The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-02-21
|E|CHT KILLED
MANY INJURED
Cyclone Strikes Shreveport Dur
ing Mardi Cras Gel
ebration.
MANY HOUSES DESTROYED
Most Of Them Were Small Siruc-
lures Occupied by Negroes.
Property Loss Reaches
Thousands.
Associated Press Special.

associated PreSS Special
| Shreveport, La, Feb. 21.-While
revelry reigned at a Mardi Gras
celebration yesterday afternoon
terrific cyclone struck the southern
portion of the city between and
O'Clock, killing eight persons, in
t1urlng more than fifty and des-
ftroying property the value OF which
VIII run into thousands of dollars.
| All the dead are negroes except
one, the two-months-old baby of A.
IL. Mannheim, which, while Its nurse
and mother were away. was blown
Several hundred yards from the
house. The home was completely
demolished
/ The tornado struck the city from
the southwest, and then. taking an
iarc, travelled ENTHUSIASTICALLY. pass
ing within a few hundred yards OF
lCentenary College, where windows
! were damaged
? The grand stand At the nAa pArs
y WAC partially wreckad AnA a~w~rA
studentA sho ~are e1~rn4stns 2
In ifhe campns were blown nbcut er
v
II Close to seventy-five houses we
ne demolished, most of them bel
In dwellings OF negroes The loss
property Will run far up into II
thousands. probably reaching 500
600. Four stores and a church, a.
run by negroes. were destroyed Il
THE city.
, In addition to the loss of proper
ty here considerable damage was
] wrought In Bossier Parish. across
Red River, where the cyclone made
its way after causing destruction
here. On the old c. J. Foster planta-
Ition ten or twelve cabins were blown
down, and on the J. p. Fulllove and
l.. r, Kirby places two barns. a gin,
one cotton house and six negro
cabins were demolished
The Lloyd and Berry residences
were destroyed at Abner on the
Smith plantation, ten miles from
Shreveport, where the depot was
also blown from it's foundation and
where one negro was killed
On the Foster place thirteen ne
groes were injured, two seriously.
and on the Fulliloye and Kirby
plantations two negroes met death
and four were hurt, two of them
perhaps fatally.
The most seriously injured per-
haps, was Mrs. Miller. nurse at the
Mannheim home, who is at a sanitar-
ium suffering from intense shock,
SO much so that the attending ply
sicians are apprehensive. She had
charge of the baby which was blown
away. Mr. Mannheim is injured, but
not seriously.
/ Another seriously injured citizen
| is H. L. Radcliffe, real estate dealer,
| who was knocked down while stand
| ing in the street at Freewater'
| where he had gone on business. He
| was carried into negro house I'M
| conscious. and later was sent home
| suffering from a wound in the fore
| mead. caused by a piece of wreck
age striking him
J. NJ. Cook and wife, whites, In
| business at Freewater, were badly
| injured when their home was de-
molished. Mrs. s. L, Stephens, sis
ter Of Mrs. Cook, who was standing
On the gallery with her child in her
arms when the cyclone struck. bare
ly escaped. saving the child also.
| The Hopewel negro church was
blown down, as were the stores OF
Louis Parker, Mack Miles, Amour
Miles and Arthur Hawkins.
| Mayor Eastman went to the scene
and had supplies sent to the home
less probably total of forty FAINT
lies.