The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
DEATH LIST
REACHES 100
Great Host OF People Dead at
Gainesville, Ga,
100 INJURED IN STORM
From Twenty to Thirty of
These Will Die
800 PERSONS HOMELESS
Property Loss viii be Half a
Million Dollars
800 PERSONS HOMELESS


Million Dollars
Gainesville. Ga, June 1.-The 5000 in
habitants of this city have tonight just
begun to realize the extent of the appall-
ing disaster Of yesterday. 1t now seems
certain that the death list win not be
much short of 100, and perhaps more,
considering thenumber of dangerously
wounded, whose chances for recovery can
not now be calculated. But through all
the gloom and desolation that surrounds
the town like pail of darkness. there
radiates a beam of hope and encourage
ment, perhaps that the death list may not
be so numerous as reported and encour-
ages those who are so bravely and de-
Votedly assisting in the work of relief.
The story of the storms work of desc
lation has already been told. Ali that re-
mains is the compilation Of an accurSte
list of the dead and the chronicling OF
the damages. Figuring from all avail
able sources and giving credence only to
those reports which are believed to be
trustworthy, the following is a summary
of the effects of the tornado in Gaines
Vile and its environments:
One hundred killed.
One hundred and fifty injured, Of whom
probably twenty will die
Eight hundred homeless, their resi-
dences having been wiped out Of exist
ence.
Property loss of about half million
dollars, none of which was covered by
storm insurance.
A concise and accurate statement of the
casualties can not be rendered for sew
eraI days, but the physicians in attend
ance believe il viii not go very far above
100 although twenty-five or thirty are des-
perately injured and may die within the
next two or three days.
The death list so far compiled includes
thirty-two at the Pacolet mills at New
Holland, all Of whom were killed in the
demolition of the cottages, and thirty-six
at the Gainesville cotton mills near the
Southern railway station, where the tor
na1o first struck.
The list revised up to late hour to-
night is as follows:
Killed at the Pacolet mills at New Hol-
land
MRS. ALICE BoBO, aged 40.
MRS. B. F. O'KELLY, 36.
MRS. VIM. WESTMORELAND, Ii.
MRS. MARIAN WIDBANKS. 40.
MRS. H. H. NELSON, 45.
BENNIE HENDRICKS, L.
MRS. j. c. BRAYN, AZ.
WILLIE BRYAN, 6.
LESTER PHILLIPS, 60.
MRS. T. A COKER, 60.
VIM TATUM, 3.
NORMAN WHITE, TO-
MRS. J. r. WHITE, IS.
OLA WHITE, 10.
MRS. VIM. LEDFORD. q.
WILLIE LEDFORD, Is months.
ALBERT LLOYD, 90
MRS. THOS. TREJELOVE, IS.
MRS. NJ. A. PASS, so.
STURGEON PASS, u.
JOHN MAYNE. ex-clerk of the superior
court Of Bali county. G..
MRS. 2. L. NIX, d.
MRS. JULIA NEELY %.
BABY YORKE. IS months.
PEARL YORK, l.
JOHN McGILL, IS
MRS. MARY ABELL 20.
MRS. BELLE YORK, 81
MAISY wESTMORELAND 6.
AIYRTICE WESTMORELAND, 6.
MANDA WYLIE (cOlored), 45-
Killed at the Gainesville millsi
ROBERT LEVEL, II.
GENERAL CUMMING.
MRS. ANNIE GARRETT.
JOHN WESLEY ADAMS.
MARY CLARK.
MAUDE GORDON.
BERTHE LONDON.
FANNY DUNCAN.
c. KOWLES.
BESSIE SKINNER.
ED NAMORS.
LILLE wOODIE.
MRS. NJ J. CAMPBELL and baby.
BOB MORRIS.
CLAUDE sHEDD.
oRIN HAYNES.
JACK MURPHY.
JAKE wADDELL
LIZZIE RICH.
GRADY LEE.
EDITH LYLE.
MINNIE STOWE.
ED NAGLE.
HERMAN ENGLISH
DOROTHY SLOAN.
LILLE LODGINGS.
LULU LODGINGS.
MRS. NATHAN JONES.
JOINER ASHE.
MINNIE JACKSON
MORRIS CHILD.
BABY OF HERRINGTON.
Missing:
W. E. Bannister.
Eisht persons killed in the destruction
&c the Jones & Logan store near the
Southern depot are not included In the
above. All of them were men except
Ne. Jones, the wife Of the proprietor Of
the Jones general store. Two Of the men
killed in the Logan store were negroes.
The entire pathway of the storm, eN-
tending two miles from the Gainesville
mills around the outskirts OF the city to
the Pacolet mills at New Holland is a
mass Of ruins, but fortunately the cot
tages in the trafl of the tornado between
the Southern station and New Holland
were those Of negroes vho were absent
from the city in attendance on.a colored
excursion
Business is almost entirely suspended
70 the suffering. There Is no lack OF
medical attention, many surgeons being
present from Atlanta and other cities.
There is great need. however, Of cloth
ing. antiseptics and other medical sup
piles.
The local militia have been called out