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AMERICUS TIMES-EECORDER.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1903.
NUMBER 5
East Lake, Ala., Dec. 8th, 1902.
Mr. A. B. Girardeau, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sir:—This is to certify that on Au
gust 1st I went to Verbena, Ala., to hold a
series of meetings. Was at that time, and
had been for six weeks prior, so feeble I was
scarcely able to preach. Mr. F. A. Gulledge,
of Verbena, with whose family I was stop
ping, kindly offered me three bottles of
Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic, gratis. I
accepted, and began the use of the Tonic at
once. Within three weeks I was was much
better. In three weeks I had taken the
three bottles of Tonic and was fully well.
Took no other medicine then nor since, and
am in better health and heavier than for
the past fifteen years.
J. M. McCORD,
Pastor Verbena Baptist Church.
CLONE SWEEPS
GAINESVILLE, 6A
Reported That Eighty
Were Killed.
Iraph Wires of Western Union to
[irrsville Are All Down—The Bell
D.st: nee Telephone la Work-
I Socily—Great Damage Done.
June 1.—A special to The
rifle cyclone has .truck Galno3-
-urllog death broadcast and
destruction to property,
tills hous (1:30 p. m.) there la
ire nenna of communication-—
d distance -Bell telephone—and
of the great eicltemcnt and
of messages for physicians,
is working badly,
a reported that 300 persons hare
killed In the cotton mill near
Tills report hot not been
I:.'
i said the bluldlng was blown to
and nearly all the employes
I outright
Idest reports are on the streets,
veritable gale is now blowing,
clouds blotting out the sun.
! 'ire to Gainesville from Atlan-
been turned over to the city
Usetrllle to be used In summon,
[physicians and outside aid, and
comniunlratlon waa Impossible
l :, j p. m.
Western Union reports every
' < ,J *n In the direction of Gaines-
IT
•* r It was learned through the
‘ h'pbone company that the death
'HI exceed 75 or 80.
- cyclone struck the city In the
>rti portion and destroyed the
•vllle cotton mills.
f'VER RISING AT ST. LOUIS.
lle Al °ng Water Front Preparing
For Big Flood.
'•cuis. Juno 3.—Tho Mississippi
' vuntinueg to rise, a stago of 31.2
shown at 7 a. m. Tho
a: ° I 'K' tho river front between
East St. I.ouls aro preparing
hlg Hood.
• v, r men and government offl-
rcdlct that the water will be
1 "" lr ''ee railroad tracks by noon
l r a,l! officials of tho dllfcront
tJeded are busy malting nr-
th-t-ntf to place thoir rolling stock
® it will bo safe.
f r Observer Bowen saya of
•luatlon:
Mississippi below Cairo to com-
‘'v’y low which means that tho
r « present in tho St. Louis dls-
move out rapidly, thoroby
‘ , n * the Kansas City stage of
* >0 reach hero Friday or Satur-
a tlm.j whon waters of tho up-
issig.ippi river shall have passed
Lightning Paralyzes Man.
June 3.—As Jacob Frlabert
r-ing from a well he was dig-
* Totryvllle a bolt of lightning
,h ® ladder he was climbing
*l u Led hi m ^ nM ies«. hu body
partially paralysed asd ha was
• »t the bottom of tha well. Ha
''cover.
AID IS ASKED FOR
TOPEKA SUFFERERS
Governor Bailey Will Issue
Proclamation.
IMPROVEMENT IN SITUATION.
Greatest Fear Now Is thst Epidemic
of Disease Will Follow Overflow of
Watero—Estimate of Dead to Still
Placed at Twenty.
Topeka, Kans., June 2.—Tho Com
mercial club at noon today voted to
ask for outside aid for tho sufferers.
Yesterday tha club voted that no aid
from outside would be accepted, but
the distress of tho people today Is so
groat that the community cannot pro
vide for all, tad so tho charity of tie
country to appealed to. This action
waa taken after am address by Gov
ernor Bailey, who h:|| just returned to
tho city Cram Mound City, whero he
has been water-bound since last Thurs
day. Tha governor will this after
noon Issue a proclamation calling up
on tho charitable people of tha coun
try to send aid In tha form of money.
