Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-06-10
aEcoyIRs FROM SHOCK.
The Dead Put Out Of the Way as Rapidly as
Possible About Sixty Funerals.

Gainesville, Ga, June 3.--This
city has tonight practically recoy-
cred from the stnpefying effects of
Mondays tes sle wind storm. With
a large number of the dead already
buried and with the work of relief
proceeding rapidly and methodically,
the streets are again assuming their
normal appearance and the business
Of the community is going on as
usual. The work of the citizens of
Gainesville, both men and women,
has been heroic in aiding suffering,
and the response from Atlanta and
other cities, in the shape of supplies
and financial assistance, has been no
less marked. Physicians are now
here in sufficient numbers to attend
all the needs of the injured, but
there is yet great need for antisep-
tics and other medical supplies.
There is urgent necessity for more
nurses. Physicians who have yis-
tied Gainesville urge that, all who are
in position to do so volunteer their
services at once. Transportation and
board are being furnished all volun-
teers, SO that while there will be no
compensation, except the satisfac-,
tion Of doing noble work for suf-
fering humanity, there will be no ex-
pense.
Secretary of War Root has tele-
graphed Senator Clay and Congress
man Tate that the government will
send tents and such other temporary
assistance as may seem necessary.
About sixty funerals of victims
were held last night and to-day.
There was no attempt at any sort of
ceremonial; in many cases not even
a clergyman was present. The
bodies were rapidly consigned to the
earth, with hastily uttered prayer or
the singing of a hymn. For half an
hour almost one funeral a, minute
was conducted in the desolated vii
lage of mill cottages, where the tor
nado wrought its greatest havoc.
STATEMENT FROM MAYOR PARKER.
Gainesville, June 4.-Mayor p. N.
Parker to-day sent the following
statement to the Atlantis Journal:
The Journal has not exaggerated
the deplorable situation in Gaines
vile and the adjoining villae 's occu-
pied by employees of the r'acolet
Mills and the Gainesville Cotton
Mills. | regret to say the whole
truth has not been told, fof words
fail. AT the request of your staff
correspondent, furnish the follow
ing statement, based on facts:
The killed will number 1876 by the
end of the next twenty-four hours.
Three hundred is conservative
estimate of wounded people. Many
OF LneSe VIII ole.
The number of houses destroyed
are four-hundred, instead of three
hundred, as has been published.
/ estimate the homeless at fifteen
hundred, which is FIVE hundred more
than you have printed.
The financial loss, at conserva-
tive estimate, will be 100000, the
figures you announced Tuesday
morning.
Wednesday, the first day of the
commissary, we issued rations to fif-
teen hundred persons.
The hospital in the court house
will accommodate fifty.
There are ten local physicians who
are sorely in need of rest. We want
more doctors.
We do not find words in our hour
of woe. to express our thanks TO
those kind generous people who
have responded to our call. Suffice
it, we have found in your liberality
and sympathy the only bright spot
in the gloom in which we are