Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-03-29
WOE IN BIRMINGHAM,
Storm-stricken Portion of City a
Scene of Devastation.
TOTAL EUNBsR KILLED is SIXTEEN.
~ A Great Many Persons Injured-Re-
lief Fund lis Growins-Damag-
ing Storm and Floods
In Michigan.

IN AOCul PSsl4CC 1O1CC luuCu OIs
der has come out Of Mondays chaos
following the fatal storm which swept
portions of this city. A careful revi-
sion of the death list places the total
number of dead in Birmingham and
vicinity at Is. Thirty-fve persons were
more or less seriously hurt. but their
number is being augmented by the ad-
dition of many names of persons who
were Slightly bruised in their mar
velous escape from death. The path
of the storm vas wide. 1t covered
practically every hamlet in Jefferson
county.
The following cities were especial
" visited: Birmingham, Pratt City,
Bessemer, Irondale, Brighton, North
Birmingham, Trussville and Weems.
At 1rondale the killed are: G. w.
Gardiner, a white carpenter Mamie
and Clarence Hunter, aged four and
ten, colored.
Wounded: Mark Triplett, Clay Gere
and Will Gardner.
Twenty houses were RACED to the
ground.
At Brighton the schoolhouse was
demolished and the daughters of
Mrs. Studder and Mrs. Walker were
severely injured on the head.
AT Pratt City the Methodist church,
the high school building, the COM
missary of the Tennessee company
and 80 negro shacks were demolished.
The villages of Trussville and Weems
are reported destroyed, but word
cannot be received from them, as all
telegraph and telephone wires are
down.
The towns o. North Birmingham
and Woodlawn and Avondale were
also visited and score of houses were
damaged. but no loss of life is re-
ported there.
Relieving the Suffering.
Tuesdays efforts in the storm
stricken section of Birmingham are
being directed towards giving relief
to those who lost their all by the
fury Of the winds. Troops guarded
the devastated district Monday night
and lremen and policemen continued
to search the ruins, but no more dead
bodies were found and so far as has
been learned up to $3.50 o'clock no
additional deaths have occurred.
Mayor Drennen, who is directing
the relief work, estimates that $780,
900 will relieve the immediate wants
of the sufferers. The larger part of
this has already been raised among
citizens and a citizens meeting will
be held at noon to raise the re-
mainder and to more perfectly or
ganize the distribution of the relief
funds. AS the larger number of the
losers are negroes and the poorer
classes of whites, the suffering
among many of them has been. acute.
Just how many people were hurt in
Nthe storm will probably never be
known. Many who sustained trifing
injuries paid no heed 10 their wounds
in their anxiety to saw their scat
tered household effects and to look
after their dead and more seriously
wounded.
The Relief Fund.
The relief fund is growing with as
tonishing rapidity, over $4,000 having
been already received. Mayor Dren-
men authorizes. the statement that the
sufferers are not in need of outside
contributions. The property loss is
placed at $500. 600.
\ Sad Feature.
The saddest feature of Tuesday was
the funerals. that Of Mrs. Robert j
Lowe and child taking place in the
morning from a neighbours home. The
house was crowded with men, women
and children and every eye was wet
The young mother will be buried with
her babe in her arms. The bodies
were taken to Athens, Ala, where Mrs
Lowe was born.
The handsome residence of the
no one injured. The cyclone strucl
Buena Vista. Ga. at four o'clock il
the afternoon. The youngchild of Mr.
and Mrs. J. d. Harrell was killed, a:
was also a negro girl. The home OF
the Misses Woodall was wrecked ant
the two occupants seriously injured
At Gainesville lightning struck {
schoolhouse. killing two children
Owing to the tremendous rains thu
rivers IN HOFl1eFH anu oIAH"oolCi
Georgia are out of their banks.
Two Killed by Lightning.
Kingston, Ga, March ga bolt o
lightning struck the negro schoolhous'
Tuesday, followed the s%tovepipe down
ward. and killed two girls. Jennie Bel
Elliott and Jennie Goodwin. aged 1
and - years. Several others wer
shocked.
CYCLONE IN MICHIGAN.
No Loss of Life Reported-TwO Per
sons Are Seriously Hurt.
Kalamazoo. Mich. March 27.-Th
cyclone which swept across the south
east corner of Kalamazoo county Mon
day afternoon cut off communicate,
with the outside world and r~esulte
IN LARGELY exapperatel reports of tn