| Show TRAit TRAIL LEFT EFT L BY T Tk k TORNADO IN ALABAMA jI fw People Killed and anil Many Are Badly In Injured Injured in a Furious Cyclone f Residences t swept Away Trees Tre Uprooted U Fright ful Havoc Played by tile the A Birmingham Ala Aa March 25 2 Short Shortly S or ory ly y before 10 this morning a rear fear fearful ful tornado swept sw pt over the th southern part of or thle th city The number of ot killed tonight t is lb estimated e at tf people mostly o women fifteen ot whom are white The TIie property loss os is planed placed Ht at t Eighteen bOdies have been recovered up tr t 7 p im 1 mand and scores ot o injured have been removed to the hos hospitals hospital pital Among the dead are Dr G Chapman of ot the firm of Tully Tuny Chapman Chapmn who conduct private infirmary in this city sad and nd the wire wife and child of ober Hober J Lowe Lou chairman of or the e Dem Dern Democratic DemocrAtic state Executive committee Fol Following lowing Is ts the list of ot Identified dead and injured The Dead Dr G C Chapman Ch Mrs Robert RobArt Rob rt J Lowe V i 4 Infant chili of Or Mrs l Lowe J 3 Alexander Little daughter l dr f B BB B 8 Hudson F Myro colored cored collector colle tor Union Mu Mutual Mutual association 88 of ot o Mobile Mo Jt Carrie Hudson Maggie Blevins Carrie C re Henry Hency Lizzie Glenn Gl nn ook for Zor B B Hudson Last five all aU colored Unknown carpenter struck by flying nying lumber Fatally Injured Mr R It H Thomas Mrs W V H Thomas Mrs rs D H Mrs f 1 Ferguson Ferguso Mrs blum Mylum Carrie Ellin colored colorado The Injured John Dillon rt Devoe back of head cut c t Child ChUd of Mrs McLaughlin 1 Mrs Stephens L L Holtan Holt n arm broken Sarah colored arm broken brokon Albert Albeit Glenn colored Jerusha Glenn colored colore Gree Curry colored Carrie arrie Elmore colored colore not expected to live Mary livery ry Goodlaw Q odlat colored arm aId and leg broken I Sarah Sorab colored arm broken Dave Dove Elmore colored colore serious s inter inters fu s r nal al Injuries Sarah Elmore imore colore inter ral Injuries Mrs Irs I 3 c sz an and daughter internal inte al injuries s Frank Frnk arm acm broken and h had ad bruised Lougin Martin colored struck by flying timber Rhea Curry colored arm broken and head bruIsed t Mrs F G 0 Shafer and baby slight injuries Mrs drs Yates and daughter slight in injuries Injuries juries Mr tIr and Mrs Dorr slightly injured W V W V Dorr bricklayer bruised and bad 9 cut Up lip W H ii DIckerson scalp calp wound and concussion Mrs Joel ruel badly bady bad bruised Mrs rs Jane Lane Lan injured about the head lead Jim Wilson colored sick in bed with pneumonia was badly l bruised Mrs Irs Galloway colored cOl red badly p fmc frac I rac f f lured arm William Gallon Calloway ay colored scalp scap wounds rounds Ned NM Thomas colored face fuce slightly cut rut S SLee Lee arm bruised and I broken I IThe The storm struck the elty Oily In the tho ex ox extreme tArn corner and plowed I its way wa eastward leaving 11 a path fit fifteen I teen feet teet wide vIde through the I ern era section extending from Green Gren Ore GreenSprings n Springs Springe on the w west est to Avondale on the east ast and continued it Its course until its I force toree wa was spent in the mountains be beyond yond pond ond Irondale a small town six miles milaa of or the city Morning Dawned Dark The morning dawned cloudy and sul suI sultry try and grew more mOrt threatening as f the th day da advanced Clouds b an to gather A and shortly shortie after 9 sharp I fling ning flashed P in the southwest The air became beame heavy beavy and und stilling The velocity L a of or the suddenly began gan to increase V am an j out ot O of tin the overcast st sky sk the dreaded cloud made its appear ane n e Hugging close to the earth it tame fame down upon th Ui j city The altitude of the cyclone was not more than feet teet The negro shanties and cottages in lowlands were vere the principal suf sur sufferers sufferers The larger residences on the higher ground suffered but slightly The Toe large Jarge trees on the at St Vin Vincents cents c ns S lio bo i hal ital ere torn up Ul by the thu th tl roots and an immense quantity of ot o ostone stone was twisted out of the ground und n l broken boken and scattered over the driveways leading lending to the institution i irom From rom l to Tenth street the i tornado bounded like a rubber ball