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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26.1884- TWELVE PAGES: ’
WRECKED.
THE SWATH OF DEATH THROUGH
FOUR STATES.
ALABAMA, GEORGIA, NORTH COROLINA
AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
Over Three Hundred Lives Lost
in the Fury of the Storm.
A TERRIBLE STORY FROM NORTH GEOR
GIA.
The Carolinas Swept Disas
trously.
A volume of cloud, with a loud rumbling
noire, was observed moving northward from
the Alabama line last Tuesday evening, near
the edge of Harris county. The skies overhead
assumed a dull leaden hue, with that pecular
lint which denotes an overcharge of the elec-
trie current. It was after eleven o'clock at
night before Tm-Constitution could secure
communication with its correspondents. As
it Is enough has come in to show that two
hundred lives at least must have been lost;
that five thousand houses must have been
destroyed; and that the damage to property
must reach one million dollars. The stories
of suffering are incredible. The storm pur
sued the well-known course, from the gulf to
the northeast. The story as told in the inter
views and telegrams following will give a
good Idea of the extent of the destruction
The dispatches from our special and staff
correspondents printed below are arranged In
the order of the two stories they describe.
Each cyclone Is taken at its initial point,as far
as our territory Isconcerned, and followed to
its end etep by step, until it leaves us. The
reader In going from one dispatch to another,
will follow the storms as they went.
THROUGH ALABAMA.
Montgomery, February 2d.—Tho cyclone sweep
ing yesterday over this section has left worse traces
within a short distance from here than immediate
ly around Montgomery. From KeUyton to We
tnmpkadn Coosa county,a big hall and wind storm
iojnrcd several, blowing down houses, bams,
ehnrch steeples, carrying them Into every direction.
At Cross Plains, eight persons were killed, and
others seriously Injured. At Bock Run and Amer-
son life and property wero detroyed. Many other
casualties from other secUons, but the wires ate
partly down. News comes in meager. Marion,
Alabama, had but one victim, but much property
was damaged. Montgomery had houses unroofed,
trees, fenoes, bridges tom down, but no other casu
alties. Tho damago near here Is considerable, but
docs not compare with the havoc played in the in
terior of this state. The steamer. Haggle Burke,
got out of the woods this morning, where the tor
nado had sent her She went down the Alabama.
Fire at Goodwater, Alabama, dMtroyed nearly
the whole business portion. Including telegraph
otUce and instruments; hence news meager.
TIIE LEEdToIIMTEK.
A nsrrswlag Slabs st Mass's* UeSIcs asd DsaU
laws*
Birmingham, Ala., February 20.—Your cone
.pendent boarded the regular passenger train on
the Georgia Paclflo to-day and wont to Leeds, fit
teen miles cast of this city, to get further particu-
lan of the terrific cyclone that swept through Ca-
haha Valley yesterday. Noldeaofthe devastation
can be conceived without visiting the track of the
cylone. At 1 o'clock the people taw a dense fun
nel ehaped cloud, black ae night,approaching miles
away, from tho southwest, roaring louder than a
thousand co-.lburners, and the whole heavens were
Illuminated with a peculiar glow, nover to bo for
gotten by the terror stricken people. Ae it ap
proached Loeds, the black shafti darted from tho
top of the strange cloud toward the earth with al
most lightning rapidity. *
THE TOTAL SWIEr.
At 1:80 o'oiock It swept orer tho new tosroof
Leeds, a hundred yards east of the depot, leaving
absolutely nothing In tho way of houses and trees
In 1U path. It followed tho track of the Georgia
Paclflo road six miles, covering It that distance with
ehrls. The west bond train from Atlanta was fif
teen minutes behind tiu-e, and escaped total de
struction. The east bound train! wee stopped by a
roe blown across the road from the main
cyclone. Thus both trains were providentially
saved. Before night 200 hands were put to work
cleaning the road and by thla time thle morning
the trains pu«d without trouble. This new road
■tood tho heavy rain and wind splendidly, and not
one foot of it wu damaged. The scene around
Leeds beggars descrip lon. Homes Just completed
were blown awey, and not even a brick left where
a honse stood, lionet, mules and cows killed and
Id some Instances with fence nils driven clear
through their bodice. At Dr. Wright's two home
were killed and throe blown away and never heard
from. Howaeaoonirsclor on the road and all hie
houses, twenty three carta and two wagons were
utterly demolished.
THE DUD AND TOE DYINO. .
The most heartrending news was that brought to
the station by people glrlng account o 1 the doad
and wounded. The following Is an additional Uit
cl dead sc far as heard from around Leeds:
JOHN POOLS,
DAUGHTER ALICE,
SON JAMES,
TOM DAVI8,
ROBERT DAVIS,
MBS. JAMES WEIGHT,
MRS. CARE, all white.
HAMET McCREA,
DAVE CLOtID,
BURTON KEITH,
JEFF FEW, colored.
The latter was blown three hundred yards. When
found not a vestige of clothing was on him. The
heads of two negroes were crashed so that their
brains ran out One hal’neany every bone In his
body broken. Tbe-following Is the list of the
wounded, at least one-third fatally, the remainder
all seriously:
8. B. WEST,
R. L. WILSON,
DOWDY,
MBS BASF,
TOM LITTLE,
LOOIS POOLE,
CLARK BATSON,
WIFE,
and TWO CHILDREN,
MBS. WHITE,
JIM HERRING,
MRS. GLASS,
MRS DAVIS,
JAMES WRIGHT,
TOM WRIGHT,
JOE WRIGHT,
KATIE WRIGHT,
JACK WEIGHT,
AMANDA MCLAUGHLIN, all white,,
POMP JACKSON,
BILL BRANNON,
TOM MILLER,
JIM6ADLEB,
GEwRGE TALLIAFEBRO,
JOHN BARNES,
HENRY FREEMAN,
CHARLE8 CABBY.
