The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-30
CYCLONE IN DALLAS
HOUSES BLOWN TO
 THE GROUND.
storm Struck sparseIy Settled Section Five Miles North of Selma, Pain- fully Injuring seversl Negro
 Farm Hands.
Advertiser Bureau.
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Advertiser Bureau, Selma, Sept. 2s. A report reached here this morning of a. cyclone which visited a small part of Dallas county north of Selma yesterday afternoon
 The cyclone formed about i've miles north of the city yesterday afternoon about o'clock.
 The path of the storm was very narrow and only extended for a few miles. Many trees and everything in the path of the wind was destroyed but the damage done will not amount to very much.
 On the plantation of Maj. McKin- non, it Is said that several negro cab ins were blown down. On the Kall place. about a mile further a house oc- cupied by white family named Mar tin, was blown down.
 One of the Martin children was in- jured by the falling house. The in- jury is not considered serious and it is thought that the child will recover in a few days. No one else Is re- ported as having been hurt
 The path traversed by the wind was through a thinly settled section or otherwise there might have been more casualties. It was reported here this morning that the cyclone had ex- tended as far as Summer6eld and that that village had been blown away. This report proved untrue as the cy- clone was several miles this side of that place.
 Heavy black clouds were noticed just north of here yesterday after noon about o'clock. While 1t was noticed that the temperature was very low at that time. 1t was only thought that the counry north of Selma was being visited by very. heavy rain.
 Negro shot.
 In the saloon of James Campbell, at the corner of Alabama and Washing ton street. this afternoon. at 1:30 o'clock. Tom Bailey, negro. was shot and slightly wounded by W. P. Turner, a white man. The negro was shot on the left side of the head with a 3S pistol and the shooting is claimed to have been accidental.
 After the shooting Turner. who claims to be from Spartanburg, s. C., was arrested and carried to police headquarters. He says that he was in the lavatory. just in the rear of the negro barwhen an old negro whom he knew by sight came up with gun. The negro begged to be treated and he went with him in the negro bar and bought him a drink end, a cigar.
 Tom Bailey was standing around and said to Turner that he had good pistol and went behind the counter and got it and brought the weapon out to show the white man, saying that 1t was not loaded. Turner and the negro began playing. Turner had the pistol and was snapping 1t when suddenly the weapon went of, the ball striking the negro near the left temple and after ploughing it's way under the scalp, came out near the top of the head.
 Turner and eye witnesses to the tell practically the same story. After the shooting the negro was carried to his home in the north srn part of tbs city, and 1t is not believed that the injury will prove serious.
 Turner Is a travelling patent medi- zine man and claims to represent the Majestic Medicine Company of Spar 
 He has made Selma his headquart- against Turner will propably be called n police court Monday and if the negro is well enough to be present the ,ase will be hard.
 Traffic Resumed.
 Traffic on the Pensacola division ,f the Louisville and Nashville out
  The regular passenger train was sent ,ut at 9:20 o'clock. the coaches which 'un on the train from here to Myrtle wood were used.
 The wrecker which went down to to clear the wreck re- turned last night about l2 o'clock The vrecker brought one coach crowded with white and negro passengers.
 Engineer Jennings of the train wrecked at Myrtlewood was badly 'calded. Baggage Master T. c. Herbert vas also injured by safe falling up- m him. The news boy on the train vas also slightly injured. None of the 'assengers were reported to have been injured
 All of the section hands on the dyrtlewood branch of the Louisville md Nashville, were sent down the Pensacola division this morning. They will be put to work clearing up the main line.
 The train on the Southern Railroad l 20 Thursday morning arrived here bout IF o'clock last night The pas- engers tell narrowing stories of the torm which swept over Mobile We'd esday night. The wholesale houses on Water treet are being flooded with letters 1 rom their country customers all over
 
 ell of great damage which the storm | i'd Thursday to the cotton crop. They bring the information that the | rops in this section are almost a total | oss. Many of the letters ask the ad- | Ice of the merchants and want to | now if they think 1t would be worth 'hile to pick to staple out Of the lud in which the heavy winds buried The loss is figured at from a half to third of the crop The greater part the crop has yet been unpicked and nat polls were open in the field are a loss. As the cotton IS Ill of dirt and if gathered up would ring a very low price.
 This condition or the crop seems to general all over this part of the ate Conservative business men fig re that alone in cotton the storm i'll cost the farmers in this section
 least million dollars.
 In figuring the loss out today. bus1. ess men think that the cotton loss
 Dallas county alone will amount to OO'OOO With the lowest figures as a ISIS they counted on Dallas county one raising 10000 bales of cotton. ne loss to the crop from the storm
 the county it is thought will nor less than 12,000 bales or In actual oney in the neighborhod of half A illion dollars. Many of the letters received by the [ erchants also ask advice as regard , 2 their disposing of the cotton which , ey had already picked and sinned. , Ut the tenor of all the letters seems
 be that they do not want to dis. 'se of their cotton for less than ten ! , nts pound.