The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-13
Fdlldde9d Cyclone Does $1o5,OOO Damage But No
 Li0es Are Reported Lost
OSCAR UNDERWOOD
 ACTS AS BEST MAN
Attends Lund-Perry Nup- tials in the Bankhead
 Apartments
By WALTER HARPER

". Underwood acted as best man at the marriage of Mrs. Louise Bankhead Perry of Alabama to Arthur Graves Lund of Boston, at the Arlington hotel in Wash ,ngton this afternoon. The affair was one of the most brilliant events of the kind ever witnessed at this famous old hos telry. The Bankhead apartments were beautifully decorated with floral and other designs. The marriage was at tended by many of the most distinguished people in Washington social and public life.
 MT. and Mrs. Lund left tonight for old Point Comfort. where they will spend few weeks before proceeding to Boston. where they will make their future home. The bride is the daughter of Senator and Mrs Bankhead. There were many beau tiful and valuable presents.
 the east instead of the west, the dam age would have been untold as the trees would have been blown onto the houses set close to the sidewalk, while as 1t was they were blown across the street and onto the lawns of the residences sitting fai back from the street.
 
 of the storm say that the scene was in- describable. With the deafening roar of the wind, the brilliant play of lightning. and the crash of falling trees sounding r their ears, women became hysterical Men were unnerved and for a few min utes terror reigned supreme.
 The storm passed out North street and damaged the negro settlement known as Knoxville. The damage here was slight, he pyfr6 cea0afnP SnRQf It's force
 Took Giant Leaps
 The cyclons seemed to go in giant leaps with occasional excursions into side streets The First Baptist church, out of the direct path of the storm on East street, was partially unroofed One thous- and dollars will cover the damage.
 The two moving pictures were crowded at the time of the storm and when the lights went out the people showed some restlessness. They were handled with re- markable coolness and there was no yes tige of a panic The fact that occasioned the most remark on the streets to- day was that more of the people on the streets were not struck by flying missiles from the vortex of the cyclone. While aevsral ssene hr,Ieed tllzrQ srsfs npt q 7ran' in Talladega injured bad.y enough to De placed in bed.
 During the excitement of the storm a ire alarm came III lrOIl lnt ItSiQclltS c4 w. L. Miller. The fire was extinguished without great damage.
 Last night men with lanterns searched the debris to ascertain if anyone was killed, and it was not known positively until this morning that no lives had been lost.
 Carpenters At Work
 This morning bright and early every available carpenter was put to work re- pairing roofs and patching holes m the walls while a gang of negroes labored to clear North street of the interlocked trees. By noon conditions were once more normal with the exception of the teie- graph and light service. The lighting plant of the city is completely out oi commission. and it will probably be sev- eral days before the service is restored
 The heads of the various colleges were very desirous of correcting the misleading statement eminating from Chattanooga, Tenn. that the colleges were badly dam aged, and pr. Johnson was espeeiaily emphatic.
 The house of Goldberg & Lewis was not damaged as was reported nor were the Southern and Atlanta. Birmingham ana Atlantic railroads.
 Fireman's Escape
 Lemul Ray, fireman at Arleen sta tion,s probably had the most thlliiins experlence or the udy leay "e's ~ ing to duties at the rear of the sta- tion when the cyclone struck him He was knocked flat by the force of me wind and crawled under buggy tha, was nearby As he did so the rear wall of the station gave way with crash blTying him under the buggy, which was the only thing that saved his life Alter the wind had slightly subsided he eraWled from under the buggy but was again hurled to the ground and concluded 1t was the best place to stay until the storm passed. Ray escaped with only few bruises and was busily trying to bring order out of chaos this afternoon when he gave the following account Of the storm:
 T was out in the back of the sta ton fixing up for Sunday when I heard roar and crash from the south. and looked up just in time to see the stack on the cotton mill fall. 1t sure was
 
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