The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-07
SWEPT By WIND.
One Hundred and Fifty Persons
Are Reported Killed.
MANY ARE NEGROES.
Several Blocks CT Buildings Completely
Demolished, After Which the
Wreckage Took Fire. Great
Damage to Wires ard
Other Properly.

a dispatch from Mobile ssys q pri.
vate lorg distance message rtc.ivac
from Meridian, Mss, at 9 40 p. ~.
says the f:e is rsgicg in the devassst.
ed district. The work o. the rescus:s
IS going braVely on, bus owing 80 al
lights being ou5 lanterns and candles
are being used ed the work is neees,
Sary slow. It is thought that 15C
bodies are In the Wreckage. The union
depot is one Of the buildings b?oHn
away. The telegraph wiz are SILL
down between Msridian, NJ bile and
other points.
a large rumber Of persons are
known to be killed ard many axe mss
ing and unaccounted for st naidnight.
Among those known to be dead arc:
Mrs. Ella Singleton and granddaugh,
ger, Mackey Slaughter, Claude VIII
liams. P T. McInnis, conductor OF
The Mobile and Oaio railroad; vii
liam B. Nelson, frmerly ci5y mar.
shall. Among the wounded are:
Charles E.nire, W. !. Wto5sida, T.
q. Brown, Ernest Bennett, Franz
Woodruff, VIII Yarbrough and W. G,
Morrison.
Information has reached Mobile by
telephone, all telegraph wires bel.
doBn, that a destructive tornado Wis
tied Meridian, Miss, at 80 O'clock
last evening, killing 81 white persons
and over hundred negroes and dam
aging property to the extent OF ST.
500, 900. There were also scor~s zari-
ously Injured bV being caught in the
Wreckage OF houses. The tornado
caught the city on the southwest anc
Travelled to The northeast, expen3 ,cc
itself in two suburbs Whsre many ne
g1oss were killed and Injured, q whole
tenement district being wiped out.
Two large wholesale stores, severaI
smaller ones, part Of the principal
hotel, the electric lighting plant and
all the small property between tie
MOBILE anG O lio railroad and the busi"
ness part Of the city was badly dam
aged. Twenty nen were caught in
one restaurant and several were killed.
Two stories of the Y. NJ. G. a. tuilC-
ing were wrecked and other buildings
suffered in the upper stories. The
negro tenement district north Of the
city vas demolished ard the debris
c.ught FIRE, threatening a new daDget
but the local department., wish the
help O: huadrees OF cit;z Es, cV:rcame
tais after hard fight. They aese
assisted by torrentiai rain following
the tornado. The city is in darkness
snd the full extent OF the disaster will
not be known until daylight. TIE
krown path OF the storm was about
500 feet wide and one mile n lenggh.
A long distance message to Tne
Item from Meridian, Miss, says cy.
clone accom- panied by heavy rain
struck that city this evening at $50
o'clock. Tie st)Im centre Has il the
southern portion OF 5he city aad part
!culsrly hea"y along Front strse5,
one of the principal business 2treets OF
she town. Nearly every house %
Font street is reported - have been
demolished. TEE Armour Packing
plant firm 8fich tais message was re.
ceived By lorg distance, is the only
building left staadiag and the rco1
OF this is gone.
Fire broke out in the ruins and de.
spite the heavy rain, the fsmes we're
burning fercsiy when this report was
fled. a humber Of bodiss are report,
ed to be ia Ine rn:ns ara 6t!s roscusGb
are working by caldle light. The city
Is in total darkness, tie elact1!c
lighting plant having bean put out
Of business. The cyclone did severe
damage at other points adj2cant to
Meridian and al trains eatGrIrg Mer.
ldan are delayed Indefinitely. Tle
The Western Union Telegraph comp.
any reported having LOST Is niles Of
wire and the Postal Telegraph com.
psny also suffered great damage.
The wires are down between Atlar.
"a, Birmingham, Memphis and othe1
points and 1T IS impossible to secure
communication with the stricken
city. A long distance message to TIE
Item from J. D. Breaux, service man
OF the Cum berlald Telephone cOmpa'
ny at Meridian, Miss, giTes complete
details OF the cyclone that stlucz
Meridian at s 80 O'Clock Friday even
ing astolloEs.
During heavy rain storm at $50
o'clock storm cloud developed in the
south and moved on the.city, striking
Frcnt street, the tusinese centre
| nith full force. The wind was prGb'
ably blowing IS miles an hour. The
cyclone passed over In about two min
utes and during that period three OF
four whole squares were GeTasted. a
conservative estimate places the num-
Der Of buildings blown down at be-
tween 80 and 10.
Among the heaviest losers are tht
Meyer s. Neville Hardware company
Tom L7!e & Co., wholesale dry goods
and groceries: Joseph Il. Moore
wholesale cry gooos aud groceries; tht
New Orleans ard Northwestern rail
ro.d freight dsso5 and othar bull
dings, the names OF which are moi
obtairable at this hour. TIE Mobile
and OHIO depot is safe as we'll as tns
Southern hotel, buUth Grand Ave
nue. hotel was co2sidershly damaged
the guests in the laI5er building ee
caping, and no cne wgs injured.
From thu business centre the cy
clone jumped to Est Ead, where
nunbsr CT residences wsre blo7E
down and others badly damaged. MI
Breaux states that the ruobor OF fltvs:
lost is small: probably not more thai
three CT four parsons. Oae OF the
victims, q man ramed Johnson, i:
hemned in by the wrsckage and a.
10 O'Clock FrlGay night be vas reach