The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 2

ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWK TALK, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1908 HARROWING AND AWFUL. MANY LIVES WIND COSTS is Griffin In Particular Given a mam MAY LEAD TO CAHCER There Is no difference, at first, in the appearance of a cancerous and i tomtnon ulcer, and for this reason every sore that is obstinate or alow in fceaJiog should excite suspicion, for the sore is nothing more than the external evidence of a polluted blood, and if allowed to remain may degenerate lata Oncer. F.fTorts to heal the ulcer by means of salves, plasters and other external remedies always result in failure.because such treatment can have possible effect on the blood, where the deadly germs and morbid matter form, and are carried through the circulation to the place. 2so sore or ulcei can exist without a predisposing internal cause, and the open, discharging leer or festering old sore will continue to, eat deeper into the surrounding fleshes long as a polluted, germ-infected circulation discharges xts impur-Itks into it. S.

S. S. goes to the fountain-head of the trouble, and drives Mt the eerm-producins poisons and morbid impurities' which keep the goes to the diseased place the healing begins, all discharge ceases, the inflammation gradually leaves, new tissue and healthy flesh FO are formed, and soon the sore is perma- irw4 a fi in madfi ntirplv cit PURELY VEGETABLE roots and herbs of a healing, cleansing nature, and unlike mineral medicines, which cftm do great damage to the delicate parts of the system, S. S. S.

femes op every part of the body. Book on Sores and Ulcers and any medical advice toured fcee. XHE SWIFT SPECIFIC ATLANTA, GA. i FOR SUMMER GOODS Refrigerators Ice Cream Freez-ers, Screen Doors, Windows, Screen Wire Cloth, Gaso-lineandOil Cooking Stoves which are a comfort for sum mer. 1 0 II II 1 11 11 111 111 1 1 1 1 1 II I A 1 1 Alexandria naraware Company, Ltd.

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HOLC0K Veterinary Surgeon crescent 823 UNION ST. IWttjft Stocks, Bonds, GranTS and Cotton bought kT margin orforo Cincinnatti. wires to ii Direct Markets. MINIMUM MAMW-ar share. Grain lo pWl ton Jl.W per No interest charged stocks erest -xVJ rlV AND lh INSURANT Notary rw McDe" Johnston Street Alexandria Construct PLUMBERS Steam and 0j Fitters 3 1 IrlT on Earth Nothing Heartrending Sights and Fearful Results Attend WRATH OF THE TORNADO.

Purvis, Mi, Had About Two Hundred Dwellings Smashed to Pieces, and In Other Sections the Wind's Work Was Something Dreadful. New Orleans, April 27. As a result of the terrific storm which swept across the southern gulf states com munication between the cities in this Bection of the country Saturday were poor and In a majority of Instances there were no communication at all. Trains coming into New Orleans on various railroads report heavy damage all along their lines. It was believed Saturday the death list In Louisiana.

Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama would reach several hundred. The destruction of Purvis, oc curred at about 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon and was all over in a few minutes' time. Of about 200 dwelling houses, only seven were teft standing. The courthouse, the only other building In town to withstand the wind, was Immediately packed with dead and in jured and served as the only available hospital within many miles. C.

W. Cromwell of Jackson, In attempting to describe the Btorm. said that he could realize that the air was full of flying timbers. These timbers dealt death to many persons who sought safety in the open air, while the falling of walls was a still safety in the peril to those who remained indoors. One child is said to have been kneel lng in prayer, with her uncle bending over her in an attempt to shield her, but despite his care a timberwhich did not touch him, killed the girl.

When the storm was over Sheriff Hollman, put a man on horse back with orders to gallop to Richburg and telephone from there for aid from Hattiesburg. In reply to this couriers appeal a special train bearing twelve physicians and 150 other persons went to Purvis. Meanwhile a second relief train started from Lumberton. The passengers on these and other trains approaching Purvis were forced to witness pitiful sights as they near-ed the tornado district. One train was stopped by a woman waving a red cloth and when the tngineer ran ahead to see what she wanted the woman fainted and the engineer found that the red color of the cloth was caused by blood.

A search revealed her home near the railroad right of way and there three members of her family were found dead and four injured. The dead and Injured were put aboard the train and carried to Purvis. A man who drove into Purvis from four miles out in the country, bringing with him his Injured wife and three Injured children, said that he saw the bodies of several dead, whom he took to be negroes, lying beside the road. At night fall what was left of the town was put under martial law. a militia company preserving order.

More than 100 of Purvis' residents left Friday night, most of them wounded and going to Hattiesburg hospitals and the others seeking some place in which to sleep. The seven houses and a tew box cars furnished the only shelter from the cold and dismal rain for the survivors who were not so wounded that they had to cared for in the courthouse. NEARLY THREE HUNDRED. Incomplete List Shows That Many Lost Their Lives. New Orleans, April 27.

