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The Atlanta Georgian.
vol. I. NO. 42.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1906.
PRICE:
MARfCED BY WRECK AND RUIN
IS PATH OF VIOLENT CYCLONE
Forests Are Uprooted, ; TUESDA Y’S STORM IN A TLANTA
PLA YS SEVERAL SOR TS OF HA VOC
Houses Are Blown
Down and Many
Left Homeless.
Track of Storm Was
200 Feet Wide and
Moved in a zig zag
Course.
Pine Forests Swept
Down, Blocking the
Railroads Through
Section It Passed.
Reprots that have been re
ceived here from the track of
the cyclone that passed through
Georgia Tuesday afternoon indi
cate that- thd damage will reach
high up into the thousands when
it all becomes known. The cy
clone, which traveled in a north
westerly direction, first gathered
shout AVaycross, and traveled in
a zigzag course, rising and dip
ping to the ground, across in the
direction of Albany, but seems to
have spent itself before reaching
there.
It was most violent at Tifton,
where many houses were blown
down and several injured, one fa
tally, and many are left home
less.
ONE FATALLY INJURED,
SEVERAL BADLY HURT
AND MANY HOMELESS
S|m lnl Id Th* Georgian.
Tifton, Oa.. June 13.—Yesterday aft
ernoon at 1: 3o o'rlnrlf a’ cyclone of un
usual violence /ruck Ttflon. destroy
ing property In Ihe residence portion
of ihe town to the value of 110,000 and
Injuring several persons seriously, one
man, Irvene Proctor, fatally.
The wind came from a northeasterly
direction In a slaxag course, with Its
force confined to a space of 100-feet.
A dosen residences with the furniture
of the occupants were destroyed. The
plant of the Tifton Manufacturing
Company was badly damaged.
A Inrge number of, negro shanties
were absolutely demolished, fences,
shade trees and window lights were
destroyed, nearly without exception, In
the district where the wind was fierc
est.
All electric, telephone and telegraph
wires In the city are down.
The Presbyterian Church was com
pletely moved from Its base and blown
to the ground. The wind destroyed
crops and timber for two miles on
either side of Tifton and many pine
trees were blown acroes the tracks of
the rnllroads.
A majority of the occupants of the
houses destroyed are without homes or
funds this morning and dependant upon
the efforts of friends for relief.
About 4200 was raised last evening
to he used In assisting them.
STORM BEGAN AT MANOR
CLEARED ALL IN PATH
FOR NEARLY TEN MILES
speeinl to The Georgian.
Waycroes, Oa.. June It.—A cyclone,
which juippcd about In this section of
■he state for nearly a hundred mites,
commenced at Manor, twelve mites
from Waycross, at 3 o'clock yesterday
sfiernoon.
The wind first landed on top of D.
C. Carmichael's hourfe at Manor and
carried away the lightning rods and
several boards. Then for a distance of
eight or ten mllea the tornado swept
everything In Its way, clearing every
nee and bush In a path a hundred
Jurds wide.
The dwelling and out buildings of
Hdtry Corbitt, four miles out. were
«»ept away, and the young son and
'laughter of Mre. Corbitt were perhaps
family Injured. Dr. Dunk James'
dwelling waa also destroyed, and the
family were burled In the ruins, but no
"he was Injured.
The cyclone then made a Jump to»a
P unt near Hasty, where small dam
age wns done. From Millwood, Pear-
a,n. Kirkland and all Ihe way up to
Tifton. come reporta of damage, but no
'«• of life has occurred so far as Is
known.
A Waycross drummer, who waa at
Pearson yesterday afternoon, heard the
r "ar of the cyclone several miles away.
*nd parts of trees blown from a great
distance felt near his feet.
At Manor stumps and pine trees
*hich have been standing In an old
""id for years were uprooted by the
'"trifle wind.
heavy gale raged
AROUND AMERICUS
DAMAGING CROPS
Ppew-ifti to Th# fU-orgtan.
Amerlcu» f Ga., June II.—Quite a vale
here yeaterday which vu prob-
ah *y 'auaed by the tornedo on the
4 Hundreds of trees were uproot-
b ut other than thl# and the damage
the corn cro* which was not very
* r *at f no other has been reported.
CYCLONE PASSED NORTH
OF ALBANY NEIGHBORHOOD.
'■'••ml t.1 The Ueorglan.
Albany, Oa., June tl—There Is noth-
definite obtainable here about the
">■ lone which. It Is reported. passed
’"■rough the neighborhood of Tifton,
z.rth of here.