ANDY 8IEPUENS,
TOM LITTLE, colored.
Mrs. Biss had a small rock, an Inch In diameter
blown into her.Dtek, and U had to be out out by a
physician. She Is not expected to live. At
Poole's house. a trunk containing
fifteen hundred dollars was blown
away and his not been heard from, also two bales
ot cotton were blown from this place.
TH« EXTANT OF THE DISASTER.
Byactaal count twentj-jeTen dwelling houses
wero utterly demolished, betides many barns and
outhouse, The Widow Carr's house was blown
down.kllllng her and Immediately after the cyclone
the debits caught fire and banted. Many of the
suffering and traveller* who have gathered atLeedv
from the surrounding couutry have fearful exper
leuccs and narrow escapes to relate, sufficient
to fill every column tu The Constitution.
THE GEORGIA BLOW.
TIlEKORrUKHlV CYCLONE-
Killed asd Wa'ssded la Heard.
Franklin, February 20.—a terrible cyclone
passed through a part ot Heard county to-day.
Tho result It not fully known as Franklin ai yet,
but it la certain that ouo negro- wsi killed, and
several other negroes and whites have been badly
wounded. Many housea were blown down and the
trees end fences have completely blockaded the
roads. Somoctttloare known to ha killed, and
others, and also horses and mules are mlsslpg.
WHOLE FAMILY HI.-SINO.
One white family living on the farm ol F. C.
Moore, are all mlsrlng, and all the buildings of
every kind on the place blown away. It Is hoped
that the family waa off visiting and will yet come
up unhurL This, however, is thought not to be
probable. Parties hare gone out to-night to assist
la relieving the suffering and wtU retain to morrow
when full results will be reported.
Lam«r Lire At Ladtsa. ,
Rohe, February 20.—A fearful storm struck Am
bersons and Ladlga, Alabama, at S o’clock yesterday
afternoon, Housea fn large numbers were blown
down and fourteen persons are reported to have
been killed In that vicinity. The direction of the
wind was somberly and the storm extended to this
placo, where It did but little damage.
Usrsetcdal ML airy.
Mr. Airy, February 20.—The track of the stoim
last evening was about three miles south of this
place, nnrooflng and demolishing houses and tear-
log down Umber, killing the wife and daughter of
Howard Cash, and Injuring many other persons
seriously.
Tbrovah Javkava Csaaty.
Tallulah, February 20.—A cyclone passed overa
portion of Jackson about 0 o'clock yetterday oven-
log,coming from the dtrccUon of Doraville, pass-
lug above Nlckelson, Jackson county, utterly Jo-
molishlng Mr Charlie Nash’s house, and seriously
Injuring bis wife and daughter and a lltUe girl It
Is rumored thatmany houses were unroofed In the
country. At MsyivlUe the wind was terrific, but
no damage done.
The Dratvaetlsa Arsaad Athens.
Athens, February 20.—Tho cyclono struck Ha
Jarrett’f, near Jefferson, and unroofed
house and killed one of her horses.
Panics in Harmony Orare saw the cyclone
and say It looked like a funnel, that It went up lu
the air so that they could see under It, and a
cloud coming from the north wait carried it below
Harmony Grove, where It struck tho Nash honse,
completely demolishing the house, killing one of
the old ladles who has been living in the houso for
a numbor of yoars and tho other one Is thought to
be dying. Mrs. Charlie Nash, who wu living with
her two maiden aunts, Is badly mangled.
IN M1DIS0N COUNTY,
The next place It struck was at Ulx's in Madison
county. All ol tho buildings of Mi.Ulx were blown
down and Mr. Hlx and his son were seriously hurt
The rain In onrclty wu very heavy but no damsge
wu done Dorn the wind.
IN OCONIX COUNTY.
In Oconco connty it blew a groat deal ot fencing
down. Hall atones fell at Harmony Grove
u large u a man’s fist and
would weigh seven onn The hall was
cot round, but .looked like large quantities had
como together'and frozen. Our Informant states
that the storm must bare been fearful about Apple
valley, in Jackson county, u he saw it strike in that
direction, and from Its looks nothing could have
been left Handing. Ho uya the cloud from tta
northweet must havo broken the force
of tho cyclone before It struck the Nesh house.
TIIE a routs IN P1CKBNS.
DEVASTATION UNFEECEDENTED IN Till MOUNTAIN
COUNTIES—TWENTY KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED,
Staff correspondence of The Constitution.
JasrxR Pickens county, February 20.—Yesterday
at two o'clook a man stood on tho rear varandab of
tbo hotel at this placo looking qulotly toward the
summit of Oraesy Knob, ths highest point of the
range of Long Swamp mountains. It wu a dlsmtl
day to atari with, and a superabundance of rain had
fallen.
Suddenly tho cloude begin to lower and darkness
together, until it seemed that the town had been
sunk Into night Darker and darker grew the day,
until those In doors wero farced to light
their lamps and candles Then
lew, distant rumble wu heard, and the man who
wu watching Grawy Knob tnrnea around to hie
right and looked In the direction of Cartemllle.
He could have seen -the hills and mountains for
several miles If tho day had been clear. Before
him, hut obscured by the dark and threatening
clouds, lay a strip of country extending for about
fifteen mlloe—running from the southwest to the
northeuL
Quick u a Huh the low rumble broke Into a
loud roaring, and at once a wild and furious
cyclone here lu slsht at the right hand or south
western eud of thestripof couutry Just described.
