Show FURIOUS Tl TORNADO TOWN Many Lr t and Property Damage Damann Reporter to Be BeVery BeVery BeVery Very Heavy Heay I. I FEW DETAILS OBTAINABLE LE Storm lm 11 i I Doun u cm it II g CI y i I It In 1 Its is Palli for of ol s Sixteen II I I Ney New y e O Orleans I n Accord AccordIng corll- corll Ing big to meager reports received h here ll before all ahi the wires went down a tornado toe tor nado imado exceeding in It violence e thai which struck struel Meridian If Miss a a. few weeks ago hit the town tOWI of DI Brooklyn O l l Miss about O tj o'clock tonight causing 10 hosoi loss hos 8 of oi life a as well 11 as ns enormous property damage The storm almost wiped out the town of or Brooklyn and al although rib rib- thou though h It I Is reported that many have been killed It Is to tn secure an any aimy Information concerning the tiit num num- her ber S After Aftel demolishing oJ the town ton In which It I Is Fa raid III there Is not a n house hOUF left leCt unscathed th the tornado moved in in ina a southerly direction and and mowed down everYl everything In Its path for tor over o sixteen en miles mlle This Is a on one of the rich richest cst sections of or Mississippi and ha has Imas been built hullt up UTI tJ by German German- farmers brought blOught In h by time the Gulf and Ship Island railroad It Is Ig feared that many farmers armer have ha lost their lives In inthe tho the storm Pied Fled For Their Ihl Lives Livee According to the reports the thi storm came caine from a northwesterly direction an and anil was wa noticed by the people In Brooklyn sonic some time before herol It struck that town neall Realizing that the town was In Its path man many marty left lert their houses house and arid sought ought places of oC FaCet safety Shortly after the tIme first reports were received all wires wire went vent down and It I Is in inos- inos o os- os sible Ible to gain any idea of the number numb r who have been heen killed As soon as an any accurate estimate of oC the tIme damage which has hns boen been done Is secured both the Louisville Nashville Nash Nash- ville and tIme the Gulf Ship Shin Island will vill send scud out relief trains s altho 1 although h it Is doubtful whether trains can Cnn reach each tIme the scent scene of time tho havoc wrought h by the time storm as ns the thC Gulf Ship Island is t completely blocked b by two fIlou wrecks wreaks which occurred tonight as the result of washouts S The Tho tornado followed a a. rain storm which has never been exceeded dell In violence in this territory Traffic I Is completely paralyzed paralyze on both the Illinois Il Il- Il Central an and time the the anti and Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- sl valle valley railroads no trains train over o either road rond having come comae Into time the city today heaviest ic t Rain Buill l H cr ci- ci no lI Meridian I Miss Miss' March 19 The 19 The heaviest lest rain that ever PI visited this CitY eily I and this vicinity was felt here helo during the past twenty foUl hours Iud much damage has lias already a l re- re while indications point to the fact Cad that the time worst is yet ct to come Reports have ha reached reachel the city that much luch stock tock antI amid cattle nave have been rr r ri r J. J 1 c m 7 ti |