The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-27
DEATH IN THE WIND.
Thirty.seYen People Killed at Ke und.
vi le, Ala, by Cyclone.
TOWN COMPLETELY WIPED OUT.
The Wind Monster Came in the
Darkness. Several Have Thrill
ling Escapes. Details OF
the Disaster.

4 dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala,
says the most disastrous cyclone that
ever swept over that section visited
MoundTille, Ala, a town Of 800 in
habitants, Is miles south CT Tusca-
looSa, Friday morning at l O'Clock
and as result 81 persons were killed
and more than 100 injured, and every
business house with the exception Of
small drug store completely destroyed.
The cyclone struck the city from
the southwest, dealing death and
destruction as it made it's path,
quarter OF a mile wide, through the
town. The following is a list Of the
white persons who were killed: z
E. P. Seymour Of Nashville, Tenn,
who accepted his position as operator
at the railroad station last evening.
A. W. Warren Of Birmingham, en-
ployed oy the Alabama Grocery COM
pany.
j. H. Redmond, superintendent
pumping station, from Nashville.
Robert Powers Of Tuscaloosa.
Miss Hettie Farley.
The negro dead are:
W. N. Miles, wife and six children.
Albert Holston, wife and three
children.
Ike Holston, wife sGG3 three chill
dren.
Nine other negroes, yet unidelt5es
fed. ES
The following is a partial list of
the seriously wounded:
Mrs. W. A. Grubbs Of Kentucky,
dislocated 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; Mrs. Gai-&
ley, badly cut; Mrs. f. T. Galley,
badly lacerated; Mr.. Farley, blinded;
a. B. Taylor, leg broken; Mrs. Nc
Caney, 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
suferings of the Injured.
By the force Of the storm persons
were blown hundreds. Of feet fron
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 five year old boy in bed. This
morning be was pulled from beneath
some timber and thus far it is impos-
sible to fud 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 if it had been
cut by the woodman's axe.
Freight cars are torn to spllnters,
the trucks from them being hurled
hundreds Of feet from the track.
The depot, the hotel, warehouses,
gins, 30 homes, the store houses eccu-
pied by R. L. Griffin. a. W. WiggiEs
s. Son, W. J.. Donninick, A. D. Griffin
and ". P. Phifer, together with theirz
stocks, were completely destroyed.
Where they stood it is impossible to
6nd even the pillars upon which these
structures rested.
Bales IF cotton, which were stored
in warehouses we're torn to atoms,
the fragments Of lint together vita
the debris lOd gipg in trees making To
appear as if that section had been
visited by snow storm. Heavy ircn
safes were carried by the storm, tie
doors being torn from their hinges:
a young clerk employed by W. y.
Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring OF
the cyclone, let himself down into a
well in the centre OF the store. he
had no sooner found his place OF safe
ty than the store was completely de-
molished. Friday morning he was
drawn ont uniniured.