The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-01-23
Town of Moundville, Ala, Swept
Away ~ 4 Terrific
Cyclone.
THlRTY.sEvEN ARE RI. KILLED. q |. |. { {:
More Than a Hundred Others
Injured and Every Build
ing Demolished. @
4 (By A,s,goc!ated Press.)

1 TuSCALOOSA,AI4A. Jan. q. 1.-The m ost@
f5disa strous cyclone that ever sw ept over!
this section, visited Moundvilie. Ala. q
town Of three hundred Inhabitants. fIf-
teen miles south of Tuscaloosa, this
morning att o'clock, and as a result
,thirty-seven persons were killed and
more than one hundred injured, and
every business house, with the excep-
.tior OF "a small drug store, completely
destroyed. n HI
ts,The cyclone struck the city from the
southwest, dealing death and destruction
"a $ it made its path, a quarter Of mile
wide, through the town.
The following is a list Of the white
persons who were killed:
f. p. SEYMOUR, of Nashville, Tenn,
who accepted his position as operator at
the RAILROAD station last evening,
/ All. WARREN, OF Birmingham. en-
ployed by the Alabama Grocery Com Com
rany.
]. II. REDMOND, superintendent
pumping station. from Nashville.
ROBERT POWERS, OF Tuscaloosa.
MISS NETTID FARLEY.
Tho negroes dead are:
". N. MILES, wife and six children,
ALBERT IIOLsTON, wife and three
IKE IKE MoLsToN. wife and three chill
dren.
fled.
The following is q partial list OF the
seriously wounded:
Mrs w. a. Grubbs. OF kentueKy' as iH
located h!p.5g
Mrs R. L. Griffin, arm broken.
X, Lee Griffin. badly bruised.
L a. b. Griffin, eyes torn out.
Mrs Farley, face cut and ankle broken.
Mr.. Galley, badly cut. a
Mrs Galley, badly cut "a
Mrs, i. IT. Galley. badly lacerated,
Mr.. Farley. blinded. 4,
A. B. Taylor, leg broken.
Mrs, McCaney, chest crushed.
rho names of the Injured negroes nave
not yet bcen procured.
surreons were rushed to- MoundVllle
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, hho az
,,nssibla WAS done to alleviate the sui
ierings of the injured.
BLOWN FROM BED.
Ey4thc fOrCe OF thc SUM PS'n y,
,1nwn hundreds of feet from their beds
~ tba h1nckness of night. Through ter
ror n father. mother and three chlldren
rlad from their home to seek refuge. ana
~ ,ho,r5 excitement left q flye-year.olu
hov IN bed. This morning he was pul!eu
from beneath some timber ana thus lut
- ha 'heeu impossible to filld any other
member Of the FANNY
Bedding, carpets and wearing apptre1
arc scattered a distance OF ten mlles
throurh what was-n forest. but Whlch IS
Mnu, ns c;,nr as II 1t had been cut py tno
Treyght cars were torn to spllnters, the
trucks from them being hurled huhdreas
of feet from the track. -,,,.
The depot, the hotel, warehouses, gins,
thirty homes. tho storehousss oeeupleu
by r. L. Griffin, a. Ylggims ana
Son, w. j. Domenlck, a, =. utls'll. NV
,w'','p Phifer, together with their stocks,
r@,ero @ completely destroyed, Where they
stood It is impossible to find evsn tho
nillars upon which these structures
rested. .ar,a ~
warehouses, were torn to atoms, me
fragments OF lint, together VIII ths de-
hris lodging in trees making 1t appear
90 e. hat section had been visited by a
snow storm, Heavy iron. safes were
carried ,by the storm, tho doors OF which
we're torn from their hinges.
young clerk employed py ", :.
Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring OF
! tha approaching cyclone, let himself down
Into a we'll In the center OF @, me store,
He had no sooner found his place OF
SAFETY than the store was completely de-
n,olIshed. This morning he - drawn
h sad. ssI a4