Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-25
THOUSANDS FLEE IN TERROR
AS FLOODS DESTROY HOMES

darkness. Wherever it was believed
that the current might communicate
with the dangling wires knocked down
by the storm the electric company re-
fused to turn on the current.
Work Of caring for the injured as
sumed gigantic proportions to-day.
Physicians who have been on duty for
more than "a hours found themselves
unable to do all the work they were
called on TO perform. Hospital accom-
mOdations were crowded to the limit.
Improvised hospitals were established
and volunteer nurses helped the staff Of
trained nurses who had been supplied
by the local hospitals and sent in from
neighboring cities
No Aid For Lesser Injured.
Besides those hurt so severely that It
was necessary to send them to the hos
pitfalls. number Of others with less in
iuries demanded attention. 1t was al
most impossible to give them aid.
At the hospitals a constant stream Of
humanity presented itself Relatives
and friends searched anXiously for
lfNf bIl'N " Nv ld' bffi ~ pa a Nt'-
from them. Others waited patiently to
learn the real extent Of the injuries Of
friends who had been found in the hos
pitfalls. II was impossible for the hos
pital STATS to give the information that
was desired. The crowds without, how
ever were patient in the extreme. At
some Of the hospitals persons waited
Outside all night in the hope that the
questions might he answered.
Among the searchers to-day was Mrs
w w. Sherwood weak from an illness
that had confined her to her bed for
weeks. The storm that struck and de-
molished her home and carried her
baby from her arms and blew It away.
No one has found the infant and the
mother, frantic in her grief and disre-
garding the weakness that made her
search almost impossible, has gone from
place to place. searching for the child,
Many have endeavored to aid her but
as yet no trace of the child has been
found.
Persons Carried Away by Wind.
In Ralston a suburb. Edward Mote
and his family. a wife and three chill
dreu, sat in their home talking on East
er Sunday The tornado swooped down
on the place, lifted il and carried il
hundred yards, dropping it into Paio
creek. Mrs. Mote was drowned. Her
body to-day was lifted from the water.
where II had been pinned by the wreck
age of the cottage.
ID. l.. Hamm and his daughter Mrs
Kimbal, with her two children were
standing IN the doorway of their home
when the storm struck The woman
and children stepped outside. The door
was slammed shut and held as though
In a wise. The two women and children
made frantic efforts to wrench it open,
but were unable to do so. The three
We're lifted in the arms of the gale and
hurled through the air. Their bodies
were found later
Inside the house of II. E. Said he and
his bride Of a month were sitting. The
storm caught them and dashed them
against wall They were killed.
lmprovised morgues have been es-
tablished IN buildings along the route
Of the tornado. In these the bodies Of
the dead have been laid in rows. As
fast as they are identified a careful
record is made to prevent confusion
when the funerals Of the dead begin.
II is expected that burial will begin to-
morrow.