Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-03-08
MANY BODIES IN THE RUINS
Wire Service Frustrated and the
Search For the Victims Car
ried On Under Difficult Con-
ditiOns.
THE UNION DEPOT AMONG THE
BUILDINGS BLOWN AWAY.
Latest Accounts Estimate the Loss
OF Life at II White Persons and
over 100 Negroes, and IA Prop
erty Loss of $I,50O,OOO.

Mobile, Ala, March 3.-Informatior
has reached Mobile by telephone that q
destructive tornado visited Meridian
Miss, at G;30 last evening, killing q
white persons and over Il hundred col
o1eG people, and damaging property tc
the extent Of 81, 500, GOO.
There We're scores seriously injured
by being caught in wreckage of houses
The tornado caught the city on the
! southwest and Travelled to the north
east, eXpendng itself in two suburbs
where many negroes were killed and
injured. a whole tenement district be-
ing wiped out.
Two large wholesale stores, one
smaller one, the principal hotel, the
electric lighting plant and all the
smaller property between the Mobile &
Ohio railroad depot and the business
part Of the city are badly damaged.
Twenty-one men were caught in res
taurant and several were killed. Two
stories Of the Y. NJ. C. A. building were
wrecked ard the upper stories of other
buildings suffered.
The negro tenement district in the
north Of the city was demolished and
the debris caught fire, threatening a
new danger, but the local department,
with the help of hundreds of citizens,
overcame this after a hard fight. They
were assisted by the torrential rain
following the tornado The city is in
darkness ard the full extent of the dis
ester will net be known until daylight.
The known path Of the storm was about
six hundred feet wide and one mile in
length.
Sixteen employees of the Queen &
Crescent railroad were buried in the
ruins, aud as far as could be learned
none Of them has been rescued.
a Number Killed, Many Missing.
Memphis Tenn, March 3.-A mum
Der Of per4ons are reported to be
killed by the tornado at Meridian and
many are missing and unaccounted
for Among those known 10 be dead
are:
J. r. Barry, police officer.
B. d. McGinnis.
w. f. Nelson, former police chief.
NJ. T. Singleton.
Mrs Ella Singleton, Wife of above.
-. Singleton, daughter and grand
daughter Of above.
Miss Margaret Slaughter.
John Smith, Southern railway engin-
Ger: Selma
w. r. Walton, manager Fordham
transfer company.
Claude Williams.
Five unknown men, found in resi-
Gences i'll one Of the suburbs.
Twenty bodies of negroes, found in
Buchanan's tenements.
Two tcd.es discovered in the ruins of
the Meridian fertilizer company.
Among the injured are: Charles Ell
mire w J. Woodside, 7 H. Brown,
Ernest Bennett, Frank Woodruff, Will
Yarbroueh w. C. Morrison.
The Western Union Telegraph Co.
reported having lost is miles of wire
and the Postal Telegraph Co. also
suffered great damage.
Fire in Devastated District.
Mobile. Ala. March ga private
long distance telephone message re-
ceivei from Meridian at 9:35 p. m.
Friday, says the fire is raging in the
devastated district The work of the
rescuers is going on brayely, but ow-
ing to all lights being out lanterns
and candles are being used and the
work is necessarily slow. 1t is thought
that many bodies are in the debris. The
union depot is one OF the buildings
blown away. The telegraph wires
are still down between Meridian, Mo