado struck the town Of Lagrange,
Tenn, forty-nine miles east of Memphis
on the Southern Railroad, in Fayette coun-
ty. at 4:O5 o'clock this afternoon. and as
a result not church is left standing except
the debris of destroyed buildings. merchan-
disc. telegraph and telephone wires and
poles. Several persons are dead and
wounded. The dead so far recovered up to
the time the correspondent left on the
evening train to bring the report to Mem
phis are: Walter l. Moody, assistant man
ager of the Panky & Gather Pillow Manu-
featuring Company; wife OF Brown May.
oolored, and negro woman, unknown.
The injured: Robert G. Tucker, manager
Of Panky & Gather Plow Manufacturing
Company; Edward Smith. railroad agent,
injured by falling debris; Samuel wadley,
broken leg; William Nickname. not serious;
Mrs. Fanny McName, not serious; Jessie
Stafford. crushed by falling timbers. not
serious.
The business houses destroyed are: W.
p. Lipscomb & Co.. general merchandise;
J. c. Mcneil & Co., general merchandise;
McNamee & Co. general merchandise; F.
n. McNamee, general merchandise; c. l..
Panker's livery stable. ]. W. Gibbons's
sales stable, Panky & Gather Pillow Man
ufacturing Company. Samuel wadley's
wagon shop, the Southern Railway Com
panys large brick depot. the Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian churches. The
residence portion of the town also suffered
heavy loss. several buildings being COM
pletely demolished and a large number
damaged.
A perfect deluge of rain was falling when
the cyclone came. but its advance was
foretold by a roaring, rushing sound, fol-
lowed by quick. heavy reports, which gave
the inhabitants warning and they rushed
out from the falling buildings.
Thirteen persons are reported killed be-
tween Love Station and CoIdwater, in
this State The tornado made its appear
ance at about $50 o'clock this afternoon
and swept everything in its path. Trees
were uprooted and fences and outhouses
were leveled to the ground. Telegraph and
telephone wires are down and details are
lacking
At COldwater several houses were de-
stroyed and the daughter of John Guy and
John Dancey were seriously injured. A
negro child was killed three miles north of
town. The tornado passed from southwest
&c northeast and struck Batesville about 4
O'Clock Several houses were demolished
and seven persons were more or less in
jured- The Methodist Church was unroofed.
Reports from Lulu. Tunica county.
Mississippi state that three negroes We're
killed. their bodies having been carried a
distance OF three miles by the wind. Many
outhouses We're RACED to the ground. The
damage to the crops cannot now be esti-
mated