Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1903-06-06

nado dealt death and destruction to
the city of Gainesville and envirnps
killing at least 100 people woundino
l6O more, and leyelinR 100 cottagos
to the ground and tearing two sto.
ries off of the factory Of tho Gaines.
Vile cotton mill. OF the Eiltad 1,rnh.
ably two.thirds were women and cbiI.
dren, who were operators in the cot.
ton mills.
The storm came from the soutb ont
Of almost a clear sky, swooping down
on the Gainesville cotton mills and
the Southern railroad station at df
teen minutes before o'clock
With terrible crash the two unnor
stories of the building were swenf
away, leaving thirty.two operators
dead in the ruins.
COTTAGES Ra,sd
Tho ovo,ona ~, 1890 ,,''s ..., i,
ortstIrts ~ tha 'l' n.7. ." tp' "'oul,t the
~ '5 Wow 70 tInromG 10 ,,,G Ilg t ~ e Sne suburb
wharo ora alTl,''tu, 1aoata, NV w." r inIigS away
Iii, v'Io "Vo'oI Oot'on
nf tbis nboraot tuo ,a' tl 5oS' % institutions ,Ut
pIant If tbe PacoIat 'G comnanv %T",n Iyav no
NOT serionsIy damogod NM nrohohI"
100 cottages standing nnarhy @ y 0N,'"'y oco'i.
MED by onerators who wnro on,,Inyod
in the mills wore comnletoIy Gn,1oI lJ5 W.
lshed killing thirtv.throe noanIa
Theee wora rnostI,, ,To,,an orL XII
dre, "a tbe heads ~ thn fomiIies '',g yv"ro y"rl
nearly all in tho factor, Of u,nri,
The store of Josonb Ingan noor
GaineeyiIla cotton niIrs u.os nrrsh"d
10 rnine NV tho wind and ot,,h+ ,,,oU
who had fal,en refnao in Il Tara 4,,, '''I IN,
stantI,, I,ulad
mn Tonos ,ororol .toro mo. y ,,,,
uor foto ond ~ :, tho % 49,, n,I,I ~ l'o, o a',n
and ono ,ynron vSro ,,r crrsbod a., :"
deatb mo wor,on vos NIrs I,ros
tbe VITO ~ tbo nrnrriotor M '' 7' ''>'''
%, sror,, yt,hita FIJt C,,i,,,,. .o,.a,
,i,oI fr" Cai,oei,i, ''o 2u.p't" w. ,o r y"
fant tbat Tho starr, STR strroi. tboro ,,,ith
torr,sn @ forno @ IiIIina '(" dayon r'' nonnia w ,,"
Tbis bowover is not oheoIntoiv CON.
arm,od ms, nv" o'''' 10 n0' 'O'o'"'''' o0N'
- kirt.a ,,d uo,.a.a
"''''N "''u 'o'''u'''
NJ IT. smith, onl'H, oIly pnyS!cIa", py!,.., u"Ineo' ,.I
,lIiS' "a! ii0 il'5S lal'ou o,I' l'".,
ared wounded ala I,5 ms personal I9 Know
ieuge Oh one hunufeu ueau'
Inc properly loss az 'ne IacoIeI C,,'
mus occasloheu ny lne ugsI ,,..l. uCllon y,
Oh lhe Col'aEeS @ anu ou'p1IIuiHss -
e9l'li"e9H ,t a. ~ fID'oo, amu aaod ,o Co., tho
eytent If s40 oo0
Tho local nbveiciane vera unable
IN cone with the situation. and sur.
geons and medical supplies have been
offered sent from Atlanta.
A snociaI train carving n corps of
surgeons and supplics arrived tonight,
n,ai5iney tho total number of musicians
nov in The CITY about forty
meatinr was hold tonight to or.
eanize a relief committee, at which
i was decided to issue an appeal to
tbe nublic for funds to assist the mill
onarators who ara thrown out of
work
rai,esvuIo II is stated can take
ooro of those now suffering, but there
lii 10 considarable distress occa.
e;onad nv the closing down of the
mills
iI, Tba rbvsicians who have assisted
:, tho IG worI, nf rescne state that the
soonas % of tbe mills we're appaIling.
tbe victims being crushed and man.
oIod M IN every conceivable manner.
e'eu - ,..,.y wy :. 81. e.o,,
heSu''e " '',e 49," ,o,',..,, o..
As near as can De '''ou'"l," ao -,
this hour (midhlehV' lne lgSultI 'i,1,,l,, g.
eightyhye men "oiuel anu .'. ''t,,t,Yu sataIi,
teau, anu ~ "opa ,l,onor,y nV ,nse % of some.
III III, VI ii,,o Sq0o 6o0 The death list
" ln'is ,e, INN Inv norfoct as NOT all the bodies
t IL ye' ,an5 .np' r[T rocovorod or and Identified
nt na,e 80 os thar, wore mangled beyond
racognition the only means of ident.
soatian Lainr tbo records Of the two
nottao noa,,o" mins gI IN which most of the
,,iottn. U1,tUn ",,,'r wnrked
''TSti'' Thn dootb dealing storm appeared
.rddonIv hg T'Iv before I O'clock. and within
suuueniy SUI, ,,,;S,tos 9os' II had killed nearly
wv. tmo ,n1 n,t",,e1 noan1e torn two stories from
hundred an peop,e' eopr brick yT, factory of the
Cn',da,'ina cue n,J "'C cotton mills, demolished
ualiles 1aIss 'tr,o oo0 oottages razed two brick
atlnos' Amos 70 wv tbo oVy gronpd and blown down