| Show TORNADO RA V SOUTHERN HOMES List of Known Dead Totals Ten and Much Larger Largel Loss of Life is Feared I I I PERISH IN THEIR HOUSES Cyclone at Wesson Miss S Brings Instant Death in Its Wake Wesson Miss li ll Jan SI The Thc The most destructive tornado that has hRs visited this section of or the country since Beauregard Beau Beau- regard Miss lIss was destroyed I 25 5 years eari a ago o. o swept across count county late this afternoon leaving a n. trail of lJ death ath and anti d destruction In Its path Ten lives arc known mown to have o been lost and complete complete com corn reports from the tho surrounding I country mn may Increase ase the death list a score Tho The known dead ire are David Martin Mrs Albert Martin and four lour children Mr Mi- Maddox and family of ot two wo The rhe tornado torr struck Albert Martins Martin's I pl place eight 1 miles northwest of ot Wesson Yes Wes I son at ot 3 30 this afternoon and reduced his r residence arid And outhouses to kindling David Martin was wan caught In the tho house and Instantly killed Mrs Airs Martin arUn was waR pinioned beneath n n. heavy Y beam and her hor hack broken n death resulting shortly short short- J ly 1 Albert Albert- cl dUll h r 1 both oth lor hor i O. O Ia Jn n torn all X l rJ W kiu IJU j I I j j-j j l i of oi meta metal Ml 0 or P anti and ho 1 Is it Hi H parlous condition father c pe S The Tho S tornado o next carried the the home home of ot lien Den Martin several yards away and crushed It an eggshell Martin had hal gone to protect Ills his live stock and was carried more than lOo yarda ards to a n. neighboring farm Mrs Martin and nOlI her tour four children In the house were Instantly in instantly In- In killed I The residence nc of a Mr Maddox Ia 1 ox next net In the tho winds wind's path Il wont vont like the tho others other Maddox and liEs his family famil of ot t two o met In Instant In- In sinai stant death The rhe wind next destroyed the residence resi residence resi- resi dence am and cotton colton gin of Has HaR Matthews All AU the tho members of the tho Matthews family fam lam fly ily were seriously Injured The form house o of A A. J. J Lehman a New York antI and New r-ew Orleans banker was demolished demol demol- wore were sent to Wesson and every overy physician in tho the town at on co left for the scene Th The Tho tornado traveled traveler in a L northeasterly north north- easterly direction n and amulEt d. d It i is feared great t loss lOUI of or iio occurred in Inne me toe nortHwest nortHwest- ein section of the count county Lives R are believed to have been lost In tho the forest bus cutting cutting- is as tho the lumbermen were busy timber when tho the cyclone commenced At a R nearby station It is Bald that tho the cyclone caused most mot damage although h no details have b hen been en received I here yot |
