The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1921-04-30
SCENE AT BRAXTON
CALLED APPALLING
Inhabitants See Savings of Life
time Destroyed and Rel
atives Buried.

Jackson, Miss, April 2S.-A large
number of citizens of Jackson went
down to the now desolate spot know
previous to Tuesdays storm as the
town of Braxton, yesterday afternoon
by train over the Gulf and Ship Is
land Railroad, a distance of about 20
miles, all. of them declaring on their
return that "the half had never been
told" The once thrifty little village
that nestled among the tall pines in
the upper edge of Simpson county
was gone-a mass of broken, splin-
tered, twisted timbers, trees and
shrubs, piled about promiscuously
wheer once stood happy homes and
prosperous places of business.
Solemn-faced men, sad-eyed wo-
men and little children still crazed
over the appalling disaster that had
overtaken them, stood about in small
groups, searched the wrecks, nursed
the injured, dug graves or attended
funerals most of the day. A pail Of
gloom had spread over the awful
scene and the distressed people
hardly knew which way to turn or
what to do. They had seen the saw
ings of lifetime swept away with
in the twinkling of an eye. 1t
might have been worse,' but these
now helpless people find that hard
to believe. The loss of their homes
was hard to bear, but harder still
was it found to give up their dead.
Those remaining are living in
tents or in temporary rough shelters
and dependent on their friends and
sympathetic public for the neces-
stiles of life, clothing and bedding
as well as provisions, and the need
is immediate.
Among the Jackson men at Brax-
ton yesterday was Mayor Walter
Scott, and who in telling of condit-
icns said the disaster was complete
the residence and business districts
simply no longer exist. Not only
did the cyclone destroy the town,
but the timbers were torn into
kindling wood, and the residents will
have very little in the salvage for
rebuilding.
'The survivors of the disaster ap-
pear dazed," said the mayor. They
stood about in little groups, the wo-
men with tear-strieken faces, SEEM
ingly unable to understand what
had happened to them. Coffns were
being carried hither and thither,
and during the melancholy work of
bringing some semblance of order
out of chaos, plans were being made
for funerals, and graves were being
dug in the village cemetery. 1t was
scene that simply beggars descrip-
ton"
Jackson is subscribing literally to
the relief fund.
STATE TEACHERS TO MEET.
A large number of the teachers of
Jackson and Of Kinds county will
move on to Meridian next week to
attend their state convention which
meets. on May the 4th and contin-
ues three days. The heads Of the de-
partment of education from Superin-
tendent Bond on down the list ex-
pect to be there also, the Teachers
Association is the largest and strong
est organization of the kind in Mis-
sissippi and legislation enacted at
the 1920 session Of the lawmakers
is proof conclusive that it has a pow
erful influence
TO L1QUIDGTE DEFUNcT BANK.
1t is possible that the affairs Of
the Delta Bank and Trust Company
at Clarksdale may be Strengthened
out In few days and business re-
sumed. Attorney General Frank Ro-
berson. Watkins & Watkins and ]. N. |
Flowers, attorneys for the State
Banking Department, left here today
for Clarksdale to see what can be
done. Eastern creditors are said to
have agreed to a two-year extension
Of paper. and 1t is believed by the
representatives of the state some
plan will be agreed on at this con-
ference.