Thetsceof the country seemed suddenly to hate
been wised with convulsions aod;the elements tap
tied furiously. A huge maw of black olouds with a
bright white Unlog was seen to pass alosg to the
south of Juper, first rushing fnrionily toward the
ground, then dartlag wildly upward, boiling this
way then that like a bnge pot of skeepheads, then
whirling and whizsing and lashing etch other, yet
movlog along with digulllsd grandeur toward the
summit of Graaer Knob. The noise of the cyclone
was like unto that msde by the flushing of a
cotry of quails, multiplied ten thousand
times over. The windows rattled, and the
houses shook as ths huge whirlwind passed In sight
of and within Ihtee miles of Jasper. The mass of
boiling clouds, steadied a moment to wrench off
the natlre forest that capped a hUI top, dashed over
like a hnge bee to snatch a mountain spur bald
headed, then wblssed along over a level ridge,
danced a few fantastic Jigs and with a sweep went
over Grtsqr Knob 1,290 feet above the level of.tho
sea and 2,128 feet above the tallest aptre In Atlanta.
The cyclone bad come In sight wven miles to
the right of Jasper, she went over the mountains
and oat of sight eight mtlee from Jasper. She wu
in eight peihaps five minutes and In ten the tract
returned to its erstwhile quiet, the devastated
route being from half a mile to three miles across.
Now let's see what it did In the five minutes
trip over that fifteen mile slice of country.
Here Is a list of the dead:
MBS. LEVI CAGLE,
and THO CHILDREN,
WILLIAM GROVER,
WILLIAM HEBREN,
ALONZO WBIOHr,
MRS. JAMES DOWDA ,
and TWO CHILDREN,
MRS. WYLY,
MRS. LEWIS KING
and TWO CHILDREN,
JOHN NICHOLSON, (reported.)
MBS. JOHN NICHOLSON,
MB3. NATIONS,
MRS. Wat KINS,
A CHILD OF PERRY PETTITT,
CHILD OF W. H. COLLIER,
CHILD OF HIRAM WALKER,
Making In all twenty deaths known and accounted
for yesterday.
The scenes that tho cyclone left In Its track are
beyond description. One needs to stand In the
midst of the demolished to eats and sco the destruc
tion of life and'property to form an Idea of the ex
eat of the damage.
A nEARTUENDINO SMCTACLK.
The printed list strove tells a sad story.of sunder
ed families but it Is cold and Impotent when It
comes to giving an Idea of what there deathsmean
Near where the cyclone wes first seen from Jas
per three brothers have lived for years. There
names are John, Peter and Lovi Cagle. They are
all prosperous and well-to-do farmers, ownitg good
lands and running an extensive government dis
tillery. They live within a stone's throw of each
other and hare good comfortable houses. Levi
Cegle lived In a largo two-sto.-y house, Bitting upon
tho creit of a hill overlooking tho valley of one of
the mountain creeks. Southweitward from hie
houso was open. No trees or hills were In the wey
and the residence etood right In the pathway of the
cyclono.
In his houee were his wife and five children and
three hired men, Wm. Grover, Wm. Herron and
Alonzo Wright.
The ejelone whisked over tbo mountains and
into the valley where It panted a moment to
gather its forces In the unbroken space, then set-
tlfrg down It began to soon like a top and away It
whizzed liko an arrow aimed at the houio of Levi
Cagle. For a second It flew through the
atr unobstructed, then It wrapped Itself about the
house, gave an angry jerk and literally tore tho
happy home Into a million pieces. Not a shingle
dung to its follow, and of tbo plso- and all Its out
houses not ono stick wu left above another.
Thera wu a crash and a etat'er and the air wu
filled with Ilyins timbers, tin pans, fnrniraro
feathers, corn, wheat, bedding, chickens, and In
fact everything that tba placo held.
Mr. Cagle wu at the residence of his brother, Jus,
outside tho fnry of the storm, and when ho saw the
cyclone coming he started toward hts house. Before
he reached there he wu forced to cling to the un
derbrush to keep from blowing away, and as soon
u tho wind wu gone he proceeded to where a mo
ment before hie house stood.
A fieartrrnderiDg spectacle met blague. His
wife and two children were found a hundred
yards away dud. Farther on three other children
one a baby eighteen mouths old,were picked up in
an almoat dying condition. Two of them hid been
blown three hundred yards. Scattered about In
tba woods were the three men, Grover. Herren
and Wrlgnt, all dead, one with a hnge tree across
his body.
Thus In a moment that house had given up tlx
lives to the cyclone, and threo others wero narrow
ly saved and may yet fall to respond to the sur
geon's skill.
The distressed husband and father, In the midst
of his demolished home and dead and dying fanal
ly, wu wild with grief. The dead bodies and the
Injured children were removed to tho bouse of
Mr. Wesley Cagle, and oua meaaugor went for
shrouds for six, and another went for surgeons fur
three. Such a visitation rarely falls to tba lot of
one man.
Tilt STOKE S WILD WORK.
will the reader lakoa trip along the wako of the
cyclone lu that fifteen milesr
Remember It crossed the Western and Atlantic
railroad nearCartersrtlle. It appears that It did
nothl g of consequence until It reached a point a
few mile* from Jasper, aayseven or eight. Then ft
msde the fifteen mile shoot for Grassy Knob, and
this Is what llleft:
Archer’s mill wu blown down and the log dam
blown away.
Pitt’s store wu blown down.
John Nicholson's house wu blown down and hla
wife, a sister of Hon. Lem Aired killed. They are
both very old and Mr. Nicholson la reported dead.
Widow* Corbin's houso blown down,) but out of
the eight persons lu It none of thorn were hurt. Ehe
is vory poor and tho cyclono leaves her In a most
distressing condition.
James Dowda, house blown down and his wife
and'two children killed.
Lewis King's houso blown down and hts wife
killed.
Bill Anderson, house blown down and hts little
girl hurt.
