The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-09

white and negroes. who are deprived by the storm of sustenance and means of 8 living W. N. Cox is in charge of the collection.
 Forty negFoes residing near the nine mile post Of the Wire Road. and on the plantation of Ben Stone, lost. with the destruction of their homes, every vestfge of their property. A months rations had just been doled out 10 the Stone tenants; the food was lost. Clothes. every garment possessed by the negroes. was destroyed in the storm. The houses were liter&lly rent to aplinters. and one or two picked up, bodily in /the tierceI gale and carried over 100 yards
 Two negroes were killed outright, Emmie Franklin and Charlie Turner, one other will die, Shirley Payne, Tildy Patterson, negress, incurred the frac- ture of both legs. heavy bit of ma chinery, wrenched from a manure spreader, crashing throufih her house and striking her with fearful force.
 Practically every other negro on the place. relates Mir. Ben Stone, who was In Montgomery yesterday, is injured in some way. with a 1imb1 broken, or many cuts and bruises, and even. in two instances, with the sight of the eyes gone.
 And with ali the physical injury. there comes the loss of food and cloth ing. Mir Stone, iAs landlord. himself lost almost every particle of his house. hold furniture, much of his farming implements, and all of his stock of pro- visions, and is in no position himself to render assistance. On the contrary, Mir Stone himself is placed in sore straits by the loss incurred by the storm.
 Mr. Stone. who was in Montgomery, tells of the Joss of every article which he had bought. necessary to prepare of narrow escapes of himself and his family, ,-Uf death or injury in the storm.
 Narrow Escapes.
 Mr. Stone relates that his residence, which was partially demolished, was luckily not in the full path of the storm. only one edge struck the dwell ing, tearing away the tin roof, the The household articles were ruined. as the heavy rain. following the wind, poured in torrents through the open ing made by the loss of the roof. ;,
 His wife and daughter, he narrates, had. upon seeing the storm approach ing. Ievelling trees and cabins before it, made a, run. for the carriage house. just behind the dwelling. As they gained within foot of the out house the wind. suddenly veering, struck. 1t, toppling the structure, and rending 1t to splinters. At the same time a heavy tree, borne by the storm. struck the carriage house in such a po- sltion as would have inevitably brought death. to the two women had they been inside.
 MT, Stone tells that heavy manure spreader. which 7 he had but lately bought, was smashed to an irremedi- able mass by the force of the wind. The spreader, although weighing 1,20Q pounds. was bent and twisted and broken into scrap iron. more effectivek ly than could have been done with q, sledge hammer.in the hands of black smith.
 The tornado, or miniature cyclone. for such 1t was in scope, though full fiedged in power. passed to the south- east from his house, says MT. Stone, carrying with 1t trees and fences and small houses. Everything In its path was IevelIed to the ground. until with It's passage 1t left wide path. It 1eaped across a hollow near his place, striking again at the opposite eieva- tion. Then. In about a mile. it evi- dently lifted, as no further trace of the cyclone could be found. though a heavy wind prevailed throughout the county.
 Much Suffering Evident.
 And with It's advent and passage, some forty Or fifty residents of the county are deprived entirely of their personal property, and a good bit of their real estate. It is such suffering as was hardly ever before experienced in a single community of the county, as Is felt.
 Not only was the force of the blow confined to the proximity of the stone plantation. The residence of Mrs. Her bert, nearby. was damaged consider ably, to the extent of a lifted roof. broken chimneys and porch, and with inc loss of much of the household fur niture. Both the Stone and Herbert families, or those that lived in the