The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-06-05
DEATH LIST
REACHES 100.
Great Host of People Dead at
Gainesville, Ga.
$50 INJURED IN STORM
From Twenty to Thirty of
These Will Die
300. PERSONS HOMELESS
Property Loss Will be Half a
Million Dollars
800. PERSONS HOMELESS

Gainesville, Ga, June 2.-The 5000 in
habitants of this city have tonight just
begun to realize the extent of the appall-
ing disaster of yesterday. 1t now seems
certain that the death list win not be
much short of 100, and perhaps more.
considering thenumber OF dangerously
wounded, whose chances for recovery can
not now be calculated. But through all
the gloom and desolation that surrounds
the town like a pail of darkness. there
radiates a beam of hope and encourage
ment, perhaps that the death list may not
be SO numerous as reported and encour-
ages those who are so bravely and de-
votedly assisting in the work of relief
The story of the storms work of desc
lation has already been told. All that re-
| mains is the compilation of an accurate
list of the dead and the chronicling or
the damages. Figuring from all avail
able sources, and giving credence only to
those reports which are believed to be
trustworthy, the following is summary
of the effects of the tornado in Gaines
vile and its environments:
| One hundred killed.
,, One hundred and fifty injured. of whom
probably twenty Will die.
Eight hundred homeless. their resi-
! dences having been wiped out Of exist
! ence.
Property loss of about half million
| dollars, none of which was covered by
storm insurance.
The death list so far compiled includes
| thirty-two at the Pacolet mills at New
| Holland all of whom were killed in the
| demolition of the cottages. and thirty-six
at the Gainesville cotton mills near the
| Southern railway station, where the tor
na1o first struck.
Eight persons killed in the destruction
! of the Jones & Logan store near the
| Southern depot are not included in the
above. All of them were men except
Mrs. Jones, the wife of the proprietor of
the Jones general store. Two of the men
| killed in the Logan store were negroes.
The entire pathway of the storm, ex-
tending two miles from the Gainesville
mills around the outskirts of the city to
the Pacolet mills at New Holland is a
mass of ruins, but fortunately the got
| tages in the trail of the tornado between
the Southern station and New Holland,
| were those of negroes who were absent
| from the city in attendance on a colored
| excursion.
| The local militia have been called out
for police duty. The city is very orderly
and only a few instances of pillaging
have been reported.
| Business is almost entirely suspended
! throughout the city, the care being given
| to the suffering. There is emo lack of
medical attention, many surgeons being
| present from Atlanta and other cities.
There is great need, however. of cloth
ing antiseptics and other medical suE-
plies.
The work of the tornado was complete.
From the factory who're it first descended
upon the doomed city to the hills beyond
| New Holland, where it rose into the upper
air, the destruction is appalling
| Along the entire course for a distance
of two miles there is not fence Stand
! ing. not a habitable house, most of the
| latter being reduced to strips like laths
| and scarcely tree left. Q
At New HolJond the storm did its worst
, Nothing but the barren hills are let
| there to tell che story of the awful dis
| aster For a distance of three-Quarters
| of a mile on the hillside and in the val
| lev to the left of the Pacolet mills the
ground is obscured almost by the fras-
| ments of the $50 houses that were there
| when the twisting tornado swept down.
Standing on the hilltop nearest the
sity of Gainesville and looking north
east, a stripe of perfectly SMOOTH swept
| territory is presented to the eye of the
observer, and the entire vista is paved
with the wreckage of destroyed homes.