The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1909-04-09

it's way diagonally through just
south Of the business portion, up-
roofing trees, telling fences. and un-
roofing houses. The first material
damage it did was visited upon the
mill and gin plant Of N. II. Sanders
x son. located at the outpost Of its
entrance. Here it carried away the
Tin roof and otherwise inflicted dam
age The next was The cottage oc-
cupied by Mr.. McGhee Porter.
Here "a large tree was blown down,
deTnolishing the west end of the
front veranda The next residence
was that Of Nh. f. :. Mcknight,
which sustained damage to the ex-
tent Of the destruction Of the entire
front gallery, with injury to the
walls and roof, aggregating a loss Of
possibly $500. No considerable
damage. except to trees, fences and
ioofs was done until il reached the
County Court House Here it blew
ont all glass In the windows on the
exposed side of the building and
tore away about one-third of the
roof. Then came the climax to the
awful tragedy. 1t swooped over the
bluff intervening between the court
house and the Illinois Central de-
pot building, substantial brick
structure, and swept it to the face
Of the earth. 1t VAS about the time
for the arrival of the night train,
and number of people had assem-
bleed ia the waiting rooms to meet
incoming friends. Here the cyclone
dealt its first destruction to human
life The walls of the wrecked build
ing came down upon the panic
stricken people, pinnioning them
under the ruins, crushing out life i'm
some and intiicung INJURY upon 9th
era 1t was an awful moment. The
cries Of the dying and wounded,
Mingled with the fierce roar Of the
tempest, was enough to parable the
hravest heart and transfx it 10 in
activity with horror. But not SO,
there were stout hearts present, and
those whom the storm spared. rush
ed to the recue of their dead dying
and imprisoned companions soon
the entire population was engaged
in the work. and the following
dead and injured were taken from
the wreck
THE DEAD
w. c. Mcmillan, Cashier Of Bank
of Aberdeen
T. T. Mcmillan, his son. and mem
Der of Mcmillan Cotton Co.
Frank Milligan. negro.
Green Cannady, negro.
THE INJURED.
John Wilkes, Bob Caldwell, Toe
Thomas, George Franklin, operator.
Ike Franklin, operator, p. B. Win
burn. fiagman, John Watkins, flag
man. \. +. King. tlagman. VIM.
Donelson, colored hack driver.
In addition 10 the above more
than half dozen were slightly in
jured. After leaving the depot the
storm demolished several negro cab
ms. and completely RACED the resi-
dence of Mr.. Billy Steel, occupied
hy eight persons, one or two of whom
sustained slight injuries The won
der is that any escaped with their
lives, the walls of the structure be-
ing felled 10 the floor with the roof
intact resting thereon The miracles
wrought in storm are incompre-
hensible, and, doubtless, are order
ed BY protecting Providence. The
cyclone next lifted the residence Of
Mr. A. ! Taylor bodily from its
pillars and set it down twenty feet
away near the brink Of the river.
Here it crossed the Bigbee. and tore
its way through the timbers of the
valley.
The damage to property has been
estimated at amounts from $50, 900
to $4,000 The forest trees that
grew in its wake were felled to earth,
and the beauty of the streets in that
section is greatly marred. The splen-
did lawn Of oaks on the property
of Capt. +. l.. Sykes suffered extern
sive damage and destruction. while
shrubs. fences, windows and roofs
of numerous other properties sus-
tanned more or less injury. At this
writing the injured are reported as
doing we'll. and. il Is thought, all
vii rtcavt.r. Thr Wrekly with All
others. symp1ihz q eply with the
uIfouuua1r, and -taaelr ready TO aid
III suffering in what, Yer way
can.
\ line oil painting Of TX. Gov
ernor A. Il Longiuo. the gift II
Mrs. LONGING, wiIl be hung ii the
hall of the State = rcliiyes and His