The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-01-28
A CYCLONES FURY
Wipes An Alabama Town From Off
the Face of the Earth
TEIRTY.SEVEN KILLED OUTRIGHT
One Hundred Crippled and Very Much
Property Swept Away BY the Fury
of the Wind.

Tuscaloosa, Ala, Specialize most
disastrous cyclone that ever swept over
this section visited Moundville, Ala,
a town Of 300 inhabitants fifteen miles
south Of Tuscaloosa, Friday morning
at / o'clock, and as result thirty
seven persons were killed and more
than one hundred injured, and every
business house, with the exception OF
small drug store, completely de-
stroyed.
The cyclone struck the city from the
southwest, dealing death and destruc-
ton as it made it's path, a quarter OF
mile wide, through the town. The
following Is list Of the white persons
who were killed:
E. P. Seymour, Of Nashville, Tenn,
who accepted the position as operator
at the railroad station last evening;
A. H. 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. N. 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, disiocated 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 Moundville
from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and
all possible was done to alleviate the
sufferings Of the injured.
BY the force Of the storm persons
were blown hundreds Of feet from their
beds in the blackness Of night.
Through terror, father, mother and
three children fled from their home to
seek refuge and in their excitement
left 5-year-old boy in bed. This morn
ing he was pulled from beneath some
timber, and thus far it Is impossible
to find any other member Of the fam
lily.
Bedding. carpets and wearing appar-
e. are scattered distance Of ten miles
through what was a forest, but which
is now as clear as II It had been cut
by the woodman's axe.
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 R. L. Griffin, A. W. Wig
gins and Son. W. ]. Domenick, A. D.
Griffin and w. P. Phifer. together with
their stocks, were completely Destroy
ed. Where they stood, 1t 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
fragments Of lint together with the
debris, lodging in trees, making it. ap-
near as II that section had been visited
by snowstorm. Heavy iron safes were
carried by the storm, the doors OF
which were torn from their hinges.
A young clerk employed by W. 2.
Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring OF
the approaching cyclone, let himself
down into a we'll in the center OF the
store. He had no sooner found his
place OF safety than the store was COM
pletely demolished. This morning ne
was drawn out uninjured.