Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-04-16
Another Violent Storm,

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Another Violent Storm.
New Orleans, April ia second
violert storm swept Mississippi, Louis
lana, Arkansas and TeDnesaee early tc-
day. Several deaths are reported ard
great damsge hes been done
New Orleans, La, April is Jack
son, The capital of Miss ssippi, Is today
ompletely cut of from wire communicc-
lion with the word IS resut of the
violet storm that swept through Miss
| issippi, paris of Tennessee. eastern Ar
kansas, far up as psrIs as Kentucky.
Hundreds of miles of telephone and
telegraph wires are down aud the alarm.
log repor's brought In has aroused the
greate,t apprehension. 1t is feared JacE-
son has suffered greatly. Nothing hiss
been heard from there aimee 10 o'clock
las. night when brief Bulletin said 8
tornado had struck The t1wo, tearing
down telegraph poles and inanting grea!
damage.
Communication with Memphis is in
terrupted, all wires in Tails section being
badly crippled.
Five iocbes of rain have already fall
en- throughout Tennessee, Mississippi,
ard eastern Arkansas. The wind resch-
! ed the velocity of q cyclone and heavy
bail storma prevailed near Jackson.
Hardly q railrCal escaped silhcu: one or
Two wash cuts during the day and sched-
ules are badly interrupted.
| At Comic, Masigold and Jonestown,
Mississippi we're blown down, many un-
| rooted end others lifted from their four-
| dations. The damage to crops has been
| immense. Thousands of crew OF cotton
have been inundated and truck farms
| flooded. ALI streams are far ont of their
banks and TIE low lands flooded.
Reports ssY very many head OF cattle
| aud other live STOCK have been destroyed.
Roads ere impossible aud bridges of all
kinds have been washed out.
S.. Louis, April 16.-ODly the edge
OF the storm that is sweeping tae south
| raschsd ST. Luis and vicinity, but tc-
| day heavy rain is falling. Hail ard
! rain, accompanied by a high w'ud, were
| general In this section and thrtu2b
southern Illinois last night. Great dam.
age is reported.
MIR. Roosevelt in the Austrian Capital
Vienna, April lG-Ambassador kar
/ eng was host Of MIR Roosevelt st luncbeoo
at tie II otel Bristol. Foreign Minister
| Aerenttal, b ron Hepgelmueller and
the baroness, Ambassador White,
Ooneul General DENLY and other di; :
tinsuiahed America9s aud Austrians
| were also guests ct this luncheou. 4
visit to The International Sporting Ex-
! hibition followed the luncheon. The
emperor will give court dinner for Mr..
Roosevelt tonight at the famous Schnor-
brun palace, TO be- followed by en- enter
| tainmebt at the Palace of the MargrRvc
Won Pal'a7icini 10 the Josefsplstz.
Mr.. Roosevelt will leave Tor Bldspest
Tomorrow mcruing at seven o'clock.
Paris, April lG-Ool, Roosevelt today
telegraphed his acceptance of member
ship 10 the French Academy. 'The
honor is unexpected and | gladly sccept," y
he wired.
Vienna, April 1D.-Mgr. Pignatelli,
the pspal nuncio st Vienna, called on
| Mr.. Roosevelt this afternoon in the
apartments OF United States Ambassador
Karens 10 the Hotel Btistol. Neither
Roosevelt nor Mgr. Piguatelli would
disclose the nature of the conversation
batween them, but that 1t bad to do with
the Roosevelt-valican incident Is believed
10 lie certain. It is reported that the
nuncio visited Roosevelt at the suggest
ton of the pope, Who has several tlmes
expressed bis regret over the breaking
{ Fl OF negotiations for Roosevelt to Visit
the vsticsu.,
London, April ia former member or an
| American Black Hand Society is under ar
| rest at Geneva on suspicion OF having designs
| On Mr.. Roosevelt, accor ling to today's dis.
patches from that city. He was arrested Ieai
The Italian border white enroule to Venice.
Japan Offers Aid to Peru.
LlubJ Ieiu, aPAh 80
rumors that Japan is o1.riDg aid to
eeru in her threatened war With Ecuador
in exchange for concessions from Peru,
received further support todsy by the
arrest OF a japanese at Gusssquil Ecut-
der. The alleged spy Ia an army eng!-
neer and has lived In Peru fer number
OF years.
The fact developed tcdsy, also, that
practically all of the thousand or more
Japanese resIdeuts Of Peru have offered
their services to Peru in the event OF
var. 4 number OF these Jsps are ve:er.
ans OF war at home. Their property To-
terests In Peru are such that they would
support this country 10 war. 1t Is be-
lieved, which strengthens the coucu-
sion that the Japanese are sciipg under
diret tions from Toxic.
a bill fixing the beginning of Gen.
Frederick D. Grants military service at
The time be served So 8 dispatch bearer
for bis father in the civil Was passed in
the H1u3s yeste.isy,