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Show TERRIBLE STORM IN SUNNY SOUTH ! Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas Ar-kansas Swept by Small Sized Cyclone. Five Lives Known to Have Been Lost, While Property Damage Is Heavy i People Are Killed by Falling Buildings or Burned to Death. Memphis, Tenn. Telegraphic and telephonic cominunlratlon from points In Mississippi, Arkansas and Tonnes see for n tllstnncu of several hundred miles report that territory to hnvesuf fercd, on Sunday, from ono of the most destructive ruin and wind storms In years. Flvo lives aro known to have been lost and great damage done to property prop-erty and crops, At Wlnonn, Mies., tho Catholic church, Christian and tho Methodist churches and the Hcsty brick yard were demolished nnd numerous build' lugs unroofed and otherwlsn badly damaged, Among tho largest buildings build-ings damaged at this placo are the postnlllce, opera house, tho oil mill, i the cotton compressor warehouse of tho Jackson Mercantile company, nnd tho resilience of E. .1. DunkMon. He-sldcs He-sldcs these about twenty-live smaller bulldlngH wero nlmost completely destroyed. de-stroyed. Tho roof of the compress was torn off by tho wind, which at times reached almost tornndo-IIko ve locity, falling on the home of 10. .1. Dunkston, 1105 yards away. Tho windstorm wind-storm wns preceded and followed by Heavy rnlns, causing serious washouts nlong tho routo of the Illinois Central railroad nnd badly damaging crops. At Mnthlson, Miss., serious dumngu Is reported to have occurred, and a woman wns killed by a falling building. build-ing. At Techula a fulling tree, striking a small frame building, caused It to be set aflro, it'll d a woman and child were burned to death. At Ilonconnnh creek, a few miles from this city, a rullrond trestle foil at night under tho weight of a switch cnglno, the cnglno plunging into tho swollen stream, carrying with it Engineer C. V. Peterson nnd Fireman Fire-man A. It. Hltchle, who woro drowned. West Point, Columbus nnd Mnhln, Miss., nro reported to hnvo sudoral! serious damage, but us these points nro completely cut od from communication, communi-cation, it Is Imposslblo nt this tlmo to ascertain tho oxturiT, |