The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-02

Mrs. ]. R. White and two children.
Baby of Mrs. Magee.
Mrs. M. w. Bobo.
Mrs. Bryan and little son.
Benny Hindrix.
Mrs. T. A. Coker.
John J. Mayne.
Mrs. Marion.
Will Banks.
Two children ofgH. L. Phillips.
Mrs. Tom Truelove.
Mrs. William Westmoreland.
Albert Lloyd.
Mrs. O'Kelly.
Mrs. R. H. Pass and little son.
Mrs. Agile.
A negro woman, name unknown, and
one other, a white man, whose name
has not been ascertained.
Dead at NeighbOring Points.
Those fatally injured at New Hol-
land number about ten, including Mrs.
Hendrix and two girls: Dryer Ander-
son, colored; Mrs. T. ]. Ivey and Mrs.
Pass.
Eight men, six white and two col
ored, were killed in the demolition of
Joseph Logan's store near the South
ern Depot, and one man and one wom-
an met death in the store of George
Jones, the woman being the wife OF
the proprietor.
Unconfirmed reports from White Sui
phur, seven miles from Gainesville,
say that about twelve persons were
killed there. Their names are not yet
obtainable, and hopes are expressed
that this report is unfounded.
Did Its Work Quickly.
The tornado did its appalling work
in such an incredibly short time that it
is difficult to obtain a correct descrip-
ton of it's character. 1t appears to
have swept down from the southwest,
striking the Gainesville mills with a
roar like the report of artillery.
After lifting two stories from this
structure, it swept on to the north
ward, leaving a traf1 of destruction
along Summit street, which is inhabit-
ed almost exclusively by negroes.
Nearly a hundred cottages of negroes
on this street were levelled to the
ground, but by a fortunate circum-
stance, the tenants were all absent,
having left the city in the morning to
take part in a negro picnic.
The furious wind next descended; on
the plant of the Pacolet Cotton Minis
at New Holland, two miles from the
Southern station. This is one of the
largest cotton mills in the South, en-
ploying more than 600 hands. The
storm spared the Pacolet factory, but
entirely demolished hundred of its
cottages, standing nearby and tenant-
ed by it's operatives. Here the fatal
tiles were greatest, upwards of thirty
five persons being buried in the ruins
of the cottages.
Bodies were blown hundreds of yards
and many of them when picked up bore
no semb1ance to humanity. The trunk
of one young boy was found with the
head decapitated, as if by the guillo-
tine.
Bodies FearfulIy Torn.
From New Holland the tornado
swept onward to the east in the di-
rection of White Sulphur, town of
about 100 people. The extent of its de-
struction there cannot now be definite
ly told, but reports so far received In
dicate considerable loss of life.
The bodies of most of the dead in
the two 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 viscera
visibly protruding.
The local physicians who gave first
aid to the injured say the sights were
horrible beyond description.
The death list is expected to be of
much greater magnitude by morning.
as nearly thirty are believed 10 be
hurt beyond hope OF recovery.
Gainesville has only twelve local
physicians. and their services were
found 10 be entirely inadequate 10 the
situation. Surgeons came IN tonight,
however, from Atlanta and several
other points. SO that the number IN The
city now Is about forty. and an pos
slble care ana attention Is being given
Che injured people