Tho situation today to materially bet
ter. The Kaosaa river fell during
tha night at the rate of sn Inch an
r. It to safe to say that all who
were In peril have been now removed
to places of safety. At the Sordou
bridge alone over 20 were landed laat
sight
Tho prevloui estimate of 20 dead I*
gUU adhered to. 31 any reported missing
are showing up, but It will only be pos
sible to give the actual loss of Ilfs
Whon the waters have finally receded.
Tha groatest fear now In Topeka U
epidemic of diseases.
At relief depots whero refugees aro
huddled together sereral persons suf
fering with contagious diseases were
removed to the hospitals as rapidly as
possible. The absence of good- drink,
lag water to another disease breeder.
Money to the thing moat needed now
and citizens are contributing nobly,
but the demand of the situation to
great.
FLOOD CONDITIONS -
IN WESTERN STATES
Number of Lives Lost at To
peka Placed at 20.
EXAGGERATED.
FIRST REPORTS
Situation at Kansas City, Mo., How
ever, Is Still Very Grave—Thousands
of Refugees Are Being Looked Af
ter by Relief Committees.
Topeka, Kans.. June 1.—It Is now
believed that the total number of lives
lost In the flood hero will not exceed
20.
No lives were lost In the fires, and
only eight buildings were destroyed fcy
tbe Arc.
Early reports were unavoidably ex
aggerated. Tho burning of lumber
piles gave the Impression that the
whole of the northern part of the city
was going and no one was found who
placed his estimato of the loss of llle
under the hundreds.
With the smoke cleared away, the
Kaw falling and communication by
boat loss difficult, additional light on
the subject was received this morn
ing, and the reduction la tho estimated
loss of life followed.
About 200 people are still at North
Topeka. One hundred 1 and fifty of
them sought refuge In the upper story
of the woolen mill. They are well
fed but extremely uncomfortable.
List of Known Dead.
1%e'following Is a list of the known
100 ARE DEAD FROM
GAINESVILLE STORM
Cyclone Wrought Death and
Destruction.
Henry A. Jordon, a negro.
Mr. Ward, an aged man.
Arthur Stitt.
Arthur Stitt.
Five-year-old son of Mr. Garrett.
Child of Mr. George M. Story.' __
Miss Louise Zahy Jackson, a widow.
Henry Ludlngton.
John Wells.
Mrs. Ida Montgomery.
Kari a-nd Amelia Rutt, both children.
Androw Prezol.
Among the missing aro D. H. C.
Minor and his son-in-law, A. C. Keat
ing. The rescuers of tho Hayncr
family took tho women and children
on the first boat. When thoy re
turned the doctor could not bo found.
Thoy lived In a one-story house. Two
Bhlrt marked
miles down the river
"A. Ill ixenin.s," ......
President Roosevelt telegraphed to
day from Cheyenne to Governor Bail
ey offering tho assistance of tho fed
eral authorities, If oeedod, as ifoV
lows:
“Cheyenne, Wyo., May 31.—Hon. W.
J. Bailey. Topeka. Kans.—Am Inex
pressively shocked at reports of the
dreadful calamity that has befallen
Topeka. If thero Is anything the fed-
eral authorities can do, of course let
me know. Theodore Roosevelt.”
The message reached tbe governor
at 11 o'clock this morning. Only one
railroad lino can get In or out of To
peka today, rfnd that to the Santa Fe,
by way of Emtoria. A train was sent
to Bmporla this morning at 5 o'clock
qnd another will be sent out at noon.
From Emporia the train will try to go
west via Ottawa on the Missouri Pa
cific.
Tbe property lots rrom tne nest es
timates now possible will amount to
approximately fl.000,000. The whole
of North Topeka Is still under water
T feet deep. While tho two hundred
people penned up In the second stories
of various buildings have plenty of
food, they are In great need of good
drinking water, which to being sup
plied as rapidly as posslblo In barrel!
and cans.
