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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.