The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-03
GRIM WITH DEATH
rs THE sToRM-STRICKEN CITY OF
GAINESVILLE.
THE DEAD AND THE DYING
WILL RUN THE COUNT OF FATAL
TIES TO ONE HUNDRED.

COnfronts Them-Mass Meeting
was Held and Committees APP
pointed to Bring Order Out of
Chaos-List of the Dead-Relief
Funds Are Being Received-TrOOps
Patrol the TOwn-BuriaI of the
Observation-Disclosures Crowd Gaines
viIIe-PeOpIe Do Not Want Them.
They Are Asked to Leave or to
Work.
Gainesville, Ca, June 2.-The 5000
Inhabitants of this city have tonight
Just begun to realize the extent of
the appalling disaster of yesterday.
It now seems certain that the death
list will not be much short of 100;
perhaps somewhat over a hundred,
considering the number of dangerous
" wounded whose chances for recov-
cry cannot now be calculated. But
through all gloom and desolation that
surround the town like a pail of dark
ness there radiates beam Of hope
death list may not be so numerous
as reported; and encourag cement to
those who are so bravely and devoted
" assisting in the work of relief.
The story of the storms work of
desolation has already been told. All
that remains is the compilation of an
accurate list of the dead, and the
chronicling of the burial of the vic
tins. Figuring from all available
sources and giving credence only to
those reports which are believed to be
trustworthy, the following is a sum-
mary of the effects of the tornado in
Gainesville and its environs:
Summary of Its Destruction.
One hundred people killed; $50 injur-
ed, of whom probably twenty will die;
500 homeless, their residences having
been wiped out of existence; property
loss of about 100000, none of which
A concise and accurate statement of
the fatalities cannot be rendered for
several days, but the phyicians in at
tendance believe that it will not go
very far above 100, although twenty
five or thirty are desperately injured
and may die within the next two or
three days.
The death list so far compiled in
cludes thirty-two at the Pacolet Cotton
Mills at New Holland, all of whom
were killed in the demolition of the
companys cottages; and thirty-six at
the Gainesville Cotton Mills, near the
Southern Railway Station, where the
tornado first struck.
The list revised up to a late hour
tonight is as follows
Dead at PacOlet.
Killed at the Pacolet Mills, at New
Holland:
Mrs. Alice Bobo, aged 40.
Mrs. B. F. O'Kelly, SO.
Mrs William Westmoreland, aged Al.
Mrs. Marian Willbanks. aged 40.
Mrs. H. H. Nelson, aged As.
Bonnie Hendricks, aged II.
Mrs. ]. c. Bryan, aged AZ.
Willie Bryan, aged 6.
Lester Phillips, aged 60.
Mrs. T. A. Coker, aged 60.
William Tatum, aged 25.
Norman White, aged 10.
Mrs. j. P. White, aged 35.
Ola White, aged 10.
Mrs. William Ledford, aged IS.
Willie Ledford, aged Is months.
Albany Lloyd, aged 60.
Mrs. Thomas Truelove, aged Is.
Mrs. NJ. A. Pass, aged so.
Sturgeon Pass, aged so.
Sturgeon Pass, Jr., aged II.
John Mayne, ex-clerk of the supe-
rior Court of Hall county, aged 62.
Mrs. H. L. Hicks aged AZ.
Mrs. Julit Nelly, aged SO.
Baby York, aged 16 months.
Pearl York. aged years.
Leon McGill, aged year.
Mrs. Mary Abel, aged 20.
Mrs. Bell York, aged 27.
Maisy Westmoreland, aged 8.
Mytrice Westmoreland, aged 6.
Manda Wylie, colored, aged 40.
Gainesville Mills Dead.
Killed at the Gainesville Mills:
Robert Leven, aged IL; head torn on.
General Cumming.
Mrs. Annie Garrett.
John Wesley Adams aged IA.
Mark Clarke, aged 49,
Maude Gordon, aged 16.
Berthe London, aged IA.
Fannie Duncan, aged IL.
Mary Lou Duncan, aged IL.
G. X Movies.
Bessie Skinner, aged Is.
ed Nabors
Lille Woodie. aged 10.
Mrs. j. M. Camp and baby.
Bob Norris aged u.
Claude Shed, aged H.
onn Haynes, aged Y.
Jack Murphy.
Jake Waddell aged n.
Lizzie Rich. aged 70.
Grady Lee. aged ~
Ethel Lyle. aged u.
Minnie st0we, sEed ~
~ maggie.