The new North-west., 1897-03-26
NET DEATH IN THE WIND
EIGHT SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED
DURING A CYCLONE.
The Cyclone Came From the Gulf o,
Mexico and Swept the ApDa-
lachicoIa Valley.

New Orleans, March 22.-The Times
Democrat Efaula, Ala, special says:
This city was swept by a cyclone this
| afternoon in which death and disaster
| played dreadful part.
| Hourly the record becomes more ap-
palling. For several days there has been
summer n1ildness all through southwest
| Georgia and southeast Alabama and the
country thereabout the Chattahoochie
! river. Yesterday the thermometer went
up to 80 and the air was oppressive as
ever 1t felt during the June solstice. This
morning the leaden skies and increasing
wind told of a storm, which soon came
along with terrific force. When the storm
struck, shutters, roofs and buildings gave
way and for two hours there was terror
and desolation, when the cyclone passed
off to the northwest, coursing along the
Chattahoochie valley.
The reports soon came in telling of
terrible devastation. The town of Blake
ly, in Georgia, was almost lifted out of
existence, and people seeking refuge in
doors were so badly knocked around by
cracking and falling timbers as were
those on the outside who were unable
to dodge fence rails and flying missiles
The most shocking story of all, now
ever, was that which came from Airing
ton, Ga. 1t was about o'clock when the
pupils of the Arlington academy began to
assemble, and there were about so pres
ent when Professor Covington, noticing
the coming storm, called them in for
shelter. Or and on came the storm with
roaring sound, increasing until it lifted
two cabins across the way into midair.
crushing them into splinters. The sight
of this SO affrighted the children that
they clung piteously to Professor Walker
and Professor Covington, who tried In
vain to quiet them. A cracking noise
heard and nd ,1i,
doors We're Wrenched from their hinges.
Then came a twisting and careening and
the north partition gave way, falling with
deadly effect upon group of children
who were clinging to the professors. The
doors and windows gone, the storm
shrieked through the rocking building,
and the little ones thrown to the floor
were crushed under flying debris. The
cries of the wounded, the groans of the
dying are described as heartrending
The people of the town ran to the school,
only to find many dead, others wounded
and pinioned beneath the debris. Pro-
fessor Walker had his arms and legs
broken and can not live through the
night.
Among the dead are: ..o. ~-.5-.
The Killed.
OLLIE PARRAMOR.
CLAUDE ROBERTS.
ALICE PUTNAM.
ALBERT BUTLER.
WILLIE MMURRAY.
KENNETH BOYNTON
MAUDE JOHNSON.
MARY WELLONS.
The wounded
The Injured.
ERNEST WELLONS, leg broken.
DUDLEY KILBRoW. both legs broken.
PROF. CONVICTION, internal injuries; will
die.
ALLEN CARTER, leg broken
ESTHER CARTER, internal injuries; will
die
BEN MMURRAY, head bruised; will die.
BETTE PARRAMoR, arm broken and
hurt internally.
ROBERT CHILDERS, shoulder disocated.
SIMON SANDERS, hurt internally; viii
die.
GEORGE RILEY, arm broken, hurt inter-
CLARA THIGEN, arms broken, hurt inter-
nally; will die.
Along the banks of the river UP from
but one story of death and |
destruction is told. The storm came from
the gulf of Mexico, and entering the |
valley, traversed it's conflu- |
ent streams to their sources. Most of the |
visited by the storm is not ac- |
cessible to telegraphic communication, |
and details are hard to obtain.
From Henry county, Ala, around Alb |
beyville there come stories of death and |
but no names have been re- |
ceived.
A family of five were reported killed !
near Geneva.
A second disaster. that of floods, is |
now upon the county. The rivers and |
creeks are swelling and on both sides of |
the Chattahoochie. south of this place, |
the fields are overfloWed, having destroy |
ed all the winters work. carrying away |
outhouses and cabins and floating Off |
stock.
In Henry county, Ala, Richard Man
son. with his wife and six children, liv-
ing in a cabin on the river bank at the |
crossing of the Central railroad of the |
Columbia were drowned