Newspaper article about cyclone in Richland Parish Louisiana
as published in the Idaho Statesman, March 26, 1893
Submitted by for the USGenWeb Archives by Shawn Martin, 03/17/07


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The Idaho Statesman, March 26, 1893
Track of the Cyclone
   
NATCHEZ, MISS., Mar. 23 – further information of 
Thursday’s cyclone in Richland parish states the storm 
struck the vicinity of Archibald on the New Orleans & 
Northwestern railway, barely missing the town.  All the 
buildings on W. A. Broughton’s place were destroyed.  
Sarles’ place shared the same fate.  Two men and one child 
were killed there and a number wounded, all colored.  All 
the buildings on Pruitt’s place were demolished and two 
Negro children killed.  The residence of T. A. and J. A. 
Archibald was totally wrecked, with all the outbuildings.  
A number of other houses were badly damaged.  Miles of 
fencing and thousands of trees were prostrated.  Dozens of 
people were slightly injured and bruised.  In remote places 
east and west it is thought incalculable damage was wrought.