The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
.CONV|CTs AID
IN RECOVERING
BODIES OF DEAD
Governor Vardman ISM
Command and Martial
Law is Declared.
CHAOS REIGNS IN
WAKE OF CYCLONE
Legislature and Private Citizens
Rush With Purses and Persons
to Relief Of Meridian.
GREAT PROPERTY LOSS
BY STORM AND FIRE
Stricken City Had Always Con-
sidered Itself Tornado-Proof,
Yet sowashce Valley
Was Crossed BY a
Terrible Tenn
pest.
Legislature and Private Citizens
Rush With Purses and Persons
to Relief of Meridian.
GREAT PROPERTY LOSS
BY STORM AND FIRE.

tby Associated PrcSS.)
MERIDIAN. MISS. March 3.--Nincteen
people are ,hauwn to Lave been RiI,d
as Il result OF the tornado which swept
over "a section OF TINS city shortly after
six o'clock last evening. rwcnty-tuur
persons were injured and property with
an estimated value of one million dollars
WAS demolished or otherwise damaged.
Many sensational reports were sent out
from here of an appalling loss of life.
due probably to the chaotic conditions OF
affairs Immediately following the vista
ton of the storm. but ro-piEht after
careful canvass OF the situation, the fol-
lowing list OF dead appears TO be CONF
petite:
Causalties.
Whltes-B. r. ELMIRA, restaurant
proprietor.
PATRICK McGINNEsS, conductor on
Mobile and Ohio. killed at E,lmira S res
taurant.
CLIFF EDWARDS. fagn,nn Mobile
and Ohio. killed at Elmira's restaurant.
j. p. TARRY. policeman, killed in
Thorntoh's transfer s,ablcA
w. u. NELSON, killed in Thorntona
transfer stables.
MRS ELLA SINGLETON and iitils
granddaughter. killed in East End
JOHN p. SMITH, engineer, killed -
Elmira's restaurant.
MIR. STEWART and little son, of Cot-
tondalc.
Mrs SMITH. OF cottond.le.
CLAUDE WILLIAMS. bookkcsper.
Meyers Neville Hardware Company.
found in debris.
Negroes-Unknown negro man and lit.
tie child; charred remains found in
..Bucktown."
TOM BARNEY and child. killed at fer
tilizer factory.
Unknown negro woman. killed near
fertilizer factory.
CLARK. Georgetown.
DUNN. GEORGETOWN.
Injured-William Marlborough Brisbon.
La, slightly; w. Josephs. of Tennessee,
back hurt; Mrs. Stewart and daughter.
of Georgetown; Ben Sharkman, Il negro
express driver: T. II. Brown, chief clerk
ut Queen and Crescent depot. leg broken.
several ribs broken; T. Wildean. tele-
graph operator. Queen and Crescent
Railroad, shoulder crushed NJ. Good
win. express driver. leg broken: unknown
negro woman and child. William Dono-
van. slightly hurt; j. II. Adams. brake
man for the Frisco Railroad. collarbone
broken and bruised about body; negro
walter at Grand Avenue flotei, badly In
jured; Collier Carr. bruised on head and
body.
Relief for the Needy.
a mass-meeting of citizens of Meridian
mediatey subscribed to aid tho desti-
tute and injured. The Mississippi Legis-
lature. in session at Jackson, to-day APP
proprinted 5000 to the relief fund. Gov
ernor Vardaman at noon secured a spe-
cial train. and loading 1t with convicts
from the Rankin county farm. dispatched
1t at once to Meridian. The city now en-
joys the unique spectacle OF State con-
vcts aiding in the rescue work.
Hunter George. president of the Board
of Trade, was made chairman of the
General Relief Committee. and j. w.
Donovan was elected secretary Business
is practically suspended and every citl-
zen rs giving his best effort toward
alternating the suffering of many poor
people.
Approached With a Roar.
Tho tornado which played such fright
full havoc, appeared In the southwest at
6a7 o'clock last evening. A low, funnel
shaped cloud was seen to form near the
city. A heavy downpour of rain had been
falling. when suddenly the humidity be-
came intense. With a roar that could
be heard a great distance. the storm APP
preached from the southwest and de-
seconded upon tho city The greatest loss
OF life IS reported from the east end, in
what is known as the Cotton Mill" set.