Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-28
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CLONE.
The DETAILS of the fearful storm that
swept over South Georgia and Florida on
the 18th inst. are pouring into tbs Southern
press from all parts of the scourged region,
and the sggregate loss Of property is obyi-
ously very great. Besides il has brought
nualbers of people TO want and suffering.
The village CT st. Marks, Florida, on the
Gulf coast, was Inundated and literally
swept away, twenty-three houses being de-
molshed. Apalachieela was inundated,
and damsged by the water and wind to the
extent Of $4,000 or 100000. Reports
from the rural districts show that it was one
continuous devastation. The details of
damage in the one county of Leon are quite
long. We give few Instances 81
On the Whitehead place, cultivated by
Mr.. P. d. DemilIy, the gin-house and every
cabin 10 the quarter was torn down. Mr.
G.. G. Gibbs, farming On the Whitehall
place, had nice Clubhouse completely torn
to pieces, smashing end fltining In its fall
two fine new gins, threshing machine and
other valuable agricultural implements. A
large oak was torn up and fell across the
corner OF his dwelling, carrying away the
entire back porch His, fire worm-rail
fence, twelve rails high, well staked and
ridered, was destroyed for acres in extent,
as also large portions of his plank fence.
The full. blown cotton in his fields, just
hanging ready and Eice for picking,
was-well, he can't find a boil
of it! Whipped out, scattered to
the four winds, blown to the ground and
beaten under water and dirt; what can be
discovered is hsrcly worth the gathering.
Saturday morning, Mr.. Gibbs was about
three hours getting to market with his beef
wagon, the road being completely blocks-
ded with uprocted trees. AT Capt. Bro
kaw's place on the Quincy road, the gin
house, corn eric, and fourteen laborers'
cabins wers destroyed, one colored man get
ting bis arm and leg badly broken by one
of the falling houses, and many other per-
SONS having narrow escapes in the general
wreck. The laborers say that all the dam
age on this pace wss done in about ten
minutes. At 1.-THE Ben. Chaires' place, on the
st. Augustine road, large, well built barn,
worth $4,000, was torn to pieces, and, worse
than all, seven fine mules were crushed
to death by the falling roof. On the Burgess
town place of Mr.. f. r. Gotten, the stable
was Frustrated aud two mules killed and
one badly injured. Mr.. Gotten had a very
full blow of cotton in his fields, which suf-
fered like the crop everywhere else, and we
understand he estimates his loss from this
source at $4,000. Mr.. G. N. Haldeman,
on the Bel Air Road, lost his Clubhouse and
three cabins; cotton blown out and cane
badly injured. q.
In Bell Air, the colored Missionary Bap-
tit Church and the colored school-house
were torn in pieces, and an old colored wo-
man living nan clubhouse upon the prem
ises of Rev. Jas. Page was crushed 70 death
by large pine falling across the house and
MASKING it in upon her. .--.-r --..-...7
After summing up The demolition of fif-
teen gin houses in that county, a correspon-
dent says no doubt there were many others
that be knew not of, and adds:
-@On many ether farms, the lint rooms at
tached to the gin-houses were blown away
and much cotton lost. On the lake plaLta-
ton of Mr.. j. w. Baker, (the Waties place.
the iint-roOm vas torn down and several
bales Of uDpacked cotton blown away. One
corner of his gi1-h0uSa was also knocked
askew. Mrs. Daniel johnson also lost the
lint-room to her Clubhouse and with it a
couple of bales of cotton. Mr.. HUMPHREYS
not only lost bis gin-hluse, as mentioned
above, but also his corn-crib, stable and 9th
er out-houses. Many planters not men
toned, suffered the loss of greater or less
number of cabins upon their farms-some
four, some three, some only one or Two.