The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-03-30
The ALABAMA TORNADO.
The Full Extent of the Loss at Biz
mingham, Ala, and Vicinity
Not Yet Footed Up.
THERE ARE THIRTEEN KNOWN TO Be DEAD
Those Who Escaped are working
N"biy to succor Those who Lost
Their All Before the storms Fury
The Property Loss In B~irmIng-
ham Estimated at S2OO,OOO

birmingham, Ala, March 26.-Much
more horrible than the first reports
CT the tornado, Monday, are the reali-
Ties which have thus lar come out. 1t
Is still impossible to compile the full
list of the dead and wounded, but it
Is now certain that lie persons were
killed and the 30 to AZ were more or
less injured. The path of the storm
was wide. 1t covered practically ev-
cry hamlet in Jefferson county.
suburban Cities Visited.
The following cities were especially
visited: Birmingham, Pratt City,
bessemer, lrondale, Brighton, North
birmingham, Trussville and Weems.
At lrondale, the killed are: &. W..
Gardiner, a white carpenter; Mamie
and Clarence Hunter, aged four and
ten, colored.
Wounded: Murk Triplett, Clay Cere.
Will Gardner.
Twenty houses were RACED to the
ground.
At Brighton, the school house was
demolished and the daughters of Mrs.
Studder and Mrs. Walker were Sc
verely injured on the head.
At Pratt City, the Methodist
church, the high school building the
commissary of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Co., and 30 negro shacks were de.
molished.
The villages of Trussville and
Weems are reported destroyed, but
word can not be received from them,
as all telegraph and telephone wires
are down.
The Property Losses.
President Robert ,Jamison of the
Birmingham Railway, Light and Pow.
er Co. estimates the property loss in
birmingham alone at $500. 900.
The towns of North Birmingham
and Wocdlawn and Avondale were al
so visited and scores of houses were
damaged, but no loss of life is re-
ported there.
The Work of Relief.
Every effort is being made in the
storm-stricken section to give all pos
sible relief to those who lost their
all by the fury of the winds. Troops
guarded the devastated district all
night, and firemen and policemen con-
tinued to search the ruins, but no
more dead bodies were found and, up
to 10 a. m. no additional deaths had
occurred. Mayor Drcnnen, who is di-
recting the relief work, estimates
that $4,000 will relieve the immediate
wants of the sufferers. The larger
part of this has already been raised
among citizens, and IA citizens meet
ing will be held to raise the remain
der and to more perfectly organize
the distribution of the relief funds.
Sufferers Mostly Negroes.
The majority of the tornado suffer.
ers are negroes and the poorer
classes of whites. just how many
people were hurt IN the storm will
probably never be known. Many who
sustained comparatively trifing in
juries paid no heed to their wounds in
their anxiety to save their scattered
household effects, and to look after
their dead and those who were seri-
ously injured. The names of about
fifty injured have been obtained, but
this number is thought to be about
half those who We're really hurt.
The property loss is estimoted in the
city at from 5000, 600 TO $500, 900.
The death list in Birmingham and
vicinity stands at 10.