The age-herald., 1901-03-26

TWENTY PERSONS KILLED
 AND HUNDREDS OF HOUSES
 ARE TORN INTO FRAGMENTS
fractured arm; will lose arm.

fractured armi will lose arm.
 WILL GALLOWAY, colored. scalp wounds.
 NED THOMAS, coloreo, face cut slight ly.
 LEE RICHARDSON, arm bruised and finger broken.
 LITTLE NEGRO BOY, cut hand; calls himself "Lizzie's boy.''
 IIAMBRIGHT DEATHROE, back of head cut.
 MIR. HARVEY, cut on head
 CHARLIE SMITH, negro porter, badly bruised.
 HARRY BLMORE, internally injured.
 JULIA BLACKMAN; arm broken.
 ##=.. Work of Relief.
 A terrific rain storm followed the wind and greatly retarded the work of relief which was immediately begun by an army of volunteer rescuers.
 The fire department, under the direc- ton of Chief Mullin, set to work without delay and rendered valient service in re- moving the dead and injured from the | wreckage. Every available man in the police department was pressed into service and with the assistance of citizens \ who volunteered their services order was soon brought out of chaos Mayor Drennen and many of the city officials were soon on the scene and a relief station was established at the cor ner of Avenue l and Twenty-fourth street.
 A little cottage has been fitted up and l Mayor Drennen, Chief of Police Austin, Aldermen Jones and Camp and Commis- I soiner McCartin are in charge. The pri- | vate secretaries of the Mayor and the chief of police are keeping a record of the l injured and suffering people, and are l kept hard at work
 The dead were removed to the various l undertaking establishments while every available ambulance in the city was press | ed into service in removing the injured l to the hospitals
 More than twenty-five of the injured were taken to St Vincent's Hospital, while the Hillman and the private hos pitals of the city opened their doors to receive patients. Drs. Davis & Davis, Copeland & Berry Talley 6 Chapman and the Prevalent Infrmary, conducted by Dr. U. G. Mason, the well-known col ored physician, each received a number of the injured, and every assistance pos sible was rendered.
 Path of the Storm.
 The storm struck the city in the ex- treme southwestern corner and plowed its way eastward, leaving a path 15O feet wide through the entire southern section ! extending from Green Springs on the left to Avondale on the east. It continued its course onward until its fury was sent in the mountain beyond Irondale The morning dawned cloudy and sultry and grew more threatening as the sday advanced. Clouds began to gather and shortly after g o'clock sharp lightning flashed from the southwest The air be- came heavy and stiflng and 1t was evil dent that storm was brewing. but no one dreamed that 1t would burst with such fury upon the city few minutes later. The velocity of the wind began to increase and suddenly from out of the overcast sky the funnel-shaped cloud made its descent, and. hugglng close to the earth, passed through the city in leaps and bounds. leaving death and deso- lation in its pathway.
 The altitude of the cyclone was not more than seventy-five feet. The negro shanties and cottages in the lowlands in the path of the storm were the principal sufferers. The larger residences on the higher ground suffered but slightly. The large trees on the hillside of the St. Vim cents Hospital were torn up by the roots, l a Ia of txx,iot tad out of the ground. and broken and scat tered all over the driveways of the en- trance to the institution.
 Like Rubber sali. From Eighth to Tenth street the wind devil bounded like a rubber ball, and when it again descended it struck a two story house occupied by Joseph Busen- helhner and almost razed it to the ground The 11-year-old daughter of John Krimzy, rolling mill man, was caught under the debris and was severely injured.
 A house occupied by Taylor Hanson near by was unroofed and three small 1 negro houses demolished
 Onward the wind sped in it's fury. de- molishng trees and fences, until it reached Eleventh street, where A house | occupied by John Hayes was feyeled. AL most hugging the earth, 1t swept through small pine grove, tearing the trees up by the roots and hurling them through the air like arrows.
 Beyond the grove the storm cloud swooped down upon a negro settlement and the frail cabins were crushed like egg shells not one being left in the pathway | of the tornado. Carrie Elmore a negro woman, was buried beneath the debris. | but most of the negroes escaped with slight injuries and after the storm had passed gathered around the wreckage apparently thankful that they had es- caped with their lives. | Eastward the storm swept, cutting it's way through another strip of woods, striking the Second Presbyterian Church at the corner of Avenue H and Fifteenth street. almost demolishing the structure. The pews were piled on the top of the debris. small oak table which was used in the rostrum being deposited on the topmost point of the wreckage. | Wrought Sad Havoc.
 East of the church, in direct line of the | tornado's path, is another negro settle ment, and sad havoc was wrought among the. frail shacks, seven of which were swept away. A number of small housas