Refuge Baptist church, Just erected, blown to
atoms.
Dillard Patterson blown a considerable distance,
but not hurt.
Joseph Morris, houso blown any and hts wife's
arm broken. A young man, name unknown, also
hurt
Bill Rccio wu not at home, bnt bis wlfo ran lntoa
cellar with tight children, and the house wu blown
from over them and dashed Into a million splin
ters. Mrs. Reese had an um broken and one child
had a finger hurt so that It had to be amputated.
Had It not been for tho cellar, II Is probable they
would have been killed.
Leri Cagle's houso and outhouses and all prop
erty except the land blown away, and elx persona
killed and three dangerously wounded.
The house of Leals King wu blown down and
Mrs. KlDg wu .killed. Mr. King narrowly es
caped.
The following farmers In the lower part of Pick-
enaand tho edge of Cherokeo wore hurt: W. H.
Colbler, Mrs. Warren Barrett, Mrs. Frank Manley,
Mn. Lacy, Mrs. Pitts, Mn. Baker, Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Taylor,Tom Cook, Aureltu Cornellaon. The
following houses lu that county were destroyed:
W. H. Collier's Mr. Barrett's, C, H. Taylor's dwell
ing and bams, Wm. Mauley’s, Jim Long’s John
Bollogt’s Tom Cook’s John Pawn's, Mr. Carr’s
Colonel Jackson's and many other smaller ones.-.
John Cagle's house lorn naif down.
Cagle Bros'* distillery partially demolished.
W. B. Djwda's house torn to pieces and the old
man hurt. Pieces of timber scattered widely la
every direction,
W. B. McCrary, in the road at the time, and bad
hla wagon and himself blown furiously tor a hun
dred yards Into the woods Wagon utterly demol
ished.
At Tates, or Cool Spring, u the town Is called,
the winds wiped the place from the face of the
earth., The following had houeu blown down:
Levi Darnell, Darnell A Tate, Cool Springe church,
Jack Gees colored, Lina anfllu, Perry Fettltts,
Betsy Chitwood, Mrs Dooly, Sarah Jones 8. A.
Darnell, ltlram Darnell, Mr. Grifllltb. Only one or
two housea were loll standing. Mrs. Darnell, Miss
Bradford, Iflram Darnell, John Perry and wife
and Lake Wood, were Injured.
Going on the norm did Its work u follows:
Mrs. Watkins an old lady on the charity of the
county, had her house blown down and wu
killed.
Long Swampcnnrch wu blown half s mile and
torn into kindling.
Van Tatum had one house blown orer another
andbothfell, but no one wu hurt seriously.'
Susie Cox hid a house blown down but she was
■othurt
Bud Atkin's house was blown down.
Pleasant Woriey'e bouse wu blown down.
John A. Keeler's home wu shivered.
Van Tatum's honse wu destroyed.
The following houeu were destroyed: Mrs Tom
Field's residence, Uuten Jordsu'e house, Jack
Hendrix's house, Mrs Green’s home, Jim Crow’s
honse (wu blown 300 yards)
The home otJ. F. Williams, In Gllmtr county,
wu blown over.
Luther Pendley had his home blown down but
no’one wu seriously hurt.
Wm. Pendlay had bis house blown down bnt
wu not hart
That tikes the reader over the track and shows
him the cunaliiu as far u beard from,
From the last named home the cyclone leaped
over Grassy Point, eight miles from Jasper, and
destroyed two or lb tea homes but u liras heard
from did no damage of great consequence.
Wu not all of this enough to make the track of
the cyclone a place of mourning t
Somo of these people are utterly destitute. Their
provMous, lurulture aud everything they had ou
earth except their lands wentwlththe winds
WBAT THE TKACK LOOKS USE
e cyclone literally wiped out a path. An old
soldier said yesterday:
"It looks like there has been a battle here.
Tho Marietta amt North Georgia road rune
through the mldetof It. On both eidu when the
track crosses the path of the cyelone the wood! ere
strewn with fallen tlmbere. Tates lookillke It bad
been sat ou and sque ched. Her bouses, with one
accord, were leveled to tho ground. The trees are
thrown first ono way and then another
showing the circle In which tho wind wu
blowlug. fn many places the faoo of the country
hu not a vestige ot Umber lef Islanding, and where
two days ego were dense forests now barren hill
tops alone are left It Is euy to see from the rtH
road, a distance of eight miles, where the cyclone
went orer Grassy Knob. Up tho mountain side
the rent end tom trees make white dote that are
easily dtetlngnlshed.
A HAN WHO was IN IT.
Mr. Sam. Tate,.of Cool Springs, wu In the storm.
8ald he:
I wu passing by the Cool Springe chmch and
saw the storm. There were two or three young
men in the church writing a letter and when
heard the church crack I called to them to come
out They came wlih n rush. I threw myself on
the ground, and about that Unto I uw tbo little
town begin tomore. It seemed that cverv houso
wucomliigrightatme. Mr. Darnell's houso blew
down, and left his family standing unhurt
floor.”
Will you rebuild the town?"
I am In facer of It but we will have to start it
from the jump.”
A PEDDLER CAUOItT IN IT.
An Irish pedoler uameo James Cannon wu
eaught In the idge of the cyclone. He wu cross
lug a creek, and the footlog wu blown from under
him. nil peek wu claimed by tbo. tornado and he
clung to a slump for dear life. Alt old manoamed
Harrison Pendley wu with him and bad to save
himself by clinging to a small tree. Several houses
there were blown over. The peddler thinks his
pack Is now In tho middle of the Atlantic ocean.
CLINOINO TOATWIO.
