Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-25
Death In the Storm.
SECTIONS OF GEORGIA AND Ala
BAMA DEVASTATED BY
A CYCLONE.
Arlington Academy Wrecked ard
Eight Pupils Killed-Score of
Others Injured, Some of
Whom Will Die.

EUFAULA, ALA, March 22.-This
city is the center of a section which
was swept by a cyclone this morning
in which death and disaster played y
dreadful part. Hourly the record be-
comes more thrilling.
Shutters, roofs, etc., gave way, and
for two hours there was terror and
desolation, wnen the cyclone passed
off to the northwest, coursing along
the Chattahoochee Valley. The re-
ports soon coming in told of the ter
rlble devastation.
The town of Blakely, in Georgia,
was almost lifted out of existence, and
people seeking refuge indoors were as
badly knocked around by creaking
and falling timbers as were those on
the outside, who were unable to dodge
fence rails and other flying missiles.
ACADEMY WRECKED.
The most shocking story, however,
was that which came from Arlington,
in Early county, Ga. 1t was about 8
O'Clock that the pupils of Arlington
Academy began to assemble, there be-
ing about fifty present when Prof.
C~ovington, noticing the coming storm,
called them In for shelter. On and on
came the elements, lifting two cabins
across the way into midair, w%renching
them into splinters. The sight of this
so frightened the children that they
chung p~iteously to Profs. Walker and
Covington, who vainly tried to quiet
them. Them came a twisting and Ca
reening, and the central partition gave
way, falling on a group OF children
clinging to Prof. Covington. The
doors and windows gone, the storm
had full sway within, fragments of
timbers flying in air, and children,
helpless against it, being caught up
and dashed against the wrecked walls.
Prof. Walker had his arms and legs
broken and cannot live through the
night.
Among the dead were: Ollie Para
more, Claude Roberts, Alice Putnam,
Albert Butler, Willie McMurray, Ken
meth B%rinton, Maude johnson and
Mary Wellons.
The wounded are: Ernest Wellons,
leg broken; Dudley Kibrew, both legs
broken; Frof. W. @. Covington, in
ternally injured, will die; Alton Car
ter, leg broken; Ethel Carter, internal
injuries, will die; Ben McMurray, head
crushed, will die; Bette Paramore,
arm broken and hurt internally; Nola
Roberts, shoulders ~dislocated; Simon
Sanders, leg broken, hurt internally,
viii die; George Riley, arm broken,
hurt internally; Clara Thigpen, arms
broken, hurt internally, will die.
Five miles below this city, a family
Of negroes, named Andrews, was hud-
lied up in their cabin, and began
praying for the storm to pass over.
enough it did lift its force at
hat point and they are now thor
converted.
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Mexico, forming in the western side
md entering the Apalachicola Valley,
reversing its continent streams to
source. Most of this section be-
!ng inaccessible to telegraphic COM
munication "details r hard to obtain.
From Henry county, Ala, around
there comes stories of death
and wreck, but nc names have been
received. A family of five persons is
reported killed near Geneva.
A second disaster, that of floods, is
now upon the country. The rivers
and creeks are swelling with the rain
fall, which almost resembles a cloud
burst in its copiousness. Late tonight
news comes in of the drowning Of a
of eight persons on the Ala
bama side of the river in Henry coun-
ty. Richard Manson, with his wife
and six children, lived in a cabin on
the river bank at the crossing Of the
Central Railroad from Columbia.