Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1903-06-04
DESOLATION AND DEATH
Gainesville, Georgia, Visited By Terrible
Tornado Last Monday.
Twice That Number Stories of Two Fac
tories Swept Away With Terrible Crash, Leaving the Oper
atives Dead IN the Ruins-Came From a Clear
Sky, and Gone IN Two Minutes.

Dorothy Sloan, Ed Nagles. Mrs. Ma
than Jones, baby of Mrs. Harrington.
Fatally Injured.
Nathan Jones, w. T. Henderson,
| Maude Gordon, Glade Gordon, Bessie
! Skinner, Annie Shubert, Joe Shubert,
| paisy Bryson, Perry Conner (colored),
Miss Willie Boone, Doc Stovall (col-
ored), Alonzo Force (colored), ]. E.
Summeryille, Ola Miller, Mrs. Doc
Clark. John Simpson, James Simpson,
| General Cumming, Miss Neal, Miss
Loggins, Alice Subers, viii Addison,
Gertie Addison, Bill Blackshear, Ada
Skinner, - Thompson, w. o. Mil
| Ter, Mrs. Talley, Bessie Talley, Lula
Edmondson.
Those who were killed at the Paco-
let mills at New Holland, and whose
bodies have been recovered, are:
Mrs. H. H. Nelson, VIII Tatum,
Mytice Westmoreland, Maggie West
moreland, Mrs. H. l.. Nix, Mrs. Neeley,
Mrs. jamie Ledford and baby, Mrs.
| L. R. White and two children, baby
of Mrs. McGee, Mrs. NJ. w. Bobo, Mrs.
| Byra1t and little son, Bennie Hen
dirk, Mrs. T. A Coker, John J. Mayne,
Mrs. Marion Willbanks, two children
| of H. l.. Phillips, Mrs. Tom Trueloye,
Mrs. VIM. Westmoreland, Albert Lloyd,
Mrs. O'Kelly, Mrs. R. H. Pass and lit
| tie son, Mrs. Agile, a negro woman,
name unknown, and one other white
man whose name has not been ascer-
| tanned.
Those fatally injured at New Hol-
land number about ten. including
Mrs. Hendrix and two girls, Bryer
Anderson (colored), Mrs. 7. P. Ivey
| and Mrs. Pass.
Besides these, eight men, six white
and two colored, were killed in the de-
| molition of Joseph Logan's store. near
| the Southern depot, and one man and
one woman met death in the store OF
| George Jones.
Unconirmed reports from White
Sulphur, seven miles from Gainesville,
say that about twelve persons were
! killed there Their names are not
yet obtainable, and hopes are ex-
pressed that this report is unfounded.
Did Quick Work.
The tornado did its appalling work
in such an incredibly short time that
| it is difficult to obtain coherent de-
scription of it's character. 1t 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, it swept on to the north
ward, leaving a trail of destruction
along Summit street, which is inhab-
tied almost exclusively by negroes.
Nearly a hundred cottages OF colored
people on this street were leveled to
the ground, but by fortunate cir
cumstance the tenants were all ab-
sent, having left the city in the mora
| ing to take part in negro picnic.
The furious wind next descended
| on the plant of the Pacolet cotton
mills at New Holland, two miles from
the Southern station. This is one OF
the largest cotton mills in the South,
employing more than 600 hands. The
storm spared the Pacolet factory, Dut
entirely demolished a hundred OF Its
cottages, standing nearby and ten
anted by it's operatives. Here the
| fatalities were greatest, upwards OF
| the ruins of the cottages. BODIES
were blown hundreds of yards, and
| many of them whel picked up bore
no semblance to humanity. The trunk
of one young boy was found with
the head decapitated as if by the gull
| lotine.
From New Holland the tornado
swept on to the east, in the direction
of White Sulphur, town OF about
hundred people. The extent OF
| it's destruction there cannot now be
definitely told, but reports so far re-
i ceived indicate considerable loss OF
life.
FearfuIiy Manged.
The bodies of most of the dead in
the cotton mills were fearfully torn
and mangled; the skulls Of many OF
them were crushed and the limbs
broken. some were torn and crushed
about the abdomen, with the viscera
visibly protruding. The local physi-
clans who gave first aid to the in
jured say the sights were horrible pc
yond description. The death list is
expected to be of much greater mag
nitude by morning, as nearly thirty
are believed to be hurt beyond hope
of recovery.
Property Loss.
The property loss, it is now esti-
mated, will reach about S300,0OO.
The following is partial tabulation
as nearly perfect as can be obtained
at this time:
Gainesville mill, $4,000; Pacolet
| mill, 100000; Gainesville Cotton Oil
Company, $4,000; Gainesville Iron
Works, $4,000; Southern Railway,
81 900; T. T. Moore, $500; j. R. Clark,
| s400; Mrs Pfeffer, $4,000; j. X. Lo-
gan, $4,000; Cooper & Scroggs, Vs.
600; B. D. Langford, $4,000; Piedmont
Hotel, $500; w. B. Sloan, $4,000; J. 1.
Waters, $1,000; Gainesville & Dab
lonega Electric Railway Company
| $4,000; Robert Howington, 500; Joe
| Reed. $500: R. D. Griggs. $1,000: ].
H. Whisenat, $4,000: Mrs. L. F. Little,
$500: B. G. Parks, $1,000; J. 4. Duck
EFT. $500. and various others, running
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