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Show TERRIBLE STORM -IN SIIY SOUTH ' Mississippi, Tennessee and Ar- . ' kansasSwept by Small Sized Cyclone. 1 ' -, I Five Civet Known to Have Been Lol, While Property Damage It Heavy People Are Killed by Falllno Building or Burned to Death. t Memphis, Tcnn. Telegraphic and telephonic communication from points in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tcnues see for a distance of sovcrnl hundred miles report that territory to havuf-fored, havuf-fored, on Sunday, from ono of tho most destructivo rain and wind storms In years. Flvo lives are known to havo been lost and groat damage dono to property prop-erty and crops. At Winona, MUs., tho Catholic I church. Christian and tho Methodist churches nnd tho Hesty brick yard woro demolished and numerous build-' build-' lags unroofed nnd otherwise- badly damaged. Among the largest buildings build-ings damaged at this placo nro tho postofflcc, opera house, tho oil mill, tho cotton compressor warehouse of tho Jackson Mercantile company, and , , tho residence of B. J. Dunkston. Do-sides Do-sides theso about twenty-five smaller buildings were almost completely de-. de-. ttroyed. Tho roof of the compress was torn off by tho wind, which nt limes reachod almost tornado-llkb ve- locity, falling on tho homo of E. J. Dunkston, 205 yards away. Tho wind-Jtorm wind-Jtorm was preceded and followed by heavy rains, causing sorlous washouts iIciik the route of the Illinois Central 'allroad and badly damaging crops. At Mathison, Miss., serious damage ' ' is reported to have occurred, and n woman wag killed by a falling building. build-ing. ' At Techula a falling treo, striking a small frame building, caused it to be set afire, and a woman and child wero I burned to death. f At Honconnah creek, a few miles from this city, a railroad trcstlo foil at night under the weight of a r switch engine, tho engine plunging ' Into the swollen stream, carrying with """" - It Engineer C. V. Peterson nnd Fire. .' " . man A. It. nitchlo, who wero drowned. -- " Wcst Point, Columbus and Mahin, , ' J.MIBS., are reported to havo suffered ? v'- serious damage, but na theso pplnts - nro completely cut off from communl- . '-' cation, it is Impossible nt HiIk tlmo to , " ; ascei tain the extent. |