The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20
TERRIBLE WORK OF TORNADO.
TAX ASSESSOR COFFEE AND HIS
ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED.

n VILE and Stripped of Their Cloth
inr-Fifty buildings Destroyed in
CIeburne COunty-StOrm's Work in
other Places.
Btrmingham Ala, March 19.-Additiolal
details of the last nights cyclone near
E5wardsville, were received here late to-
day. The following is a list of the dead
as far as known:
LEWIS COFFEE, aged So, tax assessor
Of C.eburne county, and the following
members of his family:
MRS. COFFEE, aged 46.
Leila. aged %; James. aged 20; Lula,
aged IS; Jacob, aged IS; Deveroe. aged s;
Dollie, aged 10; Grover, aged 6; John, aged
Unknown woman near Heflin.
The wounded are: Bessie Coffee, aged
70. daughter of Lewis Coffee. will die.
Mrs. Runnells, aged 10, will die.
NIyrline stansen. aged 5, will probably
die.
Mrs. J. H. Carson, Tom Runnefls, Wood
stansell, Andrew Steipan, all seriously
hurr Mary Steipin, Lizzie RunneNs. ]. II.
Carson, Georgia stansen, Gainesville Stan
sell Tosh stanseE Coleman Stansell, all
badly bruised.
Several other people were more or less
seriously injured but their names are not
known.
Bodies Blown Half a Mile.
Lewis Coffee's residence, a strong double
log house, situated on little hill, was in
the path of the storm. 1t was swept away
aud the timbers scattered for a miIe. Ten
Of its eleven occupants were instantly
killed.
Except the body of the baby which was
found under the ruins of the chimney
the corpses of the victims were carried
half mile and nine of them were found
heaped together. Every body had been
stripped of its clothing.
In the same neighborhood. the residences
Of j. W. Wilder, j. II. Carson and An
drew Stepan and Ben Stansell were
wrecked and all their occupants injured.
Near Hehin, a white woman whose name
cannot be learned, was killed,and five per-
sons in The same family hurt. 1t is es-
Lmated that about fifty buildings were de-
suoyed between twenty and twenty-five
persons we're injured, and over score of
farms devastated.
Terrible Scene of Havoc.
The storm lost its force just south of
Hetn rear which place dozen buildings
were wrecked. The path of the cyclone
presents a terrible scene of havoc
j. r. Carson and his wife were blown
through a window as their house was fall
Ing. and after the storm found themselves
IN a field 100 yards away, both badly hurt.
Another cyclone struck in extreme North
A Alabama, blowing down a number of
Il small dwellings, a Hazel Green and still
another visited the southeastern portion
Of the state, demollshing the little town
n Of Sellers.
storms Work at Bethlehem.
Bethlehem, Miss, March 19-Wlliam
4 Wlcke's house was destroyed by tornado
n Yesterday and a child Killed.
Lee Lemmons was hurt by falling limb,
A but not seriously.
On DR.. r. j. McCalrs place the roof
was torn from the residence Of Mrs. Lem
mons
stable is said to have been brown $50
yards with horse in it, but the horse was
. uninjured.
Two Negro Boys Killed.
Bismarck, Ala, March ia terrific wind
storm accompanied by rain and hail pass
4 ed through the extensive plantation of
samuel Curry in Charleston county last
usht. Eleven tenement houses were blown
uo"n and two negro boys were killed. Sew
''a' other negro tenants were injured.
Much Damage in Arkansas.
Pine Bluff, Ark, March 19-Further de-
tdl.s OF the fearful storm which swept over
II IoIuons OF Arkansas yesterday morning
reached Pine Bluff to-day,
Oh the Walker plantation, six miles
n northwest of Pine Bluff, five houses were
Uemo ished, a fine gin house was blown
an
4 away
negro woman and seven children were
sr 1 one OF the houses when ID collapsed
Lucy Frustrated themselves on the floor
U1iHs the action of the storm, and when
bris oin 'lie ue
Al Walnut Lake on the Iron mountain
que three persons were killed.
very house on j. NJ. Varker's planta-
uoh extensively known as the Fish Mace
Was demolished.
destruction In Tennessee.
huntsville, Ala. March 1s-Tbe tornado
"Aioh struck the northern mart Of Naadi-
~" county last night did great deal of
@"'0se TO houses and farm property, but
ioi no hVes have been reported lost.
e'5Phone operator at Hazlegreen re-
n ief,u that tornado struck there. but
n lne Wire failed. i''-0i ma 'i'ii
iHe damage in the extreme southern
'tt p, OIL tennessee cannot be estimated.
X ,r,lS sIlseHsers Ts who arrived last night on a
NJ iioHl the north reported that peoDle
o,5 coming into the railway stations Ia
ed W dteehd the inJur-
n OH bpleyna' Ala. the Steele place. fine
wind uee" 10 runs by the
Buildings Blown Down.
4 n1siN, Mss, March ia severe tornado
pT.e p1Ssed over part of his county seven
A as,errsIuut outh OF here at 4 O'clock yesterday
\ On noon noon blowing down three buildings
/ so,y ,ne Hodge farm and injurlns TWO per-
\ er,on e,e s,orenouse Of John Hastings at Riv-
. car W. Junction was destroyed and a box
was blown from the track.
Four Deaths in Burke.
nay gshesooro. Ca, March ia cyclone
n 99sea over the northern part of his