The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-28
A COMPLETE LIST GIVEN
Property Loss Placed at Three Hun
dred Thousand.
A GEORGIA DtPoT BLOWN INTO A CREEK
At Buena Vista, Georgia, Two People Were
Killed. At Gainesville a chool House
Was Struck by Lightning and
Two Children Slain.
(By the Associated Press)

Birmingham, Ala, March 26.-Under
the harmonious working of the State
militia and local police force much order
has come out of yesterdays chaos incl
dent to the fatal storm swept portions
of this city. careful revision Of the
death list places the total number OF
dead in the city at IS, several persons
who were missing and had been reported
dead, having shown up. Two women re-
ported missing at Irondale are believed
to be dead under wrecked buildings. II
they are dead this will increase the total
to Is.
The following is a complete list of the
dead:
DR. CHAPMAN
MRS. ROBERT G. LOWE.
INFANT SON OF Robert G. Lowe.
THREE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER of b.
B. Hudson.
l.. L. CHULMPE, German.
JOHN MYRO.
CARRIE HENRY, years old.
CARRIE HUDSON.
MAGGIE f. STEDMEYER, school girl.
LIZZIE G00DL0W.
LIZZIE GLENN.
COOK of B. B. Hudson.
Dead at Irondale:
JOHN GARDNER. white.
MAMIE and CLARENCE HUNTER,
colored
TWO NEGRO WOMEN missing.
Thirty-fve persons were more or les
seriously hurt in Birmingham.
Mrs. R. H. Thomas and Mrs. w. p.
Dickinson, who are at St. Vincent's Hos
pital are in a precarious condition.
j. Alexander, the merchant reported
killed yesterday. was only severely in
jured. He crawled out of the ruins inn
mediately after the storm and managed to
reach home.
In the ruins a body very much dis
figured was found, and it was thought to
be his but this morning it was discovered
that the dead man is J. G. Chlumpe, a
German, who was in the store making a
purchase when the cyclone wrecked it.
The saddest feature of today was the
funerals, that of Mrs. Robert j. Lowe
and child taking place this morning at
neighboring home The house was pack
cd 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
babe 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
Birmingham is growing with an astonsh-
ing rapidity. 1t has already reached
$4. 600.
Mayor #. Drennen authorizes the state
ment that the sufferers are not in need
of outside contributions.
The property loss is placed at about
$500 OOO
The storm seems to have lifted after
leaving Birmingham and beyond giving
Huntsville, Ala, slight touch, and did
not make itself felt until it passed over
into Georgia last night. At Chambers,
Ga, near Rome, a railroad depot was
blown into creek and washed away At
Rounsaville a big Touring mill was de-
stroyed, together with many thousantd
bushels of wheat. The handsome resi-
dence of the Rounsavlle family was
wrecked but no one injured.
The cyclone struck Buena Vista, Ca, at
4 O'Clock in the afternoon. The young
child Of Mr.. and Mrs j. ID. Harrell was
killed as was also negro girl. The
home of the Misses Woodall was wrecked
and the occupants seriously injured
At Cartersville lightning struck a
school house killing two children.
Owing to the tremendous rains the
rivers in Northern and Northwestern
Georgia 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
ing all records.