14: " THE LEAVES OF THE TREE Were FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS. 



building and several stores and residences were raised to the ground. No fatalities 

 occurred at Cleveland, but several people were struck by flying timbers and more 



Leaving Cleveland the cyclone passed within a mile of Clarksdale, a town of 2000 

 inhabitants, and next struck Tunica, the county seat of Tunica county. Nearly 

 every building in the place was wrecked. The recently completed courthouse went 

 down before the wind. The colored school building was wrecked and over thirty 

 children were maimed and crippled, some of them being fatally injured. As the 

 cyclone left Tunica it divided, one portion traveling in a northeasterly direction 

 while the other took a northwesterly course and again crossed the Mississippi into 

 Arkansas, where it spread ruin in three counties. The towns of Craw fords ville 

 and Vincent were nearly wiped off the earth. The storm then took a northeasterly 

 course, reaching Kelly, Miss., about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Here the great- 

 st damage was done. Six people were killed outright and scores were injured. 

 Not a building was left standing, the fragments beisg strewn over the country for 

 miles. Physicians from the surrounding towns hurried to the scene and rendered 

 all possible aid to the sufferers. Temporary ho&pitals were fitted up in farm- 

 houses that had escaped the storm, and those who were fortunate enough to get 

 out uninjured did all in their power to help the sufferers. The damage to prop- 

 erty in the vicinity of Kelly will reach $150,000. After leaving Kelly the cyclone 

 passed into Tennessee, the next place visited being Spring Creek, a small town in 

 Madison county, where several people were injured, but no one was killed. No 

 reports of damage have been received beyond Spring Creek, except in a suburb of 

 Nashville,. The patlr of the storm after it left Madison county was through a 

 country remote from telegraph lines, and it will be several days before full details 

 will reach the outside world. 



MOBILLE, (Ala.), March 24. Early this morning a cyclone passed one mile 

 north of Shubuta, Miss., going south west. At Arista John's place a tenement 

 house containing negroes was leveled and two negroes were killed and three were 

 injured. One mile east of there houses were blown down. Ten miles further east 

 three tenement houses were destroyed, but no one was hurt. 



NASHVILLE, (Tenn.), March 24. One of the most terrific wind and rain storms 

 in the history of Nashville swept over this city last night. The greatest force of 

 the storm was felt in the northern part of the city, where several houses were un- 

 roofed. One occupied by W. F. Bradford was completely razed to the ground. 

 Bradford was taken from the luins in a badly bruised condition. McNeil Drum- 

 tight, aged 13, who boarded with Bradford, was taken from the debris in a 

 mangled condition and cannot live. Eugene Drumright, aged 18, a brother of 

 McNeil, was horribly mangled and dead when found. It is feared others were in- 

 jured or killed in, the building. In all fifteen houses were badly damaged or des- 

 troyed and thejpss will foot up in the thousands. 



LOUISVILLE (Ky.), March 24. The heavy storm which passed over a large sec- 

 tion of the South last night did great damage at Bowling Green and the surround- 

 ing country. The roofs of fifteen or twentv houses were blown off, the most 

 serious damage being done to the Louisville and Nashville roundhouses, which 

 were unroofed and the walls leveled with the ground. Falling material did serious 

 damage to engines inside. One colored man was caught in the debris and badly, 

 though not seriously injured. The loss on the building and locomotives is from 

 $75,000' to $100,000. Passengers on the delayed fast express on the Louisville and 

 Nashville from the South stated that all along the road evidence of the storm could 

 be seen. Many farmhouses were roofless, and scores of stables and outhouses 

 were totally demolished. The town of Kowlins was almost destroyed, the post- 

 office building being swept entirely away, while damage to others was very heavy. 

 Every house in Stonford was damaged. " At Murray, Ky., twenty residences and 

 fifty stables ana barns were demolished. Only one person, Miss Aline Stabblefield, 

 was seriously injured. A dozen were slightly hurt. 



INDIANAPOLIS, (Ind.), March 24. A cyclonic storm visited Indiana last night. 

 In this city fifty houses were wrecked in one neighborhood in the northwest por- 

 tion and many families are temporarily homeless. At Tuxedo, a suburb, many 

 houses are wrecked and several small ones were carried away. The Capital City 

 Coffin Works are badly damaged. Advices from all parts of the State indicate 



