The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-24
.SIxTY-FOUR LIVES LOST
In Tuesdays Cyclone-Arkabutla,
Miss, Entirely Destroyed.
Happy mmunity-Thriliing Descrip-
tion of tho Desolating Spectacle.


ty, Miss, comes one of the most i'm ,
portant news features of the Tuesday /
storms history. .
Hundreds of homes were swept from
the earth. They were lifted in the air
and scattered on the winds. Every
sign and semblance of these homes
were borne far away from where they
had stood.
The cyclone struck the county near
Arkabu,la with more terrible intensity
than cavalry charge. 1t came with a
fury as sudden as it was terrific. The
velocity of the wind is said to have ex-
ceeded eighty miles an hour.
1t was of comparatively brief dura-
ton, but when its fury had subsidized it
was as if the "abomination of desola-
tion" had swept over the land. Corpses,
ruined homes and MANNED and bleed
ing men, women and children marked
its course. The storm took everything |
in its path. 1t was as relentless as to
human life as it was to property. An
eye witness, who survives, says that
human forms were lifted from the earth
and sent floating through the air i'll
contact with the flying debris of their
own wrecked homes.
II saw twelve-foot piece of timber
impale horse, driven through the poor
animals body by the terrific force OF
the wind" the witness relates" Il
made a tour of the storms path. can
not see how even a mouse could have
} escaped, SO utter is the ruin"
t A wagon, the gear of which weighed
more than / 800 pounds, was picked up
, as il it had been feather and carried
more than 200 yards. The largest pieces
were sport for the winds. The cyclone
lifted them from their moorings, twist
ed their gnarled roots from the earth
and bore them in it's wrath as lightly
n as il they had been summer leaves.
There were many pathetic pictures
a when the fury of the storm had spent
!, itself. Negroes and white people who
"a had escaped, hovered around the sites
which had been their homes. Many
" were weeping for their dead. Their
pitiful means filled the air when the
IL roar of the elements had ceased.
- At this time it is possible to make
!, only partial list of the casualties. The
h dead are: Jack Kellurn. Willie Kellum,
10 Nick Blake, Mrs. win Mckay and four
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learned.
The wounded are as follows: Pres.
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us DiaAe, Aipha pagwe,.' ona'''e i'o1ne. n',
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-, MISS nuhoh D,a"iey' noo 80, o.. ~nS
Nv nve cniioren' MISS Ao''ie i'Nie'' "D
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Inc properly losses .an SoateeS "
- app " =: 49,,
inu
IT, sec'ion smep' W 'ne s1oi". - ..s pHSu
,a age over la'e county was une ,e's %,
anu gris' mil Oh w. W. iatu,n
-.
ings were iii'eu from ."o,i s
80 anu seh' hying through 'he ok III Il ~
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az 20 rortha,st and xvh;le it's tract, wa
not exceeding 200 wards in width q
. " Least twentv.f,ve houses are known
" have been wrecked within seven mil.
+, ~ R;n,av Op;te a number of peop]
" we're injured though none are reporte
" dsad Some of the escapes seem mira
- Tha vs,oc;tv of the storm w,
u, verv great and it WAS attended by
,srr;t,c roaring. All large timber in i
.,h 700. ,,nrooted or twisted off. fenc
,,ar, damol;sbed and everything NOV
hla c.rried away Persons who sa
~ o1o,d s,v !, was fpnpel.shaped ar
.nneared 10 ris. and fall. and th