The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-27
WORK OF THE STORM
BIRMINGHAM's VICTIMS NUMBER
EIGHTEEN.
THIRTY-FIVE WERE INJURED.
FOUR KILLED IN GEORGIA AND
MUCH DAMAGE DONE.

The Funerals the sad Feature at
Birmingham Yesterday-Proper erty
Loss in City Is Placed at 5000, 900.
Citizens Relief Fund Has Reached
$4,000 and No Outside Assistance
Is Needed-SeveraI Points in
Georgia Felt the storm.
Birmingham, Ala, March 26.-Under the
harmonious working of the state militia
and local police force, much order has
come out of yesterdays chaos incident to
the fatal storm which swept portions OF
this city. A careful revision of the death
list places the total number of dead in
the city at 1S, several persons who were
missing and had been reported dead hav
ing shown up Two negro women report
ed missing at Irondale are believed to be
dead under wrecked buildings. If they
ere dead this will increase the total to
49,
The following is a complete list of the
dead:
White:
Dr. G. c. Chapman Mrs. Robert ].
Lowe. infant son of Mr. Robert j. Lowe.
three-year-old daughter of Mr. B. b.
Hudson, l. C. Chlumpe, German.
Colored:
John Myro Carrie Henry. s years old ;
Carrie Hudson. Maggie F. Stedmyer
schoolgirl; Lizzie Goodlow, Lizzie Glenn,
cook of B. B. Hudson.
Dead at Irondale:
John Gardner, white; Mamie and Clar-
ence Hunter, colored.
Two negro women missing.
Thirty-five persons were more or less
seriously hurt in Birmingham. Mrs. r.
II. Thomas and Mr.. w. P. Dickinson
who are at st. Vinoent's Hospital, are in
a precarous condition.
j. Alexander, the merchant reported
killed yesterday was only severely injur-
ed. He crawled out of the ruins imme-
diately after the storm and managed to
reach home
In the ruins a body, very much disfig-
ured, was found and II was thought to
be his, but this morning it was discovered
that the dead man was ]. C. Chlumpe, a
German, who was in the store making a
purchase when the cyclone wrecked IT..
Funerals of the Victims.
The saddest feature of to-day was the
tnd child taking place this morning at a
neighboring home. The house was pack
ed with men, women and children and
| every eye was wet. The young mother
| was a beautiful and charming woman
| and her death touched every heart Her
| baby lies in her arms and both are en-
route TO Athens, Ala, where Mrs. Lowe
was born.
The relief fund raised By the people Of
mi N hQr Dc
ishing rapidity. 1t has already reached
$4,000
Mayor f. brennan authorizes the state
nent that the sufferers are not In need
of outside contributions.
The property loss is placed at about
$500 900.
The storm seems to have lifted after
leaving Birmingham and beyond giving
Huntsville, Ala, a slight touch, but did
not make itself felt until it passed over
into Georgia last night.
storms Work in GeorgIa.
At Chambers Ga, near Rome, a rail-
road depot was blown into a creek and
washed away.
At Rounsaville a big Touring mill was
destroyed together with many thousand
bushels of wheat. The handsome resi-
dence of the Rounsaville family was
wrecked but no one was injured.
The cyclone struck Buena Vista, Ca.
at O'Clock In the afternoon. The young
child of Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Harrell was
killed as was also a negro girl. The
home of the Misses Woodall was wrecked
and the occupants seriously injured.
At Cartersville lightning struck school
house, killing two children.
Owing to the tremendous rains the rfv-
ers in Northern and Northwestern Geor-
gia are out of their banks.
In Atlanta at O'Clock this morning
one and seventy-nine one-hundredths
inches of rain fell In FIVE minutes, break
inc oil resoOrdr