The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-02-09
LOSS OF LIFE
A Death Dealing Tornado lD
South Central States.
MANY TOWNS HlT
The Storm Was Accompanied by

The Storm Was Accompanied by
Rain, Hail, Lightning and Impen-
etrable Darkness-In Addition to
the Lives Lost, There Was Great
Destruction Of Property.
Louisville, KY, Feb. 5.-Death for
probably a score of persons, loss of
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
property and the crippling of many
telegraph wires resulted between
noon and dusk today from series
Of small tornadoes which swept the
south central States from the Ter,
nessee line to the Texas Panhandle.
The storms were accompanied in
most cases by hail, darkness, terrific
lightning flashes and sheets Of rain.
Most of the towns where loss Of
life occurred are off the railroads.
so that news from them has been
coming in slowly. Known casualties
are:
Stuttgart, Ark.-Mrs. Garfield and
child of Will Story is reported fat
ally injured.
Sulphur Springs, Texas-Mrs. C.
Caldwell, from Rolling Fork, Miss.
Just before the telephone wires broke
word came that four had been kill
| ed.
Booth, Miss, reported to Brirming-
ham, Ala, that six had meet death
there.
In other towns such as Ennies and
Waxahachie, Texas, and Boscoe, La,
many dwellings are said to have been
demolished by the wind.
Arkansas and upper Louisiana rice
fields were injured to the extent of
many thousands of dollars, while
|, the larger cities experienced rains
and darkness and lightning bolts
that made large buildings culver.
At Chattanooga there was ter
rifle storm of hail.
Houses Blown Down.
Huntsville, Ala, Feb. 5.-The
third destructive cyclone to pass ov-
er this community in the past score
of years came this afternoon and
left trail of death.
The home Of George Stewart,
seven miles east Of here was totally
| destroyed. 'His-two-days-old child
was blown half mile and killed.
His two-year-old child was blown in
to a CRATE and probably fatally BURR
ed. Mrs. Stewart was caught Under
some rafters in the house and SO
badly injured that she will die. Mrs.
Tom Bowner and child who were in
the house were fatally hurt.
Among the homes destroyed are
the following:
C. ]. Whitaker's house, four in
jured.
Tom Hughes house blown down.
Mort Grimes house blown down
and Mrs. Grimes injured.
llfCu Will IAiS
Grimes, badly injured.
Many horses were killed and barns
and their contents scattered by the
winds.
Seven People Killed.
Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 5.-Maycr
George H. Brier, Of Cullman, Ala.s
said that seven people. are known
to have been killed in that county
this afternoon by the cyclone which
passed over this section of the State
but that wire communication is i'm
possible with the stricken locality.
At Kayosa, a mining camp west
OF Birmingham, on the Southern
railway, today five houses were
blown down, but only one man was
injured, Mr.. Logan.
The property loss in the territory
north of Birmingham appears to have
been very large. Numerous trees
were bolwn down on Red Mountain
within a mile Of the corporate linn
it's Of Birmingham. Telephone COM
munication to the north is impos-
sible tonight.
Three Negroes Killed.
Montgomery, Ala, Feb. 5.-The
residence of Mr.. Stone was damaged,
the wind carrying away the roof and
a portion of the porch; the residence
of a Mrs. Herbert suffered damage,
the roof and chimneys topping in
the gale. Six or eight negroe cab
ins on the Stone plantation were de-
stroyed and the inmates who had
gathered in the houses during the
storm were buried in the debris.
Sixteen negroes were more or less
severely injured and three crushed
to death.
Two Killed in Arkansas.
Brinkley. Ark, Feb. 5.-Two per-
sons were killed and third fatally
injured in a tornado which struck
Stuttgart today. The tornado car
ried away one residence and five
barns. The residence destroyed was
that of Will Shorr. His wife and
child were crushed by the falling
timbers. The storm did extensive
damage to the rice fields.