The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-08

meetings of the citizens of the city at
the court house at 10 a. m. and ?. m.
for several days until all work is under
good Roadway. All new subscriptions
are reported to tae meeting and the
citizens are acting in conjunction IN tof-
wardjng the relief work
The total list Of injured now amounts
to 200 The list Of those fatally injured
is given elsewhere.
Bosworth Took Out First Victim
Conductor Ed Bosworth and Motorman
! +. g Keer, whose car was al the south
ern depot when the cyclone struck, san
/ into the Southern waiting room ana es-
capped unhurt. Had they remained in tns
car they would have been killed After
the tornado passed both men ran to the
Gainesville cotton mill Bosworth's coat
pockets were flled with silver fares col
lected. and getting overheated he je1Aed
off the coat and handed it to a by-stauder
to hold In his excitement he forgot all
about his coat and the person to whom
he gave 1t has not returned il Bpsworth
was the first man to recover victim
from the debris at the cotton mill and
he picked the body up and carried it 700
yards and put it in country mans bug
gy Bosworth was also the first man
10 summon outside help 10 remove bodies
from the mill debris. Baker Gunther
who IS furnishing bread to sufferers. has
cut off all outside orders to be enabled
to supply the demand. He has an extra
force at work to bake enough bread 20
supply the relief committee.
The electric railway company hauled,
free of charge all provisions and SUPP
plies from the city to sufferers al both
mills
Path of Tornado Well Marked.
The nath of the great tornado IS ~
distinctly marked as though some mShy
army of iiends had passed that way, de-
stroying every animate aud iuanjmate
thing III their line OF march. The tran
is blazed with fallen trees shattered
homes, dead cattle and fragments of
timber of all Kinds. At Logans store,
across the railroad from where the
storm started. the wreck was perfect.
Where q large brick building mad stood
there Is now only a pile Of crumasd
brick from under which men are busily
taking sacks of flour and other articles
that We're in it. Not a part Of the Pia
Is 1eet hlgn. FROM tnat place, tina
corner of Main and Myrtle streets there
is a clean sweep across to the north
west. on beyond New Holland and the
Pacolet mills. Nothing withstood igs
fury, and only mass of lathlil1e spin-
ters strewn far and wide over the land
scape shows that 1t was ever the location
of hundreds of happy homes and thriving
industries.
Had the tornado come when the opera
tlVes of the two mills were at their homes
the mortality at the Pacolet would have
shocked the world as nothing has done in
decades. With the exception OF a few
houses near the mill building there Is not
one left standing. Not that they are
merely torn up Their fragments ara
strewn across mile or more of the ooun-
tryside and not piece larger than 4
walking stick be found. AS it was
the death list is appalling IN It's magni-
tude, but it does not approach what it
might have been had the storm struck
at any other hour The list Of the dead
AID the description sent out by correspon-
dents do not begin to give an impression
of the utter desolation that really exists
in this charming little city of the hill
tops. No business of any kind is beirS
transacted, and on the faces of all Is the
blank look of helplessness and despair.
The Pacolet mills are uninjured. with
the exception Of a email part of the
southwest wing roof, which WAS torn off.
Work here can be resumed as soon tina
operatives can regain their composure
sufficiently to attend to their duties and
the employees of this mill will not suffer
as much as those of the other plant.