The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-26
Scores of Injured Removed
to the Hospitals.
EIGHTEEN BODIES TAKEN FROM DEBqIs
A List of the Dead Shows That of the
Twenty-Five Known to Have Per-
ished Only Five Are White.
Reports of Wreck andRuin
From Other Places.
From Other Places.
(By the Associated Press.)


Birmingham. Ala, March 25.-Shortly
before 10 o'clock this morning fearful
tornado swept over the Southern section
OF this city travelling in an easterly direc-
ton.
The number of killed is estimated at
%, but only five of them are white. The
destruction of property is placed at
quarter of a million dollars. Eighteen
bodies have been recovered from the
debris up to dark, and scores of injured
have been removed to the hospitals.
Among the dead are:
DR. G. C. CHAPMAN, of the firm of
Tally and Chapman, who conduct private
infirmary in this city, and the wife and
infant child of Hon. Robert ]. Lowe,
chairman of the Democratic State Execu-
tive Committee.
Following is the list OF identified dead
and known injured
The dead:
DIR. G. C. CHAPMAN.
MRS. ROBERT j. LOWE
MRS. LOVES infant child.
j. ALEXANDER
b. b. HUDSON'S little daughter.
r. MYRO, colored, collector Union Mu
tual Association of Mobile.
CARRIE HUDSON. colored
MAGGIE BLEvINS, colored.
CARRIE HENRY. colored.
LIZZIE GLENN, colored.
COOK for B. g. Hudson colored.
UNKNOWN CARPENTER, struck by
flying lumber.
Fatally injured
MRS. p. H. THOMAS.
MRS. w. II. THOMAS.
MRS. ID. ID. MCLAUGHLIN.
MRS. ]. FERGUSON.
MRS MYLUM.
CARRIE ELM, colored.
Injured:
JOHN DILLON.
iIAMBRIGHT DETHHO. back of head
cut.
j. Il. MINTER, hands and head cut.
CHILD of Mrs. Mclaughlin.
MRS. SOVENS.
r. l.. HOLTAN. arm broken.
SARAH ADAMS, colored, right arm
broken.
ALBERT GLENN, colored.
JERUSHA GLENN, colored.
JOftN CURRY, CoiOFeu.
CARRIE ELMERE, colored, not expect
ed 10 1--we.
MARY GooDLAW. colored, arm and leg
broken.
SARAH THWEATT. colored, arm
broken.
DAVE ELMORE, colored, serious in
ternal injuries.
SARAH GILMORE, colored, serious in
ternal injuries.
MRS LYNCH and DAUGHTER, inter
nal injuries
FRANK KRIMsEY. arm broken and
head bruised.
LoUGIN E. MARTIN, colored, struck by
flying timber
RHEA CURRY. colored, arm broken
and head bruised.
MRS. F. G. SCHAEFER and BABY,
slight injuries.
MRS. HATES and DAUGHTER, slight
Injuries.
MR.. and MRS. DOERR, Slightly injured.
w. w. DOERR, bricklayer, bruised and
badly cut.
w. B. DICKERSoN, scalp wound and
concussion, serious.
MRS JOEL E. GIACCOPAZZI. badly
bruised
MRS JANE LANE, injured about the
head, will recover.
J. W. WILSON, colored, sick in bed with
pneumonia and was badly bruised.
NARY GALLOWAY, colored, scalp
wounds.
NED THOMAS, colored, face cut slight
w.
LEE RICHARDSON, arm bruised and
finger broken.
LITTLE NEGRO BOY, cut hand. name
unknown.
The storm struck the city in the ex-
IRENE southwestern corner and plowed
its way eastward leaving a path $50 feet
wide, through the entire southern section
extending from Green Springs on the
West to Avondale on the East, and con-
tinued it's course on until its fury was
spent in the mountains beyond Irondale,
small town six miles east OF the city.
The morning dawned cloudy and sultry
end grew more threatening as the day adj
vanced Clouds began to gather and short
ly after 8 o'clock sharp lightning flashed
from the southwest The. air became
heavy and sitting. The velocity of the
wind suddenly began to increase, and
soon from out OF the overcast sky the
dreaded tunnel shaped cloud made its des-