Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — GREAT STORM IN THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

GREAT STORM IN THE SOUTH.

Cyclone and Flames at Robtnsonvllle, Miss. —Seventeen Killed. It is hardly possible to exaggerate the havoc made by the cyclone and fire at Robinsonville,, Miss., Wednesday. There are parts of two houses and a water tank still standing, and everything else was razed to the ground and most of It burned. The number of the killed, so far as can be ascertained by a census of the bodies found, Is seventeen, one white and sixteen colored, end about ten more Injured, two so seriously that they are expected to die. Probably a hundred negroes received slight injuries, but none of them will die. One of the curious features of the storm was the experience of Mr. J. L. Elliston, who had a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol blown out of his pants pocket without suffering any Injury. A man named McCormick who was listening to Elliston’s story was hit in the breast by a barrel of flour that was flying through the air and fatally injured. Mrs. Emma Lusk, the only white person killed outright, was the wife of the flight operator. She and her two children and her husband, who was-at home, were In the house when the cyclone struck. None of them got out, but Lusk and the children were unhurt. The children were carried some distance by the wind and they were naked when found. At Memphis the storm was unusually severe.