The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-19
CYCLON|C STORMS
DAMAGE TOWNS
Northern Half of Missis-
sippi Cut Off From Com
munication With South
LIVES LOST

NEW ORLEANS. Nov 1s.--Much of
the northern half of Mississippi was
cut off from Geographic communication
with New Orleans all of today. poles
and wires having gone down in last
nights storm. Reports reached the
Western Union Telegraph Company
here that the storms have been of cy-
clonic intensity in the region of Wi
mona and Granada, and that several
buildings and one church had been
damaged or blown down at Winona.
while Granada suffered still greater
damage.
Canton, a town about sixty FIVE
miles south of Winona and the nearest
point toward the latter place reached
from here. reported that nothing what
ever had been heard from Winona since
the storm. Canton was swept by a
heavy wind shortly before daybreak,
have passed farther north.
Jackson, Miss, reported a high wind
and hail storm during the night In
New Orleans the nearby storm made
itself felt by the highest temperature
for this season on record during the
past ten years. the mercury rising
above so degrees. A high wind accom-
panied the heat.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov 1s.-Tele-
graphic and telephone communication
from points In Mississippi, Arkansas
and Tennessee for a distance of sew
eral hundred miles report that territory
to have suffered last night and early
today from one of the most destructive
rain and wind storms in years.
Only meager details are as yet OBJ
tainable, but five lives are known to
have been lost and great damage done
to property and crops. Railroad traffic
from this point is demoralized on ac-
count of the numerous washouts and
many trains have been annulled.
From the reports SO far received the
greatest damage occurred in the CEN
trail and delta regions of Mississippi.
At .Winona, Miss. the Catholic.
Christian and Methodist churches and
the Hesty brickyard were demolished
and numerous buildings unroofed and
otherwise badly damaged. Among the
largest buildings damaged at this place
are the postoffice, opera house, the oil
mill, the cotton compress, the ware
house of the Jackson Mercantile Com
pany and the residence of z. J. Dunk
ston. Besides these, about twenty-fiv
smaller buildings were almost COM
pletely destroyed.
At Mathison, Miss, serious damage is
reported to have occurred and a woman
was killed by a falling building.
AT Tchula a falling tree. striking a
small frame building, caused il to be
set afire and a woman and child were
burned TO death.
At Nonconnah Creek, a few miles
from this city, a railroad trestle fell
last night under the weight of a
switch engine. the engine plunging into
the swollen stream, carrying with it
Engineer c. V. Peterson and Fireman
A. r. Richie, who were drowned.
West Point. Columbus and Manned.
Miss, are reported to have suffered
serious damage, but as these points are
completely cut off from communication
1t is impossible at this time to ascer-
tain the extent.
MEMPHIS. Nov. 1s.-Wolf River. a
small stream running eastward from
this city. is overlooking It's banks. In
the vicinity of Rossville, Tenn. this
river is flooding the surrounding ter
ritory for many miles, Rossville being
entirely inundated.
A railroad employee arriving here this
evening on a handcar from RossviIle
reports that the people of that place
are almost in a state of panic Guam
titles of loose cotton have been washed
away, as we'll as many small buildings
and some livestock has been drowned
For a distance of eight miles between
this place and Moscow. Tenn, the
water is from one to six feet deep on
the tracks of the Southern Railway.
Tonight the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad annulled all night trains from
Memphis because of the weakness OF