The great fear at present to that
some of the buildings In North Tope
ka may collapse because df their
foundations being undermined by the
water. There Is no immediate appre
hension that tho woolen mill will go
down, but at the same time every ef
fort will bo made to extricate people
from that point as quickly as possible
to avoid anv further loss of life.
MAROONED FOR FIVE DAY8.
Privations bf Two Families During Re
cent Floods.
Dos Moines. Iowa., Juno 3.—Tho
work of caring for the 5,000 destltuto
flood sufferers is still taxing tho local
committee to the utmost. Tho com
mittee has reaffirmed that there Is
no need of outside assistance. Ten
thousand dollars has -been subscribed
here In addition to a largo quantity
of clothing and food. At Atlantic
two marooned families were discov
ered. For live days they had been
compelled to sit on tables, with wo
drinking water and practically noth
ing to eat
Fortune Myth Man Ooee Insan*
Uutlca. June 3—Mrs. John Carr, ol
Herkimer, recently heard her uncle,
Jeremiah Palmer, °f, Brooklyn, tad
gjed and ebe would receive $25,000. Hot
husband Immediately gave i!tf bli
bootblacking stand. Later report!
raid a will bed been found end eh!
would get nothing. pH P™**} *<*
much for Carr and he hoe loet hi
Georgia Woman Doctor of Lawe.
Washington. June 3.—Tho feature of
tho graduating exercises of tho law
partment of the Columbian uuivorslty
last night was the conferring of the de
gree of doctor of civil law on Mrs.
Emma Rea Bailey, of Georgia, the
first woman to receive tills degree from
tho university. Tbe determination
to confer the degree on Mrs. Bailey
aroused such opposition among tbo
member! of the class that tho majority
at one time decided not to accept their
degrees. • Tho only one, however, who
protested to tbe end was Paskell B.
Talley, of Tennessee, the president of
tho class, who remained away, and
thus failed to receive a degree, al
though be qualified for It
To Combat European Intervention.
New York, Juno $.—El Naclolel
publlshce an article atattag, It to e&td,
In high diplomatic circlet, that the
Argentine, Chilean end Brazilian for
algo-offices ere negotiating an alliance
to combat European Intervention, ca
blet the Buenob Ayres, Argentina, cor
respondent of The Herald. It to ay-
aerted that the three nations propose
to help each other shonld on European
power threaten the sovereignty of any
of the allied republic!,
Gainesville, Ga., June 2.—The tor
nado which bore down on this v city
yesterday probably ha* no parallel la
the history of tho State for the num
ber of people killed and- destruction
of -property.
The fury of the whirling cloud was
fortunately confined to the outskirts
of the city, else the loss of life and
property would- bare been appalling.
Out of almost a clear sky the twist
ing terror swooped down upon the
city and those unfortunates who were
In its wake had no opportunity to seek
places of safety. Many of tho bodies
of the victims were mangled almost
beyond recognition.
Today the list of dead to placed at
100, an dtliose Injured at 40, while the
property loss is something like $60<V
000.
The storm also struck New Holland
near Gainesville, at which place moro
than 20 people wero killed.
Storm Appeared Sudden'y.
The death-dealing storm appeared
suddenly a Uttlo before 1 o'clock and
within two minutes it had killed near
ly a hundred persons, torn two stories
from the flre-floor brick factory of tho
Gainesville cotton mills, demolished al
most 200 cottages, razed two brick
stores to the ground end blown down
Innumerable outbuilding*.
By what appear* to be a miracle,
the tornado'* fury wee confined to the
outskirts of the city, the main busi
ness and residence portion not being
touched. Torrents of rain accompa
nied the wind, but within flve minutes
after its first onslaught the sun was
shining upon a sceno of fearful deso
latlon.
The list of the dead to confined main
ly to operatives of the Oalnesvlllo cot
ton mills and the Pacolot cotton mills
end two-thirds of them were women
end children.
