The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-24
LEI LOOSE.
Death and Destruction Left in Its
Narrow Path.
EIGHT SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED.

Mourning In Nearly Every Household In
the Little Town of Arlington, Ga, Tor
Besides the Killed Many of the Pupils In
the Academy Building Were Injured
Some of Whom VIII Die-The Structure
Smashed into Kindling Wood.
Arlington, Ga, March PA cyclone
cut a path of death through this little
town Monday. 1t left eight children |
dead i'm the ruins of Arlington acad-
emy. Many others and one of the many
teachers will die So far as is now
known the names of the eight whose
bodies have been recovered are: Genie
Butler, Kenneth Boynton, Maud John-
son, Willie McMurria. Alice Putnam
| Ollie Paramore, Claude Roberts, Mary
| Wellong.
The list of injured. as far as can be
summed up, is as follows: Alton Carter
leg broken: Ethel Carter internally IN
iured and will die; Professor w. A. lrV-
ington, internally injured and Will die;
Dudley Killebrew, both legs broKen'
Ben McMurray head crushed, VIII die;
Bette Paramore, arm broken ana nurt
internally; Nola Roberts, shoulder as
located; George Riley. arm broken ana
hurt internally; Simon Sanders, leg
broken, hurt internally, will die; cara
Thighpen, arms broken, hurt internally
and will die; Ernest Weltons, leg
broken.
Taking Out the Victims.
Tbirty-fiye children and the teachers
went down in the wreck. Men VINO are
, removing the ruins are sick at heart
and almost afraid to continue, ureau
( ing what may be found at any instant.
0 The horror came upon the town at o'oo
in the morning and without warning.
There was q sudden roar, which passed
: away as quickly as 1t came, ana the
harvests of death had been reaped
No larger than a bed blanket was the
d cloud In which the cyclone was hid. IL
n rushed down from the northwest, missed
d the business section by bare block
) tore through the residences or w. ~
n Cowdry and DR.. w. f.. Saunders, de-
d molished them and then took the litti'
e academy and twisted it into fragments
I, Luckily nobody was in either or th'
: two residences, and so the death lis
l. is confined to the academy pupils.
d People Hear the Roar.
~ Persons who heard and saw IN
'e death cloud were startled. Nopod'
III dreamed. however, that 1t had cause
60 q horror until a scream came from IN
direction of the academy. The TOWN
a little one, and ii did not take ION
u for the news to spread that there wa
ne n disaster Men left their work an
'h women their homes Nearly every
" body had a child in the school, an
III when the white-faced men ana weel
y ing and screaming women saw VIVA
'e had happened the scene was heartreh'
al ing. ,,
ei- children, wounded and bleeding al
n' unable to walk were creeping al
~ crawling and staggering out from VI
is' der the wrecked building others an
U hut helplessly fastened down
'a' broken beams and flooring, were PIT
TO ouslv pleading for assistance, viii
lg, others silent and mangled, told ia
lst all too horrible for the parents WI
ne looked upon the work OF the sm'
- cloud.
'P Rescue Work Begun.
pescue work was soon begun. M
'eo "a women. too. tore at the twist
,s, timbers. sobbing and screaming I
-, casionally nature was kind to moth
ond she was tenderly carried away u
conscious. Other towns were asked
n. send aid. and doctors came from
and near. All that was possible
.ha done for the mangled little Ones wh
the dead were borne to homes OF 81
on row.
Nearly every household Is strick
:, ana in every street are women wriI
@ ing their hands, sobbing men and CT
en-, no,, dren weeping because some little en-
p., "a either dead or dying. The acader
not which lay directly in the path OF
- death cloud, was a new two-s.
''o @ structure. 1t was knocked into gr
saSs heap. and the work Of death was a.
',,, even before the danger was realiz
WI. The structure was smashed into XII
ling wood, and the broken timbers
dead bodies were mixed together
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