This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YS.2ADI/2889 Message Board Post: Dothan Eagle - Thursday, January 17, 1918 Deaths Caused By Friday’s Storm As a result of the cyclone that struck Cowarts Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock there are 11 known dead. 8 of whom were killed at Cowarts as follows: Marion PARKER, Mae FENDER, Vivian KITCHING, Hulette BOX, Sunbeam BRACKIN, Bernice MORRIS, Floyd GASHAW, Prof. J W KITCHING, teacher of Cowarts school. At Webb, Golas JONES was killed. His wife and daughter were seriously injured and Mrs. Jim WEEMS was killed. It is reported that one of her legs was pulled from her body. At Haleburg the storm went between the village and the Chattahoochee River, and hit the Gilbert neighborhood, killed Clay McKISSACK, and caving in the chin of Dr. PARKER. No other deaths reported that can be verified.- Dothan Eagle ***Mrs. Jim WEEMS was Byrd Harp WEEMS, daughter of Rebecca Jane STARLING HARP & William "Bill" F. HARP and wife of James Alexander WEEMS.