1912 Cyclone in Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 10/2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================= Contributor's Notes: ### I have transcribed these newspaper articles exactly as they were originally published, including the racially derogatory terms used at that era to refer to people of African descent. ### As this article indicates, in the Old South, the term "cyclone" referred to a severe storm with a tornado. ================================================================================= ================================================================================= Farmerville "Gazette" issue of Wednesday, 21 February 1912 ================================================================================== CYCLONE DOES GREAT DAMAGE. Yesterday at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon a cyclone passed within about a mile of Farmerville, cutting a path about three hundred yards wide and leaving destruction in its wake. From parties who came to town from across the D'Arbonne this morning we learn that the residence and out house of Messrs. Ab Joiner, Mitch Feazle, Dan Skains and Wm. Skains were completely destroyed by the storm. Crossing the D'Arbonne the cyclone next struck the hill on which Mack Cleveland, a darkey, lives, wrecking his house and blowing down all the timber in its path. With the exception of Mrs. Mitch Feazle, who was badly bruised and shaken up, we have heard of no one else being hurt. The storm came out of the southwest and traveled in a northeasterly direction. Telephone lines are all down and news as to the extent of the storm or the damage done cannot now be had. ================================================================================== ================================================================================= Farmerville "Gazette" issue of Wednesday, 28 February 1912 ================================================================================== MORE ABOUT THE CYCLONE. The cyclone, which struck in the vicinity of Farmerville on Tuesday afternoon a week ago, was of wide extent and did great damage in other sections of the country as well as about here. At Shreveport about one hundred houses were blown away, eight people killed outright and some fifty odd were more or less seriously injured. Leaving Shreveport the storm continued in its northeasterly course through Bossier Parish and the next place it struck to do serious damage was the little town of Adner, which was almost totally destroyed. Two lives was the toll took by the cyclone there. The damage done across the D'Arbonne was much greater than was given in our account last week. Uncle Mitch Feazle, who was in town Saturday, informed us that he had fourteen houses, including his dwelling house, blown away on his place and to head of cattle and a mule were killed. The home of Mr. Ab Joiner was wrecked, as were also the homes of Messrs Wm. and Dan Skains. After crossing the D'Arbonne we have heard of no houses being blown away, with th eexception of Mack Cleveland's a darkey living on the outskirts of Farmerville, but a clean path of about three hundred yards in width was cut through the timber as the cyclone passed through. ================================================================================== ###########################################################