The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-06-06
DESOLATION AND DEATH
Gainesville, Georgia, Visited BY Terrible
Tornado Last Monday.
THAN A HUNDRED PEOPLE KILLED
Twice That Number Houses Stories of Two Fac
tories Swept Away With Terrible Crash, Leaving the Oper
atives Dead in the Runs-Came From Clear
Sky, and Conc IN Two Minutes.

Dorothy Sloan. Ed Nagles Mrs. Ma
than Jones. baby of Mrs. Hawington.
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 stoyall (col-
ored), Alonzo Force (colored), J. E.
Summerville. Ola Miller Mrs. Doc
Clark. John Simpson. James Simpson,
General Cumming Miss Neal, Miss
foggins, Alice Subers. VIII Addison.
Gertie Addison. Bill Baokshear, Ada
Skinner, Thompson. w. o. Mill
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. H. H. Nelson. VIII Tatnm,
Mytice Westmoreland. Maggie West
moreand. Mrs. II. L. Nix, Mrs Neeley.
Mrs jamie Lodford and baby. Mrs.
L. II. White and two children, baby
of Mrs McGee. Mrs M. w. Bobo. Mrs.
Byralt and little son, BennIe Hen
Dirk. Mrs. 7. A. Coker. John j. Mayne.
Mrs. Marion Wilibanks. two children
of II. l.. Phillips. Mrs. Tom Truelove,
Mrs. VIM Westmorcland, Albert Lloyd,
Mrs. OKelly, Mrs. n. H. Pass and lit
tie son, Mrs. Agile, 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. I. +. Iyey
and Mrs. Pass
Besides these, eight men. six white
and two colored were killed in the de-
moltion Of Joseph Iogans store. near
the Southern depot and one man and
one woman met death In the store OF
George Jones.
Unconnrmed reports from White
Sulphur, seyel 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 IT'S appalling work
In such an incredibly short time that
II Is difficult TO obtain coherent de-
5crIption of its character. II appears
to have swept down from the south
west, striking the Gainesville mills
with a roar like the report Of artillery.
After lifting two stories from this
structure, Il swept on to the north
ward, leaving a trail of destruction
along Summit street, which is inhab-
itod almost exclusively by negroes.
Nearly a hundred cottages OF eolored
people on this street were leyeled to
the ground. but by a fortunate cir
cumstance the tenants were all abb
sent, having left the city In the mora
ing TO take part in 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 PacoIet factory. but
entirely demolished 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 whel picked up bore
no sembIance TO humanity. The trunk
of one young boy was found with
the head decapitated as II by the gull
lotine
swept on to the east, in the direction
OF White Sulphur, a town of about
a hundred people. The extent OK
its destruction there cannot now be
definitely told, but reports so far re-
ceiyed 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 yiscera
visibly protruding. The local physi-
clans who gave first aid to the in
jured 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. # Is now esi-
mated will reach about 100000
The following is a partial tabuiaton
as nearly perfect as can be oDtaiheu
qainesviIle mill. $4,000; Pacolet
min s100 600: Gainesville Cotton OH
Comnany. SO 900: Gainesville Iron
works. 1000: Southern Railway,
si 900: T. II. Moore. $500: J. X. Clark,
$500: Mrs. Pfeffer, $4,000; J. X. Lo-
gan, $4,000. Cooper Scroggs, s5.-
600: d. %. Langford, $4,000; Piedmont
Hotel. 5000; w B. Sloan, $4,000; J. I.
Waters, $1,000: Gainesville & Dah-
Ionega Electric Railway Company,
81 900; Robert Howington, 500; Joe
Reed, 5000: r.. D. Griggs. s1,500; j.
II. Whisenat. $4,000: Mrs. l.. r. Little.
$500: B. q. Parks. 81 600: J. 4. Duck
EFT, $500, and various others, running
from 500 to 81 900.