The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-21

ly $4,000 was done at that place. The
telegram follows:
"a very heavy rain storm passed over
Memphis yesterday evening about dark
Two and eighty-five hundredths inches
of water fell from o'clock yesterday
morning until midnight last night at
Memphis and for forty or fifty miles
east A terrific wind. storm struck Ia
Grange, Tenn, a point 40 miles east of
Memphis, on the Southern railway and
value of $35, 900, or $4,000 and caused
nineteen deaths at that place and in
vicinity, according to best information
now obtainable. SO far as have been
able to learn there was no damage at
any of the stations along our line,
though the storm seems to have circled
around Memphis beginning at Lula,
Miss, a point Sc miles south of Memphis
on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley and
through Batesville, Miss, a point on the
Illinois Central railway, about sixty
miles south of Memphis, to the north
east through La Grange"
FIFTEEN KILLED AT COLUMBIA
Louisville, KY, Nov. 21.-Telegraph
and telephone communication in the
path of last nights storm is still inter-
rupted and although every effort is be-
ing made to reach the scene of devasta-
ton from various points, no definite in
formation has been received as to the
loss of life, or the extent of the dam
age The storm is believed to have
reached the height of its severity in the
middle and western parts of Tennessee
and northern Mississippi, as no reports
of damage elsewhere have reached this
city.
AtCoIumbia according to g message by
telephone the loss of life was fifteen
The list as reported is:
MISS FLORENCE FARRELL.
MISS EVELYN FARRELL.
CAPT. A. f. AYDELOTTE.
MRS. A. F. AYDELOTTE.
Daughter and two sons of the Aydel-
MISS KATE FORsYTHE.
JAMES CHERRY.
Six negroes, names unknown
At La Grange, in the extreme west
ern portion of the state, the dead are
reported as numbering three and the in
jured six.
Tunica, Miss, and thirteen persons are
believed to have lost their lives between
Love station and Cold Water, In that
state. These reports as yet lack confir-
nation
The storm was but a branch of a gen.
eral disturbance which has been NOV
ing in a nOrtheasterly direction from
eastern Texas
In Nashville the rainfall for the past
"a hours was 6.O2 inches, an abnorma1ly
large precipitation. Memphis reports
Q As inches. The wires were blown down
in all directions and the telegraph COM
panies are badly handicapped.
MUCH DAMAGE IN MISSISSIPPI
Memphis, Tenn, Nov. 21--A report
which arrived here at noon stated that
four negroes were killed and hundreds
of cabins on plantations near Lulu,
Miss. were demolished. Five miles north
of Tunica, a cabin in which five negroes
were assembled was wrecked and all
of them killed. A school house, a church
and a number of plantation houses in
the same locality were demolished
A white man and a negro were killed
six miles south of fernando, Miss
Many plantation houses, cotton gan
and a, church were destroyed The
la4a1 1nc
PATH OF THE STORM.
Memphis Tenn, Nov. 2I-Conductor
Kibler of the Granada accommodation
train on the Illinois Central road, which
arrived this morning two and one-half
hours late, reports that the path OF the
storm was first reached at BateSvllle,
Miss where considerable damage was
done to property and several persons in
jured but none fatally. There had been
a heavy downpour of rain all day. At
80 the storm burst in all its fury and
for a mile and one-quarter on the west
side of the railway track the wind level
led every standing object in its way. At
Guis station, one mile south of Loves
station, Tolin Guys mill and residence
were destroyed. The inmates of the
dwelling miraculously escaped injury.
Two negroes in a cabin nearby were
killed. The damage done at Loves sta
tion was not serious. From that point
the storm took a nOrthWeSterly course
and the next place to feel it's force was
LAGRANGE. Tenn
The storm seems to have started from
a point to the south of Tunica, Miss,
and within a few miles of that place.
Telegraph communication has been
temporarily paralyzed, but so far as
known the casualties in Mississippi are
four negroes killed near Lula. five ne
groes killed near Tunica and one white
man and one negro killed near Herndon,
Miss. Hundreds of farm buildings
chiefly cabins occupied by negroes, were
destroyed together with a number Of
school houses and churches. The dam
age to the cotton crop can not yet be es-
timated. Up to 1 o'clock today efforts
to get information from LAGRANGE, Tenn
had not been successful
20 HOUSES DEMOLISHED.
st. Louis, Nov. PA Post-Dispatch
storm bulletin says: Considerable dam
county Cf the same name, but partic-
u1arS are not obtainable. Several houses
were blown down at Indian creek in
that county. Twenty houses at Dallas,
Ala, near Huntsville, were demolished,
but no lives were lost. In Williamson
county, near Franklin, the residence of
Able Little was destroyed and Mr.. Little
and Mrs. M. Hughes were badly hurt
At Boxley's the store was destroyed and
three negroes killed
DEATH LIST GROWS.
St Louis, Nov. 21.-A special to the
Post -Dispath from Nashville, Tenn.
says: The killed in Columbia number
10 white and % colored. The track OF
the storm was through Macedonia, a.
negro suburb. The main portion of the
city was not struck. An ice factory in
the suburbs was wrecked. Much dam
age was done in Maury county. of which