The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
CYCLONE WAS IF
 VIOLENT NATURE Little Town of Alvin Is Entire
 ly Destroyed ONE PERSON IS KILLED Two Are Injured and One of These It Is Thought May Die-Frenks of the Terrible Storm-The General
 News of Selma
ONE PERSON IS KILLED


 dead and two fatally injured and dy- ing as the result of the cyclone which struck Alvin. a small village in the southeastern corner of Wilcox coun ty. Saturday afternoon about o'clock. The dead is a negro, who was driv- ing into the village when the cyclone struck there. and who was killed by a piece of flying debris. One of the injured and who is dying is Dan Ford, a white man. The other is a negro whose name is not known. More than a score of the inhabitants of Alvin were injured during the storm, but their injuries are not of serious na- ture.
 As was first reported here Saturday night. Alvin was blown off the map by the cyclone which struck it. The village contained about 15 houses, sev- eral stores. two or three churches and q school house before the cyclone struck it. Today at Alvin there re- mains standing only one house and it is so badly damaged that it is con sidered unsafe to live in.
 Many heads of live stock and hund- reds of fowls were also killed by the winds. Despite the heavy loss which they have suffered the inhabitants of Alvin are recovering and this morning began preparations for the rebuilding of their homes.
 Reports received here this morning from Alvin are to the effect that the cyclone was a most terrific one and the marvel is that more lives were not lost. In many instances homes were picked up by the winds and carried many feet before they were dashed to pieces on the ground. Furniture from some of the homes has been found miles away from where the home stood before the cyclone.
 One of the freaks of the cyclone re- ported here this morning was the pick ing up of Fred Breaghthaupt, a 15- year-old white boy, and carrying him a distance of 300 feet. when he was set down in the ruins of home which suffered little from his treatment by the winds the only injury he received being q gasi. .n his head, which he received as he hit rainst piece of the ruins of the house in which he was deposited by the cyclone.
 In another house in another part of the village when the cyclone struck there were F little children. Before they could get out the house was blown down, but only two or three of these children received slight scratches as stray pieces of timber flew about them.
 This morning the authorities of Will cox county put a force of about 800 men to work around Alvin clearing up the debris and working on the road leading into the village which was practically wiped away. These men will be kept at work there for sev- eral days until things have been strengthened up.
 Reports from Pineville. Monroe coun- ty. which was also struck by the same cyclone which wiped out Alvin, confirms the report of Saturday night which was that several houses and a church there had been blown down and that two negroes were injured though not seri- ously. The force of the cyclone was spent when Pineville was touched by 1t or otherwise the damage there might have been much greater.
 News of a cyclone of small pro- portion which visited 6 section in the southern part of Dallas county Sat urday afternoon was also learned here today. This cyclone struck a part of the plantation of J. T. Bradford, near Portland. and tore down 12 negro cab ins. Nearly every cabin on the planta- ton was blown down but no one was seriously injured.