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Show CYCLONE IN GEOKGIA PILES OF DEAD IN THE PATH OF STORM. Probably One Hundred Persons Killed and Many Homes Destroyed At Least 200 People Injured. Just nfter tho noon hour Monday tho city of Gainesville, On., was struck by a terrific cyclone, killing probably ono hundred persons, unroofing tho City hotel, other large buildings, and destroying tho Galncsvlllo cotton mills. Tho greatest loss of life Is reported re-ported In the district of tho cotton mills, where about eighty pcoplo nro reported killed and scores Injured. Klghteon persons wore killed In tho city between tho center of the town and tho railroad station, where four largo storos wero blown down. The storm had driven away many persons at work in the cotton mills when tho cyclono struck. Tho mill wns a threo-story threo-story building. Tho first story wns loft standing, but bndly wrecked. The second and third floors were completely complete-ly demolished, tho employes were caught under tho wreckago and mangled, tl is estimated that there woro at least seventy-five bodies tin-dor tin-dor tho wreckage of the third floor, and It Is not known how many persons on tho second floor of tho building wero killed. Tho storo of Joseph Logan, Lo-gan, near tho Galncsvlllo cotton mills, was crushed to ruins by tho wind, nnd THE SPORT OF THE MILLIONAIRE. Deadly Automobllo In Its Dally Tour. eight men who had taken refugo In it wero Instantly killed. Tho Jonos general gen-eral storo met a similar fate, and in the ruins two persons, ono man and one woman, wero crushed to death. Reports from Whlto Sulphur Springs, sovon miles from Galncsvlllo, nro to the effect that tho storm struck thero with terrific forco, killing a dozen people. peo-ple. Tills Is, howovor, not confirmed. Another report says that 100 pcoplo wore killed and at least 200 Injured, whllo 200 buildings In nil wero demolished. |