The Herald from Shreveport, Louisiana • 1

THE HERALD VOLUME '1 NO 36 SHREVEPORT LA MONDAY JANUAAY 4 1897 TEN CENTS A WEEK DIRE NECESSITY CITY CHURCHES THE DARK CLOUD MOORINGSPORT BY A FIERCE DESTROYED CYCLOiNE DREAD DEATH Houses Swept From the Face ol the Earth and No Yestlge The List ol the Killed and Reliel Train Sent Out Cyclones are great circular gales revolving round an axis or vortex at the same time they are traveling! in a given direction They are accompanied by calms whirlwinds and heavy and drenching rains the black wild-looking clouds some- times rent and torn sweeping with 4 years months skull fractured he killed were: Willie Maud and Hill Goodman and the infant daughter of Je3se Goodman Thomas Elgin has his arm broken and Jordan Robinson colored his arm badlj- fractured but were not brought to the hospital PROPERTIES DESTROYED store and warehouse blown down store saloon store residence warehouse and tenantry house and Morgan's residences Methodist parsonage vacant house residence and stable and smokehouse The entire place was strewn with merchandise household effects and the debris of buildings which it will take time to collect and identify AT THE CHARITY HOSITTAL It was sad and distressing siaht 1 at the hospital yesterday morning The sight of humanity crushed out i of shape unsettled the nerves 0j even the trained nurses and pe vpl- accustomed to such sights Ther was one lady wiili her stomach torn pen and a child with its skull crushed and the brain from the cruel wound Some of the ladies and young girls were without clothing and merely wrapped up in coverings and as the matron said: it is a sight we do not wi-h to see The child may die tn the operating board Physicians and citizens were cal iog all tbe morning to offer aid among them several ladies and Mrs Julia Rule had taken in hand the securing of clothes for the lady pa-1 tients The storm wa3 the that has ever passed over this sec don of the country and it ha brought much suffering and sorrow to a village right at our doors! What if it bad smitten Shreveport with its thousands of inhabitants and thousands of homes? Mooringsport is situated on the west bank of Fairy lake 21 mile? above Shreveport and on the line of the road Alice Goodman aged skull fractured Moran aged 15 had a i I I i 1 their heavy burdens of vapor over the very surface of the land It is a battle of the winds struggling and irottling each other in a mad race around in circles The winds running around the circle that mad career howl and whistle and screech like a thousand demons Clouds writhe and twist like so many huge serpents and hanging low in the thin air of the vortex begin to part with burdens of rain The moment vapor is con- outfit lost and be was wounded bim-densed into rain latent beat is lib- self There was not a vestige of rated and there is the formation of some of the houses left- even the a furmce in- the sky overhanging fragments of the building were their beds containing five each of those who were wounded by the storuu and on the floor on pallets were as many more At Mr residence on the hall floor were four little children lying dead They were picked up on the lake shore and under the bluff after the storm There were nine or ten others wounded of Dr Harris horses was killed and another wounded His buggy was smashed up his dental Dr Scbumpert surgeon in charge of the Charity Hospital says that some of the lady and girl patients brought in from the Moor- ingsport disaster aie absolutely without any clothing of their own and that they were stripped by the ej-clone not only of home and supplies but also of the actual clothing they wore It is only necessary to make this fact known to the ladies of the city to have them take the matter im mediately in hand and see to the pressing necessities of these unfortunates Wait for the cars in the cozy corner at Pharmacy DIED The little child of Mr Morgan 15 months old died last night The child whs brought to the hospital from the Mooringport disaster with its skull fractured and the brain oozing from the fracture Mr Morgan has made an appeal to the Knights of Pythias to bury lLhe cbUd be a member of that orer -be Knights will respond without duht to the appeal In fact the Herald has been Col McAfee of West Shreveport 1 told the Heraldite this morning tranP and bobo8 were 60 bad about lbe Junction tbat the citizens bad coa-ue that they must have east two Pcemen and that thpy to incorporate and a Ux for lhat PurPoee Tbe IIerald wameJ tbe PeoPle of this movement several weeks ago and now we are about to be a twin old that they would do so shing to say to tb of Greater Shreveport Itwa9Cot deemed disable to PXtend lhe corPorate limits and now tbe limits are about to cxtend Al1 liail t0 Mavor McAfee' Normandie Washington January 24 The reception notice of the parents reads 7 to 9 pm the home of Mr and Mrs if Foster parents of the lovely and accomplished bride Iler Pharmacy Old Formula Cologne -a delightiul and lasting perfume NEWSPAPER CHANGES The Capital Item has suspended daily publication but will continue its issue as a weekly Mr Watts of the Boyce Enterprise retires from the editorial chair in favor of Mr A Beaird I The changes made by bota these excellent journals will no doubt be regretted by their clientelle but their spheres of usefulness will not be contracted They are in good lines and in good hands Announcements From the Palpits lor the Week According to the church calendar next Wednesday the Gth of January will be the feast of the Epiphany or the manifestations of Christ to the Gentiles and the Collect for the day is as follows: God who by the leading of a star didst manifest thy only begotten son to tbe Gentiles grant that we who know thee now by faith may after this life have the fruition of thy glorious Godhead through Jesus Christ our St Church: As it is the Day of Epiphany there will probably be services ednesday morning at this church