This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goodman, Morgan, Head, Aiken, Elgin, Elliott, Harris, Yeat, Davis, Robinson Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3cDBAIB/8066 Message Board Post: Transcribed from The Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, Fla. Sunday, January 3, 1897 page 1 / column 2 Cyclone’s Deadly Work. A Louisiana Village Almost Swept Away. Four Are Killed and Twenty Injured During the Period of One Minute of Time. Shreveport, La., January 2. – A cyclone from the southwest struck and almost literally demolished the town of Mooringsport, just north of this city, at 3:45 p.m. today. Over twenty dwellings were blown down, only seven buildings being left intact. Four persons were killed and twenty wounded. The dead are: Willie Goodman. Maud Goodman. Hill Goodman. Infant daughter of Mr. Jesse Goodman. The wounded: Mrs. Jesse Goodman, Alice Goodman, Para Lee Goodman, wife and two daughters of Jesse Goodman. Clyde Goodman, his nephew. Mrs. Effie Morgan and infant baby. Mrs. Head, mother of Mrs. Morgan, 68 years of age, badly injured in back and foot. All the children killed were Mrs. Head’s grandchildren. Mr. Aiken, hurt in head. Thomas Elgin, arm broken. Thomas Elliott, injured in head. Dr. J. B. Harris, head cut and left side injured. Tom Yeat, head cut. Mrs. Tom Yeat, internally injured. Miss Yeat, aged 14, slightly injured. Alvin Yeat, aged 7, slightly injured. Mrs. Davis, slightly injured. Jordan Robinson, colored, arm badly fractured. Three of the wounded will probably die. The cyclone came suddenly and lasted about one minute. The following houses were destroyed: W. H. Broom’s grocery and cottonseed house, Ivy’s grocery, Fain’s saloon, Fuller’s residence, Christian’s store, warehouse, residence and tenant house, Morgan’s residence, Milan’s residence, Frank Ivy’s residence, Goodman’s residence, F. A. Yeat’s residence, Methodist parsonage, C. S. Croom’s vacant house, O. V. Aiken’s residence, Croom’s stable and smoke house. The only houses left uninjured are: Mrs. C. S. Croom’s residence, J. S. Noel’s store and residence, Methodist church, Mrs. Caldwell’s residence, W. H. B. Croom’s main store and residence, and the depot. Physicians and a relief committee left at 6:30 on a special train and every possible attention is being given the wounded. Captain Matt Scovel, P. J. Trezevent, Henry Enders, N. W. Burff, S. N. Keeley, Thomas Enders, Mr. Seaman and others came on the relief train, and are rendering all assistance in their power. It has been decided to take the wounded to the hospital at daylight in the morning. They cannot be moved tonight, owing to the difficulty in getting them on the train. Dr. Tillingast, the local physician, was found here doing all in his power for the injured.