The following Is a list of the fatali
ties as far as can be obtained:
’ Dead In Gainesville:
General Cummlng, Hompr Alb, Gor
don Ash, Mayjle Gordon, Miss Log-
gins, Mary Duncan, Miss Woody, —
C. Knowles, Miss Logglns, Ed Nabors,
Mary J. 41. Camp and Baby, —. —.
Waddell, Ethel Llle, Lula Jqckson,
Miss Clack, Claud Shedd, Ann to Gar
rett, Jack Murphy, Grady Leo, Dorothy
filoaa. Ed Nagles, Mrs, Nathan Jones,
Baby of Howlngton.
Those fatally Injured:
Nathan Jones, Mrs. Nathan Jones,
W. T. Henderson, Maude Gordon,
Claude Gordoe, Bessie Skinner, Annie
9hubert. Joe Shubert, Daisy Bryson,
Perry Conner, a negro; Mite Willie
Boone, Doc Stovall, a negro; Alonzo
Force, a negro; J. E. Summerville,
Ola Miller, Mr*. Doe Clark, John Simp-
eon, James Simpson, Oeneral Cum
mlng, Miss Neel, Miss Logglns, Alice
Bubers, Will Addison, Gertie Addison,
Ada Sklaner, Will Btockshoar, —. —.
Thompson, W. O. Miller, Mrs. Talley,
Bessie Talley, Lula Edmondson.
The dead la New Holland:
Mrs. H. H. Kelson, Will Tatum, Myr
tles Westmoreland, Maggie Westmore
land, Mrs. H. U Nix. Mr*. Keoley, Mrs.
Janie Ledford and Babby, firs. J. R.
White and Two Children, Baby of Mrs,
McGee, Mrs. M. W. Bobo, Bennie Hen
drix, Mrs. T. A. Coker, John J. Mayme,
Mrs. Marlon Wlllbankt, Two Children
of H. L. Phillips, 5(rs. Tom Truelove,
Mrs. William Westmoreland, Albert
Lloyd, -Mrs. R. H. Pass and Little Son,
Mrs. Able, Mrs. Bryant and Little Son.
The tornado made a terrific noise,
os if heavy cannonading wero In full
Mast, and at It bore down upon the
city It tore everything In its path. It
eame from the southeast, and no one
was aware that It waa more than an
ordinary thunderstorm until It struck
the Gainesville cotton mill, which 1s
situated between the Southern and the
Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern
railways.
Taking this four-swry brick struc
ture, it twisted It as If It wero a reed,
and, in a twinkling of an eye, many
souls were ushered Into etem!ty v Tne
mill building, store and cottages were
torn Into fragments, and the flying tim
bers were hurled several hundred feet
la tbe air, together with those per
sons who were In reach of tho fierce
monster.
The Gainesville Cotton Oil company,
the freight and passenger depots of
the Southern railway, the car barn
the electric railway company, the
Gainesville Iron works, the eld Rich
mond liotel, the store* of Mr*. Ffeffer,
J. R. Logen, J. R- Clerk, T. T. Moon
Scrogge A Cooper, B. D. Langford, N»
than Jones; tbe residence! of R. '
Mealor, W. B. Sloan, J. R. Logan, the
Chestnut Street Baptist church, and
scores of others la this vicinity, were
blown entirely away, and tbe storm
pass rd over the southern pert of tho
city via Myrtle street, and on t* the
Pacelot mill settlement at New Hcl-
land.
List or loctet tAio to atorm*
The property loea to estimated at
$500,000. The Gainesville cotton mill
could not estimate Its V)**. but It to
supposed to be $50,000. Bomo of the
other losses ora:
caiaravtlle Cotton Oil
$3,040; Geinesvme irvn wxirms. ro.eoo;
Southern railway, $1,000; T. T. Moore,
$600; J. R. Logan, $8,000; J. R. Clark,
$400; Mrs. Proffer, $5,000; Cooper ft
Bcroggs, $3,000; B. D. Langford,
$$,000; Piedmont Hotel, $500; W. B.
