The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-02-28
TUESDAY EVENINGS CYCLONE
TOOK Big TOLL
SIXTY PEOPLE KILLED
Great Damage Done Shipping and
Other Property in Its Track
Many Homes Destroyed in Differ
ent Parts of the Country and Many
Cattle Killed by Tees.

A total of twenty persons were
killed and at least three score in
jured, many of them seriously, in the
cyclonic storm which swept through
a strip Of northern Louisiana and
::,;:ssissippi Tuesday evening. The
property damage, according to the
! .rcomplete reports received here, will
perhaps total s50O,000. The fatali-
ties, except in three instances, are
confined to negroes. One white child
was killed at Shreveport, Mrs. Crow,
an aged white woman, was killed at
Homer, La, and a white man named
Timmon was killed near Ringgold,
La.
a dispatch from Meridian, Miss,
says a destructive windstorm swept
over this district Tuesday night. de-
stroyiag thousands Of dollars worth
Of property, killing many head Of
cattle and demolishing homes in the
surrounding country.
Rev. W. T. Carroll was seriously
injured when his home at Klondyke,
ten miles north Of Meridian, was de-
stroyed. A dozen other residences at
that place were blown down and a
number Of mules and COWS were
killed.
At Baily six negro houses and four
barns were DESTROYED. At Antioch.
a church was scattered in every di-
rection and two houses blown down.
The ;tore and home Of D. J. Stin-
sor, :; miles north Of Meridian. were
destroyed.
At Bodgett the new mill Of the
Sumter Lumber Company was un-
rooted, blown down, several negro
houses wrecked anu trees uprooted.
The high winds, starting their vio-
lent activities with a disastrous Wis
itation to Shreveport, La, Tuesday,
Wednesday continued their sweep oV-
er the Southwest and come on to the
Atlantic, demoralizing telegraphie
service in nearly all sections Of the
country.
The climax of their velocity en-
the Atlantic coast was reached at
Pensacola, Fla, where the gale at
tanned a 60-m;le an hour gait. At
Austin and San Antonio, Texas, con-
siderable damage was reported, while
the entire State of Texas felt the
force Of the winds.
A terrific wind and hail storm
swept over the little town Of Stamps,
Ark, Tuesday night, demolishing
several houses and killing cattle. No
loss of life has been reported. The
storm was followed by a light snow
fall.
The Piedmont says two dead, one
fatally injured, giant trees upreoted
and strewn through the forest, fences
and small houses blown from their
fastenings is the concrete results OF
the storm, which ragged Wednesday
at Travellers Rest, in GreenVille
County.
Citizens from Travellers Rest who
we're in the city Thursday morning
reported that the worst storm in
years struck Travellers Rest Wednes-
day reaching the height Of its vio-
lence Wednesday afternoon when the
wind blew a veritable hurricane.
According to the gentleman from
Travellers Rest large trees stood no
show with the wind and today the
forests are filed with trees scattered
here and there. Numbers Of fences
and small outhouses were blown COM
pletely over.
Mr.. Lewis Dundan and little Ruth
Watson, the S-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. Jesse T.. Watson, are dead as =
! esult of injuries received when MI.
Bishop whose given name could not
be ascertained has both legs broken
from which he later died.