The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-23
EIGHT INSTANTLY KILLED
AND OTHERS WOUNDED so sERI-
OUsLY THEY WILL DIE.
Twister That Came from the Gulf and
Also Did Damage i'm Alabama
Severe storm in Indiana.

dreadful part. AT Arlington, Ca, school-
house was destroyed and most of the cccu-
pants killed or injured. Among the dead
are:
OLLIE PARRAMORE.
CLAUDE ROBERTS.
ALICE PUTNAM.
ALBERT BUTLER.
WILLIE MMURRAY.
KENNETH BOYNTON.
MAUD JOHNSON.
MARY WELLONS.
The most seriously wounded are:
PROF. WALKER, arms and legs broken,
cannot live through the night.
ERNEST WELLONS, leg broken.
DUDLEY KlLLEBREW, both legs brok-
PROF. W. A. CONVICTION. internal
injuries; will die
ALTON CARTER. leg broken.
ETHEL CARTER, internal injuries; will
BEN MMURRAY, head crushed; will die
BETTE PARRAMORE. arm broken and
NORA Roberts. shoulders dislocated.
SIMON SANDERS, leg broken and hurt
GEORGE RILEY. arm broken and hurt
internally.
CLARA THIGPEN. arms broken and
hurt internally; will die.
For several days there has been sum-
mer mldness through southwest Georgia
and southeast Alabama and the country
tributary to the Chattahoochie river. Yes
terday the thermometer went up to 50 and
the air was as oppressive as ever it felt
during the June solstice. With the coming
of night the skies were becouded and rain
began TO fall copicusly about midnight. To-
wards morning there was cessation of
precipitation and the sun peeped forth from
the clouds as IL there was 10 be a repetition
of yesterday. This was but for an hour
when the leaden skies and increasing wind
told of a storm which came along with ter
rife and wrenching force. Men were almost
caught up from the streets before
they could find shelter. Shutters roofs, etc.
gave way and for two hours there was
terror and desolation when the tornado
passed off TO the northwest, coursing along
the Chattahoochie valley.
Reports soon began To come in telling of
terrible devastation. The town of Blakeley
in Georgia, was almost lifted out of exist
ence and people seeking refuge indoors
badly knocked around by crack
ing and falling timbers as were those on
the outside. who were unable to dodge
fence rails and other flying missiles.
THE SCHOOLHOUSE DISASTER.
The most shocking story OF all. however
was that which came from Arlington, Early
county, Georgia. 1t was about o'clock
when the pupils of Arlington Academy be-
gan to assemble. There were about fifty
present when Professor Covington, noticing
the coming storm, called them in for shell
ter. On and on came the stotm with a
whizzing sound, increasing until 1t lifted
two cabins across the way into midair,
wrenching them into splinters as a man
would a handful of rotten wood. The sight
of this so frightened the children that they
clung piteously to Professor Walker and
Professor Covington, who vainly tried to
quiet them.
y cracking noise was heard and the shut
ters and swinging doors were wrenched
from their hinges. Then came a twisting
and careening and the central partition
gave way, falling with deadly effect upon
a group of children who were clinging TO
the professors. The doors and windows
gone, the storm had full sway within, frag-
ments OF timbers flying in the air and chill
dren thrown helpless against it. being
caught up and dashed against the wrecked
walls. The cries of the wounded and
groans of the dying are described
as having been heartrending. While
all this was going on the people of the
town, regardless of the wreckage of their
own homes. ran TO the school where they
knew their children were, only to find many
of them dead, others wounded and pinioned
beneath the debris. The scenes around
the building were most heartrending,
mothers elias ned the forms of their loved
children in their arms, needing not their
bloody and mangled condition. The rain
began to pour in torrents as soon as the
wind passed off, and the five hundred peo-
pie were drenched TO the skin while clearing
away the wreckage.
Some remarkable escapes were related.
One little girl almost suffocated for want
of air, was lying under three of her dead
companions. whose bodies had formed a
buffer. which saved her from the severity
of the blows of falling debris.
STORM CAME FROM THE GULF.
Along the banks of the Chattahoochie
river up from Appalachicola there is but
one story OF death and destruction. The
storm came from the Gulf of Mexico, form
ing on the western side and entering the
Appalachicola valley, traversed its con-
fluent streams TO their source. The Appal-
achicola is formed by the conjunction of
the Chattahoochie and the Flint, the first
of which up to West Point forms the State
boundary line between Georgia and Ala
bama. and the second diverges northwestern
ly into the heart of Georgia. 1t was i'm the
tongue of the territory within this circum-
ference that the strength of the storm was
raph communication and details are hard
to obtain
From Henry county. Alabama. around
| Abbeville, there come stories OF death and
wreck. but no names have been received.
| \ family of five are reported killed near
! Geneva.
4 second disaster that of floods. is now
| upon the county. The rivers and creeks
| are swelling with the rainfall which almost
resembled a cloudburst in its copiousness.
/ on both sides OF the Chattahoochie south
of this place the fields are overfiowed, de-
| stroying all the winters work OF prepara-
! ton, carrying away outhouses and cabins.
and floating Off stock SO that it can never
be recovered.
Late tonight news comes In OF the
drowning of family OF eight persons on
| the Alabama side of the river. IN Henry
| county. Richard Manson. with his wife and
six children, lived in a cabin the river
| bank at the crossing of the Central Rail-
road from Columbia. The water rushed in,