The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1906-09-29
THURSDAYS STORM.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE TO PROPERTY
AND CROPS.
Trees Blown Down. Fences Wrecked,
and Buildings UnroOfed.
DAMAGE TO COTTON ESTIMATED AT
FIFTY TO SIXTY PER CENT.

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| Mississippi and other Gull
States we're visited by disastrous
wind and rain storm Wednesday
night, which ragged all day Thurs.
day, reaching its greatest fury in
this section Thursday afternoon.
News from other sections as
this report is being written is
meager, but the indications are
that the storm covered Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisi,
ana, and was very destructive tc
crops of all kinds, and especially
SO to cotton. At some of The
coast points, the damage to ship
ping>and property along the beach
was heavy, the infowing tide ris-
ing to great height.
In Lincoln county, and in fact
all over Mississippi, as far as
heard from, the damage to crops
has been enormous. The wind
from the Northwest blew a per-
feet gale for over twelve hours,
accompanied by a steady, driving
rain, which overfowed creeks and
smaller streams and completely
saturated the earth. Corn in the
fields was IeVeled to the ground,
most of the cotton open was blown
or beaten from the bolls and The
stalks and branches made the
playthings of the angry winds,
which, to great extent, stripped
them of their leaves as well as the
open cotton and unopen bolls. II
is safe to say, few more disas-
Grous storms to the cotton crop
have ever been experienced 10
this section. The most conserya-
tive estimates place it at so per
cent.
Here in Brookhayen, business
fof. all kinds was practically sus-
pended during the day, z
Signs were blown down. several
houses unroofed, shade trees and
fences leveled in many parts of
the city, and telephone and cleo
trio light wires badly tangled and
fdisarranged,
No attempt was made to turn
on the electric current Thursday
night for fear of damage to life
land property by live wires, and
as consequence, all business
houses closed before dark, and
the only reliance for lighting that
night in private residences were
candles and the discarded kero-
sene lamp.
Several buildings in the city
we're partially unroofed and 9th
ers caused to leak badly which had
lneFer leaked before. "a Iarpe
part of the roof of the Masonic
Temple was blown of, aoodins
1.-THE elegant lodge room, and the
EoMces and stores below. Two
chimneys and some of the brick
looping were also blown of by the
wind. The roof was partly blown
off the business and editorial
office of The Leader and the Office
flooded with water. Several 9th,
Ter places suffered 10 like manner
Ito a greater or less extent.
No trans came ia on the Mis-.
Esissippi Central Railroad Thurs
iday night, and the regular sched
.tule had not been resumed up te
last night account of interfer
ance with The trains by storms
Most OF the trains on The IIIinoI.
/ Central were also delayed, bul
! none were annulIed.
It would be difficult to approx
mateIy estimate the loss TO thll
county alone by the storm, but i
will be very great.
ELSEWHERE.
/ The loss at Pensacola, Fla, i,
estimated At 81, ,000, 900.
Travel was suspended betWeel
New Orleans, Mobile and Missis
Esippi coast towns and telegrapbi'
conneotien cat of
The damage was heavy at Wes
End from water driven in iron
1.-THE Gull, Many houses were nn
lroofed and shade trees uproete.
Iih New Orleans.
Chancellor Garland Lyell ha
called q special term Of The chan
cery court Of Copiah county Il
begin next Thursday, at whic!
ltime matters of Importance vii
come up for consideration. Th
new code changed the time fo
holding chaHcery court ia Cupiah
land this special term was mad
necessary because the code doe