The fourth day after the terrible cyclone at Melissa finds the victims progressing nicely at the new City Hospital. The report obtained from the hospital Saturday morning was to the effect that the storm victims are all resting as comfortably as could be expected, and each has very little fever. This is regarded as gratifying inasmuch as many of the victims were badly mangled, bruised and sustained broken bones. None of the victims have died since the publication of the death list and it is expected at the hospital that they can all be saved.
Mrs. P.F. Loftice, wife of a prominent Melissa grocer, and whose 23 month old baby was killed in her arms while she was hastening with her infant to safety, was taken from the hospital and returned to Melissa by her husband. Friday, Mrs. Loftice suffered abrasion of face and shoulder, caused by a piece of timber striking her during her flight for safety, this piece of timber caused the death of her baby.
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