The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-06-03
People Of Gainesville Begin 10
Realize Extent Of Awful
Calamity
COMPLETE LIST OF THE
RECOVERED DEAD GIVEN
ErtIre Stretch of Territory over Which
the Storm Passed Is Nothing
More Than a Mass of Ruins
and Utter DesoIatlon.

Gainesville, Ga. June 2-The six thous-
and inhabitants of this city have tonight
just begun to realize the extent of the
appalling disaster of yesteday. It now
seems certain that the death list will not
be much short of one hundred; perhaps
somewhat over hundred, considering the
number of dangerously wounded whose
{ chances for recovery cannot now be cal
culated But through all the gloom and
desolation that surrounds the town like
a pail of darkness there radiates beam
of hope and encouragement-hope that the
death list may not be so numerous as re-
ported, and encouragement to those who
are so bravely and devotedly assisting in
the work of relief.
The story of the storms work of deso-
lation has already been told. All that
rem aims is the compilation of an accurate
list of the dead and the chronicling of the
burial of the victims.
SUMMARY OF CASUAL TIES.
Figuring from all available sources and
giving credenee only to those reports
which are believed to be trustworthy,
the following is summary of the effects
of the tornado in Gainesville and its en-
virons:
One hundred killed, 15o injured, OF whom
probably twenty will die
Eight hundred homeless, their residences
having been wiped out of existence.
Property loss of about half million
dollars, none of which was covered by
storm insurance.
= coueiaa and accurate atafa-.an& -
the casualties cannot be rendered for sew
eral days, but the physicians in attend
ance believe that 1t will not go very far
above 100, although twenty-five or thirty
are desperately injured and may die with
in the next two or three days.
The death list so far compiled includes
thirty-two at the Pacolet cotton mills at
New Holland, all of whom were killed in
the demolition of the companys cottages,
and thirty-sx at the Gainesville cotton
mills, near the Southern railway station
where the tornado first struck.
The list, revised up to a late hour to-
night, Is as follows:
AT NEW HOLLAND.
Killed at the Pacolet mills at New
Holland:
Mrs. Alice Bobo, aged 30.
Mrs. B. F. O'kelly, aged SO.
Mrs. William WestmoreIand, aged 41.
Mrs. Marian Wilbanks, aged 40.
Mrs. n. n. Nelson, aged 45.
Benne Hendricks, aged IL.
Mrs. J. C. Bryan, aged AZ.
Willie Bryan, aged 6.
Lester Phillips, aged 60
Mrs. T. A. Coker, aged so.
William Tatum, aged IS.
Norman White, aged 10.
!. Mrs. J. r. White, aged 35.
ola White, aged 10.
Mrs. William Ledford, aged fs.
Willie Ledford, aged 18 months.
Albary Lyod, aged 60.
Mrs. Thomas Truelove. aged Is.
Mrs. M. A. Pass, aged so.
spurgeon Pass, aged So
Spurgeon Pass, Jr, aged 12.
John Mayne, ex-clerk OF the Superior
court of Hall county, aeec 50.
Mrs. n. L. Nlcks. agsd az.
Mrs. Julia Nicely, aged SIS.
Baby York, aged 16 months
Pearl York, aged q years.
Leon McGill, aged I.
Mrs. Mary Abel, aged 20.
Mrs. Belle York, aged %.
Maisy Westmoreland, aged 9.
Myrtle WestmoreIand, aged 65.
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AT GAINESVILLE.
Killed at the Gainesville mills:
Roebrt Leven, aged II; head torn
/ from body.
Gen. Cumming.
Mrs. Annie Garrett.
John Wesley Adams aged IA.
Mary Clarke, aged 10.
Maud Gordon, aged 16.
Bertie london, aged IA.
Fannie. Duncan, aged II.
c. Knowles.
Bessie Skinner, aged is.
Ed Nabors.
Lille Woodie, aged 13.
Mrs. j. M. Camp and baby.
Bob Morris, aged IL.
Claude Shed, aged II.
orin Haynes, aged IL.
Jack Murphy.
Jake WaddelI, aged IL.
Lizzie Rich, aged 16.
Grady Lee, aged ID.
Ethel Lyle, aged IL.
Minnie Stowe, aged IA.
Ed NagIe.
Herman English, aged 49,.
Dorothy Sloan, aged IS.
d Lille Lodgins, aged IS.
Lula Lodgins, aged is.
Mrs. Nathan Jones.
Homer Ashe, aged Fl.
Conner Ashe, aged 16.
Minnie jackson, aged IL.
Morris Child.
Baby of Harrington.
II Missing: W. {. Bannlster.
Eight persons killed in the destruction
of the Jones and Logans stores near
the Southern depot are not included in
the above list. All of them were men ex-
cept Mrs Jones' the wife of the pro-
prietor of the Jones' general store. Two
of the men killed in the Logan store were
negroes.
MASS OF RUINS.
The entire halfway Of the storm. ex-