The sun., 1900-11-22
MANY LIVES LOST
By Terrific Wind
IN THE SOUTH
Tornado Struck the Town of
LA Grange, Tenn, 49 Miles
South of Memphis.
A DELUGE OF RAIN FIRST
The Streets are Littered With the
Debris sofDestroyed Buildings,
Merchandise and TeIe-
Graph and Tele-
phone Poles.
A DELUGE OF RAIN FIRST

Memphis, Nov. 21.-A tornado struck
the town Of La Grange, Tenn, 40 miles
east of Memphis, on the Southern rail
road in Fayettc county, and as result
not church is left standing except the
Episcopal. The streets are Uttered with
the debris of destroyed buildings, mer-
chandise, telegraph and telephone wires
and poles. Several persons are dead and
injured.
The dead so far recovered up to the
time the correspondent left to bring the
report to Memphis are Walter |. Moody,
assistant manager of the Pancky II Cal
thcr Plow Manufacturing company; wife
of Brown May, colored, and an unknown
negro woman.
The injured are Robert G.. Tucker,
manager of Pancky & Gather Plow
Manufacturing company; Edward Smith,
railroad agent. injured by falling debris;
Samuel Wadley, broken leg; William
McNamee, not serious; Mrs. Fannie Nc
Nance, not serious, and Jessie Stafford,
crushed by falling timbers, not serious.
The business houses totally destroyed
| are w. r. Lipscomb & Co., general mcr-
chandse. ]. G. Mcneil & Co., general
merchandise: McNamee & Co., general
merchandise; +. N. McNamee, general
merchandise; c. i. Panckers' livery sta
BILE, j. w. Gibbons sales stable, Pancky
| e. Gather Plow Manufacturing COM
pany, Samuel Wadley's wagon shop, the
| Southern railway company's large brick
station, the Methodist, Baptist and Pres
| byterian churches. The residence portion
of the town also suffered heavy loss, sew
cral buildings being completely demolish-
cd and large number damaged.
DeIugc of Rain First.
A dcluge Of rain was failing when the
cyclone came, but its advance was fore
told by roaring, rushing sound, follow
ed ny quick, heavy reports which gavo
the inhabitants warming, and they rushed
out from the falling buildings.
i Aleager reports from towns along tile
line of the Illinois Central railroad, IN
north Mississippi. state that the tornado
wrought much havoc in that region
i Thirteen persons are reported killed be
tween Love Station and Coldwater. The
tornado swept everything III its path
Trees were nprooted. and fences and
buildings were levced TO the ground
All ColdwAtcr several houses were de
stroyed, aud il child was seriously injur
ed \ negro child was killed three mile
north Of the town The cyclone passed
from southwest to northeast NJ BhteS
willie. Several houses We're demolished
and seven persons were more or less in
iured. A church was unroofed
4 special from Columbia, Tenn. says
A terrible cyclone, moving in westerly
and northwestcrly direction. struck thi'
place and left havoc in its path. Th'
northern and western sections of the city
which are populated principally by ne
! | xvnra almost rutirplV SwpDt AWAY
, Fifteen persons arc known to have beer
killed, and il is feared that this number
will be largely increased by later reports
The dead are Misses Florence ant
Evelyn Farrell, Captain \. +. Aydolette
wife and one son; another son and daugh
ter missing; Miss Kate Forsythe, james
Cherry and six negroes, names unknown
. The cyclone lasted for about five min
utes, and its path extended about 1,00'
: feet wide, which is clearly marked b!
devastation.