The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-03-23
A TERRIBLE CYCLONE
It Destroys a School Building ii
Arlington, Ga.
MANY OF THE CHILDREN KILLED.

Nine Of the Pupils Dead and Several
Others WIN Die from Their Wounds,
Many other victims Of wind and Flood
in the South.
New Orleans, March 23.--The Times
Democrats Eufala, Ala, special says
This city was swept by cyclone yes
terday Sunday the thermometer went
up to so, and the air was as oppres-
sive as it ever is felt during the June
solstice. with the coming Of night the
skies We're beclouded and rain began
to fall about midnight. Towards morn
ing there was a cessation Of precipi-
tation. This was but for an hour, when
the leaden skies and increasing wind
told of a storm, which came along with
terrific and wrenching force. Men were
almost caught up from the streets be-
fore they could find shelter Roofs,
shutters, etc, gave way, and there
was terror and desOlation when the cy-
clone passed off to the northeast
coursing along the Chattahoochie val
ley The reports soon coming in told
OF devastation The town Of Blakely
in Georgia, was almost lifted out of
existence, and people who were seeking
refuge indoors were as badly knocked
by cracking and falling tlmbers as
were those on the outside, who were
unable to dodge fence rails and other
flying missiles.
The most shocking story, however
was that which came from Arlington
Early county, Ga. It was about
o'clock when the pupils of Arlington
academy began to assemble. There
We're about so present when Professor
Covington, noticing the storm coming,
called them in for shelter. On and on
came the storm, increasing until 1t lift
ed two cabins across the way into
midair wrenching them into splinters.
A cracking nose was heard and the
shutters and swing doors of the school
were wrenched from their hinges Then
the central part of the building gave
way, falling upon a group of children
who were clinging to the professors.
The doors and windows gone, the
storm had fun sway and the children,
being caught up, were dashed against
the wrecked walls. While this was
going on the people of the town, re-
gardless of the wreckage of their own
homes, ran to the school, where they
many Of them dead and others wound
ed and pinioned beneath the debris.
Professor Walker had his arms and
legs broken, and cannot live
The scenes around the building were
most heartrending as mothers clasped
the bodies of their children in their
arms. The rain began to pour down
in torrents as soon as the wind passed
| off, and the 500 people were drenched
| to the skin while clearing away the
| wreck
In the building about 80 pupils and
| two teachers had assembled, and nine
| of the children were instantly killed
! Their bodies were fearfully mangled
! and part of the timbers were mixed up
with the torn remains. Twelve chill
! dren, some of them older than those
killed, We're badly injured and dying.
! One has since died in fact, and the
other II are not expected to live
The dead are: Alice Putnam ollie
! Paramore, Genie Butler, Mary Wellons,
! Claude Roberts, Willie McMurray,
Maude Johnson, Kenneth Boynton
and Albert Butler.
The wounded are: Ernest Wellons,
] legs broken; Professor w. A. Coving-
ton, internal injuries, will die Alton
Carter, leg broken; Ethel Carter, in
ternal injuries, will die; Ben McMur-
ray head crushed, will die; Bette
Paramore, arm broken and hurt inter-
nally; Nola Roberts, shoulders dislo-
Gated; Simon Sanders, leg broken and
hurt internally, win die; George Reilly,
arm broken and hurt internally; Clara
! Thighpen, arms broken and hurt in
ternally, viii die.
The storm swept country is inacces-
sible to telegraph communication, and
details are hard to obtain From Henry
county. Ala, around Abbeyville, there
comes stories of death and wreck, but
no names have been received. A fam
ily cf five are reported killed near
Genoa. A second disaster that Of
floods. Is now upon the county. Phe
rivers and creeks are swelling with the
rainfall. News comes in of the drown
ing a family of eight persons on the
Alabama side of the river in Henry
county. They were Richard Manson
and family
Some remarkable escapes were re@
lated. one little girl, almost sutfocated,
was lying under three of her dead
companions, whose bodies had formed
a buffer. which saved her from the
falling debris,
Along the banks of the Chatta-
hoochie river, up from Appalaehicola,
there is but one story of death and de-
struction.