Towns Leveled.

The storm, a whirling wind which swept in from the southwest, in its rush northward, tore paths through the towns of Olive Branch, Holly Springs, Sardis, Hernando and Phillip after leveling the village of Savage and wrecking a dozen of more farming settlements and hamlets.
Savage was tonight a mass of wreckage; at Sardis a dozen buildings were wrecked and the front of a hotel was smashed; at Holly Springs the McDermott Hotel and the Frisco Railroad station was damaged; at Hernando buildings were wrecked and at Walnut Lake the storm took its heaviest toll on the Plantation of L. C. Cannon, where nearly a score of cabins were swept from their foundation, and the plantation dwelling was damaged.

Wire communication with the affected area still was crippled tonight and only meager reports had been received from inland villages in the path of the tornado.

Home Hurled Into River.
Moving in a path less than a mile wide, the storm swept farming settlements about Lambert and struck next with its full force on Savage, on Coldwater River, literally destroying the village. The only buildings standing were a portion of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad station and a section house. Members of the Mabry family listed among the dead were drowned when their home at Savage was lifted by the wind and hurled into the stream. JOHN KERR, the only other white person known to have been killed, was fatally injured when he was caught under a falling timber of his store.

Galveston Daily News, Galveston TX Nov 1900
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Transcribed by Jenni Lanham. Thank you, Jenni!