The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-02
'BRUNDIDGE
 RUSHES TO AID MuchSuffering by Storm in Pike.
 QUICK RELIEF IS SENT Money and Provisions Hurried to Distressed. Damage Left in Path of the Cyclone Not Exasgerated-Many Farmers Were Left In Needy Condition.

Brundidge, May 1-(Special.) )--Just as soon as the people of Brundidge learned of the destruction of property and suffering of their neighbors in tho section swept Thursday morning by the cyclone which tore homes into matchwood and scattered the frAg- ments of household effects in It's path of destruction for miles. plans were begun to relieve the suffering and pro- vide the needs of the storm victims. Fox French. . prominent resident cotton buyer of this city, started with petition and soon secured &iSs66. He says not . person to whom 1t was presented hesitated. and that the l amounts subscribed were entirely voi- untary.
 Women Visit Sufferers. This morning a committee of women | composed of Mrs. A. W. Brazil and Mrs. J. B. Collier and E. A. Butler. assisted by Mrs. W. R. Pierson. Mrs. | J. A. McEachern and Miss Willie Pier son, went to the stricken section to | ascertain what was needed by the suf- ferers. They returned this afternoon | and the money collected will be used | to purchase these needs, which will be | sent to the unfortunate ones at once. | Numbers of them had everything de-
  | and their condition appealed to the | sympathies of the people of this city. 1 The most seriously injured ones were I members of Josiah Jsckson's family. | one of his sons is not expected to live. His skull was crushed, ana though still alive. his condition ia
 other members of Mr. Jaekson'a | family were seriously injured, Mra4 l Jackson being among the ones wno re- | ceived dangerous wounds
 The storm was not without its | freaks, and many strange tneiaents come to light as the stricken section ts visited.
 If is said that Jsra1d Johnson's shos l wun was found more than a quarter Of . mile from tha spot where his 1 spIendid new home had been swept broken in haif The eight ny een aheh silis of his house were twisted and broken into kindltng. A door was Il found in a field with the key in the l locFa uniniured 4 door knob was found at a spot far from the site oi the house, and many other incidents that would seem almost incredible ars told by those who have viewed kns path of the storm.
 Damage to . Church.
 IT Ia learned that the Friendship 1 Methodist Church, about two or threa miles from this city. was badly shaken and twisted on Its ptHoWb. Anla church belongs to the Brundidge Clr. cult. Rev. IT. c. rhreadgiil. of this city' being the pastor.
 So far as can be learned there was m insurance whatever covering tns great loss sustained by the people n this great storm. and some of them are | homeless, without clothes or house furnishings of any sort. besldes tne torture of the many cuts and bruises
 infiicted on their persons by nysn9
 fimbers, and the great anxiety eaen l feels for the other members OF nis own and neighbors' families. Everything possible for the comforl and convenience of the unfortun@t. ones, will be done by the people 2. ? BrundJRe. whose syvnpsthy IS peine exnressed in dollars and cents. or ita eouivalent, and presented to the sut'
 ferers. .
 Since the storm the temperature mas haen very low, and this morning wa
 ss clear and crisp as winter, but u ls
 not thought that it was severe enousn
 to do any damage. .,
 Those in the storrn-swept secuon
 who escaped uninjured are busy clear ing the rubbish and assisting tneiI
 neighbors who were more unforIunate Mrs. H. A. Norton, Miss Alice Waterl and others have been busy today max ing garments for the sufferers