, 1897-03-23
A SOUTHERN TORNADO.
DENASTATES \ LARGE SECTION
IN ALABAMA AND LEAVES
DEATH IN IT'S PATH.
Georgia Also Suffers by the Storm-A
Number Cc School Children Killed
and the Professor Has His Arms
and Legs Broken-List OF the Dead
and Wounded.

and Legs Broken-List OF the Dead
and Wounded.
New Orleans. La, March 22.-The
Times Democrats Eufala. Ala, special
says his city was swept by a tornado
this morning. in which death and disas-
ter played a dreadful part. The hourly
record becomes appalling. For
several days there has been summer
mildness all through the southwest part
OF Georgia and Alabama, and the coun-
try tributary TO the Chattahoochie river.
Yesterday the thermometer went up to
so and the air was oppressively warm.
With the coming Of night the skies were
h~eclouded and rain began to fall about
midnight. Toward morning the leaden
skies and increasing wind told of n
storm which would soon come along
with terrific and w%renching force. When
the storm struck, shutters, roofs, etc,
gave way and for TWO hours there was
anu hNSpIdtlpIl, "htl liz ~ lliuo
passed off TO the northwest, coursine
along the C~hattahoochie valley. The
reports soon coming in told of terrible
devastation. The town of Blakely, in
Georgia, was almost lifted out Of exist
ence.
TIL nos shocking torn OF all was
from Arlington in Early county, Geor-
gia. 1t was almost s O'Clock when the
pupils of Arlington academy began to
assemble. and there were about fifty
present when Prof. Covington, noticing
The coming storm, caller them in for
shelter. On and on came the storm,
with a roaring sound, increasing until
i lifted the two cabins across the way
in,o mid air, crushing them into splint-
ers. The sight so affrighted the chill,
dren lhat they chung ~piteOusly to Pro
lessor Walker and Professor Covington,
who vainly tried to quiet them. 4
cracking noise was heard and the shut
,ers and swinging doors We're wrenched
from their hinges. Then came a twist,
ing and a ~careening and the north par.
titiOn gave way, falling with deadly eff,
feet upon n group of children clingina
10 the professors. The people of the
town, regardless of the wreckuge OF
their " homes, ran to the school
where they knew the children were. on
ly TO find many dead. others were
wounded and pinioned beneath the de-
bris. Prof. Walker had his arms and
legs broken and cannot live through the
night. Among the dead are:
Olive ~Parramore, Claude Roberts.
Alice Putnam, Albert Butler, Willie Nc
Murray, Keneth Boynton, Maud John
son, Mary Weltons.
The wounded are:
Earnest Weltons. leg broken; Dudley
ktlbrew, both legs broken; Prof. CO.
vington, internal injuries, will die: AL
len Carter. leg broken: Esther Carter,
Internal injuries. will die: Ben McMur-
ray, head crushed, will die; Bette Par
ramure, arm broken and hurt internal,
- : ANcp'i SlilbIls. llOulNlt ulSlottl>
ed; Simon Sanders. hurt internally, will
die; George Riley. arm broken, hurt in
ternally; Clara Thighen, arms broken;
hurt internally, will die.
The scent around the building were
most heartrending. The rain began to
pour in torrents as soon as the wind
passed off. Along the banks Of the
river up from Appalachicola there is
but one story of death and destruction.
The storm came from the Gulf of Mex
leo and entering the Appalachicola val
ley traversed its continent streams to
their source. From Henry county, Ala
bama, around Abbeyville there comes a
story of death and wreck, but no names
have been received. a family OF five is
reported killed near Geneva.
A second disaster, that of floods is
now upon the country. The rivers and
creeks are swelling and on both sides
of the Chattahoochie, south OF this
place. the fields are overlooked, destroy
ing all the winters work, carrying out
houses and cabins and floating off stock.
Late tonight news comes OF drowning
on the Alabama side of the river in
Horny county Of Richard Manson with
a wife and six children. The water sur
rounded the cabin and all were lost.