The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-23
A CYCLONE PASSES OVER THE STATE
FROM SOUTH To NORTH.
THE LOSS OF LIFE APPALLING
Starting in Mississippi, Where Many
Persons are Killed, the Tornado
Crosses Tennessee to the Cumber-
land Mountains in the Northeast.
The Death Roll Not Yet Complete
But Now Large-Communicat With
Many Devastated Points Still Cut Off.

Nashville, Tenn, November 21-Dis-
patches up to o'clock p. m. indicate
that last nights storm which swept
Dyer northern Mississippi and central
I and western Tennessee was one Of
! great severity. Advices by the Asso-
ciated Press and from special corre-
spondence show that the total loss OF
life in the territory visited by the tor
nado already amounts to sixty-four
and the number injured to over fifty.
Telegraphic communication to regions
visited by the cyclone is interrupted,
and it is feared that when full details
are known the list of dead will be
heightened. The following table show
ing the loss of life together with the
injured is compiled from dispatches
forced through by courier and telephone
from devastated localities: Columbia.
Tenn, 40 killed, 10 injured; Lagrange,
killed. 6 injured Iavergne, Tenn, 2
killed, 1 injured; Thompson, Tenn, 1
killed; Nolansville, Tenn, killed, in
jured; Love Station, Tenn, killed, 1
injured; Tunica, Miss, killed: Lula,
Miss, killed; Herndo, Miss, killed:
BateSyille. Miss, injured; BoXley'S
Store, Tenn, killed; Franklin, Tenn,
2 injured; total, 81 killed, 81 injured.
Birmingham, Ala, November 21-By
telephone from Columbia, Tenn, the
following details of the storm We're OBJ
tanned this afternoon:
The loss of life in the vicinity of Co.
lumbia is estimated at from thirty-five
to forty. Most of these We're negroes,
about twelve or fourteen only being
white. The storm did not strike the
town Of Columbia proper, but swept
over the district to the northwest of
the place. No additions were made to
the list previously sent out of white
persons killed at Columbia.
Immense damage was done to farms
and hundreds of head of live stock were
killed
Considerable damage resulted at Mar
tins mill and at Indian Creek Twenty
houses at Dallas, Ala. near Hunts
Vile, were demolished, but no lives
Were lost.
Near Franklin the residence of Abe
Little was destroyed. Mr.. Little and
Mr.. S. NJ. Hughes were badly hurt. At
Boxtree a storehouse was DESTROYED and
three negroes killed.
Kansas City, Mo-. November PA
telegram received at the general offices
of the Kansas City Fort Scott and
Memphis railway here confirms the re-
port that nineteen lives We're lost at
and near LAGRANGE, Tenn. Property
damage in LAGRANGE amounts to $40, 600.
The storm, according to the railway
officials, circled around Memphis, be-
ginning ait Lulu. Miss, fiftysiX miles
south of Memphis, on the YaZoo and
Mississippi Valley railroad, and going
through Batesville Miss, on the Illl-
uois Central railroad, about sixty miles
south of Memphis, to the northeast
through LAGRANGE.
Nashville Tenn, November 21.-Ten-
nessee was swept last night by the
most destructive storm ever known ir
the state. More than so persons were
killed and 100 or more injured, while
the damage to houses, timber and other
property will reach large figures.
The storm entered the state from
northern Mississippi and swept across
in a northerly direction. Great dam
age is reported from the counties bor-
dering on Mississippi and, further on
Columbia, in Mauray county, is the
heaviest sufferer. Lavergne, Nolan
Vile, and Callahan also felt the wind s
force, the storm finally losing it's force
against the Cumberland mountain
range. Columbia's casualties number
twenty-five dead and fifty injured, the
list so far as known being as follows
Dead-Misses Florence and Evelyr
Farrell, Captain and Mrs. A. F. Aidlot
Guy Aidlot.
Injured-Paul Aidlot, James Cherry
Miss Lizzie Forsythe, Mrs. Tom Car
roll, Miss Nj. j. Viles Gall whfte), ant
twenty-five negroes.
The path of the storm is about fifty
yards wide and was through the
northwestern suburbs of the town. III
it's path everything is completely
wrecked. Not even the iron and stone
fences of the arsenal grounds arr
standing. The houses of Captain Aid
Lot he nd
dences were demolished.
With the exception of these fou
houses, the storms path was through
a section of the town populated chief!
by negroes and the poor classes, an'
the houses were mere novels. II i
estimated that $50 of them We're total!
destroyed and larger number dam
aged. The suffering of the people, rem
dered homeless, and bereft OF all thei
goods, is pftiabie.
The humber OF houses destroyed il
the Nolansville neighborhood is six
teen There were two fatalities, a!
follows: Miss Mamie Hampton, aget
25, and Mrs. Nancy Bramlett, aged s
years
All of the sixteen houses were totally
destroyed. Mr.. Hampton had S400 ir
money and this was blown away and
only a part was recovered.
A baby OF Jim Chrisman, colored, re-
ported lost. was found 800 yards from
the house at 10 o'clock lying near q
branch unirjured. One Of the family
dogs was lying by his side.
At Lavergne sixteen miles south ol
here on the Nashville, Chattanooga ane
St Louis road. the velocity OF the vino
lewas marvellous and from best report:
lasted only about twenty seconds. II
this short time about thirty-five dwell
Iings We're turned into kndhng wood
The loss of life is small compared witt
the miraculous escapes made. Tht
wind made a swath about 200 yard:
wide through the middle OF the town
The Laxergne high school and the de