Cyclone Let Loose

Arhttgton, Ga., March 23.- A cyclone cut a path of death through this Httle town Monday. It left eight children dead in the ruins of Arlington academy. Many others and one of the many teachers will die. So far as is now known the names of the eight whose bodies have been recovered are: Genie Butler, Kenneth Boynton, Maud Johnson, Willie McMurria, Aliee Putnam, Ollie Paramore, Claude Roberts, Mary Weilong. The list of injured, as far as can be summed up, is as folio ws: Alton Carter, leg broken; Ethel Carter, internally injured and will die; Professor W. A. Irvington, internally injured and will die; Dudley Killebrew, both legs broken; Ben McMurray, head crushed, will die; Bettie Paramore, arm broken and hurt internally; Nola Roberts, shoulder dislocated; George Riley, arm broken and hurt internally; Simon Sanders, leg broken, hurt internally, will die; Clara Thighpen, arms broken, hurt internally and will die; Ernest Weltons, leg broken. Taking Out the Victims. Thirty-five children and the teachers went down in the wreek. Men who are removing the ruins are sick at heart and almost afraid to continue, dreading what may be found at any instant. The horror carne upon the town at 8:30 in the and without a warning. There was a ..tuiden roar, which passed away as quklrly as it carne, and the harvests of ;ith had been reaped. No larger irán a bed blanket was the cloud in which the cyclone was hid. It rusheddown f rom the northwest, missed the business section by a bare block, tore through the residences of W. D. Cowdry and Dr. W. E. Saunders, demolished them and then took the Ii f t Ie academy and twisted it into fragrnents. ■Luckily nobody was in either of the two residences, and so the death list is confined to the ácademy pupila. People Hear the Knar. Persons who heard and saw the death cloud were startled. Nobody dreamed. however, that it had caused a horror umil a scream carne from the direction of the academy. The town is a little one, and it did not take long for the news to spread that there was a disaster. Men left their work and women their homes. Nearly everybody had a child in the school, and when the white-faced men and weeping and screaming women saw what had happened the scène was heartrending. Children, wounded and Meeding and unable to walk, were creeping and crawling and staggering out from under the wreeked building. Others, alive but heljjlessly fastened down by broken beams and flooring, were piteously pleading for assistance, while others, silent and mangled, told a tale all too horrible for the parents who looked upon the work of the small cloud. Rescue Work Iïegun. Kescue work was soon begun. Men and women, too, tore at the twisted timbers, sobbing and screaming. ,üccasionally nature was kind to a mother and she was tenderly carried away unconscious. Other towns were asked to send aid, and doctors carae from far and near. AU that was possible was done for the mangled little ones, while the dead were borne to homes of sorrow. Nearly every household is stricken, and in every street are women wringing their hands, sobbing men and children weeping because some little chum is either dead or dying. The academy, which lay directly in the path oí the death cloud, was a new two-story structure. It was knocked into a great heap, and the work of death was done even before the danger was realized. The structure was smashed into kindling wood, and the broken timbers and dead bodies were mixed together in sickening confusión.