The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-01-28
A CYCLONES FURY
Wipes An Alabama Town From or
The Face OF The Earth
IHlRIY.SEvEN KILLED OUTRIGHT
One Hundred Crippled and Very Much
Property Swept Away by the fury
of the Mind.

Tuscaloosa, Ala. Speclal.-The most
disastrous cyclone that ever swept over
this section visited Moundville. Ala.
a town OF 500 Inhabitants fifteen miles
south OF Tuscaloosa. Friday morning
az o'clock, and as result thrifty
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 il made its path. quarter o.
a mile wide, through the town. The
following is list OF the white persons
who were killed:
Z. T. Seymour. OF Nashville Tenn.
who accepted the position az operator
at the railroad station last evening,
A. II. Warren, OF Birmingham. en-
ployed by the Alabama Grocery Com
pany: ]. H. Redmond superintendent
pumping station, from Nashville; Rob
ert Powers, OF Tuscaloosa Miss Nettie
Farley.
The negro dead are: W. y. Miles
wife and six children: Albert Holston
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 Moundvill'
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa. an(
all possible was done to alleviate tht
sufferings of the injured.
BY the force OF the storm person:
were blown hundreds Of feet from the!'
beds in the blacknass Of night
| Through terror, a father, mother ant
three children fed from their home +
seek refuge and in their excltemen
left a 5-year-old boy in bed. This morn
ing he was pulled from beneath som
timber, and thus far it is impossibl
to find any other member of the fam
lily.
Bedding, carpets and wearing appar
el are scattered distance OF ten mile
through what was forest, but whicl
is now as clear as II it had been CT
by the woodman's axe.
Freight cars were torn to splinter
the trucks from them being huIle
hundreds of feet from the track.
The depot, the hotel, warehouse:
gins, thirty homes, the store-house
occupied by r. L. Griffin, A. ". Wiz
gins and Son w. ]. Domenick. A.
Griffin and w. P. Phifer, together wit
their stocks. were completely destroy
ed. Where they stood, 1t is imposslbl
to fnd even the pillars upon Whlc
these structures rested.
Bales OF cotton, which were store
in warehouses, were torn to atoms, tn
fragments of lint together with tn
| debris. lodging in trees, making IL al
pear as If that section had been Vlslte
by a snowstorm Heavy iron safes wer
carried by the storm, the doors
which were torn from their hinges.
A young clerk employed by W.
Phifer. hearing the terrible roaring
the approaching cyclone, let himse
down into a we'll in the center or tf
store. He had no sooner found n
place of safety than the store was con
| pletely demolished. This morning I
| uac drawn ont unin iiIred.