The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-02
TORNADO KILLS 100.
Gainesville, Ca, Smitten
and Buildings Crushed,
COTTON MILL A DEATH TRAP.
Scores Said 10 Be Dead in
the Structures Ruins.

llshireu Persons Also Reported Killed
on the Strcets-StOrm came with Il
Terrible Ru.li--lpper Floors Of the
Cotton MilI Reduced to Debris 500
Hauus were EnlpiO! ri There -BOdies
Az uuder the Dcbris-NIany Of the
Iarrcs, buildings OF the Town Wrecked
including the HOteis--ilnilrOatl Cars
swept Away Compile; 81, -RoOfs of
i:cu,cs Carried for B!ocks--Darhncss
Eril ON the Place Durins the storm.
GAiEESvILLE, Ga. Ju,ie Just after the
urou hour the city vas struck by tornado
.iirs probably 100 persons, unroofing
a, Cit" hotels, other large buildings and
,rsiloying the Gainesville Cotton Mills.
!u, death list will not be known until s.orle
81 the debris is cleared away, and the
lodi, recovered
Tic greatest loss Of life is reported in
tb, destruction of tie cotton mills, where
about eight; persons are reported killed
and scores injured Eighteen persons
were killed in the city between the centre
e ne town and the railroad station, where
tour large stores were blown down.
Tho storm had driven many persons into
the stores for refuge. and they were probably
lied There were 500 persons at work
n the cotton mill when the tornado came.
The mill was a three-story building. The
FIST story was left standing. but badly
wrecked. The second and third floors
were completely demolished, and the en-
poyees we're caught under the wreckage.
1t is now estimated that there are at least
seventy-hve bodies under the wreckage
Of tho third floor. 1t is not known how
many persons on the second floor OF the
building were killed.
The tornado first struck the town in the
southern part. 1t came with frightful
roar. and the day was turned into night,
As people hed from the storm they were
caught In the wind and blown in all direc-
lions. Houses reeled and rocked, and then
the fury OF the tornado burst upon the city
Some houses were torn into fragments,
others we're lifted from their foundations
and carried almost intact for blocks; roofs
sailed like leaves in the air and many per-
sons we're picked up in the storm and car
lied over the trees for long distances.
The widest excitement prevailed every
where The city was wrapped in inky
hlsckness for few moments, the air was
hot and sitting, ard then came the rain.
The tornado :, railroad cars from the
racks. and carried them out of sight.
Vast pieces OF machinery. weighing tons,
.,re missing Buildings were swept through
inc air as though they were pieces OF paper.
Not until tomorrow will any attempt
10 rnade to look in the debris of the cotton
,,cto-y and other wrecked buildings for
tho bodies of the dead. The inhabitants
,rr IN r state of distraction.
4 few Of the dead who have been identi-
Fa,. are; Mrs Marshall Camp and child.
lack Murphy, aged IL, son Of Widow MUIR
pNv Utah jackson. Ethel Lyle. Annie Gar
leit Claude Shcdd.
TIE wife and daughter Of W B. Sloan,
q lawv.r wore injured MORALLY Among
,,h.rs reported injured were: Mrs. Taley
and daughter. badly hurt; Mrs. Jones,
wife nf Mr.. Jone-. who keeps grocery
,,orn rear the Southern Railroad station,
..dv hurt; j. X logan, badly injured:
lanes Simpson. MalGs Gordon, John
SIMPSON. Anna Schubert, Ola Miller
Idward Skinner. Bessie Skinner. Mrs.
CLARK. }. +. Summervle, Alonzo Ford,
DR.. S,ovall, Joe Schubert Milledge Hill,
Willie Boon. Perry Common.
La five wrecked brick buildings on
Main street eighteen persons we're killed.
Nos Of them were employed in the stores.
4 fire started in this pile Of wreckage. and
The Are department was unable TO get to it
lecaIse OF distractions in the street
IA soon as the storm had RACED the build
ings, those who were not disabled went to
work at rescuing the victims. All the
stores in the business part of town that were
not hit closed their doors, and every male
citizen who could lend a hand promptly
Joined in the rescue This work is now
under way tonight and the bodies of those
killed are being identified and given to
relatives as rapidly as possible.
The weather cleared in the afternoon.
and the rain and wind ceased.
This city is the seat OF Hall county. 1t
il fftv-three miles northeast OF Atlanta
and has lately assumed prominence as
Southern manufacturing town. The popu-
lstion has grown steadily and is now more
than 5000
A relief train. having on board nearly
dozen physicians came from Atlanta this
afternoon over the Southern Railway
The physicians boarded the train in re-
sponse to a call for volunteers In all,
about 200 buildings were demolished here.
The tornado went from Gainesville to
New Holland, and il Is believed many
people were killed there.
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