IN THE DARK30 MINUTES
MAR Y MARBLE AND CHIP
PLA Y TO SCARED CROWD
W HILE the storm was raging at Its height Tuesday night, rain waa
being driven against the Casino In sheets and the wind whistling
and screaming around the corners of the playhouse, suddenly there
came a crash as of falling timbers and the lights went out.
The two hundred or more of the audience were hurled Into a chaotic
frama of mind and In the utter darkness a panic seemed imminent. None
knew what had happened or what would come next. '
But Mary Marble and Little Chip saved the day and for thirty minutes
In the pltch-llke gloom they entertained the audience with their extem
pore fun-making after having quelled the panic.
It was during the last act and the specialty song of "Mlrandy" by Mary
Marble. All during the performance the wind and rain had been beating
with terrific force against the north and east sides of the building. Then
an unusually severe gust of wind struck the building, blowing down the
shutters In the gallery of the house and threatening evesy moment to lift
the roof from Its fastenings. The lights suddenly went out anil fully half
of the audience jumped to their feet and turned to the exits. Little Chip,
however, came to the assistance of Mary Marble and with the chorus
which wss hastily assembled, a specially act was gone through which was
not on the program. After a moment of hesitation the audience was again
seated and In appreciation of the remarkable coolness of the favorites on
the stage, encore after encore wasdemanded and given and for fully half
an hour the two performers kept 'up a round of continuous nonsense that
eclipsed any other number on the program.
After waiting a reasonable length of time for the return of the lights.
Mary Marble discovered a candle which she kindly loaned the orchestra,
and amid the most enthusiastic applause ever accorded any artist at the
Casino, the performance was brought to a successful close.
But she had sung "Mlrandy" clean through Just twepty-two consecu
tive times.
MADDOX'S SHADE TREE
BLOWN DOWN THIRD TIME
F OR the third time In Its short
life a shade tree, belonging to
R. F. Maddox and having
standing room on the Ellis street side
of Mr. Maddox's Peachtree street home,
was blown down In Tuesday night's
storm.
And Wednesday Mr. Maddox, whose
very name Is synonymous of persever
ance, will for the fourth time set out
this tree.
This tree has, like the elevator boy,
had many ups and downs. Four ups
and three downs, In fact.
But Mr. Maddox 1s particularly fond
of this particular tree and feels that
because of Its unfortunate disposition
to fall before temptation It needs to be
help
Bo he is planting It for the fourth
STORM-SHOT WINDOW
MUTILATESHEA VYDESK
Trees Uprooted and
Many Phones
Ruined.
WORST SUMMER STORM
HERE IN MANY YEARS
Wind Only Reached Official Ve
locity of 32 Miles an Hour But
Was Terrific in Spots.
HE wind storm Tuesday afternoon
did not fall to produce some
freaks, not the leant peculiar of
which was the blowing In of a heavy
plate glass window. In the office of A.
A. Meyer In the Century building.
About 6 o'clock Mr. Meyer was sit
ting at his desk, which Is of heavy
oak, when he noticed that the wind
caused the glass to bend In slightly. A
minute later a sudden blast broke the
glass, sending a thousand small pieces
of It crashing all over the room. Mr.
Meyer's forehead was severely cut In
two places by the flying glass, while In
the oak desk heavy gashes,-some nn
Inch deep, were cut by pieces of Ihe
window pane.
Julian A. Baxter, of the firm of Mil
ledge A. Baxter, In going out of n door
In his office In the Century building
had his hand badly mashsd by a slam
mlng door.
While going to catch a car Tuesday
afternoon. Dr. C. C. Green, of 361
Whitehall street, fell on the slippery
sidewalk at the corner of Forsyth and
Marietta streets, fracturing his hip. He
waa attended by Dr. Willis Westmore-
land, after which he wax taken to his
home.
MARBURY SA YS STORM
WAS NOT A CYCLONE
‘Tuesday night's terrific wind and
heavy rain, which piay be called a
storm, was not a tornado or cyclone,"
says Local Forecaster J. B. Marbury.
The storm was caused by unusual
barometric difference within a small
area, the high being over the central
states and the Atlantic coast and the
low over the Gulf coast where the
storm was centered.
'Tornadoes almost Invariably come
on n hot murky day. when Intense heat
causes such atmospheric conditions ax
to bring about a disturbance that la
evinced In electrical disorders and
winds of great velocity. While we had
a wind Tuesday that reached a veloc
ity of 33 miles an hour, we had no
cyclone, nor did Tifton.