bail b lI and ana when it again descended de it struck a house occupied o by Joseph and almost razed it to the ground The daughter of John Jehn was caught under the debris and severely merely injured A h use usi occupied by Taylor Ta lor Honsen Hensen nearby was Mas as unroofed ted and three small negro houses near there were Wert demolished hed onward the wind sped in its Iury fUry demolishing d lIng trees and fences until it reached n Eleventh street where a house b John Hayes was wan as to tue ground Skimming close to the thee earth e rth the storm torm swept through a young p ne grove tearing the iha trees up by the roots and Hurling them through the lh air nir like arrows arrow l Beyond the grove groe the t storm cloud clou l f swooped negro settlements and cabins callins were crushed not one being left in Its pathway Carrie C rrie Elma Bima a negro woman was as buried beneath the debris but most i of the negroes escaped with slight In InJuries Injuries injuries Juries and after aCter the storm had ha l passed leathered gathered around the wreckage apparently apparently thankful that they had escaped d with Ith their lives Eastward the storm swept cutting Its way nay through another strip of woods striking the th Second Presbyterian church at avenue H and Fifteenth Fit rith street treet demolishing the structure The pews were piled pIlM d on top of or the debris a n mali mail an oak table which was used in inthe inthe inthe the rostrum being depo deposited on top mat m t point of the th wreckage nf of the hurch directly in th the s Path rath In another negro set I mu h havoc was wrought j jc c c r among the shacks hacks seven pf which v were ere swept awa away A number of small houses were leveled between l Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets In Iti alley II H I between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets a small house oc occupied occupied occupied by negroes was wan Va destroyed and Greena Curry a negro woman was caught c beneath the timber and sun sus sustained S1 tamed injuries Three e other houses were blown down near by The storm I t then en struck the more thickly settled residence portion of the city and its I work of ot destruction Increased A cottage occupied by Fred Schaffer Schaffer i ifer fer at South Eighteenth street and arid anda a small a l f Hw fw w doors north oc occupied occupied I by L H Stewart Stew rt were badly i I damaged Almost a clean sweep was made of the district lying between Eighteenth and Twentieth streets and avenues H and I two blocks Here the scene Is one of complete demolition The frame cottages cottage were w re reduced to flattened piles of debris very tree large or small was either crushed down downor or 01 A row of small cottages fronting east upon Nineteenth street between avenues A and I T were flattened out I The occupants had no warning and Were vere unable to escape from their houses house hous housand and were rescued by workers after the storm The house hOltse on the corner di dt d Nineteenth and I was occupied oc by wH WH W WH H Merritt a member mAmber of or the fire de department depatt patt ent and his family a wife and two children The Merritts Merrills were res rca rescued rescued cued with but few fer bruises The rhe second house houe was occupied by Roy McCulloch and Charles R Robin Robinson Robinson Robinson son and their families These escaped esc aped serious injuries The fourth house was occupied by Captain John D John Johnston Johnston ston stop and his daughter They were caught in one cornet corner of 01 a room and a apart apart apart part of the house was left standing and n nd after art r the storm was wa over made way house in the therow therow therow row was the property of D McRae Mr lIr MoRae was caught beneath the wreck but escaped QS aped unhurt Mrs Hardwick who lived in the same house was ill III and in bed She was vas burled buried under the ruins but was rescued without apparent serious injuries Every House Destroyed From Nineteenth th to Twentieth streets on avenue I every h use and little I scanty was destroyed MInters grocery store tor Was as literally Ht T and an tossed teased Into an adjoining yard Wiling lUlng Dr G C Chapman who had SOUght shelter in tIle the wind here seemed s i med to dart upward and strike the earth again at str sparing ring build ings between Twentieth and Twenty second street It struck again