The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-03
WORK OF Wind
RESULTS IN DEATH
Terrible Tornado Visits One
Section Of Georgia.
In TWO MINUTES
GREAT MANY DIE
Hhirfy ;voe, Tnc% NJ 4hn To1rrr ~
Thirty Lives Lost at the Town OF
New Holland,
NUMBER OF COTTAGES
RAZED TO THE GROUND
Gainesville and the Territory Con
tigu0us to it the Scene Of One
Of the Most Destructive
Storms Ever Known.

Gainesville. Ca. June s.-A tornado
Of terrific force struck Gainesville
Monday afternoon out Of q clear sky
causing a fearful loss Of life in thi
city and in New Holland and White
Sulphur. As near as can be calculated
at this time. the results are eighty-five
men. women, and children dead and
perhaps forty more fatally injured
with property loss Of something
like 100000. The death list IL yet i'm
perfect. not all the bodies having been
recovered and identified. Many OF
them are mangled beyond recognition.
the only means Of Identification being
the records OF the two cotton mills,
in which most of the victims work ed.
The death dealing storm appeared sud-
denly. a little before 1 O'Clock, and
within two minutes 1t had killed nearly
q hundred people. torn two stories
from the five-story brick factory of the
Gainesville cotton mills, demolished al
most two hundred cottages, RACED sew
eral brick stores to the ground and
blown down fnnumerable outbuildings
BY what appears to DO a miracle, the
tornado's fury was confined TO the
outskirts OF the city. the main business
and residence portion not being touch
ed. Torrents Of rain accompanied the
wind, but within Ave minutes after Its
first onslaught the sun was shining
upon a scene OF fearful desolatiof,.
he iCk oF d.
~ to the operatives OF the Gainesville
cotton mills and the Pacolet cotton
mills. and two-thirds % them were
women and children. -
Unconfrmed reports from White
Sulphur. seven miles from Gainesville,
say that about twelve persons were
killed there. Their names are not as
yet obtainable. ana hopes are expressed
that this report Is unfounded.
Tie tornado did Its appalling work
in such an Incredibly short time that
It was 3iff1cult to obtain q coherent
Of its character. It appears
to have swept down from the south
west. striking the Gainesville mills
with roar like the report Of artillery
After lifting two stories from this
structure. 1t swept on TO the north
ward. leaving a trail Of destruction
along Summit street. which 10 inhab-
ted almost exclusively by negroes.
Nearly a hundred cottages Of colored
people on this street were leveled to
he ground. but by o fortunate circum-
stance the tenants were ell absent, hav-
ng left the city to take part In q ne
gro picnic.
The furious wind next descended on
he plant OF the Pacelet cotton mills
It New Holland, two miles from the
Southern station. This is one OF the
argest cotton mills In the south, en-
,loyfng more than 600 hands. The 1
torn spared the Pacolef factory, but
'ntirely demolished 100 OF its cottages.
standing near by and tenanted by It's |
'pefatives. Here the fatalities were
sreatest. upward OF thirty-flve per-
ons being buried in the ruins Of. the |
ottages. Bodies were blown hundreds
{ yards. and many of them when |
licked up bore no semblanee TO hu-
nanity. The trunk OF one young how
vas found with the head decapitated /
. II the guiilotine had been at work.
The bodies Of the dead In the two /
otton mills st Gainesville were fear
ully torn and mangled. The sk uiis OF
many Of them were crushed and the
mbs broken while others were torn
nd crushed about the abdomen, with
he vfscera yisably protruding. The
zeal physicians who first gavs aid to
ne injured. say the sights were hor-
bye beyond description. The death
st was expected to be Of much greater
Magnitude by morning, as nearly thirty
re believed to be hurt beyond hope OF