Mr. Cliff A. Lccke was caught In the edgo of the
cyclono and saved himself by leaving his hone and
throwing himself into a (lump of undergrowth
where he swung ou to a sapling In spite of the fact
tbit he wu severely thrashed about and furiously
pelted with hailstones, which the cyclono brought
lu great quantity andofenormousslzo. It also, he
■dya, rained furiously In the edge ot the eyclone.
Mr. Locke said:
T wu on my way to Juper, from Csglo'a dis
tillery. I wu earlier than uiuiL If I had been
going home at my usual tlm I would have been
caught lu the mt-lst of It. I would not have been
len minutes later In passing that road for a million
dollars In gold.”
What did it look UkeT”
It looked like the elements were on a tear. The
cloudsand winds were zone crazy. That Is all that
I remember, further than that I waa furiously pel
ted, wet and completely fanned out”
NOTES or THE CTCLONE.
All the dead were burled yesterday.
There Is a big boom lu cyclone pits.
The storm wu lively around Walesca.
Pieces of Umber were blown thirteen miles.
Canton raised 8380 for tba sufferers yesterday.
All tho roads were Dlockadod with {alien trees
To add to the terror a falling house at Tatea
caught Are.
All the chlckena wero blown clear out of the
oountry.
The trees are filled with blankets, bedding, cloth
lug, etc.
This Is the first serious oyelone north Georgia hu
ever bad.
Ono man tried to outran the cyolono. He did
not suoced.
Tho storm struck Cherokee abont Davis A Cor-
ncllson's store.
Mr. Sam Tato says It took tho cyclone two min
utes to pass over him.
Mrs. Levi Cagle and hor two dead children were
buried In the samo coffin.
A quilt belonging to Mr. Lev! Cagle wu blown
tiro miles and lodged In a troo.
There wero no lnqnosts held on tho bodies of
those who were killed In the storm.
Tho story of the killing of a number of school
children wu not trno. Several were hurt but none
were killed.
The country for threo miles on each side ot the
eyclone wu showered with pine tops and brush
after the cyclone went by.
At one of tho Cogle places the roof of a barn with
sleepers 35 feet long, wu blown bodily a hundred
yards without touching the ground.
The excitement wee Intense, and all bnelness wu
impended yesterday. Think of twenty fnnenle
for a country neighborhood in one afternoon, and
burying six bodies from one house.
Sit la estimated that the actual damage In the set
tlement will foot up nearly a hundred thousand
dollars. The people can lUy afford to loee It.
At ono place an eye wltneu eifirms that the
cyclone blew all the water out of the creek and
carried It up Into the body of the great air epout,
Workings'’ are being organized for repairing
lbs damaged fa DOSS gad houeu, aud the unfortu
nate once are being eared for by tbo more fortu
nate.
Mr. E. H. Oloott had started to Mr. Levi Caglu’e,
and drove up there a moment after the storm left.
Usd he been fire mlnutet sooner tho chances are
he would hare been killed.
Mr. Darnell wu counting out money at Tates,
when the house bo wu In blew away. 81,200 went
with the winds, but It wu all recaptured except
about 835. Borne of the money had the edges burned
off.
J. A. O.
THE KAATMKM OYCLONEI _
A Ifseatt ef UalL
Indian Efuno, Ga., February 20.—The heaviest
hall storm ever known here visited oxr community
at I p. m., yesterday, and luted hall an hour.. The
atones fell u thick u rain drops until the ground
wn perfectly white with them. First ten minutes
the hell wu small, but continued to Increase In
else until they neuursd nine Inches In clrsumfer-
ence by actual me ssurement, The eight wu terri
fying, bnt beautiful. Tbe stones were id shape* o (
full-blown roqes, dabllu and crystals. Our oldest
cltlssnesa; they hive never seen anything like It
before. Tbo damsge done wu very great—many
person! were Injured by falling elonee; tin roots
were knocked Into holn; limbs ol trees torn off;
lasses shattered and caused several runaway
scrapes. The news of tbe storm
Monticello Is appslllng. Indeed
Reports uy the placet of Mr. K. A. Elder, Glover,
Chirping, and Jordan's near Monticello, were rav
aged by the storms Few houses on Iheu pieces
were left standing. No loss of Ilfs yst reported.
Ur. Elder had his arm broken when hie house wu
destroyed. No other cuualUes yet reported.
A ft walk Pt»tfc*
Macon. February 20.—Account* of the itorm
from Jonrs county, ere heartrending. The work
done wan fearful. The storm swept over a tract of
country two hundred yards wide, leering di-vasta
tlou and death In It* path. Numerous houses were
blown down, fences demolished, and cattle and
human beings killed.
TIIK DESTRUCTION IN JONES.
Wm. Davidson ef Jones county, came to Macon
this morning to purchase twelve coffin* for persona
killed yesterday afternoon. At half-part four, on
the placo of Jack Miller, near BlountsrUle, a bourn
blew down, and Mn. Miller and her fonr children
were killed. One child, a small baby, has not yet
been found. It was carried away on the boaom of
the wind. Oue Hunt and ilx negroes were also
killed at the came time and place. Mr. Miller was
absent from borne et a neighbor's honse and thus
escaped death. Dr. Bullard's honse was also blown
down. HI* wife, two children and two negroes
ped unhurt
Mrs. W. A. Johan and her little son, Lewis, of
Macon, were visiting the house of Mr. Jamea Hunt,
of Jones connty. She was only one hundred yard*
from the track ef the storm. She and her ion, with
twelve others, sought refuge In a hut, aad thus es
caped Injury. Great trees were uprooted and largo
obstacles carried hundreds of feet. Tbe psople aie
all panic stricken.
THE DESTRUCTION IN UIDDLK QEORO IS.