"The center of the storm Tuesday
night was on the gulf const, where n
very low barometer prevailed. Farther
north a much higher barometer caused
the winds to be drawn south, and the
drawing in, caused by the low on the
gulf, necessitated the meeting of two
strong forces, which caused the storm
that was felt throughout Georgia Tues
day.
“Had there been a cyclone It would
not have been northeast of thx storm
renter, ax lx Tifton," said Mr. Marbury,
when asked If there was any connec
tion between the Atlanta and Tifton
storms. "The effect of the storm If
precipitated Into a cyclone would have
been southeast of the center, which Is
In Florida THtnn was on the wrong
side of the center for a cyclone. The
Tifton disturbance was In all proba
bility nothing more than a similar one
to ours yesterday and last night. If
there were any buildings blown down,
they were nn doubt defective, and not
capable of strong reslstancs.'
"The weather Tuesday was too cold
for a cyclone. It wns nothing more
than the tension caused by the dif
ferences In the barometer In n com
paratively small area There waa no
similarity to the Oalneevllle storm,
which occurred on a day such as I de
scribed. whenMhe temperature was high
and the humidity was very heavy."
$100,000 WAS SPENT
• IN CHATHAM PRIMARY
Special to The Georgian.
Savannah, Oa, June 13.—A clesn
sweep wss made by the People's Dem
ocratic League In yesterday's county
primary, the majorities ranging from
2S5 In the sheriff's race, to 613 In the
race for Judge of the city court.
The vote cast was 6,163, out of a
registration of 6,146.
The lead which Ihe victors obtained
at the opening could not be overcome.
The election was one of the most
orderly In years.
Stovall wss defeated for the state
senate nomination by Stephens by 433.
Votes were freely bought, It Is claimed,
by each side, and It Is estimated that
th# contest cost 6100.000.
The success of the new faction will
causa a desperate fight In January In
the mayoralty and aldermsnlc elections
and may result In smashing the pres-
SJu machine, of which W. W. Osborne
The vote Is as follows:
Judge of city Court—Davis free
man. 3.361: Thomas P. Ra venal, .,-
" 4 County Sheriff-Thomas F. Screven, amerwaa invent
tyre. Jr, 3,361: John J. Horrigan, 3,-
146.
Coroner—Dr. H. R. Stanley. 1,316;
Dr. J. O. Keller, 3.733: Dr. Oeorge M.
Norton, 1,160.
Treasurer—Waring Rusaell, 3,364; C.
H. Carson, 3,601.
Senator—W. B. Stephens, 1,116;
Pleasant A. Stovall, 3,166. '
Representatives In General Assembly
—David C. Barrow, 3,361; A. Pratt
Adams, 1,176; Joseph McCarthy, 1,-
111; A. A. Lawrence, 1,711; J. Ran
dolph Anderson, 1,711; John Rourke,
Jr, 3.710.
Clerk Superior Court—J. K. P. Carr,
6.163.
Clerk City Court—Waring RusssIL
Jr, 6,146.
County Surveyor— E. J. Thomas, 4,-
Tax Collector—Thomas F. Thomp
son. 4.161.
Tax Receiver—M. 8. Baker, MM.
Tree# were uprooted, gardens ruined,
cornices of houses blown off, tslephonea
put out of business, people Injured,
and much other trouble caused by the
terrific rain anil wind storm which
started In Atlanta Tuesday morning
nbout 1 o'clock, became terrinc . nt
night and did not die until early on
Wednesday morning.
The storm began early In the morn
ing and the rain felf for almost twen
ty-four hours, but It was not until the
afternoon thnt the wind which caused
so much damago to the surrounding
territory attained much Velocity. The
rain began falling nt ; *2 o'clock on
Tuesday morning, first lit a slow drli-
tle, which was Intermittent with heavy
downpours accompanied ^l>y a strong
east wind. Ita effect "he felt In the
early part of tha day Mostly on the
downtown streets whJFr .the high
buildings created a droit which In
creased the already 1,1* velocity of
the wind, which at (Irp* was thirty-
two miles an hour. -T
Nearly Four Inches Vf Rain.
Lata In the afternoon the wind In
creased In strongth nipt nbout dark
the rain began to fall Id continual tor
rents. This continued until daybreak
Wednesday, and In. (Its, time 1.47
Inches of rsln fell. eTJjfc was record
ed at the weather biirikiu from the
hours of 7 p. nt. Tuetejitg until 7 a. m.
