The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-29
Money, Medicines, Pro-
 visions and Clothes.
coNvIcTs AID IN WORK
New Orleans Relief Committee
 Doing Much Good.
Principal Efforts are Now Being pi- rectea Toward the Removal ef
 Debris and Improvement of
 Sanitary Conditions.

New Orleans. April 2s.--With gen. erous contributions coming in rapidly, including money, medicine. provisions and clothing, the committee formed in New Orleans to lend aid to the tornado sufferers in Louisiana and Mississipp., is now busy giving relief.
 Solid car loads of provisions and clothing are leaving New Orleans for Amite. La. Purvis, Miss, and other places that suffered the most in the tornado, and aid in many ways is also being given other places not so con- spicuous in the list of fatalities.
 At Purvis. Miss, the principal efforts are now being directed toward the re- moval of debris and the improvement of the sanitary condition of the tornado swept towns. All of the city convicts at Hattiesburg. as well as at other places, are being taken to Purvis today to aid in this work.
 Another prominent feature of the re- lief work at Purvis is the supplying Of cook stoves to families. the storm suf- ferers having been without stoves ever since their homes were either badly damaged or totally wrecked.
 Provisions are arriving at Purvis on every train but without stoves those to whom the provisions were distributed were badly handicapped in the prepa- ration of their food. Tn many instances the committees have had to rush their T suffering. News came in from Odell. in Marion County, Mississippi, that twenty-ilve negro families were abso- lutely destitute, with their homes de- stroyed and all live stock killed. Pro- visions and clothing were immediately rushed to them.
 Insfructions were given to hold most of the money contributions. of which there is now in sight between $2b,O00 and $50 900, until investigation showed how best to aid in the rebuilding.
 Purvis, Miss. the most needy of all the stricken communities. furnfshed striking example of business pluck to- day, when the bank of Purvis reopen ed There was no roof over the bank ing rooms the safety deposit vault was accessfhle by path through hedge Of debris. militia guarded the build- ing, and of the z.50o residents of Pur- wis scarcely 500 remained in town, but nevertheless the bank announced that 1t was prepared to pay out money and to receive deposits.
 Preparations for accepting relief of fered by the Federal government went forward rapidly under direction of the governors of the devastated States.
 Fourfeen More Deaths.
 Hot Springs, Ark, April 2S.-Four- teen more deaths were added to the list of victims of last Thursdays cyclones by, news which reached Hot Springs from the territory west of the ctty.
 With this belt of territory forty miles west. there Is no wire connec- tion. and impossible roads prevented the news coming sooner. Four of the VIctims were white, and the remainder negroes. There seems to have been three cyclone belts. Millions of feet of timber were destroyed. the finest tim Der land in the South of hard and soft woods lying in the paths of the tor nadoes.
 An old white man named Vanderven- ter and two women, who lived at his home, were killed outright at Peak postofiics, twenty miles from here; an aged white man named Page was kill ed at Ashley. two negro families com posed of ten members. were complete ly wiped eff the earth.
 There Is great suffering from lack oi food and shelter among the survivors scores having been more or less seri- ousIy injured. The residences of Green Houton and Bob Menzer. within ten miles of the city. were blown away with all outbuildlngs and fences. but tho inmates escaped death.