The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-23
TOWN OF MOUNDVILLE
 M WIPED OUT BY CYCLONE
Killed and More Than Hundred Injured---Be- tween Hours of Midnight and One O'clock
 Terrible Wind Strikes the Village

Tuscaloosa. Jan. 22.-tspecial.)-The most disastrous cyclone that ever swept over this section visited Moundville. Ala, a town of 300 inha bitants, fifteen miles south of Tuscaloosa, this morning at 1 o'clock and as a result thirty-seven per- sons were killed and more than 100 in- jured, and every business house with the exception of a small drug store, was de- stroyed.
 The cyclone struck the city from the southwest. dealing death and destruction as 1t made its path through the town. Where once stood the business portion of the town the depot and the dwellings. there are to be found scores of mangled cattle. hogs. horses and suffering human l ity. So horrible is the scene that It Is impossible to describe the suffering and destruction. Persons were blown hum dreds of feet from their beds in the black ness of the night
 Path Through c Forest. | Through terror a father. mother and three children fled from their home to seek refuge and in their excitement left a 5-year-old boy in bed. This morning he was pulled from beneath some tim bers, and thus far 1t Is impossible for any other member of the family to be found. Bedding, carpets and wearing apparel are scattered distance of ten miles through what was a forest but which is now as clear as if 1t had been cut by the wood mans ax.
 Freight cars were torn to splinters. the trucks from them being hurled many feet from the track. The depot, the hotel, warehouses, gins, thirty homes. the store houses occupied by R. L. Grimm. A. W. Wiggins and Son. W. J. Dominick. A. D. Grifan, J. R. Dominick, R: L. Grimm and W. P. Phifer. together with their stocks, were destroyed. Where they stood it Is impossible to find even the pillars upon which these structures rested. Bales of cotton which were stored in warehouses were torn to pieces, the fragments of lint lodging in trees makIng, 1t appear as if that section had been visited by a. snow storm. Heavy, iron safes were carried by the mighty storm ths heavy doors of which were torn from .Eheir hinges. Today many homeless persons. husbands without wives. wives without husbands, children without parents all without food or ralment, are wringing their hands in helpless despair.
 Clerk Got Into Well. A young clerk. employed by W. P. Phifer, hearing the terrible roaring of the approaching cyclone, let himself down in- to a well in the centre of the store. He had not more than found his place of safety when the store was completely de- molished. This morning he was drawn out and is well and sound. The following is a hst of the white per- sons who were killed: E. P. Seymour of Nashville, Tenn. who accepted his position as operator at the railroad station last evening: A. H. Warren of Montgomery, employed by the Alabama Grocery Com pany of Birmingham; J. H. Redmond, superintendent of the pumping station. from Nashville; Robert Powers of Tusca- loosa. and Miss Nettie Farley. The negro dead are: W. N. Miles, wife and six children: Albert Holston, wife and three children; IkeIIolston, wife and three children; fourteen other negroes yet un- | identified
 The following is a partial list of the
 
 Kentucky. dlslocated hips, R. L. Griffin, sprained back: Mrs. R. L. Griffin, arm broken; Lee Griffin, badly bruised: A. E. Grimm, eyes torn out; Mrs. Farley, face cut and ankles broken; Mrs. Galley. badly cut; Mrs. E. T. Galley, badly cut; Mir. Farley, blinded; A B. Taylor. leg broken; | Syd Davis, hip broken; Mrs. McCaney, chest crushed. The names of the injured negroes have not vet been procured.
 Surgeons were rushed to Moundville from Greensboro and Tuscslosa. and all possible was done to alleviate the suffer- ngs of the injured.
 1 Among the whites dangerously injured | are: George Gaily, face; Archie Grimm, face; A. s. Thompson. J. wiggins. bruis- ed; Tom Cody, Walter Cody, Mrs. o. Cody. Annie Cody.
 Subscription for the needy has been started in Tuscaloosa and Eutsw. The town of Hull. four miles north of Moundville. suffered also fro mthe cy- clone last evening. The Bates Lumber l Company's blaming department was com was crushed. Four residences and one church were also demolished.
 The Work of Relief. ] The few remaining homes left in the 1 doomed town of Moundvtlle have been l turned into hospitals and many physi- clans are on the spot. doing all fin their power to alleviate the pain and suffer | ing.
 Hundreds of persons through the county 1 are visiting the scene of destruction, and those more fortunate than the stricken neighbors are dividing food and raiment. | Guards have been stationed throuRhout the stricken section and numbers of hands are busily engaged tearing away the de- brls in search of the missing.
 On account of all business houses being ] destroyed, 1t is with dIfnculty that the dead are being cared for.
 Thus far funeral arrangements have not ben made. Fl. N Eddins. ST0R,v ryp0IF C1zorsrNrsuop0