Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — TORNADO HIT CAMP SHELBY [ARTICLE]

TORNADO HIT CAMP SHELBY

One Soldier Killed and SeUeral Others Injured. A tornado struck Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Wednesday afternoon, sweeping a path seventy feet wide through the camp, leveling smtall buildings and inflictitig -property damage of several thousand dollars. The ordnance building of the 151st infantry, a Y. M. C. A. hut and a partly con-, structed wing of the base hospital were destroyed. Private Vaughn Beekman of Marion, Indiana, was killed and a score or more soldiers and civilian workers were injured, some quite seriously, by the flying debris.