The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-23
BY FURY OF WIND
THIRTY-SEVEN DIE
FRIGHTFUL CYCLONE RACED.
TOWN OF MOUNDVILLE, ALA, WAS
ALMOST DESTROYED.


path Of the Cyclone Were Swept
Away-Peop1e Were Blown Hum
5reds of Feet From Their Beds.
Incidents That illustrate the
FEARFUL Force of the Wind.
Tuscaloosa, Ala, Jan. 22.-The most
disastrous cyclone that ever swept
aver this section visited Moundville,
ua town of 800 inhabitants, fifteen
miles south of Tuscaloosa, this morn
ing at / o'clock, and, as a result, thir-
+v-seven persons were killed and more
than 100 injured, and every business
house with the exception of a small
drug store, completely destroyed.
The cyclone struck the city from the
southwest, dealing death and destruc-
tion as it made it's path, quarter of
mile wide, through the town. The
following is a list of the white persons
who were killed:
The Killed and Injured.
Z. P. Seymour of Nashville, Tenn,
who accepted his position as operator
at the railroad station last evening.
A. H. Warren of Birmingham en-
ployed by the Alabama Grocery Com
pany.
l. H. Redmond, superintendent
pumping station, from Nashville.
Robert Powers of Tuscaloosa.
Miss Nettie Farley.
The negro dead are:
w. N. Miles, wife and six children.
Albert Holston, wife and three chill
dren.
Ike Holston, wife and three children.
Five other negroes, yet unidentified.
The following is a partial list of the
seriously wounded:
Mrs. w. A. Grubbs of Kentucky dis
located hip.
r. l.. Griffin, sprained back.
Mrs. r. L. Griffin, arm broken.
Lee Griffin. badly bruised.
A B. Griffin, eyes torn out.
Mrs. Farley. face cut and ankle
broken.
Mr.. Galley, badly cut.
Mrs. Galley, badly cut.
Mrs. F. T. Galley. badly lacerated.
Mr.. Farley, blinded.
A. B. Taylor. leg broken.
Mrs. McCaney. chest crushed.
The names of the injured negroes
have not yet been procured.
Surgeons were rushed to Moundville
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and
all possible was done to alleviate the
sufferings of the injured.
Blown From Their Beds.
BY the force of the storm 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 5-year-old boy in bed. This
morning he was pulled from beneath
some timber. and thus far it is impos-
sible to find any other member of the
family.
Bedding, carpets and wearing ap-
parel are scattered a distance of ten
miles through what was a forest, but
which is now as clear as If it had been
cut by the woodman's ak.
Freight cars were torn to splinters,
the trucks from them being hurled
hundreds of feet from the track.
The depot, the hotel. warehouses,
gins thirty homes, the storehouses &C.
cupied by r. L. Griffin, A. w. Wig
gins & Son, w. ]. Dominick, A ]. Crit
nm and w. P. Phyfer, together with
their stocks, were completely destroy
ed. Where they stood it is impossible
10 md even the pillars upon which
these structures rested.
Bales of Cotton Blown to Atoms.
Bales of cotton, which were stored
N warehouses, were torn to atoms,
the fragments of lint, together with
'ne debris, lodging in trees, making 1t
appear as if that section had been Wis
Ned by snowstorm. Heavy iron safes
were carried by the storm, the doors
OF which were torn from their hinges.
A young clerk employed by w. P.
Fhyter, hearing the terrible roaring
ol the approaching cyclone, let him
SeIt down into a we'll in the center
VI The store. He had no sooner found
MS place of safety when the store
vas completely demolished. This
morning he was drawn out uninjured.