Sloan. 83.00: J T. Waters. 81.000:
auiarsnue ana immonega Kisctric
Railway company, $4,00; Boh Howlng
ton, $700; Joo Reed, $200; R. D. Griggs
$1,800; W. B. Syoan. $1,800; J. H.
Whlsenant, $1,000; B. O. Parke, $L000.
and various others whose losses will
run the figure* up Into the thousand*.
The bodies of most of tho dead la
tho two cotton mills were fearfully
torn and mangled; the skulls of many
of them were crushed end the Umbs
broken, somo were torn and crushed
about tbe abdomen, with the viscera
visibly protruding. The local physi
cians who gave first aid to the Injured
say the sights were horrible beyond
description. —
Appeal For Aid.
An appeal for aid for tho itorm suf-
forera hu been tent out by Mayor
Parker, of Gainesville, and Georgia,
with her customary generosity, Is re
sponding liberally to tho calk The
city of Atlanta has already contribut
ed $1,000 and her citizens are opening
their pureee with a generous hand.
Other Gcorgta town* ere responding to
the sail, and subscription* aro pouring
Into the stricken city.
Besides cash contributions, slothing
sod provisions are being seat, u many
families are left destitute by the storm.
Governor Terrel hat appealed to the
state at Urge to come to the aid of
ctrlcken Gainesville.
THEO LIABLE
Absolutely Purer
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
NIGHT OF BUFFERING,
FLOOD CONDITIONS
MATERIALLY BETTER
Waters at Kansas City Are
Now Beoedlng,
WORK OF RELIEF QOE8 ON.
Cyclone Victims at Gainesville Sub
jected to Great Privations.
Oalnesvlllo, Go., June $.—Weather
this morning was raw and nasty.
Bluk wind chilled the warmly clad
while the storm victim* actually suf
fered from tho cold. Thero will be
100 funerals her* within the next 24
hours, and the Injured probably equals
that number.
Last night brought Increased suffer
Jng to the cyclone sufferers. A steady
rain set In late la tho afternoon at
tended by bitter cold, which penetrat
ed to tho marrow. Tho town was In
total darkness and tho streets filled
with debris, which greatly Impeded
tho work of rescue and assistance.
All night long physicians pushed
their way through tho wreckage, guid
ed to victims by moans and agonizing
groans. Doctors waded through tno
mud and water knoo doep, with their
assistants, frequently compelled to
crawl on their oil-fours under and over
all sorts of debris.
Mayor Parkor says there were a
thousand homoloss. Every door In
Gainesville was open to the victims.
At the city tall, the armory an]
courthouse many passed the night,
shivering In tbo cold.
Elaborate Plans For Alltvtotlng All
Distress, Restoring Order and 01*
rooting Business Into It* Normal
Channel*
$5,090 TO RELIEF FUND.
Appeal Made to Secretary for Tents
to 8hetter the Homeless.
Oalnesvlllo, Ga., June 2.—A mass-
meeting her* this morning was held
which subscribed $8,000 to the rellel
fund for the sufferer* from yester
day's tornado.
A message hai been seat to the sec
retary of war asking for tsats to she!
tor the homeless; end an appeal to
made-for eld to the public. The main
■eed of the sufferers now to clothing
and shelter. .
Governor Terrell hat ordered 80
tents tent to OelaeeviUe from Atlanta.
The lost to property to estimated at
$800,000.
Many ere missing whose bodies nr*
believed to be still hurled In the debris.
Today at noon tho conservative esti
mate of the deed to 100 end the Injur
ed will number nearly 200, which In
cludes many fetal cases. Borne eayl
the number of Injured will retch $00.
Kansas OUy, Juno I.—Flood condi
tions were materially better during
the night and on all aides this morning
the intense strata of the poet four
days bod for tbo Brat tlrS® been reliev
ed. Communication by steamer witfi
Kansas City, Kan*., having been open
ed permanently the exact conditions
there having become known, no fur
ther feeling of anxiety was felt for
the sufferers In thet locality.
