Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-06-12
DEATH RIDES STORM
TWenty-O One People Are Swept
]: Away in Flood
MUCH PROPERTY DESTROYED
Thousands of Acres of Growing Crops
Ruined - cioudburst Causes Big
Greek to submerge Gradyville and
Vicinity, Waters Leaping From
Greek Bed and Taking New Course
With Force Of a. Tidal Wave.

Louisville, KY, Special. Twenty
one persons dead, the village ,devasted
and several thousand acres of grow
crops ruined are the havoc wrought
by a clondburst that caused Big creek
to submerge Gradyville, KY, and Vi
cinity All the dead are residents Of
GradyEille.- and, althoueh-reports afe
meagre it is believed that no further
fatalities will be reported from the
surrounding country.
The dead:
MRS. L. C. NELL, wife of State
Senator, Nell.
FOUR CHILDREN of Senator and
Mrs. L. C. Nell.
MRS. LUMHILL.
ONE CHILD of Mrs. Lumhill.
MRS. CARL WIEMERE.
DAUGHTER OF Mrs. Wilmere.
GRANDDAUGHTER of Mrs. Viii
mere.
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SIX, CHILDREN of Mrs. Moss.
MRS. j. W. .KELTNER.
ONE CHILD of Mrs. Keltner.
MISS MARY MOSS.
The disaster was due to the erratic
behavior of Big Creek which was IL
ready swollen by recent rains. When
the cloudburst precipitated three
inches of rain in an hour on Grady
vile and vicinity the creek leaped
from its bed and took a new course
with the force of tidal wave.
Inhabitants of Gradyville we're
nearly all in bed when the foaming
waters struck the town, carrying
away six residences, a mill and a
large llumber.of small houses. Near
ly all the victims were drowned, but
four were crushed by the collapse Of
dwellings.
State Senator Nell, who is physi-
clan owes his escape from the fate
that overlook his family. to the fact
that he was several miles away i'll
the hills sitting up with a patieat.
When the news of the disaster reach
ed Columbia, KY, the nearest town Of
any size, several hundred ID htizens fde-s
parted for the scene with wrecking
appliances, food and clothing. All
the physicians available went along.
They found. the residents of the de-
wasted village dazed and helpless,
but by nightfalI all the relief possible
had been afforded. Several persons
were injured, but none of these will
die.
Gradyville is. a village of 175 ir-
habitants in Adair county, six miles
from Columbia and Is miles from :...,e
nearest railroad station.
Chicago, Special. Dispatches
from various places in Souther-- Hi
nois, Indiana and Kentucky tell of
severe storms of tornado severity
which have caused some loss of life
and the destruction of muchh prop
erty.
Early Saturday the town Of New
Minden, ILL.,, 25 miles southeast Of St.
Louis, was visited by tornado which
killed four persons and injured score
of others.
At Gradyville, cloudburst is said
to have caused the loss of from 10 TO
Is lives, and washed away eight resi-
dences.
At York. ILL.,, Saturday 25 or 50
houses were destroyed and a number
of people are said to have been killed.
Because of the loss of telegraph wires,
exact details are mot available.
The storm is said to have been es-
pecially severe in southern: Idiana and
at, Farmersburg and Sullivan much
damage was done by wind and rain.
Duquoin, ILL.,, was also visited at
night by the same storm that caused
the destruction at work. A number
of houses were blown down, but no
Eroc rprp lost