The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24
DESOLATION WHERE STOOD
 THE TOWN OF MOUNDVILLE

salesman for Alabama Grocery Company l in Birmingham. '.~' '~s E. P. Seymore, Nashville. night oper- ator at Moundville for Alabama Great | Southern railroad. s
 , J. H. Redmond, Dayton. Tenn, super intendent of water tanks on Alabama Great Southern railroad. -r. Robert Powers, aged 19. of Tuscaloosa. Miss Nettie Farley, aged 21. of Mound: vile. s Colored. ...'. Thirty-two dead up to 6 p. m. last evening, among those identified being the following:
 Albert Holstein, wife and one child. Mary Myers and six children. .., Kate Moody, aged 9 years
 William Beale, aged 25 years. Isabella Holstein. Three children of Louis Odom. Two children of Winnie Bishop.
 Baby of Ike Holsten. >'''+ ... The following is a list of injured care fully compiled. though t is possible number'were overlooksd:' -. s'':
 Whites-Dangsrously! Mrs. Keziah Far ley, left side and chest bruised; Mrs. w., A Grpbbs. face badly bruised, body hurt; Sid Davis, face hurt and piece timber through his leg; A. B. Taylor, leg broken and chest injured: Mrs. Mary Mo Kenney. back injured; Jack Grimm; in- tcrnal injuries; John Wiggins. bruised body. s} D.. sf 7 v More. Or less seriously injured: R...L. Griffin. wife and son; I. T. Farley, Wall ter GeddieA and wife; J. l.. Thompson. agent for railroad; A. D. Grimm, Annie Gcddie. | Isaac T: iGeddie, (dwarf):' Mrs. M. U. Geddie, R W. Geddie. J. E. Ged- die, g. w. Geddie. -.- l, Colored d--Dangerously injured: Pete Bishop and wife Vinie: William Myers, Ike Holsten. Lemon Cooper. leg after wards smputatcd; Oracle Davis, arm -af- rewards smpatated; Louis Odom. head and feet badly crushed: Annie Calhoun. years old, skull fractured; Addie Cal houn, arm broken and skull injured; FL bert .odom, aged 8, stick through leg, body bruised. ~ More or less seriously injured: John Jones, side of head bruised; Fayette FL liott head hurt; Mary F'lannigan, aged G. head furt; Gus Dixon, head hur Katie Nevills, side hurt; Thomas Nevills, side hurt; Love Holsten, aged IS. head hurt; Frank Odom. aged g. head hurt; Mary Odom, body bruised, leg broken: Virgus Calhoun. aged 2. head and face | hurt; Johnny Odom. side hurt; Pinkie Alice Odom, side hurt; Violet Harris, body bruised; Collier Lewis, arms and | feet hurt: Solaee Lewis, arms hurt; AL bert Lewis, head hurt; F. H. Harris, side and face hurt; Will Cooper, body hurt Joe Moss. legs broken; Tom Robinson, arms and back hurt. Total dead: Whites, 5; negroes, g.
 Injured: Whites, q: negroes, 31.
 score of others, white and black were hurt, but names could not be obtained.
 That the storm was cyclone is not doubted. One or two people who saw it
 say that it was big ball. brilliantly lighted up. full of phosphorous. It was noisy and twirliug. It came from a southwesterly direction and swooped l down on the business portion of Mound. vile. Near by were many cabins oceu. pied by negroes. while close to the rail.
 road track was the Griffin hotel and res. idences of white people. The cyclone last
 ed but few minutes but everything ir
 front of it. wept down as If chaff.
 Moundville is located seventy miles
 south of Birmingham on the Alabams
 Great Southern Railroad and in Hale
 county. Its population was about 300 Al | this point there was water tank anC
 depot with good sized warehouse attach ed Justback of the depot were sey
 eral business houses in cluster ana T "NhS NuC negro .CdDIllS. ACTOQl
 a street which runs through the plac,
 was the hotel, one-story structure
 facing the railroad track and a nunnbe,
 or small residences. All around the place
 were small houses coupled by negroes quarter of mile up the road was the
 large general merchandise store of Fl.
 Ilott X O.. who are large cotton buyers
 lnis ana one other are the only mercan.
 tile establishments left in the place.
 | It IS estimated that the property loss
 by the cyclone will amount to not less
 than SI0,oOO, on which there is practically
 no insurance. The Alabama Great South.
 ern Railroad lost their water tank. depot
 and warehouse. with contents and seven
 railroad cars some of which were well
 ladened. this freight either being lost en.
 tirely or very badly damaged.
 Thursday night was rainy and light.
 ming flashed considerably. There was some wind earlier in the evening, but
 when the lights in the various houses and the hotel were put out there was not the least anticipation of a storm. The oper- ator, E. P. Seymore of Nashville, who had but arrived in the place Thursday, was busy at his instruments, when he noticed the winds growing. It was short ly after midnight that the loud sounding cyclone struck the place. It was all over
 
 in torrents. People who went through the awful experience could not find words to express the feeling. Men. women and children, both white and black were hurl- ed around. some carried 20O yards away, while others were covered with falling debris from their own or neighbors' houses. It was a general mixup The several stores which were in a cluster near the depot went down easily San ders Ford. who worked in one of the stores and slept there. heard the storm coming and ne went to cellar. but be- l fore he could reach there the store vert down. Fortunately he was not struck by the debris. and he lives. to tell the l tale. The big water tank of the railroad Was completely demolished, the water spilled some little distance away. The | depot was picked up and smashed to 1 pieces across the railroad track. The | operator was horribly bruised. being car
 ricd hundred yards across the tracks The store houses of R. L. Griffin, W 1 P. Fifer, A. D. Griffin. W. J. Wiggins & 1 Sons. ". J. Dominick and J. H. Dominlck
 were struck and all !eveled and their con | tents scattered fin all directions. The l Griffin hotel. one story structure, was l hattened out A. II. Warren, the travel l ing salesman for the Alabama Grocery | Company, occupied room over the front with travelling salesman for Louls- vile vinegar company, J. H. Altmyer,
 who told of his experience yesterday
 The latter in some manner escaped, but
 Warren never got of his bed and was
 found dead. apparently smothered
 J. H. Redmond, the superintendent ot raNA NfrR