The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-06-05
DESOLATION AND DEATH
Gainesville, Georgia, Visited By Terrible
Tornado Last Monday.
THAN A HUNDRED PEOPLE KILLED
Twice That Number of Houses Stories of Two Fac
Swept Away With Terrible Crash, Leaving the Oper
atives Dead in the Ruins Came From 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,
Daisy Bryson, Perry Conner (cOlored),
Miss Willie Boone, Doc Stovall (col-
ored, Alonzo Force (colored), ]. E.
Summerville, Ola Miller, Mrs. Doc
Clark, John Simpson, James Simpson,
General Cumming, Miss Neal, Miss
Loggins, Alice Subers, Will 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. II. H. Nelson, Will 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 ]. Mayne,
Mrs. Marion Willbanks, two children
of H. l.. Phillips, Mrs. Tom Truelove,
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 beel ascer-
tanned.
Those fatally injured at New Hol-
land number about ten, including
Mrs. Hendrix and two girls, Bryer
Anderson (colored), Mrs. T. 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.
Unconfirmed 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 a coherent de-
5cription of its 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 a fortunate cir
cumstance the tenants were all alb
sent, having left the city in the morn
ing to take part in a 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, but
entirely demolished a hundred of its
cottages, standing nearby and ten
anted by its operatives. Here the
fatalities were greatest, upwards OF
the ruins of the cottages. Bodies
were blown hundreds of yards, and
many of them when picked up bore
no semblance to humanity. The trunk
of oae 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
its destruction there cannot now be
definitely told, but reports so far re-
ceived indicate considerable loss OF
life.
FearfuIIy MangIed.
The bodies of most of the dead in
the cotton mills were fearfuIly 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 physl-
clans who gave first aid to the in
iured say the sights were horrible be-
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 100000.
The following is a partial tabulation
as nearly perfect as can be obtained
at this time:
mill. 500 600; Gainesville Cotton Oil
Company. $4,000; Gainesville Iron
Works, $4,000; Southern Railway.
81 900: T. T. Moore, $500; J. r. Clark,
$500; Mrs. Pfeffer, $4,000; ]. r. Lo-
gan, $4,000; Cooper & Scroggs, 49,
600: B. D. Langford, $4,000; Piedmont
Hotel, $500; w. B. Sloan, $4,000; j. t.
Waters, $1,000; Gainesville & Dah-
lonega Electric Railway Company,
81 900; Robert Howington, 500; Joe
Reed, $780, R. d. Griggs, 1900; j.
H. Whisenat, $4,000; Mrs. L. F. Little,
$500; B. G. Parks, $1,000; j. L. Duck
ett, S3v0, and various others, running
from 500 to $1,000.