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by Bill White
Cyclone!
The Great Cyclone of
1906
Businesses Damaged
A
conservative estimate places the number of buildings destroyed
completely at
between thirty and forty. The dollar values reported below
represent the estimate damage incurred by the various businesses.
Where no dollar value is listed, the amount was not announced or is not
available.
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The
Meyer and Neville Hardware Company,
2209-11 Front Street, seven stories, building $100,000, stock
$150,000.
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The
Meridian Cement Company,
totally destroyed, $250,000
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Thomas F. Lyle Grocery Company,
2311-17 Front Street, a wholesale dry goods and grocery store,
building $305,000, stock $40,000
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Josh F. Moore, Druggist,
2300 4th Street corner
of 23rd Avenue, wholesale dry goods and groceries
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The
New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Freight
Depot and other buildings, 25th Avenue, corner of Front
Street, buildings damaged
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Queen and Crescent Railroad Depot,
Front Street near 25th Avenue, buildings destroyed
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Union Railroad Depot,
22nd avenue at the corner of 1st street,
destroyed
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The
Grand Avenue Hotel,
Front Street and Grand Avenue locations, hotel on Front Street at
the Northwest corner of 22nd Avenue, this building was
brick four story, $50,000, no estimate of the damages to the other
buildings including those actually located on Grand Avenue
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Elmire’s Restaurant,
2204 1st Street opposite Union Depot, $10,000
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The
Meridian Fertilizer Factory,
2335 Front Street (Office), destroyed
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Meridian Cotton Oil Company,
2811 A Avenue, destroyed
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Thornton’s Transfer Company,
2211 Front Street, $10,000, H. Thornton (Livery, Feed and Sale
Stables) 518-20-22 25th Avenue, destroyed.
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Culpepper Hotel,
northeast corner of
22nd Avenue
opposite Grand Avenue Hotel, $15, 000
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Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Freight Depot,
25th Avenue
near Front Street,
partially destroyed, freight damage
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The
New Southern Hotel,
508 23rd Avenue, minor roof damage only
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The
Railroad Y.M.C.A. Building,
two upper stories, $15,000
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Meridian Chair Company,
on M&O tracks near 28th Avenue
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Meridian Light and Power Plant
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W.
J. Woodside and Company
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Pearce Compress Company,
damaged by fire and wind
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Gulf Compress Company
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C.
M. Rubush Lumber Yards,
buildings lost, stock swept away, value of stock only $150,000
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Meridian Oil Mills and Manufacturing Company,
on A street, between 28th and 29th Avenue
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Meridian Mills,
407 25th
Avenue, Corn, Meal, Oats, Bran, hay, cotton seed meal.
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Armour & Company,
2331 Front Street, plant left standing but the roof destroyed
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The
Western Union Telegraph Company
, 309 23rd Avenue,
reported having lost 15 miles of wire
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The
Postal Telegraph-Cable Company,
402 23rd Avenue, reported losses of an indeterminate
amount of wire, believed to be similar to that of Western
Union's reported loss.
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Meridian Gas Light Company,
2319 4th Street
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The
European Hotel,
2219 4th Street
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Southern Railway
22nd Avenue near A Street
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
26th Avenue near 1st Street
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Alabama Great Southern Railroad,
Front Street near 25th Avenue
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Alabama & Vicksburg Railway,
Front Street near 25th Avenue
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Meridian Street Railway and Power Company,
Meyer Building, 23rd Avenue
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Ormond Building,
22nd Avenue, northeast corner of 4th Street
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Mississippi Broom and Mattress Factory,
2506 Front Street
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Meridian Transfer Company,
2215 Front Street
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Meridian Bottling Company,
2506 Front Street
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