Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1904-01-27
A CYCLONES FURY
Wipes An Alabama Town From Oft
the Face of the Earth
7HlR7Y.sEvEN KILLED OUTRIGHT
One Hundred Crippled and Very Much
Property Swept Away By tho Fury
Of the Wind.

Tuscaloosa, Ala. Special most
disastrous cyclone that ever swept over
this section visited Moundville, Ala,
a town of 300 inhabitants fifteen miles
south of Tuscaloosa. Friday morning
a, 1 o'clock, and as a result thirty
seven persons were killed and more
than one hundred injured, and every
business house, with the exception OF
a small drug store. completely de-
stroyed
The cyclone struck the city from the
southwest, dealing death and destruc-
ton as it made its path, a quarter OF
a mile wide, through. the town. The
following Is a list of the white persons
who were killed:
E. P. Seymour, of Nashville, TEMP.
who accepted the position as operator
at the railroad station last evening;
A. H. Warren, Of Birmingham, en-
ployed by the Alabama Grocery Com
pany; J. H. Redmond superintendent
pumping station, from Nashville; Rob
ert Powers, of Tuscaloosa; Miss Nettte
Farley.
The negro dead are: W. N. Miles.
wife and six children; Albert Eolston,
wife and three children; Ike Holston,
wife and three children; nine other ne
groes, yet unidentified.
The following is a partial list Of the
seriously injured: Mrs. W. A. Grubbs,
Of Kentucky, dislocated hip; R. L.
Griffin, Lee Griffin. A. B. Griffin. Mrs.
Farley, Mr.. Galley. Mrs. Galley, Mrs.
F. T. Galley, Mr.. Farley, A. B. Taylor.
Mrs. McCaney.
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.
By the force Of the storm persons
were blown hundreds Of feet from their
beds in the blackness OF night.
Through terror, father, mother and
three children fed from their home to
seek refuge and in their excitement
left 5-year-old boy in bed. This morn
ing he was pulled from beneath some
timber, and thus far it is impossible
to find any other member of the fam
lily. -,
Bses.N'g, carpets and wearing appar-
: through&hat was a forest, Rat which
is now as clear as if it had been cut
by the woodman's axe.
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 store-houses
occupied by R. L. Griffin, A. W. wig
gins and Son. ". ]. Domenick, A. y.
Griffin and ". P. Phifer, together with
their stocks, were completely destroy
ed. Where they stood, it is impossible
to find even the pillars upon winch
these structures rested.
Bales of cotton, which were storeu
In warehouses, were torn to atoms, the
fragments of lint together with tne
debris, lodging in trees, making 1t ap-
near as If that section had been visited
by a. snowstorm. Heavy iron safes were
carried by the storm, the doors Oh
which we're torn from their hinges.
A young clerk employed by w. r:
Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring OF
the approaching cyclone, let himseit
down into a we'll in the center OF the
store. He had no sooner found MS
Mace of safety than the store was COM
pletely demolished. This morning ne
was drawn out uninjured.