Meeting of St Brothel hood evening at tbe ollice ofTC Barret Esq Baptist Church: Owing to the illness of the pastor the Rev Tomkies of Keachie preached at this church yesteiday morning and evening and delivered two moat excellent sermons Presbyterian Church: The call a meeting for Thursday morning at 10:30 Hebrew Zion Temple: The elders of this church met yesterday at 10 in regular annual session and elected the Rev I Saenger as rabbi for the ensuing three vears the election being unanimous The' other officers of the congregation were elected as foilows: Herold president Wm Winter vice president Raph Kalin Sr treasurer A Levy secretary Methodist Church: meeting to-night at' 7 Business ineetiug Tuesday night at 7 of the Ep worth League with literary featuies for which a pleasing pi cgi amine has been ar-tanged Prescriptions accurately and carefully compounded at Pharmacy A MERRY NEW YEAR There must have been much merry making oer in the good city of Bienville ab ut the 1st The comes to us this week with its heels where its head ought to be You may shake your foot better that way Brother Bell but you hear the bhufil and what game is worth the candle without a good Have ou been there? COURT OF APPEALS The Circuit Court of Appeals Judges and Pugh presiding met at the court house at 12 to-day There are six cases on the docket on appeal from this parish FRANK SERWICH THE POPULAR RESTAURANT AND HOTEL OF THE CITY FOR LADIES OEM'S AND CHILDREN t-hell and bulk oysters for families salt water fish of alt kinds meals best in the city for 25 cents lunch counter and short orders served in best styles Open night and day Niue new and elegantly furnished rooms just opened upstairs over restaurant the finest and best accommodations in the city either American or European plan Right in the heart of the city Everything neat new and tirst-cla9s Iler Pharmacy uses the best chemicals in compounding prescriptions AT OUR DOORS men Temain intact alo and the church depot section house and bridge There is nothing left of the Christian store but the floor There were about twenty houses entirely destroyed Olf the Christian residence the roof was taken except one room In that room were two carried up into the air or blown out into the air or blown out into the lake The storm came up with great suddenness and lasted whilst you could count ten For a quarter of a mile on the Shreveport side you can see the timbers blown down but no other signs The storm came from the BELIEF TRAIN The ollice here was notified by the operator at Blanchard the wires be'mg blown down at Moor-ingsport and i nmediatt-ly a relief train was dispatched with phy sicians nurses citizens and necessary appliances for relief of the wounded Drs Scbumpert Coty and Furman responding immediately and other proffering assistance at the hospital yesterday -There were about forty people wounded only nine of them seriously enough to be brought to the hospital where they arrived Sunday morning at 9 Two of the wounded are not expected to live one an old lady and the other a child both with their skulls fractured '1 he patients brought to this city are: A Goodman aged 7 years injured Mrs Susan Head aged GO years injured Robert Jackson aged 60 years injured Para Lee Goodman aged 9 years injured Mrs Jennie'Goodmap aged 27 years injured Emma Goodman aged 13 years skull fractured Mrs nMG Morgan aged 21 years scalp wound the reging strm The more rain there falls the more latent heat escapes the hotter the furnace be- comes the more furiously the wind races around tbe circle and rushes Into the upper air to fill the fiery vacuum It is a grinding crushing lifting aad irresistible force Houses are ground into splinters thrown to the ground or picked up and carried bodily away and set down as with a most careful hand Sometimes tbe mad whirl of inds touches the earth in great bounds leaving here a mere footstep and there a mile of pitiess destruction This seems to be the character of the cyclone that struck the town of Mooringsport on Saturday evening at 3:45 almost sweeping the plkce from the face of the earth and leaving as it9 footprints tbe shattered fragments of houses and a quarter mile track of devastation through the woods southwest of the city Cyclonic conditions bad prevailed through the day and at the fatal minute midst fierce gusts of wind and rain accompanied by the blinding of lightning and tbe sudden siock of thunder the death cloud struck the town -The shock was sudden as one of the thunderclaps and lasted less time than it took its reverberations to die away Whilst one could count 10 the howling raging wind bast was at work and then gave way to fitful gusts of wind and torrents of rain WORK OF THE STORM A visitor to the scene of distruct-ionsays: Croom fcNoel store and the residences of both gentle Cards have hten issued announc-It popu-jagthe marriage of MUs Aletheia lation of probably 250 and of that Lucille Foster to Mr Benton Mc-number foui are dead two or three Jlillin at door and about forty) The event takes place -at the First more or less seriously wounded So I Presbyterian church of this city near are they and so long ia busi- Wednesday January 20 1897 ness and social relations that it is i The at home notice reads: as if they were our own people and warm and sympathetic heart ha and will feel for them as if they were our own LATEST FROM THE CYCLONE Large numbers of people visited the set nu of the Mooringsport disaster yesterday About sixty went up on the early morning train The following sufferers who are badly bruised and shaken up were brpuglit to the hospital yesterday evening their home ut Mooringsport being destroyed Ella Teat aged 8 years Mrs Cariie Dvis aged 19 Essie Teat aged 14 Mrs Mollie Teat aged 32 Nora Teat aged 11 A Teat aged 45 The little child of Mr and Mrs "lorgan died last night at 8 The other patieuls are doing very-well --Prescriptions accurately and carefully compounded at Pharmacy.