Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-01-29
LIVES LOST BY FLOOD
fhirty.Seven Killed and Many Hurt in
Tornado.
an ALABAMA TOWN IS WRECKED.
10 the Middle of the Night the Storm Sweeps
Through svle-PeopIe Crushed to
Death In The Ruins Of Their Hemss-Depot
and Hotel Desroyed-Freight Cars B'owa
From the Tracks

Tuscaloosa, Ala. Especially 1.-The
most disastrous cyclone that ever swept
over this section visited Moundville,
Ala, town OF 900 inhabitants, IS
miles south of Tuscaloosa, at o'clock
a. m.
Twenty persons were killed and
more than 100 injured. Every business
house in the town except small drug
store was destroyed.
The cyclone struck the town from
the southwest. Its path was a quar-
ter Of mile wide.
Following is list Of the white per-
sons who were killed.
z. P. Seymour, of Nashville, Ienn.'
who accepted a position as telegraph
operator at the railroad station only
last evening.
A. H. Warren, OF Birmingham, en-
ployed by the Alabama Grocery Com
pany.
7. H. Redmond, OF Nashville.
Robert Powers, OF Tuscaloosa.
Miss Nettie Farley, OF Tuscaloosa.
The negro dead are:
w. N. Miles, wife and six children.
Albert Holstein, wife and three chill
dren.
Isaac Holstein, wife and three chill
dren.
Five other negroes yet unidentified.
The following is partial list OF
the seriously injured
Mrs. w. A. .Grubbs OF Kentucky,
dislocated hip.
R. T. Griffin, sprained back;
Mrs. R. T. Griffin. arm broken.
Lee Griffin, badly bruised.
A. B. Griffin, eyes torn out
Mr.. Farley, blinded.
Mrs. Farley, face cut and ankle
broken.
Mrs. F. T. Galley, badly lacerated.
A. B. Taylor, leg broken
Mrs. McCaney, breast crushed.
The names OF the injured negroes
have not yet been obtained. g.
Surgeons were rushed to MoundviIIe
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa.
By the force of the storm persons
were blown hundreds of feet from their
beds in the tlackness of night. Through
terror, a father. mother and three chill
dren fed from their home to seek ret
uge. and in their excitement LETT a s.
vear-old bow IN bed. In the morning he
was pulled from beneath some timber,
and thus far it is impossible to ind any
other member of the family.
Bedding, carpets and wearing ap-
parel are scattered for ten miles through
what was a forest, but is now as clear
as if it had been cut by the woodman S
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Freight cars were torn to spllnterS,
the trucks under them being hurled hun
dreds of feet from the track.
The depot, the hotel, warehouses, cot,
ton gins. 70 homes, the stores occupied
by R w. Griffin, A. W. Virgins & Son,
w T. Domenick. A. d. Griffin and W..
P. Phifer. together with their stocks,
were destroyed. Where they stood 1t
is impossible to find even the pillars on
which the buildings rested.
Z Bales of cotton stored in warehouses
were blown to atoms, the fragments Of
lint, together with the debris lodging in
the trees, making it appear as II the
section had been visited by SnowStorm
Heavy iron safes were carried away by
the storm and the doors torn from their
hinges. Wy y
Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring OF
The approaching cyclone, let himself
down into well in the center OF the
store, He no sooner had found his
place of safety than the store was de-
molished Later he was drawn out uil-
Injured