Fatterger* along tho Macon aud Augusta road
report great damage In the counties contig Ions to
the road. All of No. 12 station on the Central rail
road has been swept away. A Mr. Dlvlre, well
known In Macon, waa killed. One victim of yes
terday's storm at Davhboro Is now very slek In
Macon, at the Brown house, named Thomas E.
Melville, general agent of the Domestic sewing ma
chine company. He wu badly hnrt Internally.
He waa blowed 200 yards away.
TIIE STORM IN BUTTS.
Reports from Jackson, Butts county, show that
tbe storm did fearful work there. Several persons
were killed.
(klsacl llamber Killed.
Milledgxville, February 20.—A messenger re
ported this morning that yesterday* cyclone de
stroyed the bonsee on Colonel R. O. number's plan
tation, mortally wounding Colonel Humber by a
falling cbtmney, and killing several negroes. ;Mrr.
Paschal, who lives near Colonel Humber's, wu
killed.
LATER —COLONEL IIUMRER STILL ALIVE.
Mr. P. J. Clluo went up ou to-day’s train and
found Colonel Humber atMra.E. H. Garrett’s In
bed with his ankle broken and badly bruised In the
chest. He and family had a very narrow escape
The whole houso wu demolished. All the plant*
tion cabins were swept off. Three negroes were
killed and several with broken arms and legs. Mrs.
Paschal, seeking safety at Colonel Humber's, wu
killed Just u she entered his house, and the child
In her arms wu knocked senseless. Colonel Hum
ber's piano wu carried a hundred yards. The
whole premises are a perfect wreck.
THE NEWS CONFIRMED.
Eatonton. Ga., February 20.—Two dcstrnetlve
cyclones passed over Pntnam connty yesterday
afternoon, about 4 o'oiock, sweeping everything
before them, and causing great loss of life and
property. Hoa. Robert Humber's dwelling, barns
and negro bonses were totally destroyed. . Mrs. W.
R. Paschal, visiting his houee, wu killed, and her
infant child supposed to be fatally hurt Colonel
Humber’s leg wu broken, and Miss Bessie Randal
severely hnrt about tbe head. Mrs. Jackson's
dwelling wu blown away, and be and bis wife were
both ^injured. Three negroes were killed, one
fatally wounded, and nineteen others Injured more
or leu. The dwelling of Mr. Wm. Dennis wss
blown down, and Mrs. Dennis's leg broken In two
places, uujiusr’s condition.
Later reports show great lots of property, but no
further live*, J. M. Lancuter’s place wu swept
of all Its houses, John H. Reid's dwelling was
badly Injured, fieorgo W. Stenson's dwelling and
all outhouse* were blown away, John R. Hudson
lost several honses, J. R. Fuller scvoral. Mrs.
Maputo all bnt a barn and dwelling house. The
cyelone passed above and bolow Eatonton with no
damsge. Here Dr. Nlsbet hu just returned from
Humber's and reports him all right, except a frac
ture of his ankle. None of his family were Injured
except himself and Miss Randall.
Th* Cjrclsno In Jasptr.
Monticello, Ga., Febrnary 20 —Yesterday even
log our vicinity wu visited by a severe hall storm
and cyclone. Tbe ground wu completely covered
with hall stones, some of them m large u a goose
egg. Tjie cyclone came from tho south and west
toward the north, and wu seen by a large number
of our citizens as it passed within a mile of onr
town. The first we heard of It wu at Colonel W.
F. Jordan's plantation, whero all of bis homes
except oue or two were blown down and
away. Mr. Wyly Goolsby and wife
wero seriously Injured. Passing on through Mrs.
Carter's placo destroying houses and timbers as It
came In contact with them. At Mr. H. S. Glover's
place It blew down a largo two-story dwelling and
all of the outhouses. Tbe next placo In Its course
wuMrs. Benton’s and Campbell, on Mr, Camp
bell's place. It blew down a doublo log houso to
tho ground. There wore some negro women In the
house who barely escaped with their Uvos. At Mr.
Edward Elder's placo it blew down bis residence, a
largo, two-story building, his Rlnhouse, cotton
press and everf offifeflHAscTOtont the place, car
rying tho sides of the house fifty yards or more.
Mr. Elder and bis wlfo, both eighty years old, with
somo other relatives, wero
houso at the Umo, all of whom wero
lojured, but wo think not seriously. The next
place, Mr. C. D. Goolsby’s, Inst - every house on his
placo and only saved the lives of himself, family
and R. F. Ex'll and daughter by going Into a cave
prepared for such storms. At Mr. Joshua Hill's
aud 8. C.Charplog'a places tbe destruction wu
holding to bushes.
lives by getting into gnllli
Tho destruction Is very great The
writer passed over tbe most ol the tract and
writes from an eye witucu At Mr. O. L Goolsby's
It blew down his gin bouse, dlulng and stove
room. Tho tract wu about oue half a mllo wide.
OUaaed nt la Tcaatlla.
Tennillk. February 20 —A terrible cyclone end
.... railroad. Xyery store
and house were blown down and the fragments
scattered In every direction. There Is nothing left
** * ind substantial brick warehouse
.. walls and they are not over six feet
high. One store and two dwelling houses are all
that survives tho wreck. Wm. Vareen. in charge
of tho wood-shrd and water-tank, was killed by a
flying niece of timber, and Mrs. J. W. Hudson and
Mrs Cornelius Jordan, wero badly hurt. The
former Is notexr— “* '*
several mule*; a j
blown two mile*.
Klcvea Urea Lat >t If attack.
Haddock's Station, February 20.—A cyclone
paved over this placo. o« the Macon and Bruns
wick railroad, about 4:30 o’clock lut afternoon.
Eleven lives lost and a number wounded; great
reduction of property,* Two are reported killed
l Norwood. A tearful hail storm at Volon Point.
