The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-06-05
ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
Tornado Strikes Gainesville, Ca,
ard Leaves Many Victims
In Its Path.
SEVERAL KILLED At NEW HOLLAND.
Five Hundred Persons nj work In
One Cotton Niil When storm Carr
ried Away Two stOrics-Nnny t.m.
ploy-s Injurcd-stosels Damawei-
Namber ol bodies Rccov cred.

Gainesville. tia. June 3.--Just after
the noon hour. Monday, this city was
struck by terrific tornado. killing
probably one hundred persons, I'M
roofing the City hotel. other large
buildings and destroying the Gaines
Vile cotton mills.
Eighteen persons were killed in the
city between the center Of town and
the railroad station. where four large
stores were blown down. The storm
had driven many persons into these
stores for refuge There were 800 per-
sons at work in the cotton mill when
the cyclone struck. The mill was
three-story building. The first story
was left standing. but badly wrecked.
The second and third floors were COM
pletely demolished and the employees
were caught under the wreckage and
mangled. Twenty-six bodies were re-
covered in few hours
The roof Of the electric car barn was
lifted. and the building badly dam
aged. The railroad depot suffered
also.
The Southern depot was blown
down. The Gainesville iron works
was demolished and several people
persisted in the wreck. The Gaines
vile cotton oil mills were blown
down.
The old Piedmont hotel. now used
as q schoolhouse. was razed. and half
a dozen or more people were killed IN
II. The Richmond hotel was wrecked.
and several persisted along with it.
One hundred and twenty-five cottages,
a schoolhouse and church were blown
away in the negro section Of the
town.
Five brick stores on the main street
Of Gainesville were swept away. In
all about TWO hundred buildings were
demolished.
The tornado went from Gainesville
10 New Holland, and 80 persons were
killed At that place.
The list OF the dead so far as obtain
able at the Gainesville cotton mills
and in and around the vicinity of the
Southern depot follows: Homer Ash.
Gordon Ash. Maud Gordon, Mary DUN
can. Miss Woody. - Knowles. Miss
Loggins, Ed Habers. Mrs. j. NJ.
Camp and baby, - Waddel. Ethel
Lyle. Lulu Jackson. Miss Clack, Claude
shedd. Annie Garrett, Jack Murphy.
Jack Grady Lee. Dorothy Sloan, I'd
Nagles. Mrs Nathan Jones, and baby
of Mrs. Howington-
Fatally injured: Nathan Jones. w.
Maud. En~1rr CLAUDIA
Gordon. Bessie Kinner, Joe Schubert,
Daisy Bryson. Perry Conner. colored;
Miss Willie Boone. Dick Stovall. coll
ored; Alonzea Ford. colored; j. +.
Summerville. Ola Mi4ler Mrs. Doc
Clark John Simpson. James Simpson,
Miss Noel, Miss Loggin. Alice Subers.
VIII Addison. Gersie ID. Addison, Bill
Black shear, Ada skinner. - Thomp-
son. W. o. Miller. Mrs. Talley, Bessie
Talley. and Lulu Edmonson.
Those who were killed at the Paco-
let mills at New Holland and whose
bodies have been recovered are: Mrs.
H. III. Nelson, Will Tatum. Myrtice
westmoreland. Maggie Westmoreland,
Mrs. II. /. Nix. Mrs. Nelley. Mrs.
Janice bcl1oEu anu DdDN- hlS- -.
White and two children. baby Of Mrs.
Amgee, Mrs W. Bobo. Mrs. Bryan and
little son. Benny Hendrix, Mrs. T. A.
Coker. John 4. Mayme, Mrs. Marion.
Will Banks. two children of II. L.
Philips, Mrs. Tom, Truelove. Mrs.
Wesfmoreland. Albert Lloyd, Mrs.
Okeley. Mrs. o. III. Bass and little son,
and Mrs. AGILE
Those fatally injured at New Hol-
land number about ten. including Mrs.
Hendrix and two girls. Dryer Ander-
son. colored; Mrs. T. j. lyey and Mrs.
Bass.
Besides these. eight men. six white
and two colored. were killed in the
demolition Of Joseph Logan's store.
near the Southern depot and one man
and one woman met death in the store
OF George Jones, the woman being the
wife Of the proprietor.
Unconfirmed reports from White
Sulphur. seven miles from Gainesville.
says that about IL persons were killed