Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-06
RODE THE TORNADO
Death Mounts the Blast and
Reaps a Harvest.
SOUTHERN TOWNS LAID IN RUINS.

Greeuville, Miss, Reduced to KindIinr
Wc od-Great Loss of Life Scattered
Over a Number of Localities-Every-
thing Swept Away and the People in
Destitution - Help Wanted and That
Quickly-An English Village Takes q
Slide Seward and Wrecks 600 Homes
Other Fatalities.
ATLANTA, Ga, March 6.-The reports
from the center of a cyclone disturbance of
Friday night shows that the great desti-
tuition caused will call for relief Many of
the cyclone sufferers are in a destitute con-
dition, having been rendered houseless and
homeless by the wind without a vestige of
clothing except the garments they had on
their backs They were exposed to the
biting cold Starvation stares some of
them in the face. A meeting held in
Greenville appeals for assistance giving
out the statement that 'the facts are brief
but terrible The town is now a scene of
desolation, many of her elegant homes as
well as humble cottages are destroyed and
numbers of families are destitute. penni-
less and homeless.
Relief Must Come Quickly.
-Four of her churches and her beautiful
college have been leveled to the dust This
is a calamity which cannot be relieved by
the sufferers falling back upon insurance
companies, but relief must come, if it comes
at all, from the promptings of Christian
beneficence and human pity and generos-
ity 1t is to such sentiments in the bosoms
of our fellow citizens of every kind that
we appeal"
The Dead Left in the Track.
The following localities felt the terrific
blast: Greenville, Miss, one man killed;
Rock, GA, five persons killed; Troup coun-
~, Ga, Mrs. Butts, Cullen Fannin, James
+. Hairston and Sam Henderson and wife,
dead; GAINESVILLE. Ga, Daisy Hawkins and
two negro children killed; Odessa, six
deaths; Molena, Ga, Mrs. Fell and four
negroes killed; Piedmont, GA, Mrs. Haw-
kius killed and her parents badly hurt In
the vicinity of Meriuian, Marion, and Cor
NTH, Miss, thirteen lives are reported lost,
but some of these may have been men,
toned above At Toosumba, Miss, forty
eight houses We're blown down and several
people hart Everywhere the destruction
OF property was appalling
Eight Miles of Devastation.
Details of the names of the dead and
wounded are meagre. In Troup county the
cyclone swept away nearly all the farm
houses, scattering all their supplies. A
man who returned from the storm-swept
regions says: I'VE followed the track of
the monster eight miles and noted nothing
but complete devastation and destruction.
I he loss fall heavily on the farmers and
the poor negroes and a subscription will be
made up here to help those who have lost
everything. 1t was terrible to witness the
sutferings as we went along. People here
anu there, white and black, were gather
ing up their bedding and cooking utensils
ana what provisions could be found scat
tered over the hills. So complete was the
destruction that it is stated that there was
not enough dry cloth in Piedmont to bind
the wounus OF the suffering"
Nine Deaths at Parnel station.
Nine bodies have been recovered from
the wreckage at Parnell station, thirty
miles south of Meridian, on the Queen and
Crescent railway. seven of them being
members of the family of Samuel Barnett.
The destruction to property grows greater
with every report. The number of injured
is great aud the probabilities are that half
has not been told 1t is impossible to give
a complete list. AT Greenville the greatest
damage was done Great suffering is re-
ported from there. The center of the town
is completely demolished. Half of the
houses of the town have been RACED to the
ground. Tha. there was no greater loss of
life is remarkable