Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-04 | Page 1 | Several Are Killed in Georgia Tornado

MM ARE KILLED IN GEORGIA TORNADO Rain and Desolation Spread Over Dozen Works in Town Hf Albauy. ALBANY, Ga.. Jan. 3. A tornado of terrific ter-rific force passed over Albany at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, coming from a southwesterly direction and spreading ruin and desolation over portions of a dozen blocks. Several persons are dead, others will die as the result of Injuries, nnd many arc more or loss seriously hurt. The known dead are: Dead. BEN JONES, a negro machinist In the employ of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical company. JAKE JOHNSON, a nlnc-yoar-old negro boy Among those whose Injuries probably will prove futal are: Injured. LUTA GLADDEN JESSE DAVIS. ANNIE DAVIS JESSIE W i 'DA I U The lint in still Incomplete, owing to the fuct that much of the destruction wrought was well beyond the city limits. Reports from the tornado after It left Albany "lave not been received Hundreds Are Homeless. Hundreds of negroes In tho city are homeless tonight and many have lost their household effects. The total property prop-erty loss will reach HE0.000. The Virginia-Carolina Virginia-Carolina Chemical company Is the principal princi-pal sufferer. Its destroyed buildings and machinery Ii.ivIiik I worth prohahly t.000 Very little of ih.- destroyed property prop-erty wus protected by tornado Insurnnce. Telephone Lines Down. The Southern Hell Telephone company Is among the heaviest sufferers. Its lines :ir. down Some lltll. a ppreh. union Is f It for Pretoria. In the southwestern part of the OOUnty The tornado came from that dir. i tlon, nnd as the telegraph wires are down, nothing can be heard from there.