New-York tribune., 1906-11-19
DEATH In STORMS PATH
FIVE PERSONS PERISH.
much Damage Done at Winona
Mss, and adjacent Region.

memphis, Nov. 1S.-Telegrap phc and teephonic
communications received to-day from points in
mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee. for dis
lance of several hundred miles. report that
territory to have suffered last night and early
to-day from a destructive rain and wind storm.
Only meagre details are yet obtainable
but five lives are known to be lost and great
damage to have been done TO property and crops.
Railroad traffic from Memphis is demoralized
by numerous washouts and many trains have
been annulled
From the reports so far received the greatest
damage occurred in the central and delta re-
gions OF Mississippi.
At Winona Miss the Roman Catholic. the
Christian and the Negro Methodist churches and
| the Hesty brickyard were demolished and many
other buildings We're unroofed and damaged
Among the largest buildings damaged at that
place are the postoffice, the Opera House. the oil
mill. the cotton compress the warehouse of the
Jackson Mercantile Company and the house OF
E. ]. Bunkston. Besides these. twenty-five
smaller buildings were partly damaged.
Telegraphic communication is Frustrated.
OF those buildings not destroyed, the Com
press was probably the most severely damaged
The roof of this building torn off by the
wind. which at times reached almost the velocity
| of a tornado, falling on the home of E j. Dunk
ston, 250 yards away. The windstorm was pre-
Gus washouts along the route of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad and damaging crops
At Mathson, Miss, serious damage is re-
ported to have occurred A woman was killed by
a falling building there.
At Tchula q falling tree striking small frame
building caused it to be set af1re, burning a
woman and child to death.
At Noncomah Creek, a few miles from
Memphis railroad trestIe fell under the weight
OF a switch engine. the engine plunging into the
swollen stream, carrying with 1t the engineer,
c. V. Peterson, and the fireman, A. R. Ritchie.
who drowned.
West Point, Columbus and Mahin Miss, are
reported to have suffered serious damage. but as
/ these points cut off from communication II
is impossible to verify the report.
Wolf River a small stream in the vicinity Of
Rossville, Tenn. is out of its banks, the water
flooding the surrounding territory for many
miles The entire town Of Rossville is inun-
dated the water in the public square reached a
depth of four feet, and great damage has been
done to property at that place and eastward.
a railroad empIoye arrived here this afternoon
on handcar from Rossvle reports the people
of that place almost in state of panic, the food
being the worst in the towns history. Quanti-
ties of loose cotton have been washed away, as
well as many small buildings and livestock
drowned. For eight miles between this place
and Moscow, Tenn. the water is from one TO six
feet deep on the tracks of the Southern Railway.
To-nieht the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
annulled all night trains from Memphis because
Of the weakness of the bridges across Wolf
River The Nashville. Chattanooga & ST Louis
Railroad expects TO have their track in shape to
run trains by tomorrow. On the Southern road
all trains are detoured by way of the Frisco
and Mobile & Ohio routes. On these roads,
while traffic is greatly delayed, all trains are
running
Chicago. Nov. 18.-At the office of President
Harahan of the Illinois Central Railway, the fol-
lowing dispatch received to-day:
a storm which passed Wnona.
Miss, last night about o'clock blew down Cal
vary Church and the Christian Church. took the
roof off the Cotton Compress and blew in the
front OF the pOstoffiCe. The storm also damaged
a number OF houses. No lives We're lost there.