ln destroy ing all aU the small buildings in its Ita path for half halt a mile and In Juring many people J Jo I From Freni Tw na storm plowed Its way Wa ea i uJ h the block between a aven ezrie S a ait venue I I tearing away the of residences smas blOw bl w lilg ing down trees and r ff n ds s Crossing Thirtieth street it struck the residence of Robert J Lowe at t South Thirtieth street leveling it to the ground and Instantly killing Mr Lowes hii and nd fatally crushing Mrs Lowe who died within fifteen fitte n minutes aft being removed from the wreckage The cook was wac badly hurt Mr air Lowe f nd the nurse escaped scup d with slight bruises Continuing C In an eastward direction lh the storm swept everything In its path of yards width until it passed beyond the city limits and struck the hill about Thirty fourth street There were no houses of any description in its path until it had passed the city elty limits Consequently there was w s no damage until It Jt reached j Avondale On hill hUI just south of Avon A yon I dais dal a of s were vere cre seri Gerl seriously I injured and many houses badly badh damaged j At Af Irondale the tornado again re repeated repeated J panted Us Its work of ot destruction on Houses and nd fences were leveled to the ground and up to this writing several e ral bodies had been A number of in injured lured persons and a big property ps are reported Bessemer Pratt City CibA Emsley North Birmingham and other suburban towns vere were visited by the storm and andin nn oIn ea each ch much destruction was wrought but Tio no o loss of life UCe Is resorted reported Many Manyhouse houses house were demolished demoli hed fH it t Pratt City including a number of or chuiches At Powderly there th rc was also much de destruction destruction destruction At Cleveland Mrs George Hatt was struck by lightning and will probably die A terrific rainstorm followed the wind and arid grety gre is retarded the work of relief Tonight a mass meeting of citizens ns was wa held at which a relief fund was started Fully houses were demolished or and at a late hour tonight the total property loss Is estimated at t CYCLONE cy LONE STRIKES STRIKES TOWN OP Fl PAVILION MICHIGAN Detroit Mich March 25 A special to the Tribune from Kalamazoo Mich says that a cyclone struck the town of Pavilion a small village about twenty five miles southeast of Kalamazoo which wrecked a number of houses up uprooting uprooting i rooting trees tore down telegraph poles ol s I and did much other damage The T c home of oC Noah Tripp was rolled I over for a distance of five fic rods and Mrs Tripp was completely buried un under under under der the debris She was wac found lying bins I under the stove and sustained le iee which will wUl result fatally The house i caught fire and was completely ruined I J I The storm passed through Vicksburg I 1 I land and Spoils otts Station both small towns I doing do ng much damage Nearly Ne every I building in the path of 01 the storm was wasI I wrecked Large orchards orl hards were de destroyed destroyed I and fences are down every everywhere everywhere where At Indian lake the wind formed I II I I a waterspout water out in crossing that body of ef i iI I water and a large distance on the east eastshore eastshore shore was Inundated Destroyed Miles Nilea of Track Chattanooga Tenn Tean M 25 The hurricane which swept sw t Alabama is Issal said sal to have struck the Chattanooga Rome Southern railroad near Lynne I Yule Ga Ge a small mall station south of 01 Rome and apil a id destroyed several miles of or track Neither bither that line northe the South Southern ern era raj rajay vay has been eena able le to get any a 7 Continued on page 2 I 5 0 BLOODY TRAIL LEfT B BY TORNADO IN AlA AMA Continued from Page 1 information as a to their trains all aU wires s son on the Alabama Great Great Southern wr divi division sion are down Roofs Hoofs Blown low Prom Fm Houses Houes Cleveland O 0 March 25 A special from Sandusky says A severe evere wind windstorm windstorm windstorm storm passed over oe the western part of Erie county count late this afternoon The principal sufferer was wa the settlement s of ll hi on the shore of Sandusky bay where several rJ roofs 1 were blown ev from houses hous aIa ar trees tree ree were blown bl down No line was injured as a far as dusky known kr kd wl wn The storm ston did not touch San Sandusky an an andusky |
