The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-07
CYCLONE AT ALEXANDRIA
Louisiana City Greatly Damaged
by Wind.
FOUR KNOWN FATALITIES.
Several Other Persons Sustained Injur-
les, About One Hundred Buildings
Either Wrecked or Partially So and
Forty Box Cars Blown Away.

Forty Box Cars Blown Away.
Alexandria, La, April g. - Several
persons dead. many injured and about
100 factories, stores and dwellings
either totally vrecked or partially so,
are some Of the results Of a cyclone
that swooped down upon this city be,
tween ! and 2 o'clock Friday morning.
AS soon as it was possible the work
of rescue began. At 8 o'clock the
bodies of NJ. |. Dunn. John Brock, G..
White and Rose Dudley were taken
from the debris of buildings. At the
same hour thirteen persons, some of
them probably fatally injured, had
been taken to the hospital.
Among the establishments demol-
ished was the plant of the Alexandria
Ice and Cold Storage company.
Forty box cars were blow off the
tracks and most of them and contents
wrecked.
The cyclone, according to informa-
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point three miles above this city on
Bayou Rapides to Pinewoods, several
miles below here on Red river.
Reports from surrounding country
tell of property damage and loss of
life. The list of dead Is growing and
there are a great many injured. All
buildings in the path of the cyclone
were destroyed and those on the out
skirts badly damaged. The wind was
accompanied by heavy rain and hail
and CROWN gcrops were seriously in
jured.
Nine passenger coaches standing In
the yards of the Iron Mountain rail.
road were swept off the tracks and
rolled over. Heavy pieces of wreckage
were blown entirely through some OF
the coaches. An effort is being made
to obtain complete list Of the dead
and injured In and Immediately around
the city.
A revised list of dead made up to
noon Friday is as follows: Omer Beck,
white, carpenter; Matthew Dunn,
white, carpenter; Ora Dudley, negress;
Lydia Harding, negress. Seventeen
injured are now In the hospital
Among these are Mrs. T. P. Couvillion
and her son Wilfred, both badly in
jured; Mrs. Omer Beck, badly injured;
Mrs. Frank Mertins, Mrs. Matthew
Dunn and three negro men-Houston
Jee, Robert Harding and Thomas
Archinard.
The city electric power house was
badly damaged. J. J. Thorburns store
was completely demolished. The Cad
do Rapides Lumber company sustained
fully 10 900 damage. Alexandria Ice
factory $1,000 damage. The Interna-
tional planning mill suffered several
thousand dollars damage.
A number of stables were blown
down and some horses and mules
killed.
Mrs. Mat Dunn, whose husband was
among those killed, is in the SAM
tarium in dying condition. Three
of her children who were also wounded
are also there.
Omer Beck, forty-five, a stonecut-
ter. and his wife and two children were
wounded and one of the latter is like.
ly to die.
Two negro women. named Ora bud.
ley and Lydia Harding, are dead.
Tom Archinard, hackdriver, had
his back broken and will probably die.
He was driving his team across a
bridge and the tornado took him, team
and cab into Bayou Rapides.
The Red Light district, across the
Bayou Rapides. was badly wrecked,
there not being house that was not
more ar less damaged
The wind blew from southwest to
northeast and crossed the river. Only
a few shanties were blown down across
the river, but the timber was badly
blown down in the path of the cyclone.
There is no estimating at present
the loss in property valuation and
very little is covered by cycone in
surance.
There were eight passenger coaches
blown off the track in the Iron Noun,
tain yards belonging to the Iron Noun.
tain and the Louisiana and Arkansas
railroads.
Paul Lisso president, and j. P. Tur
of the Progressive league went
out collecting for those who were
made homeless.