Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-06-03

places or safety. Many of the bodies
Of the victims were mangled almost
beyond recognition.
Today the list of dead is placed at
100, an dthose injured at 40, while the
property loss Is something like $780,
900.
The storm also struck New Holland
near Gainesville, at which place more
than 20 people were killed.
Storm Appeared Suddenly.
The death-dealing storm appeared
suddenly a little before 1 o'clock and
within two minutes it had killed near
ly hundred persons, torn two stories
from the ave-foor brick factory of the
Gainesville cotton mills, demolished al
most 200 cottages, razed two brick
stores to the ground and blown down
imnumerable outbuildings.
BY what appears to be a miracle,
the tornado's fury was confined to the
outskirts of the city, the main bust
ness and residence portion not being
touched. Torrents of rain accompa-
MED the wind, but within five minutes
after its first onslaught the sun was
shining upon a scene of fearful desc.
lation.
The list of the dead is confined main
ly to operatives of the Gainesville cot
ton mills and the Pacelot cotton mills
and twO-thirds of them We're women
and children.
The following Is a list Of the fatal.
ties as far as can be obtained:
Dead In Gainesville:
General Cumming, Homer Ash, Cor.
don Ash, Maude Gordon, Miss Log.
gins, Mary Duncan, Miss Woody, =
G. Knowles, Miss Loggins, I'D Nabors,
Mary j. M. Camp and Baby, =. -.
Waddell, Ethel Lille, Lula Jackson,
Miss Clack, Claud shedd, Annie Gar.
rett Jack Murphy, Grady Lee, Dorothy
Sloan, Ed Nagles, Mrs Nathan Jones,
Baby of Howington.
Those fatally injured:
Nathan Jones, Mrs. Nathan Jones,
w. T. Henderson, Maude Gordon.
Claude Gordon, Bessie Skinner, Annie
Shubert, Joe Shubert, Daisy Bryson
Perry Conner, negro; Miss Willie
Boone, Doc Stovall a negro; Alonzc
Force, a negro; J. E. Summerville,
Ola Miller, Mrs. Doc Clark, John Simp-
son, James Simpson, General Cum
ming, Miss Neal Miss Loggins, Alice
Subers, VIII Addison, Gertie Addison
Ada Skinner, Will Blackshear. -. =.
Thompson, W. O. Miller, Mrs. Talley
Bessie TalIey, Lula Edmondson.
The dead Ia New Holland:
Mrs. II. H. Nelson, Will Tatum, Myr
tice Westmoreland, Maggie Westmore
land, Mrs. H. L. Nix, Mrs. Neeley, Mrs
jamie Ledford and Babby. Mrs. J. R.
White and Two Children, Baby of Mrs
MCGEE, Mrs. M w Bobo, Bennie Hen.
dirk, Mrs. T. A. Coker, John J. Mayme,
Mrs. Marion Willbanks. Two Children
of H. L. Phillips, Mrs. Tom Truelove,
Mrs. William Westmoreland, Albert
Lloyd, Mrs R. H. Pass and Little Son,
Mrs. Able, Mrs. Bryant and Little Son.
The tornado made a terrific noise,
as if heavy cannonading were in full
blast and as it bore dowH upon the
city it tore everything in its path. 1t
came from the southeast and no one
was aware that it was more than an
ordinary thunderstorm until it struck
the Gainesville cotton mill. which is
situated between the Southern and the
Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern
railways.
Taking this four-srory brick struc.
ture, it twisted 1t as If 1t were a reed,
and, IN twinkling Of an eye, many
souls we're ushered into eternity. The
mill building, store and cottages were
torn into fragments. and the flying tim
bers were hurled several hundred feet
in the air, together with those per-
sons who we're In reach of the fierce
monster.
The Gainesville Cotton Oil company,
the freight and passenger depots Of
the Southern railway, the car barn
the electric railway company, the
Gainesville Iron works, the old Rich
mond hotel, the stores of Mrs. Pfeffer,
J. n. Logan, ]. r. Clark, T. T. Moore.
Scroggs & Cooper, 3. D. Langford, Ma
than Jones; the residences of R. T.
Mealor, w. B. Sloan, J. R. Logan, the
Chestnut Street Baptist church, and
scores of others in this vicinity, were
blown entirely away. and the storm
passed over the southern part of the
city via Myrtle street, and on to the
Pacelot mill settlement at New Hol.
land.
List or Losses Due 20 storm.
The property loss is estimates at
$500,o0 The Gainesville cotton mill
could not estimate its loss, but 1t is
supposed to be $4,000. Some of the
other losses are:
Gainesville Cotton Oil company,
SO 600; Gainesville Iron works, 5000
Southern railway, $1,000; T. T. Moore,
$500; J. R. Logan, $4,000: J. r. Clark,
$400; Mrs. Pfeffer, $4,000: Cooper &
Scroggs, $4,000; B. D. Langford,
So 5000; Piedmont Hotel, $500; w. B.
Sloan. 93.00: J II Watarz- 81. 900 !: