The Gainesville star. [volume] (Gainesville, Fla.) 1903-19??, 1904-01-26
In Wake of Terrific
Cyclone in North
Alabama.
NOUgDVILLEI Is WRECKED
Little Town in Hale County
is Literally Wiped Off the
Map-Death List is
Twenty-Eight,

The most disastrous cyclone that
ever swept over northern Alabama
visited Moundvhle, town of 800 in
habltants, Friday morning at / o'clock
md as n result, twenty.elght persons
were killed and more than one hun
bred killed, aud every business house,
with the exception Of small drug
store, was completely destroyed.
The cyclone struck the city from
the southwest, dealing death and dc
structlon as II made its path through
the town. The path Of the cyclone
was quarter of mile wide.
Where once stood the business por-
ton of the town, the depot and the
dwellings, there were found scores
of mangled cattle, hogs, horses and
suffering humanity. so horrible was
the scene that It is impossible to do
scribe the suffering and destruction
Persons were blown hundreds OF
feet from their beds in the blackness
of night. Through terror, a father,
mother and three children fed from
their home to seek refuge, and In
their excitement left a 5year-old boy
In bed. When morning came he was
pulled from beneath some timber and
thus far It Is impossible to find any
other member of the family
Bedding, carpets and wearing appa'
rel are scattered distance of ten
miles through what was forest, but
which Is now as clear as II 1t had been
cut by the woodlands ak,
Freight cars were torn to spllnlers,
the trucks from them being hurled
hundreds OF feet from the track,
The depot, the hotel, ware houses
,irty homes, the store houses
occupied by r. l.. Griffin, A. w. Wig
gins & Son, w, j. Domenlck, A. ID.
Griffin and W. p. Phlfer, together with
their stocks, were completely destroy
ed. Where they stood It is impossible
to find even the pillars upon which
these structures rested.
Bales OF cotton, which were stored
In warehouses, were torn to atoms,
the fragments of lint lodging In trees,
making IL appear as II that section
had been visited by snowstorm.
Heavy iron safes were carried by the
storm, the doors of which were torn
from their hinges.
Hundreds OF homeless persons, hus'
bands without wives, wives without
husbands, children without parents,
all without food or raiment, are wiring.
ing their hand In despair
The following is a list OF the white
persons killed; Il. p, Seymour, of
Nashville, Tenn, who accepted his po'
sition as operator at the railroad sta.
tion only the evening before; A. II.
Warren, of Birmingham; ] II Red
mond, superintendent Of the pumping
station from Nashville. Robert Pow.
ers, of Tuscaloosa bliss Nettie Far.
ley. il 3I.IJ ii.
The negro dead are: w. n. Miles,
wife and six children; Albert Holston.
wife and three children; Ike Holston,
wife and three children Five other
negroes. yet unidentified
The following Is a partial list Of the
seriously wounded white people: Mrs,
w. A. Grubbs, r. l.. Grifin. Mrs. II.
l.. Griffin, Lee Griffin, A. d. Griffin.
Mrs. Farley Mr.. Galley, Mrs. Galley,
Mrs. f. T. Galley Mr.. Early Mrs.
McCaney ... .a.l a.
The names of the injured negroes
have not yet been procured
Surgeons were rushed TO Mound
vile from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa
and all possible was done to alleviate
the sufferlngs OF the Injured.