Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-10-11
NEW ORLEANS AND SURROUND
ING COUNTRY CENTER OF cY-
cLoNIc DISTURBANCES.
SKILLED, MANY INJURED
One Cut = Course Eight Miles Long
Through New orIeans-pamsse
in City and Country Mil
lion Dollars.

New Orleans, La.-This region
was the center of cyclonic disturb
ances, at least three of which were
tornadoes, and caused the loss OF six
lives. with ten persons seriously In
jured. About daylight heavy storms
broke within 100 miles west, north
and east Of New Orleans. Reports Oh
sugar cane and cotton crops blown
down or sugar mills demolished are
coming in. The damage, including
that done in New Orleans, is placed
at over 100000. The worst of the
tornadoes was north of New Orleans,
where it devasted portions of three
parishes. New Orleans was visited by
another tornado, and third passe,
northward of Biloxi, on the gulf coast.
The First Tornado a Killer.
The first tornado struck west &.
Baton Rouge parish, about G a. m,
killing Mrs. Theodule Forel and her
daughter, a Mrs. White. Mrs. Forels
body was found in q field near her
demolished house. Two children IN
Mrs. Forers house were fatally in.
jured. and five men we're injured in
the collapse OF a sugar refinery on
the st. Delphe plantation. Baton
Rouge was slightly damaged. In st
James parish one woman was killed
while Mrs. II. r. Webber and daugh
ter, Mrs. John Meyer and a negro
are reported fatally injured. Fifteen
buildings were blown completely
down in this parish.
At Pontachatoue George Halves and
son were killed by the collapse of
their house, a daughter died of her
injuries, and another Halves child
was fatally injured. A negro was also
fatally injured there, besides injuries
to a dozen other persons.
Fifty Injured in New Orleans.
The third tornado struck New Or
leans. While no lives we're lost here,
the property damage reached $780,
900, and about so persons were in
jured, one fatally. Fully 800 buildings
were damaged, about 70 being blown
Fat. Most of the demolished build
ings were negro cabins, and it was
here tnat nearly all the injuries &C.
Cured. The path of the tornado
through the city was about eight
miles, entering from the Mississippi
river at Audubon park and travelling
northward to MarengO and Carondelei
streets, and then, after a ciTcuitous
course 10 GraVier and Magnolia streets,
It passed northward out Of the city. In
places the storms path was about 80
feet wide, and only at two or three
points did 1t reach 100 feet. The tor
nado here appeared at a distance as
q cloud sweeping along the surface OF
the earth. It's course was undulat
ing, some buildings being skipped en-
4irely as it bounded skyward. Ere
quent,y 1t demolished verandas ant
fences on one side of the street, while
not an object on the other was dis
turbed.
Street Cars Exciting Race.
The cloud occupied several minutes
in crossing the city, and hundreds O
preaching mad time to run out of it,
pathway. One exciting race was mad
by a Carondolet street car, which wa
loaded with passengers on their wa!
to work. At Marengo street the mo
torman threw on full power. The fly
ing car was less than half blocl
past the Jail Alai roller skating rink
when that structure went down. Al
other street car was derailed. A smal
negro girl was blown so far across tn
new basin canal as to be rescued b.
persons on the opposite bank