The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-24
STORM DOES z MUCH DAMAGE Property Destroyed and
 Many Injured. ONE PERSON IS KILLED Three States Swept by Heavy
 Winds and Rain.
Several Persons are Reported injured at silver Greek. Miss. and Phy- sicians from Neishboring
 Towns Hasten to Scene.

| New Orleans. March 2s.--As result of heavy wind and rain storm which
 has prevailed In portions of Louisiana. | Mississippi and Alabama during the
 last twenty-four hours. much property | has been destroyed, many persons have
 been injured and at least one person has been killed.
 Cyclones have been reported from
 East Felscina Parish. Louisiana, and Jefferson Davis County. Mississippi, l while much damage has been done in
 the neighborhood of Fiomaton. Ala. | by heavy rains. Washouts along the
 line of the Louisville and Nashville
 Railroad north Of Mobile. have seri- l ously delayed trafic All telegraph and telephone wires sn the sections visited by the storms have been pros-
 tTated and details regarding the dam age done are in many instances lack l ing.
 Southern Mississippi, which aiready
 in the past months has suffered from two bad cyclones, appears to have been the storm center again today. | While much property damage was done
 in Mississippi by today's storm. no loss of life has been reported. and at
 an early hour tonight sufficient de- | tails had been received to indicate that this storm was not nearly as fatal as its two predecessors.
 At Silver Creek, Miss, four stores l were partially destroyed and about twenty other buildings were defacted stores were those of F. M. Ellxey. M. l.. Williamson, Hampton Rawls Company. and D, c. Grimm One mile from Sil- | yer Creek, the cyclone did character l istic trick to the Butler residence.
 which was reported as partly blown 1 away. Several members of the Butler | household were painfully injured. one | mile west of Silver Creek. the Lau- | ridge and Bright eawmill was badly damaged by the wind. which also blew
 down considerable valuable timber near the 1nifE
 1t was stated tonight that Mrs. Butt Ter may die of her injuries. Except at the Butter home there were no sari- ous injuries in this vicinity. There
 were. however, many marrow escapes,
 as when E. r. simpson. agent here Of 1 the Missisippi Central Railroad was I picked up bodily ana blown across q street of Silver Creek.
 The fact that no one hero was Killed is attributed to the roaring which 1 for several minutes preceded the ey- clones approach and which gave the | residents of the town an opportunity to find places of security. Several | persons chose safe hiding place when they climbed down the hank Of a creek and stood beneath . railroad trestle l in water knee-deep. Others crawled l into a culvert beneath ra.i-dsd eTn- | banknaent 1n the Silver Creak s.bool | house during the storm were hDout | 100 pupils who remained inside and
 suffered only e few bruises. although ! their school house was so badly twist l ed and defaced that 1t may hnvc to be entirely rebuilt. About s5.0OO NH 1 cover the loss at Silver Creek. while | damage in the immediate vicinity will
 bring the property loss up to about $IO,O00.
 At Summit Miss. there was a dis | tinctly cyclonic wind ui.eh, for q | width of half a milo. blew down many
 small buildings in it's path. The Sum- nit Catholic Church and Odd Fallows' | Hall were practically destroyed. There
 were no serious injuries in the vicinity of Summit.
 Prentiss. Miss, reports great dam age to timber buildines and fencts. Al this place the wind followed closely the track of a very fatal and destruc- tive cyclone of IsS2 Up to a late hour tonight details were still lacking
 from New Hebron and Grange. Mss. but indications were that no serious
 damage was done there.
 1 At Opeloussa. La. negro church was
 blown down and much property dam
 age done, Near opelousas the wind unroofed e saw rnill and scattered
 lumber over several acres of around.
 Alexandria. La, was struck ny the
 blow about daylight. and although lit-
 tie damage was done there was small 1 panic because of the fact that about year ago Alexandria was partly de-
 molished by a tornado.
 | Flood warnings have been Issued | for the Warrior and Tombigbee Rivsrs,
 in Alab anna. for which 50 to 57-foot
 stage Is predicted in the vicinity of | Tuscaloosa.
 At Norwood, in East Pelican parish,
 John Rollins was instantly killed and l about SlO.000 damage was done by a | cyclone early this forenoon. Rollins was killed by the falling wall of the 1 O. L. Bennett store. Many other | buildings were damaged. One of the exciting incidents of the cyclone was | the passage of freight train on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad | directly across the path of the wind. | Tf1 engineer put on all speed when realizing that he was caught in a cy- l clone, and escaped with the loss of the
 rooofs from two of the cars. More | than three inches of rain fell here
 today much of 1t after the cyclone.
 causing all the creeks in this locality to flood.
 ] PhyaicIaus to Render AId. Several physicians from neighboring | towns started for the vicinity or Sii- yer Creek in carriages on a difficult | and at times dangerous trip over
 washed-out roads. obstructed In
 places. by fallen trees, The physicians l had no information of any fatalities, but expected to find many persons suf- | fering from cuts and bruises. All wires on the Mississippi Central
 Railroad were lost early today. cut | fling of contamination with New He- | bron ann IaGrange, Miss
 Both these towns were near Silver | Creek and in line with the general direction taken by the cyclone Near | the Gulf Coast. in Mississippi and Ala
 bama, several washouts have been re- 1 ported on the Louisville and Nashville
 Railroad. Unusually heavy rains were reported. of which New Orleans re- | ceived a sample when 1 1-4 Inches of rain fell here in an hours time about noon today. There was, however. no serious damage in the vicinity or the city either from rain or wind. Vytnaatorrns of cyclonic intensity