The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26

 Sizemore jewelry; Emmitts undertak- ing establishment; J. F. Hooper. bank kers the Albertville armory, and the Farmers Union warehouse being total Wrecks.
 The Albertville hotel, a large frame building, was almost detroyed. The Christian church was cut to the foun- dations, the steeple landing several hundred yards away The Butler Ne- ser oil mill lost takn containing 5000 worth of oil and several outhouses, smoke stacks and small implements. Fully 15o dwellings were completely demolished.
 However there was little weeping. The stricken kept heir hearts in check and the dawn was marked more by ex- clamations of joy as father, mother. sister and brother found their dear ones were not yet dead Ready hands found work to do. Company of Gadsden having arrived last night re- inforcing the company of the local or ganization, pickets were stationed throughout the ruins.
 The physicians, headed by Drs. Shipp and Luck, and aided by many from Gadsden, lighted upon the Seventh dis trict Agricultural school. which luckily was not in the path of the storm and turned iti nto a hospital. The patients were hurriedly carried there, placed upon the operating table and given all the attention possible. Whole families were carried in as fast as they could be taken from the ruins by the rescu- CTS who had worked all night
 B,ard of Aldermen Meets.
 The board of aldermen, in the ab- sence of the mayor from the city, held meeting and appointed J. E. Brown mayor pro-tem. A committee to have martial power was appointed as fol- lows: Rev. ]. R. Stodgill. pastor of the First Baptist church, chairman; Prof. J. B. Hobdy of the Agricultural school, secretary; Rev. J. K. Simpson. Hogan Jackson, l.. N. Hooper, A. C. Walker J. E. Brown, w. w. Curry, E. o. McCord and T. B. McNaron.
 This committee had a meeting in the bank building and appointed commit tees, one to serach for the dead, an- other to search for valuables, another to remove dead animals, another to care for the injured and another to provide homes for the homeless. This latter committee found that fully 800 will tonight be without place to lay their heads except for friendly assist ance.
 Words of encouragement came from Guntersville and Gadsden. Crowds poured in OF special trains and hundreds drove through the country. As the frightened inhabitants began to compose themselves the miracle of so many escapes became evident. In numbers of houses, although they were torn to splnters, not a person was harmed
 A MT. Williams said that the walls and roof of his house lifted up and went away in the air, leaving him standing in the middle of the floor. la, porch holding her sisters by the hand when the wind picked her up, blew her bodily through the hall, and as the walls began to fall in she said she felt herself being carried high in the air, wrapped tightly in a mattress. She became con- scious some 200 feet away without an in- jury.
 The home of John Decker was first de- molished, and the family carried along amid the battery of bricks and splinters and then thrown violently down, the wife and two children being killed, and there is little hope for MT. Decker and one of his other children.
 Outside GuntersviIle.
 About noon it was learned positively from Jim Kellet that the storm, passing through Whiten, 10 miles northeast, had killed the Rev. Delaney, Newt Slaton's mother-in-law and wounded the Slaton children as well as Jerome Burk. The saddest story of all was the death of J. l.. Dorsey's 5-year-old baby, picked up at their home two miles north and carried so far that it took hours to find it's dead body. It was also reported that Ben En- his was killed at Martling, but further than Morgan's Point nothing could be heard Toward the southeast the farm houses of will Dunnam, Mir. Hunter Mrs. Buchannon, Arthur Lol<ey Mark Amos and Hans Amos were reported demolished while many members of their families were injured
 A message received from High Mount is to the effect that w. w. Weaver and Dave Stanfield are dead. while at Horton it was rumored that four were killed, but this cannot be verified in Oneonta, four miles distant. Railroad communi- cation toward the north is stopped by