JtffirNi Ccaafjr ftwspt.
Louisville, Ga., Febrnary 20.—Lut night at 7
.'clock a terrible cycleno passed through Jeffer
son, dolor considerable damage to property and
stock It wu about half a mile wide and extended
through tho entire county.
ChlUraa KIM Is Warrsa.
Wabbenton, February-jo.—Warren ton narrowly
ton Mr, _ _ _ ...—,—
hts furniture and left not a vestige of hla houso i
rtroko Mrs. Klnsy’s collar bone and dislocated ho*
shoulder. A little farther on towards Camak, I
toreMr. Avery’a house, on the Widow Jones’s-
place.: all to pieces, killed one child, carried an
other child anundred yards, and left unharmed
Mr. and Mrs. Avery,
union roiNT. u», rturuHiy ar-ino severest
hall norm ever known here, struck onr village
yesterday ereningat three o’clock. The ball fell
to the depth of three inches solidly, and In drifts
i rom one to two feet It wu of all sizes and ahapes
from the slxe of a bullet to as Urge as a small hen
egg Ula»s roof* of all kinds are utterly demolish
cd, and young vegetation, In many places, beaten
out of sight. Luckily, we had bnt Utile wind or
else this whole section would have b«en cleaned
Therein fall wu terrible as well as the hall.
As Urg« as tlilan Ego*.
Washington, Febrnary 20.—Tho cyclone yester
day blew down all the houses on W. W. Rhode's
ptace southeast of hare, except his dwelling,
wolch Is partly blown down. Threo cows killed and
a negro wounded. No lives lost. Hall stones as
largo as guinea eggs.
DmU la Llaccla.
a : 1
ni
log. The latter Is supposed to be burned up in a
house that burnt after It wu blown down. Thir
teen other negroes are Injured, some faulty. Rev
P. F. Uurguw’s bouse wu nr. ally damaged, but no
one hail On Mr. Rem lunsoia'a plate,
two negroes were killed and three
homes blown down. The track of the crclone was
abont half a mile wide, and everything In It's path
was destroyed. Tne destruction of life and prop
erty wu unprecedented. 0*.r people are preparing
to aid the sufferers.
Yancy wm badly hurt by yesterday's storm. Mr
Gllllard and a negro boy were blown two hm.dred
yards, aud were found under a log dead
Arthur Yard's family were all It jured. Beand hi
wife and daughter seriously. MUaHolt, who was
staying with Mrs. LonMey, was badly injured,
Lopsleys beautiful residence was destroyed. D H.
Copeland and wile wero injured. I be latter It Is
juries faUlly ‘ Mr8, Tllley rcceIved severe In-
Rep'orts from different portions of the county re-
S rdlug yesterday’s storm Indicate that outside of
ve bpring the damago Is not so great as at first
supposed. Tho loss In and about Rome will not
exceed S3 000, but the damago In the country
mainly on account of the destruction of fences will
be much greater. As far u can be ascertained there
wm no loss of life in the county except at Cave
Hprlng, and there also wu largest injury to prop
erty. The rise In the rivers bu thus tar amounted
ol tUtabet tublB pU
Freai Surat. I.t. *Mlk O.r.11..,
Auodita, February 20 -While lut night's e» aTO
did no damage In Augusta beyond blowing down a
(err trees and fences, aud only lasted a few min
utes, It waa very destructive fn this vicinity. Thu
E catcit damage seems to have occurred along tbs
us ol tbo Augusta aud Knoxville railroad. brad-
ly, a thriving little town, wu almost levelled to tbs
ground. Nearly crerj houso w.i either blown down
or badly !n)ured A church wu ontlrrly de
stroyed. Tberoaldettcsof Dr. Llgon wiioverurood
and broken to piece. Tbe family of Dr. Llgon wu
extricated with difficulty from tiro ruins, ail mors
or leea braised. Mrs Lfgoo's collar-bone, leg and
arm were broken.
THI STORK IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
AtNInetj-SIx, South Caroline, a bouse wublown
down. Injuring all the member, of tbe family, End
killing the oldest child. Tbe ratos caught fire aud
burned to uhes. the body of a child betugaleo con
sumed. The father wu la Cbirketou at tbo time.
Considerable damage along tbo line ofthoCen-
nl railroad la reported. Tbo nlabt train did not
leave Augusta u ino road wu blocked. The depot
tand water tank at tlcBean wu blown down. 8ov*
oral bonsee aud barue wero blown down near
Thomson. One negro woman wu killed aud four
seriously lDjured by thodeatruo lonof a cabin on
Kov. K. 4 B Reese s placo near Wrlghurlila Mrs.
anuitiu nnu um m nuuniuu, ouuia uarOUUa'
At Jackion'* nation, on the Port Royal railroad thb
dwelliug bouse aud store of J C. Hankloion were
demolished, and tho store of J. b. Boyd moved
from the pillar*. An old negro woman
wu killed. Mr. Hanklnson and family
wore in their dwelling when ltwu blown down,
but escaped with alight Injuries. The streets of
Augusta are as clean to day u If they had been
swept by a broom.
THE DIRECTION OF THI STORH.
Three houses were blown dowu at Camak and
one child killed. At Haddock, on the Macon aud
Augusta railway, ten person* are reported killed,
five whites and five colored Tho storm moved in
a northeasterly direction from Camak, and passed
on both tide* of Augtuta into South Carolina. Flvo
negroes were killed at Jackson's station, on tho
I’ortRoyAl railway. Much damago wu done at
Blounts lllo. thirty-five nulei from bparta. On one
place Mis W A. Miller and three children wero
killed. Gus Hart and six negroes were killed on
snoftor piano. David Dickson's stables wero set
°n fireijrilghthlHg and destroyed. Tho local*
atom Nates la tha Oily,
It 1* generally thought Atlanta ia cyclone-proof.
