The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-02
S5 ARE DEAD FROM
 TORNADO'S WRATE
Perhaps 40 More Will Die e5 Re-
 suit of Storm at Gaines .ath , vile, Ga.

Gainesville Ga, June IA tornado of terrific force struck Gainesville this after noon out of clear sky causing fearful loss of life in this city and in New Hol- land and White Sulphur. As near as can be calculated at this hour. the results are eixhty-five men, women and children dead and perhaps forty more fatally in- ured. with~a property loss of something like $300.000.
 The death list is yet imperfect, not all the bodies having been recovered and identified. Many of them were mangled beyond recognition. the only means of Identification being the records of the two cotton mills. iL which most of the vic ums worked.
 The death-dealing storm appeared sud- denly little before o'clock, and within two minutes 1t had killed nearly a hun. dred persons. torn two stories from the fve-fioor brick factory of the Gainesville cotton mills, demolished almost 200 cot tages, razed two brick stores to the ground, and blown down innumerable out buildings.
 All Over in Five Minutes.
 
 tornados fury was confined to the out skirts of Ahe city, the main business and residence portion not being touched. Tor rents of rain accompanied the wind, but within five minutes after its first on- slaught the sun was shining upon scene of fearful desoiation.
 The list of the dead fs confined mainly to operatives of the Gainesville cotton mills and the Pacolet cotton mills and two-thirds of them were women and chil- dren.
 The list of cssc dead so far obtainable, at the Gainesville cotton mills and in and around the vicinity of the Southern depot follows:
 Homer Ash, Gordon, Ash. Maude Cor. don, Miss Loggins, Mary Duncan, Miss Woody, Knowles. Miss Loggins, Ed. Majors, Mrs. J. M. Camp and baby, - Waddell. Ethel Lile. Lula Jackson, Miss Clack, Ciaudie Shedd. Annie Garrett. Jack Murphy. Grady Lee, Dorothy Sloan. Ed. Nagies, Mrs. Nathan Jones. baby of Mrs. Howington.
 ] Fatally injured: Nathan Jones. W. T. Henderson, Maude Gordon, Claude Cor don, Bessie Skinner, Annie Shubert, Joe Shubert. Daisw Bryson. Perry Conner (colored), Miss Willie Boone. Doc Stovall (coiored). Alonzo Force (colored), J. E. Summerville. Ola Miller, Mrs. Doc Clark. John Simpson. James Simpson, General Cumming. Miss Neal. Miss Loggin. Alice subers. Will Addison, Gertie Addison, Bill Blackshear, Ada Skinner, - Thomp- son, W. O. Miller. Mrs. Talley. Bessie Talley Lulu Edmondson.
 Those who are killed at the Pacolet Mills at New Holland and whose bodies have been recovered are:
 At Pacoiet Mills. Mrs. H. H. Nelson. Will Tatum, Myrtice Westmoreland. Maggie Westmoreland, Mrs. H. L. Nix. Mrs. Medley, Mrs. Jamie Ledford and baby, Mrs. J. R. White and two children, baby of Mrs. McGee. Mrs. M. W. Bobo. Mrs. Bryant and little son. Bennie Hendrix, Mrs. T. A. Coker. John J. Mayne. Mrs. Marion Willbanks, two children of H. L. Phillips, Mrs. Tom Truelove, Mrs. William Westmoreland, Albert Lloyd, Mrs. OKelly, Mrs. R. H. Pass and little son. Mrs. Agie, negro woman, name unknown and one other white man whose name has not been ascertained
 Those fatally injured at New Holland number about ten, including Mrs. Hendrix and two girls, Bryer Anderson (colored), Mrs. T. J. Ivey and Mrs. Pass. Besides these, eight men, six white and two col ored, were killed in the demolitin of Jo- seph Logans store near the Southern depot and one man and one woman met death in the store of George Jones. the woman being the wife of the proprietor.
 Unconfrmed reports from White Sul phur, seven miles from Gainesville, say that about twelve persons were killed there. Their names are not yet obtain able, and hopes are expressed that this report is unfounded.
 The tornado did it's appalling work in suchA an incredibly short ime that 1t is difficult to obtain a coherent description of its character. It appears to have swept down from the southwest. striking the Gainesville Mills with a roar like the re- port of artillery.
 A Trail of Destruction.
 After lifting two stories from this struc ture, 1t swept on to the northward, leav- ing a trail of destruction along Summit Street, which is inhabited almost exclu- sively by negroes. Nearly a hundred cot tages of colored people on this street were leveled to the ground. but by a fortunat circumstance the tenants were all absent, having left the city In the morning 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 South ern station This is one of the largest cot ton mills in the South. employing more than 800 hands. The storm spared the Pacolet factory, but entirely demolished a hundred of it's cottages, standing near by, and tenanted by its opera lives Here the fatalities were greatest, upwards of thirty-five persons being burned in the ruins of the cot tages Bodies were blown hundreds of wards. and many of them. when picked up bore no semblance of humanity The trunk of one young boy was found with the head decapitated, as if by the guillo- tine.
 White Sulphur Visited.
 From New Holland the tornado swept onward to the east, in the direction of White Sulphur, a town of about a hun dred persons. The extent of its destFuc- tion there cannot now be definitely told, but reports so far receive indicate con- siderable loss of life.
 The bodies of most of the dead in the two cotton mills were fearfuIly torn and nangled; the skulls of many of them were crushed and the limbs broken some were torn and crushed about the abdomen, with the viscera visiby protrudins. The local physicians who gave first aid to the injured say the sights were horrible be- yond description. The death list Is ex- pected to be of much greater magnitude by morning, as nearly thirty are believed to be hurt beyond hope of recovery.
 Gainesville has only about twelve local physicians and their services were found to be entirely inadequate to the situA- ton. Surgeons came in tonight, however, from Atlanta and several other points. 60 that the number in the city now is