The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-05
IN A NOBLE RALLY
PEOPLE OF GAINESVILLEi All
THEIR STRICKEN.
THEY DEVOTE EVERY CARE
TO THE VICTIMS OF THE TERRI
BILE TORNADO.

ing Skilled Observation-Disclosures
Nurses. Assisted BY Noble Girl
yoIunteers, Lend Their Aid-Citi-
zens Are spIendidiy organized to
Cope with the Results of the Aw-
full CaIamity-Appe Are Made
for Further Help from Over the
State-Summary of the Work of
the storm Is Given Out by the
Committee.
Gainesville, Ga, June 4.-Although
their temple of justice has been turn
ed into a hospital, and, instead of the
nleading of the lawyer and the charge
of the Judge to the jury their ears
are greeted with groans of the wound
ed and the gasps of the dying, the
people of Gainesville and Hall county
are passing through the trying ordeal
with unfinching nerve, and as each
moment fits past they are evolving
more order out of the chaos which has
existed since the fearful devastation
which swept down upon them unawares
Monday afternoon, and Tonight sys-
tenn prevails in the care of the dead,
the treatment of the injured and the
feeding and clothing of the hungry
and homeless.
No one on the outside who has not
seen what these people have done can
understand it. This being their first
experience in a catastrophe of this or
any other kind, it is wonderful that
they have done so we'll in caring for
those VINO have needed attention.
Relief lis Their One object.
Confronted in the twinkling of an
eve with a situation absolutely APP
palling, a situation at which the larg-
est municipality would stand aghast,
they have suffered every interest save
that of caring for their afflicted ones
to pass unnoticed. Wives have not
seen husbands, brothers have not put
eve upon sisters, and even little ones
have been allowed to fret, even more
than their wonted lot, because OF the
care and responsibility resting upon
shoulders that have not tired In re-
lieving distress.
"System is now the watchword, ana
the silent sentinel standing upon the
threshold of the hospitals will pass no
one save the physicians, the relief COM
mittee or the trained nurses, as one
relief takes the place of the other.
Just how many are in each hospital
and the number and condition of their
wounds is known to the physicians and
relief committees. Just how many are
in absolute want is known to the relief
committees, and from the commissary,
provisions, clothing and supplies are
being issued to them. Even those who
have been placed in their last resting
place are accounted for on the lists of
those having this work in charge, and,
altogether, relief work is progressing
well.
Nurses Give. Valuable Service.
The arrival of number of trained
nurses to-day, in addition to those who
came yesterday, has afforded much as
sistance. These nurses are now on
duty, and many noble girls, who have
never before been inside a hospital, are
tripping here and there, rendering the
best help they know how to the
nurses who have upon many occasions
administered to the sick.
At the New Holland Hospital there
are twenty-five patients OF this num-
Der, one, Miss Mary Clark, died at
o'clock this afternoon. Miss Mamie
Sosebee and an infant of H. H. Nelson
died last night. There are eight train
ed nurses on duty at the New Holland
Hospital. They are Misses Taylor,
Schwegler, Sanderson, Bryan, Sawyer,
Warnock and Mrs Catherine Dixon, all
of Atlanta.
Miss McLester of Atlanta is the
trained nurse in charge of the Court
House hospital. with the following as
sistants: Misses Farara, McLane and
DriskelI, all of Atlanta. Nineteen pa
tents were at this hospital at o'clock,
and at least four more will arrive by
morning. The ambulance of Barclay
& Brandon is moving the wounded to
the hospital as fast as they can be
handled Mr.. Brandon is personally
experimenting this work, and is as
sisted by local committees.
Have been Many Funerals.
The thirty-three dead at New t1ol-
land have all been inferred. Eleven
were buried at the New Holland Gem
etery. and the remaining twenty-five
were either carried to their former
country homes or inferred at Alta
Vista Cemetery in Gainesville. Ten
funerals were conducted under one
service at the mill, the ministers of
the city and those at New Holland Of
floating.
The total list of those fatally, seri-
ously, and painfully wounded at New
Holland now numbers SO. Those in the
hospital there have the best physicians
of this and other cities TO care for
them. The cooking department of
the hospital has been fitted up with all
necessary utensils. and every conven-
fence is now on hand, No one is all
lowed in the hospital unless pass is
presented.
splendid Work of Women.
At the headquarters OF the woman's
Relief Association at Munday's store
scene OF great activity is presented.
Miss Matte Mcdonald has her corps
OF helpers splendidly organized, and
every article OF furniture. clothing or
food is accounted for upon arrival. "a
checked in and properly stored. As II
Is issued for relief. the committee