Incomplete list of dead and Injured in Friday's storm up to 3 o'clock Saturday, made up from telegraphic reports received here from various points throughout the gulf states, placed the number of killed at 287, and the! njured at 1,091 FOUR CARS PICKED UP. Are Deposited Hundreds of Feet Away by a "Twister." Mobile, April 27. Four cars were picked up at Mohned, on the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railway, by a "twister" and deposited hundreds of feet away from the right of way. Two negroes were killed outright and cars wrecked. At Fort Deposit three persons were killed.

The country one the line of Mo bile, Jackson and Kansas City road between Mobile and Beaumont, Miss Isslnnl. reports no loss of life, but con slderable damage to property. All traffic on the Southern railway will be tied up for several The rainfall at Mobile was very heavy. TWENTY KILLED. That Number Said to Have Met Death In One SecMon.

Rome, April 27.A report reach ed here that twenty persons had been killed by a terrific storm between Cedartown and Cave Springs, da Onlv Piling Left. Mobile, Arrll 27. Reports received hara SotiirHuv ufatcA that at McCal- lum, on the Mobile. Jackson and KanRBo Pltv railroad, nrohnblv twelve people were killed ard several in lured In th' storm. A McCallum trestle ana 00 feet of track wer? blown off the right of way, nothing left of the trestle but the piling.

Death and Desolation. Purvis, April 27. An air of death and desolation marked Purvis Saturday, The total death list in this vicinity at noon Saturday reached alxtyrtwo. Nearly Obliterated. Mobile, April 27.

Post Depotit, Altj 141 miiea fiorn here, am own Severe Handling. Atlanta, April 27. Reports received here say a severe windstorm struck Griffin, wrecking part of the city and killing five persons and injuring at least fifteen others. The report states that a cotton mill and other business houses were blown down. From Columbus the Associated Press received a dispatch saying that two persons were killed and a dozen injured by the storm there.

A long distance telephone message to the Associated Press from Grlftin saysi Mrs. M. E. Green and Mrs. M.

O. Chapel were killed outright in their homes, and Mrs. Harris and son have died. The storm struck Griffin about 2 o'clock Saturday morning, cutting a path about 100 yards wide through the city and destroying at least twenty-five bouses, besides tie Baptist church and one or two other public buildings. Number of persons injured.

They are being cared for in hospitals. A telephone message from path of severe wind and rainstorm report fatalities at Shipley, Harris City, Mc-Donough and Locust Grove, Ga. The storm through this section followed a path a few hundred yards wide and passed over within a few hours. FOURTEEN THOUSAND, That Number Can Be Seated at Denver Convention. Denver, April 27.

Plans for seats in the new city auditorium which is now nearlng completion, have been sent by Secretary Mills of the Denver chamber of commerce and the Convention league. Secretary Woodson of the Democratic national committee, for guidance in making seating arangements for the Democratic national convention, which meets at Denver July 7. There are 11,521 chairs shown in the plans, and by placing chairs in the aisles or in the space left for standing room it will be possible to seat 14,000 people. This is a greater seating capacity than that of the Chicago Coliseum, Madison Square Garden, New York, or the Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake City. Mr.

Woodson will be assisted in the work of arranging places for various delegations by Colonel J. I. sergeant-at-arms of the Democratic national committee. GOES TO PANAMA. Secretary Taft Is to Depart In a Few Days.

Washington. April 27. As the result of deliberations at the cabinet session Friday it was determined that Secretary Taft should go to Panama. He will sail April 20 on the cruiser Prairie. A detachment of marines also will be sent on the Prairie.

A number of questions between the United Staes and Panama, and between Panama and Colombia will be negotiated during the secretary's stay on the isthmus. It is said to be necessary that the concessions of the United States obtained from Panama provided for in a protocol should be embodied in a permanent treaty. The secretary will be gone three weeks, expecting to return to the United States May 20. MOUSE CREATES PANIC. Its Appearance In Theater Causes Eight Hundred Women to Stampede.

Cincinnati, April 27. One tiny mouse caused a panic at the Olympic theater. Eight hundred women stampeded in the rush for exits when the rodent was discovered in the orchestra circle, but Ifcrschall Mayal, leading member of the Forepaugh Btock company, quieted the fears of the people and none were fatally injured, although half a dozen women were seriously bruised. It was during the second act of "Un der Two Flags" that a woman in the second row discovered the mouse. With a piercing scream she( leaped upon the seat and then fell over backward in a faint.

In a moment the whole house was in a panic. Swallows Gasoline, Dies In Agony, Greenville. S. April 27. Helen Odam.

three years old. drank half a pint of gasoline and died in twenty I A minutes. MERELY MENTIONED. In five years Dade county, Georgia has gained but two school children. A mail route has been established between Mobile and points In Spanish Honduras.

Will Perkins of Dallas lost his life near Bennington, by falling from a train. 1 Taylor (Tex.) Fair association will hold Its twenty-Beventh annual exhi bition July 2, 3 and 4. Bob Henderson and Taylor Dar rough, trainmen, were seriously hurt In a wreck at Boswell, Okla. Mrs. Mary Ann Dickerson of Bell fontalre, is 10f ypars old.

