The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-23
Children of a Georgia Academy
Perish Under a Cyclone.
A SCORE OF THEM DEAD
EIGHT OF THE LITTLE ONES
TAKEN FROM THE RUINS.
TAIRTY-sEvEN IN THE WRECK
Men and Women Weeping For Their
Young, and People of Arlington
Village Paraiyzed With Horror
Towns Narrow Escape.
Towns Narrow Escape.


Arlington, Ga, March 22.-Every
heart in Calhoun county is wrung with
anguish to-day
An awful cyclone swept down upon this
little place to-day and accomplished a
work of horror that has only been par
alleled in the famous Johnstown dsas-
ter.
The bodies of eight children have been
taken from the ruins of the Arlington
Academy, and about dozen others will
die.
Thirty-fve children and two teachers
went down in the wreck of the building
and the work of removing the dead and
injured is not yet completed.
The Arlington Academy, fine Strllc-
ture, lay directly in the path of the
storm. 1t was knocked into a great
heap and the work of death was done
even before the danger was realized.
The structure was smashed into kindling
wood and the broken timbers and dead
bodies are mixed together in sickening
confusion.
DEAD, so FAR RECOVERED.
The death list so far as known is:
ALICE PUTNAM.
CLAUDE ROBERTS.
OLLIE PARAAfORE.
WILLIE MiMURRAY.
GENIE BUTLER.
MAUDE JOHNSON.
MARY WELIjONS.
KENNETH BOYNTON.
ALBERT BUTLER.
The wounded are:
ERNEST WELLONS. leg broken.
DUDLEY KILLERBREW, both legs
broken.
PROF. W. a. CONVICTION. internal
injuries; will die
ALTON CARTER. leg broken.
ETHEL CARTER, internal injuries
will die
BEN M'MURRAY, head crushed: will
die.
BETTE PARRAMORE, arm broken
and hurt internally.
NOLA ROBERTS, shoulders dislocat-
ed.
SIMON SANDERS. leg broken: hurt
internally: will die.
GEORGE REILLY, arm broken: hurt
internally; will die.
The two teachers, Professors Coving-
ton and Walker have been removed
from the ruins and they are terribly hurt
Walker, it is thought, will die. The list
of the injured cannot yet be definitely
made up.
People have not recovered from the aw-
full horror of the disaster. Nearly every
home in the community has been blighted
by the storms cruel work Men and
women stand about wringing their hands
and weeping for their children so ruth
lessly snatched from them.
The storm also wrecked the residence
of w. d. Cowdrey, and the new resi-
dence of DIR. w. e. Saunders, Just COM
pleted. No one was hurt at these places.
There is no news Of a definite nature
from the outlying districts in the path of
the storm, but the damage, no doubt, is
very great.
Blakeley's physicians came over at ten
O'Clock to help care for the wounded. The
academy had been built but two years
and was handsome two-story struc-
ture. The storm missed the business part
of the town only by about FIVE hundred
yards.
The rain began to pour down in tor
rents as soon as the wind passed off
and the 500 people were drenched to
the skin while clearing away the wreck
Some remarkable escapes were related.
One little girl, almost suffocated, was ly-
ing under three of her dead campanions
From Henry county, Alabama, around
Abbeville, there comes stories of death
but no names have been received. A
family Of five are reported killed near
Genoa.