Wednesday. Most of .vile rain fell be
fore midnight, howevert
From the heglnnltnr of the rein
I'""-.I"' nooning untlLef "■ look "t
night 1.3d Inches fell.piling the totnl
for the stornt 3 33. Tjfc temperature
Wednesday mornlug .>Mt 42 degrees,
while Tuesday 3 datnH^f hlghm* pre- [
vailed. The lowest temperature Ti
day was 62, while early Wednesday
mnrnlng 59 wnH registered by Ihe
thermometer In the weather bureau
Though It was the month of June and
Atlantans expert the weather to b<
moderately warm, they were content
plating warm fires Tuesday night, and
many of those who rode down town
Wednesday morning on the streetcars
were glad to sit bealds a dosed win
dow. The air was unusually fresh
and (he nlmoephere wee perfectly
Chilly June Weather.
The cool wind which accompanied
the rain Tueadey morning caused
many to don thslr raincoats, and It
was a wintry scene that presented It
self to pedestrians on the street Tues
day. Business was almost paralysed
In the retail districts, for ladles did not
care to risk the displeasure of a sum
mer cold, not to speak of the dlacom
fort from carrying around several
skirts In that rain. They stayed at
home rather then court the elements,
which were nil out warring. Those
few who had to be nut and about
moved In n hurry, for umbrellas were
of little use, so strong was the wind
around the corners of the high build
Ings In the business district It was a
stay-at-home day, even In Uie bnslness
center of Atlanta..
With the Increase of the velocity of
the storm nbout dark, those who had
expected to attend the bicycle races
and olhsr places of amusemsnt called
everything In for the night, and, as a
result Jack Prince for once postponed
the little entertainment ha was going
to pull off at Piedmont park, at 60
cents per person entertained. The
street cars ware deserted after dark,
and the streets down town, with wa
ters of the rain pouring down them,
enjoyed n bath within the privacy of
their own homes.
Many Telaphontt Out
The telephone companies were bad
ly crippled locally, as tha high wind
caused much crossing of wires. In
both systems, thare were about 600 tel
ephones ont of service Wednesday
morning, and It will be two daya be
fore nil of them will be In working or
der. The telegraph companies experi
enced some trouble with their wires,
on which linemen were put to work
early Wednesday morning. A few
fusee were burned out In tne local of
ficer. The rallronde were not eertoualy
Inconvenienced by the rain, end no re
ports of any waahoute have been re
ceived. The fire alarm system In the
city was badly damaged and •Chief
Joyner gave orders last night that the
should not depend nn the sys
tem In reporting fires, but should use
(he telephone.
Trees Upreetsd.
In every part of the city trees were
damaged and many young fruit trees
of ths city and In the country nearby
were uprooted by the high wind. In
every part of Atlanta Wednesday
morning people wen heard talking of
the storm and the damage to gardens
and trees, though no fatuities were re
ported as a result of ths falling trots
end Ihe cornices which were blown off
a number of houses In ths suburbs
where the wind had full piny.
OIRL BURNED TO DEATH
IN BUFFALO BUILDING
WestinghouM Is Honored.
By Private Leased Wire.
Berlin. June 11.—The Technical Unf
varsity has confsrred on Oeorge West. .
I nr house, th* American Inventor, the a bakery shop and the upper floor as •
- - ■ *— *Uvln* apartment.
By Privets Leased Wire.
Buffalo, N. T., June II.—Berths
Bander, 14 years old, was burned (o
death early this morning In a fire
which totally destroyed a two-story
frame building at No. Ill Mills street.
The building was occupied by August
Zl'xlsr. the lower floor being used by
MOBS HOWL FOR LIVES
OF MARYLAND NEGROES
WITH N, Y, LIFE
MORGAN'S MAN QUITS AS
ONE OF TRUSTEES.
Report of Fowler Probing Com
mittee Expected To Be Ready
in Ten Dayi.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, June II.—George W. Per
kins formally ends his career with the
New York Lift Insurance Company to
day when his resignation as trustee
goes lo the board of directors.
The final report of tha Fowler In
vestigating committee will be ready In
about ten days and n special mealing
of Ihe board will be ca'led lo recelro ll.
two firTscaused
BT CROSSED WIRES
Troops Ordered Out
to Protect Black
Prisoners.
■ 11W VMli l|Ul 1 'ipw “ 1611 611V HIM Wp
has appsalsd to Governor Swan-
through Adjutant Charles J. An
on, of Virginia, for mors troops.
The storm Tuesday afternoon and
night caused crossing of wires In every
part of Atlanta. Fires resulted from
this In two Instances. About midnight
Ire cams In contact with a lead pipe
In the home of Wktker P. Inman nt
411 Pearhtrea street, melting It and
causing a small blase, which waa ex
tinguished by the chemical apparatus
carried by Ihe firemen, who arrived In
a few minutes.