Her eye sight a' hearing are good. Mr. T. Wad-? rtipd nnr Ninne-kah. Okla.

Htr husband followed her to eternity three days afterward. Eishf-en of the ringleaders in the coriplracy to kill Prfsldent Cabrera of Omtemala have been put to death. Phrlns a revolver fo his head. Wll llnm Prit'Hird n' Pittihurz pulled trlitper and eiid his ea Ihly career Ou3sv Me a 'lobrkn, N. as frolosrer, any the s'jm tell him Presl dent Foosevelt will renominated and reelected.

Count Glzj chl has Instituted at Vi enna dlvorc porceidings. Hlj wife in a daughter of Robert W. Patterson of the Chicago Tribune. Jim Richardson, a negro, now In jail at Atlanta, says he Is glad he killed Mi wife and wants to be trUd ia4 uaaged tfiLlj it libit, Alabama, Louisiana and Missis-sippi Suffer. DEATH LIST IS LONG ONE.

With Fearful Velocity Tornadoes Past Through Various Sections, Resulting In Numerous Fatalities, Casualties and Property Destruction. New Orleans. April 27. About 150 persons were killed and about 400 Injured in storms of cyclonic proportions which passed over sections of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama Friday. Several towns were almost totally swept away, and the property damage will run into large figures.

Most of the killed were negroes, whose cabins were swept away. Natchez, reports that of Bixty-four persons killed in that section only two were whites Reports from Amite, a small town in southeastern Louisiana, say that the town was almost completely destroyed, and the estimates placed the number killed at between twenty-five and fifty, while at least seventy-five were injured. At McLain, eight are reported to have been killed. At Vidalia. one white woman and six negroes are dead; at Quitman Landing eleven negroes were killed; at Purvis Landing, three whites and nine negroes were victims of the storm, and reports of from one to five deaths come from many towns over the storm-swept area.

New Orleans and Mobile were cut off from wire communication with the outside world for several, hours, and the telegraph companies reported wires down in all directions. A telegram from Birmingham stated that a tornado devastated the heart of Albertville, in north Alabama, and the place Is a mass of debris. The number of dead and injured Is large. Practically the entire business section of the town was destroyed, and it Is estimated that 150 dwellings were torn from their foundations and many of them wrecked. Special trains from Gadsden bearing surgeons and a military company has tened to Albertville to alleviate suffer ing.

Scores of homeless walked the streets giving way to the Injured, who are sheltered in the few houses re maining in the town. A tornado passed over north- Alabama. Bergens, a small town in Walk er county, on the Frisco railroad at 2:30 o'clock, where five were killed and many injured. It was next heard from at Thomas' sawmill, near War rior, where two were killed and five Injured. Sweeping up Sand mountain, it did the greatest damage at Albert ville.

The last heard from the storm was at Sylvania, in DeKalb county, the extreme northeastern section of tne staie. six nouses were Diown down there, and one woman was badly hurt. The storm appears to have cut a path about 300 feet wide and traveled from Bergens to Sylvania, a distance of about 125 miles in a little more than an hour. A cyclone which struck Columbus, early Friday inflicted damage in the section around the Refuge cotton mill and the Columbus Comfort and Manufacturing company amounting to about $60,000. Lightning in the after noon struck the home of S.

C. Johnson, killing the father, O. J. Johnson, aged eighty years. C.

S. Baker and Mrs. Baker were seriously injured in the morning storm, but there were no fa talities. PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT. Every Business House at Purvis, Is Demolished.

Hattiesburg, Abril 27. The towns of McCallum, Purvis and Mc Laurin, were practically wiped out by a storm which swept over this section Friday. Every business house In Purvis and a majority of the residences were de stroyed. Many families are destitute. and it Is estimated that $15,000 will be needed for the Immediate relief of the sufferers.

The storm came from the southeast and passed over Hattiesburg, but did no damage. At McCallum, on the Mo bile, Jackson and Kansas City rail road, eight are known to be dead, four of whom are whites. Eight miles south of Hattiesburg, on the Gulf and Ship Island railroad, a track crew took refuge in a boxcar, which was blown to pieces. Two were killed and fifteen are now in the hos pital here. A relief train returned to this city from Purvis bringing forty seriously injured persons, many of whom, it Is said, will die.

The number of dead at Purvis is placed at thirty and the in jured at seventy-five. AMITE ALMOST DESTROYED. Wind Does Terrible Damage at That Little Place. New Orleans, April 27. Amite, a small town in southeastern Ixnilslana was almost entirely destroyed by a tornado.

The dead art estimated at from twenty-five to fifty. The first details wero brought to New Orleans by train, along with seventeen Injured, and the dead were placed at forty-five Physicians who have been engaged in relief work at Amite asserted that this estimate was correct. Correspondents on the scene, however, assert that not more than a dozen were killed out right, but bo many suffered fatal inju rles the list may reach twenty-five. Weed Pierces Tongue. Adair, April 27.

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