Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-03-29
WOE IN R'n'r'1yGHAN.
Storm-Stricken Portion of City a
Scene of Devastation.
TOTAL NUMBER KILLED is SIXTEEN
A Great Many Persons lnjured-Re-
lief Fund ls observation-disclosures
ing storm and Floods
in Michigan.

in Michigan.
Birmingham, Ala, March 27.-Under
the harmonious working of the state
militia and local police force much or.
der has come out of Mondays chaos
following the fatal storm which swept
portions of this city. a careful reyi-
sion of the death list places the total
number of dead in Birmingham and
vicinity at 16. Thirty-hve 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 was wide. 1t covered
practically every hamlet in Jefferson
county.
The following cities were especial
ly visited: Birmingham, Pratt City,
Bessemer, lrondale, Brighton, North
Birmingham, Trussville and Weems.
AT 1rondale the killed are: G. w.
Gardiner, 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 Trussyille and Weems
are reported destroyed, but word
cannot be received from them, as all
telegraph and telephone wires are
down.
and Woodlawn and Avondale were
also visited and scores 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
fury of the winds. Troops guarded
the devastated district Monday night
and firemen 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 $l0,-
BOO will relieve the immediate wants
of the sufferers. The larger part of
this has already been raised among
citizens and 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
the storm will probably never be
known. Many who sustained trifing
injuries paid no heed to their wounds
In their anxiety to save their scat
after their dead and more seriously
wounded.
Tho Relief Fund
The relief fund Ia 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 100000.
Sad Feature.
The saddest feature of Tuesday was
the funerals, that Of Mrs. Robert j..
Lowe and child taking place in the
morning from 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
Rounsaville family was wrecked, but
no one injured. The cyclone struck
Buena Vista, Ga. at four o'clock in
the afternoon. The young child of Mr.
and Mrs. J. d. Harrell was killed. as
was also negro girl. The home of
the Misses Woodall was wrecked and
the two occupants seriously injured.
At Gainesville lightning struck
schoolhouse, killing two children.
Owing to the tremendous rains the
rivers in northern and northwestern
Georgia are out of their banks.
Two Killed by lightning.
Kingston, Ca, March ga bolt of
lightning struck the negro schoolhouse
Tuesday, followed the stovepipe down
ward, and killed two girls, Jennie Bell
Elliott and Jennie Goodwin, aged 10
and ~ years. Several others were
shocked.
CYCLONE IN MICHIGAN.
SO Loss of Life Reproductive Per-
sons Are Seriously Hurt.