The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-02-15
TENTS SHELTER
STORM VICTIMS
RED CROSS SENDS RELIEF SUP.
PLIES.
Much Suffering Follows Change in
Weather-Offers of Outside
: Aid Received.

OF the homes Cnat were swept away
in yesterdays tornado the Southern
division of the American Red Cross
today pitched tents to shelter the
homeless people. A carload of relief
supplies arrived here from the head
quarters of the Red Cross in Atlanta
this morning.
A drip in temperature resulted In
considerable suffering among the VIC
TINS Of the tornado.
Hundreds of curious people drove
here today in automobiles to see Tor
themselves the extent of the damage.
They reported that articles of wear
ing apparel were found as far as IL
miles from Oconee, and there was
one part a bedstead picked up %
miles away.
Identification has been practically
completed. Twenty-Five bodies had
been accounted for tonight, but some
of the negroes in at hospital at San
dersville were not expected to live
through the night.
Governor Dorsey's offer of aid today
was declined by Washington county
people, who declared they would sub
scribe to a fund to meet the en'er--
gency.
Atlanta, Feb 1.-THE tornado
that struck this section yesterday
caused deaths to 26 negroes and Ben
jamin Franklin Orr, IA year ola
white boy, injured 80 or more per-
sons and entailed property loss estl-
mated at s50,ooo, according to
checks made today.
Damage to property in Gardner
where the lives were lost and most
injuries caused, was estimated by
Neil Meier, president Of the CleVe-
land-Oconees Lumber company, at
ss5, 5000, with the remaining loss at
Oconee. Some 40 negro houses were
destroyed, the tornado centering On
the negro section of the mill settle
mert.
Red Gross workers arrived at day.
break today from Atlanta and joined
physicians and civilians from San
dersville, Tennille and other nearby
towns in rendering aid. The dead
and injured were placed on trains
and taken to Sandersville, where
there is large sanitarium.
Many negroes who lost all their
personal belongings in the storm
seemed half crazed, while others
spent hours in fruitless search for
relatives whom they learned later
had been swept away and killed.
A negro child was found on torn
mattress at the site Of his former
home, his relatives, grandfather,
mother and brother, all having been
lost. Outside aid would be welcomed
at Gardner, where hundreds have
been left homeless and in need as a
result of Thursdays tornado, accord
ing to a telegram today to Governor
Dorsey from A. w. Evans of San
dersville.
Augusta, Ca, Feb. IA story OF
how the heroism of three women
teachers in the school at Oconee, Ga,
probably saved the lives OF many
pupils during the tornado there
Thursday afternoon reached here to-
day from Wrightsville.
One end of the school house was
crumpled in by the wind and the
roof at the other end hung pre-
cariously low above the heads or
some rs children when the three
teachers rushed to the rescue. oy
main strength and unassisted they
held up the sagging roof until all the
children could pass into the open, and
then leaped to safety themselves.
At the Grandson farm, 18 miles
from here, on the Augusta Southern
railroad, Thursday afternoon several
farm houses were blown down. One
Of the houses caught fire after 1t was
razed and burned to death the wife
and child of Jack Bunch, negro. The
woman and child were caught IN the
structure when it collapsed.
Speaking OF Fords and mud, VIII
Ford, colored, paid $40 at the re-