Now that (he lay of the land to
known and the relief committees of
both Kansas Cities are able to work
together, they havo mapped out and
put Into execution elaborate plans tor
relieving all dlatreas, restoring order
and to thoir normal channel*
Theae plans aro being car
ried out today -by an army of local
men, reinforced by relief In the shapo
of food anil boats sent In from St
Josoph and Leavenworth.
At 7 o'clock this morning the Mis
souri river registered Sf-4 feet, a fall
of nearly 12 Inches In os many hours,
snd the weather bureau predicts that
from now on the weather will gradual
ly but steadily fall.
Tho Kansas river continues to fall
at tho rate of half an inch an hour and
the tops of submerged buldlng* are ,
beginning to show above the waterline.
The sun shone today and this fact
was a tremendous force for good.
PANIC IN BLAZING CAR.
STEAMER LOST AT 8EA.
Arequipa Thought To Have Met With
Oleaster.
London, June 2.—A dispatch from
Valpralso. Chile, confirms the dispatch
of tbe Associated Press last night from
Santiago de Clrile, referring to ths
fears expressed thero for the safety
of the Pacific Steam Navigation com
pany's steamer Arequipa, which, dur
ing a lull in yesterday's storm at Val
paraiso, left that port tn an endeavor
to rldo out the galo at sea.
Tbo agent cables that the steamer,
which had 30 passengers on board,
probably was lost. Tbo bodies of
some of the Aroqulpa’s crow, ho adds,
were brought aehqre.
U. 8. Will Aid Storm 8ufferer*
Washington, Juno 3.—Secretary
Root has directed that an officer be
sent from Fort McPherson to Gaines
ville and that sufficient quantities or
rations be furnished tbo storm sub
fererg to prevent loss of Ilf* It ll
notthe purpose of tbo war department
to do more than furnish temporary ro
lief and supplies as requested by Sep
reeentatlv* Tat*
Several Injured by Blowing Out of the
Fuse,
Bloomfield, N. J., Jan. $.—In a trol
ley ,«ccldent In Bloomfield avenue,
Bloomfield, N. J., three people were
Injured, one seriously, due to the Mow
ing out of the fu-c of a Caldwell oar
of the North Je-: -v Street Railway
company. Th< lit nt of the ear was
quickly enveloped in Hemes, and In the
scramble to get off two passougers
were'Injured by falling and one was
burned about the head.
Mrs. Wesley Cook, of .Woodslde, in
jured shout tbe beck.
Florence Hapward, of Blpoomfield,
cut, bruited sad burned about the
head.
Emma Hartman, of New ark, hand
sind arm bruised.
The Injured were picked up by the
crowds who tad collected tad carried
into Raeb's hotel, where Dr. Frederick
O. Bhawe attended the Injured and tad
them sent home.
The cor was crowded end there wee
a panic among the passengers.
The aoddent delayed travel for over
bait an hour.
SPECIAL RIVER BULLETIN.
Washington Reports Condition of the
Flood at Kansas City.
Washington, Juno 3.—The Missouri
river at Kansas City be* begun to
fall, the gauge reading this morning
was 34.4 feet, a fall of .8 foot ainco
yesterday morning. Tho rise contin
ued to eastward and at St. Louie this
morning the stage waa 31.2 feet, 1.2
feet above the danger line. From tho
water now In sight no considerable
damage can he done In the vlclnty ol
St. Louts, not over $8 feet of water bo-
tog at present Indicated.
North of 8L Louie as far as Du
buque the Mississippi continues to rise
slowly, Keokuk this morning report
ing a stage of ISA feet, 2.8 feet above
♦he danger line.
“One year ago my hair came
out vc*y fastjso 1 tried Ayer’s
Long Hair V^/h'stoppedthe fall-
in a and made ray hair grow, until now it is 45 inches long.”
—-Afrs. A. Boydston, Atchison, Kans. z. c,
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