About I o’clock crossed wires caused
a blase In Ihe residence of William F.
Wlnecoff at 411 Peachtree street. Tha
By Private Leased Wire.
Easlvllle, Va., June 11.—The mob In
tent on lylnchlng the negro suspecL
Simmons, has now Increased to two
thousand about the Jail. Major Hall-
monsky, of Company K, of (ha Sevtn-
ty-flrsl Virginia Volunteer regiment,
finds ha con not cope with Ihe mob,
and hat appealed to Governor Swan
son,
d arson,
MOB SHOOTS A NEORO
IN HANDS OF OFFICER
By Private Leased Wire.
Princess Anns, Md., June It.—All
night, a howling mob has been In
posseeslon of the depot station here,
walling for xha arrival of a special
■rain on which Edward Watson, a
negro, who was to be brought from
the peninsula lost night and Jailed
here for sn assault upon a farm hand
employed by Samuel Bamss, st King's
creek, 10 miles south of Salisbury.
Watson was arrested close to the
railroad station at Parksley. The
news soon spread, and before long a
mob of 1,000 had congregated about
the depot. When the train arrived
from Eaelvllte, Va., where Simmons
wee confined. It contained hundred!
of excited people, who had gone
there to help lynch Blmmona. An
attempt wae made to take Wateon
from tha ofilcere, but It failed. In the
mlx-up, the negro was shot through
the ahoulder. He waa locked up.
Early today, Ihe eheriff of Somer-
act county telegraphed to Governor
Warfield, of Maryland, for froopa to
, elating " ' “
thoritlea would be unab
jail In case of attack.
HOLDS 500 AT BAY
WHILEHOUSEBURNS,
THEN KILLS HIMSELF
BEFORE SETTING FIRE TO
HOME, VET. FILES WILL
DOWN IN GOTTER
Precipitated by a sudden guet of
wind Into a raging atreem af water In
the gutter on Auburn avenue between
Piedmont end Butler Tueeday night,
Nat Lumpkin, n while man about 31
much yeara old, whoaa uncertain stride from
too much drinking was not strong
'enough to combat tha high east wind
SOAKED WITH GASOLINE sgnlnsl which he was trying to walk,
MAN BURNS TO DEATH 1 saved £Tb. d «£*"*.rrirai rf'pniM?
■— " ~ i man Thompoon, who fished hint out of
By Private Leased Wire. the water and took charge of him.
Decatur, III., June 11.—Bobert Mere- Lumpkin was walking east on Au-
dlth waa III end rubbed hlmeelf with burn avenne when ha fell and waa al-
what ha thought waa coal oil. It was 1 ntost completely submerged In tha
gaanllne, end when be atruck a match, water la the gutter, which had been
the whole upper part of his body waa, converted Into a veritable river by the
enveloped In flames. Before neoletance , heavy downpour of rain. Hie face
reached him he wae burned so badly waa badly Is'-raled from Ms fell on
that death followed In a short time. the etona blocks.
"See How a Brave Soldier Can
Die," Oriei Suicide
to Crowd.
Ily Trieste I,ease<l wire.
dentil Norwalk, I'nnn..
sensing sulfide of rapt
Youngs, a civil war vein
one of Ike greatest irnsai
memory of rrstdeets here
After selling are to I I-
Inin, «rise.I with s shotgun
is and Ihe ineml*
' 111 '
perauui
parlsH
awed
rlmrnt until tb« lit
hrere retir es
of tile hr«l|.
rWor* tnkln* hi* llff b»
#xr|n
i UI#, M
ga tv’a off Irv a nil J fllftl hi*
MRS, SHEPARD WALKER
ID QUICKLY RELEASED
On Tueadey Ihe rase against Mrs.
Shepard Welker, who rune a boarding
house on Washington street, was
brought UP again before Justice Or
mond. After hearing the testimony of
some twenty-five witnesses, the justice
dismissed Ihe case brought against the
lady.
A. W. Far l Ip gar, the well known
grocer: W. E. Treadwell, A. McLeod, j.
A. Frits all testified that the < harncter
of the defendant waa that of h lady,
and they had naver heard on>thing
against her character. ll
forth that two women ca
recently and requester! her
donation for (he burial of <
Afee's son, and I hat she 1
given them |! She never
again- Other wltn---. - te,
Mrs. Walker had been .hung
work for the past
Two wltnrssra ah
fact that they hi
fd many llm-w