Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-15
a. DEAD AND HUGE
PROPERTY DAMAGE
IN PATH OF GALES
Continued from Page II

south Of here, and to cooperate
with the local chapter in minister
ing to the scores of persons injur-
ed in the wreckage wrought by the
cyclonic winds which demolished
the little towns of Pinson and Dean
burg, and took a heavy toll of
life.
First aid for the wounded Was
given and supplies for the destitute
were distributed throughout ye5ter-
day by the local chapter of the Red
Cross, in charge of Miss Annette
McClaran, executive officer, who,
with the Jackson relief party work
ed ceaselessly to recover bodies and
save the survivors amid the ruins
of their homes. A kitchenette was
established and hot food and coffee
served.
Residents of this city and neigh
boring communities responded gen
erously to the call for financial re-
lief as soon as the extent Of the
disaster became known. 1t was
reported that a sum of money suf-
ficient to meet present needs would
be available through contributions
today.
The following white dead persons
were identified last night:
At Pinson: Mrs. ]. l.. James,
wife of the Methodist pastor; Mrs.
B. G.. Vantreese; her daughters,
Madge and Mable Vantreese; two
children of Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. En-
vim, Howard, six, and four
months-old infant.
At Deanburg: Charles Cane.
Praise of Henry Kline, youthful
hero of the Pinson disaster, were in
every mouth today. Kline left Pin
son Immediately after the devastat-
ing wind had smashed the homes of
many Of the townspeople and start
ed for relief along the road to
jackson, IL miles away, all wire
communication being destroyed. He
was riding horseback. Less than
two miles from Pinson he had 20
abandon his horse; the road had
become impossible. The rain was
falling in torrents and the roadway
was INSTRUCTED often by fallen trees
and huge limbs.
Ten miles through the pitch dark
ness, the messenger stumbled and
ran. Exhausted and dripping, he
arrived in Jackson and sought the
MAYORS home. That official, J. D
Johnson, being aroused and in
formed of the catastrophe, quickly
Iassembled eight Jackson physicians
obtained the grant Ola special train
from the Mobile and Ohio railroad
and with his band of relief workers
reached Pinson early. Additional
relief, men, women. and supplies
arrived on later trains and trucks
| Desolation lay in the path of the
storm. Pinson, a village of 300 souls
was wiped out, only a group OF
brick business houses having re-
sisted the fury of the wind which
reached an estimated velocity o. 81
miles an hour. Cars of a freight
train were blown off the track.
Five negro section hands, occu-
pants of one shack, were founC
dead together, their dwelling having
been blown a hundred feet.
NINE DEATHS is TOLL
OF WIND II KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 10
Nine persons dead, more than eighty
others reported injured and esti
mates of loss caused by property
| damage over a wide area close to the
million dollar mark stood as the toll
of the violent windstorm which
swept Kentucky Sunday night and
early Monday.
Death rode the gale at widely sep
arated points
Reports reaching Louisville over
partially paralyzed wires tod of the
death of a family of three when a
| Logan county home was demolished
The victims tentatively were identl
fed as Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Stan
and their young son.
Three persons, William Hall, SO
| his 4-year-old daughter, Catherine
and the infant son of Mr.. and Mrs
Logan Griffith, were killed when the
wind lifted the Hall farmhouse, II
Madison county, carried it so yards
and splintered it around it's thirteen
| jured seriously at this place.
Two women, Mrs. L. c. Dossy anc
Mrs. Margaret Cox, 81, We're killed II
Edmondson county Mrs. Dossy'
husband probably was injured ia
tally.
The roof was blown from the higf
school at South Portsmouth, Ky.
falling in the schoolyard and killing
| Dennis Boggs, 8 Five school chill
dren were injured, two seriously.
Property damage resulted from
damaged buildings, shattered display
windows, level smoke stacks II
towns and in rural districts from
RACED dwellings and farm buildings
felled trees and live stock killed bS
falling timbers.
Telephone and telegraph service
over a wide area in western Ken
lucky was paralyzed by protractet
lines, and Owensboro and Paducaf
were cut off from Louisville until
yesterday.
Federal Hill, near BardstoWn'
where Stephen Collins Foster wrote