The wind was pretty lively through Tut-Miay
night. Several families crawled oat of bod and
listened at thlnx* abase. One gentloman heard
something strike hi* house about midnight aud
shake it through and through. Ho thougut It wan
a now or cabin blown in from anothor county, and
fully expeett d to find it in his yard next mornlug.
Bat he found nothing.
In many house* small rocks wero found on piazza
roofs, having been driven there by tho wind.
Judge W. F. Wright received ou yesterday, a dis
patch from Birmingham, saying, *'Your father and
mother were killed In the storm." He knew tho
muru m i*cun mnuuu. ui wnivu cvcmne aaa
been apprised already by the morning constitu
tion.
uomii .n. Ain., rcuruaryui.—mmam Jj. Jonn"on
was killed and hla wlfo fatally injured, Mrs. Wil
Ham Jones and two vraurfchlldren, Stephen /.km,
wife and daughter. Z T. Brown and two sons wero
killed. Mrs. Minium aud family were seriously
hurt, The shoolhouBC of A S. Johnson wss blown
to atoms and Jobmon silled, - Thirty or forty chil
dren wero in the school at tbe time, hut escaped
with a few bruise*. Tho cyclono stand at the
Gorman la lanyard, and traveled la an
easterly direction, carrying death and
destruction in its p»th. Mathews's mill and furni
ture, tbe Baptist church about seven miles from
Cavo Hprlng. wero complotHy demolished. Tho
steamer Hill City was caught in tho cyclone on it
iy to Gadsden, out waa not materially Injuicd
:d reached Gadsden In safety,
ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA.
CoLUMDIA, February 20.—Tha eyokMM,
which visited the various section*
of Fouth Carolina last night, wm by far the most
destructive evor known in this section. It entered
tko state at Chester, and did a vast amount of dam
ago to property. Upward of forty houses were
Mown down, and two churches were des’royed.
Homo eight or ten persons were tnore or less serf*
ously injured but none klll«-d. Tbo next town
struck was Chtppels. on tho Uno of tho Columbia
and Greenville railroad. The place wu literally
demolished, not a houso left standing Two mea
were killed by falling trees. Threo freight can on
the track were lifted ue by the wind aud hurled 60
feet away. Thu tornado continued its march of
devutatlou In a westerly dlrt-ctioo, and carried
everything beforo It. Having reached the w* sfem
limit of the stato it changed Its course aud swept
scroe* several counties toward the North Carolina
llue,
DARLINGTON DESTROYED,
Tho town crDarltugton wu next attacked. Tbe
damage wm terrible. Dozens id duel lings wero
laid waste, and twenty or thirty persons wero In
ured by tho falling walls. Hlx persona were killed
K walls. Hlx persona were killed
outright. K. W. Boyd, an eminent lawyer, wu
dangerously hurt Hovcral women and children
lh0 j n j urC( j t Bome 0 f W hom are expected
.lear Manning two children were killed by
a falling chimney. Bale* of cotton wero towed
about like leavca by tho wind. Other localitie*
were visited by tho storm, and great femave re
sulted. it la impossible to estimate accurately the
extent. Tbe reports from various counties agree
NORTH CAROLINA.
IInIi Tprn.OB la Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., February 23.—A storm, accora
pan led by ball, itruek Chester, 8. C„ fifty mile*
south ol here, lut night. Roofs of the bank end
many stores were torn off. Tbe Catawba ol! mill,
the Baptist aud Presbyterian churches, and many
private dwellings were wholly or partially destroy
ed. Tho frelxhtcani wero blown Horn tbe track* to
Dm depot platform. The damag- is estimated at
Srt,000. Tbe storm was very violent hero, and tore
the roof from Riddle's foundry.l
Monday night’s storm wu tha most destructive
at a retllemout called Philadelphia, two mile* from
Rockingham, on the Carolina Ontrat railroad
The settlement contained about twenty-five
houses, and every one of them wu razed to the
nl. Yesterday morning a party of men began
. ., L ,-rh C f tbo ruins for the bodies, and within a
short time eleven had been recovered, three white
and eight colored men. One white man named
John iMlklu won found with a piece of splintered
timber through hla abdomen, as Urge as a man's
leg. All the bodies were badly mutilated, Tbe
bodies wero placed in a wagon and carried to Rock
ingham, when the wagon returned to
tho scene for more bodies as it wss
known that others were in the ruin*. The wagon
many more injured near Rockingham. Several
colored people were also killed on the Pedee river*
near Horklngham. At Manly and Keyser. tbe
cyclone destroyed everything in it* way. Near
* *—— six person* were killed.
...odward, on the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta railway, a negro man'and hi* wife were
kHled AtWInasboro three nogroesand an aged
white lady named Mrs. Sterling were killed. Mn.
Starling’s son and dangntar wero blown from
bouse and lodged in a tree.
Polktoo, N. C., the wife
of Mr. M F.Gray, a prominent citizen, wu killed
by,* falling house. At Concord, two brick residences
wore partly demolished bet the inmates etcaped.
Damaged to the extent of 160.001 wu done.
Fill mb Lives Last.
Raleigh, N. C., February 20.—Last night a cy.
clone struck tbe Carolina Central railroad between
Hamlet and Polkton. at Rockingham. There wu
great; destruction to property, and fifteen Hveg
been received from other towns.
mated that from fifteen to twenty persons were
la Mississippi,
Coluhbus, MBs . Februaiy 20 — A severe tornado
posoed through the lower portion of this county
yu-tcidsy, doing great damsge to bouses aud dwell-
InifM. O.i »omu plantations not a single houa ewa
left standing. It 1* reported that one life wu left*
Many person* were wounded.