The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-23
THIRTY-SEVEN ARE DEAD
MORE THAN 100 INJURED
Nearly Half the Residents. of
Moundsville, Ala, Mangled
by a Tornado.
NIGHT SCENE OF TERROR
Storm Struck the Place While Peo-
pie Were Asleep and Blew
Them Out of Bed.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Jan. pa disas-
trous tornado swept over Moundville, Ala,
a town Of 800 inhabitants, fifteen miles
south of Tuscaloosa, early to-day, and as
result thirty-seven persons were killed
and more than one hundred injured. Every
business house. with the exception of a
small drug store. was completely destroyed.
The tornado struck the city from the
southwest and moved a path a quarter of
a mile wide through the town.
Following is a list of the white persons
killed:
Z. p. SEYMOUR, OF Nashville, Tenn.
who accepted his position as operator at
the railroad station last evening
A. NJ. WARREN, of Birmingham, en-
ployed by the Alabama Grocery Company.
]. II. REDMOND. superintendent of the
pumping station, formerly of Nashville,
Tenn.
ROBERT S. 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; other negroes unidentified.
Following is partial list of the seriously
injured whites: 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; Mr.. Galley, badly
cut; Mrs. Galley, badly cut; Mrs. +. T.
Galley, badly lacerated Mrs. Farley blind
ed; A. r. Taylor, leg broken; Mrs. Nc
Caney. chest crushed.
BLOWN FROM BEDS.
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 five-year-old boy in
bed To-day he was pulled from beneath
some timber and thus far it is impossible
TO find any other member of the family
Bedding, carpets and wearing apparel are
scattered for a distance of ten miles
through what was forest. but which
is now as clear as though cut by the
woOdman's AK.
Freight cars were torn to splinters, the
trucks from them being hurled hundreds
of feet from the track
The depot, the hotel, the warehouses
gins, thirty homes. the storehouses occu-
pied by II. l. Griffin, A. W. Virgins &
Son, j. w. Dominick. a. ID. Griffin ano
W. 4. Phiter, together with their stocks
were completely destroyed Where they
stood IL is impossible TO fud even the pill
lars upon which these structures rested
Bales of cotton, which were stored in
warehouses, were torn To atoms, the fras-
ments OF lint lodging in trees. making il
appear as though that section had beer
visited by snowstorm Heavy iron safes
the doors OF which in some instances were
torn from their hinges. were carried away
by the force of the wind
\ young clerk, employed by w. p Phffer
hearing the terrible rearing Of the storm
let himself into a we'll in the center OF the
store. He had no sooner found his place
of safety when the store was completely
demolished. He was drawn out uniniured