The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-03-23

ephone and telegraph lines, along roads strewn with debris, blocked here and there by fallen trees. A flashlight that fiickered and blinked among the ruins of crumb- led homes revealed the dead.
 Farther up the road, we were blocked by splintered jumbled timbers of what had been home, lifted in the air and dropped in @ heap in our path.
 And few moments later we met weeping father, carrying a crying baby. The father sought his wife, missing in the storm, and la- ter found to be dead.
 We came upon another man who had thrown @ heavy overcoat over his shoulders and stood gazing silently at the ruins of what had been his home.
 He was former Sheriff J. L. Gore of Clinton county, living at Union Grove where not a home was left standing, where only one family, the Gore family was spared death.
 Tt was an act of providence we were not all killed" he said. "The storm came 50 quick--we were seated at the table eating. When I came to, I wedged under a trunk out in the yard. pushed the trunk off and found was not hurt. | "The wind was bowling like mad. Lightning was flashing. I heard my son call out from across the yard. He was lying against the stump of tree.
 we went to find his wife and the four children, and heard them crying in a nearby cornfeld, blown clear of the wreckage, and unhurt, thank God. We made them com fortable. ... ,... :, I find our next door neighbors, Battle Hamilton. We couldn't find his house.
 eve found him down the road cut to pieces, his body hanging on a barbed wire fence.
 "TIis wife had been blown into Q corn patch, and was badly hurt. We finally found their six-month. old boy dead in Q creek, half mile away"
 presented another picture. He was a famous fox hunter in this district. His body lay near 1 what was left of his house. Five of his hunting dogs, loyal even Tn tragedy. crouched quietly in the ruins. and refused all day long to budge, At one place saw 70 homes sprayed over the country side as if brushed by Q huge broom.
 Another section was cut as clean ly as if by a scythe, Q path Q mile wide and six miles long.
 One farmers stove had been blown high in air and lodged m Q tree.
 with @ broken leg. The tourist cabin in which he slept was whisk- ed away. The bed was not moved.
 MT and Mrs Frank Hammett near Sylacauga were driving along auto eight feet in air, broke every window and the ignition key, but didn't harm the Hammetts. Matte Richardson, a negro wo. man near Birmingham, "seen that tornado coming. It was q ball or fire. It chased me from the depot to my house and blowed me be- tween a chair and a wash stand"
 Luther Kelly, also of Sylavuga, lost his second wife in the storm. The first Mrs Kelly was killed in the 1917 storm.
 John M. Quinn of Thorsby. also of Chiffon county, received two broken legs, and 0ther severe in- juries; his baby was killed in his arms; his wife, Lucille, died under falling timbers. They had six chil- dren.
 "The first wind took the roof from over our heads" he said. "The rain nearly drowned us. An other gust of wind, and the house tumbled down.
 "The baby was screaming. held her close. Then my wife and were pinned under timbers. don't know what happened to the baby's body. Fire started, and couldn't move. The wind famed it toward us. Then the children ran for help and a man dug us out.
 "How is Lucille getting along ?" Lucille had died an hour before.
 Lloyd Butler of Jemison was badly injured, and lay in the same hospital telling his story.
 q told my wife and children to rush into the house. I put the mule in the barn and followed them. We locked doors, and braced against them, but the wind tore some down, howled down the chimney and threw burning ashes all over the room. It sounded like a freight train. know Mary Lou was killed-she was born On my birthday"
 From Georgia came stories to relief headquarters of what had happened there where 29 were killed.
 One family at Avondale north west of Atlanta was saved whom the father, John Henry Law. his home battering to pieces about him. seized a bedpost which had been driven into the ground. His fam fly gathered about him. and they hung on for their lives.
 Another family there leaped inc to a shallow pit.
 And a dog. nursing four puppies born Sunday. saved them by crouching under the floor Of Gus