The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-23
THIRTY-SEvEN KILLED
Bales OF Cotton in 0yerthrown, Ware
houses Blown to Atoms and Trees
Far and Near Covered With the
Wind-tossed Flakes. Iron Safes
Caught Up and Whirled Away. Es-
cape by Dropping Into Well.
(By the Associated Press.)

Tuscaloosa, Ala, Jan. 22.-The most
disastrous cyclone that ever swept over
this section visited Moundville, Ala,
town OF 300 inhabitants, fifteen mles
south OF Tuscaloosa this morning at one
o'clock, and as a result thirty-seven per
sons were killed and more than one hun
dred 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
az it made It's path quarter OF a mile
wide through the town. The following
in a partial list Of the white persons who
were killed:
f. p. SEYMOUR, of Nashville, Tenn,
who accepted his position az operator at
the railroad station last evening
A. II. WARREN, of Birmingham, EN-.
ployed by the Alabama Grocery Com
pany. 49,
]. II. REDMOND, superintendent
pumping station, from Nashville.
ROBERT POWERS, Of Tuscaloosa.
MISS NETT1E FARLEY.
The negro dead are:
w. ". MILES, wife and six children.
ALBERT HoLsToN, wife and three
children.
Fourteen other negroes, yet unidenti-
fed
The following is partial list OF the sc.
riously wounded: Mrs. w A. Grubbs,
of Kentucky, disiocated hip; r. L. Grit
fin, sprained back: Mrs. r. L. Griffin,
arm broken: Lee Griffin, badly bruised;
A. B. Griffin, eyes town out; Mrs. Far
ley face cut and ankle broken; Mr..
Galley, badly cut: Mrs. Galley, badly cut:
Mrs. r. T. Galley, badly lacerated; Mr..
Farley, blinded: A. p. Taylor, leg brok-
en-; Mrs. McCaney, chest crushed.
The names OF the injured negroes have
not yet been procured.
Surgeons were rushed to Moundvillc
from Greensboro. and Tuscaloosa and all
possible was done to alleviate the sui
ferings of the injured.
BY the force Of the storm persons were
blown hundreds of feet from their beds
ia the blackness OF night. Through ter
ror. "A father, mother and three children
fled from their home TO seek refuge and
In their excitement left fve-year-olf boy
In bed. This morning he was pulled from
beneath some timber and thus tar II is
has been impossible to find any other
member OF the family.
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 X. l.. Griffin. A. w. Virgins & Son,
W. J. Domlnck, A. d. Griffin and w. 3
Phifer. together with their stocks. were
completely destroyed. Where they stood
/. 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 fraG.
monts of lint together with the debris
lodging in trees making it appear as Ii
that section had been visited by a snow
storm. Heavy iron safes were carried By
the storm. Che doors OF which were torn
from their hinges.
A young clerk employed by w p. Phi
fer. hearing the terrible roaring of the
approaching cyclone, let himseIi down
into a well In the center Of the store. lie
had no sooner found his place OF safety
when the store was completely demol.
ished. This morning he was drawn out
uninjured.