The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-05-06
rFrom the Augusta (Ga.,) COns,itutionalist, 4th ]
THE GREAT CYCLONE.


As near as we can get at it, IL entered
Georgia, in Harris county, several miles north
of the point where the one last March crossed
the Chattahoochee from Alabama. 1t then
swept with desolatiou aud ruin through Mer.
riwcther, Epson, Henry. Butts, Newton,
Morgan, Greene, Oglethorpe, Wilkes, and
Lincoln. and thea crossing tue Savannah, en-
tered South Carolina, and over EdSeheid,
Lexington, aud R;chland counties.
FIRST DROPS OF TIE TuuSpER-cLoUD.
MIR john y. Carers reportl
RurLEpGE. GA, 4 4. ~, May 3. 1870
From information thus far gaincd-neces
sarily Inaccurate, as collected from divers
parties who have observed or been told by
witnesses Of the track Of the fearful tornado
Of last Saturday seems that is course has
not differed greatly from that Of the terrible
cyclone that swept over the same sections OF
the country last March, although the line OF
lis ptiless progress appears 10 be something
southwark Of the path Of its recent destruc'
tive predecessor. How far its devastatioDs
may fall below or 90 above the desoating
achievements Of that hurricane, too, the Sc
quel must disclose.
FIRST SUFFERERS.
On the up nght-train from Augusta,
which has just steamed away towards At
lanta under the direction Of that clever gen.
t'eman and prince of conductors, Captain w.
}. Brannan, fortune threw me in the com.
pany Of Engineer William Blackburn, who
has faithfully served the Georgia railroad
and the public in his responsible position for
eight years, Mr.. Blackburn being accompa.
| MED by his wife, bride Of four months, on
| her first return to the patcrual roof she SO
joyously and 50 recently left, summoned by
the mourntul tidingS OF ruin and probable
| death from the havoc Of the storm at her
! home near Coyington. A letter from Mr..
K. w. Jones, CT that place, received by the
Young husband aud wife in Augusta Sunday
morning, had brought confirmation OF the
uncertain news caught from lips that the
plantation and residence of MIR. John Norton,
| father of Mrs. Blackburn, situated about
TWO miles 10 the west of Coylngton, had
been cngulphed in the whrling walls OF the
cyclone, the dwelIing.hnu>e lifted from its
pill and buried to the ground mass OF
debriS, the out-houses demolished, fences car
ried away. every tree on the place uprooteo,
| and all but one member of the household
severely and some fatally injured, among
these Mrs. Norton herself so badly that
recovery was pronounced doubtful. These
TWO Young people were the first Of the cy-
clone sufferers your correspondent saw, and
sad au.ury of the hcart-rendiug and fright
tut scenes before him their mournful fate
suggested. The disclosures of my proposed
visit 20 Coyington and its vicinity to-day
will inform you Of the maguitude OF this
domestic Att1 ctlon.
pEMoLISHING A JUSTICES COURT.
While the train paused for few minutes
at Union Point had the privilege of brief
! coniab with Captain Reuben McAlpin, the
polite conductor on the Athens braucb, and
from him learned that the cyclone crossed
the line of that road at BriehtwelPS store,
some mile and 4 half south OF MaXey station,
which is fifteen miles from Union Point and
twenty-five from Athens. When the cy clone
struck the place Justices court was in SEES
sion in Brightwel's store. The hour was
| between and o'clock Z. NJ. The editce
was at once wrencbed from lis foundation,
the stock OF goods within it being scattered
TO the four winds OF heaven. Tue falling
tlmberS caught and crushed to death Mr. u.
| ". Maxey. a negro man was lifted in the
arms of the tempest and borne nifty yards and
bis brains dished out agains. huge pine
stump. Quite 4 number OF persons were
more or less seriously wounded--somea lege
al least twenty. The breadth Of the cyclone
Xas from quarter OF mile TO mile and
oue-iourlh when it crossed this railroad.
Every building but Mr.. Brghtwell's dwell.
lng.house was destroyed.
DISTRACTION OF FoSrENoY MILLS.
Fontcnoy Mills, formerly Scull Saoals, oD
the Uconee, was very seriously damaged. II
| is asserted. The residence of Mr.. Redmond
L. Asbury, near Fontenoy, was blown away,
| the fences and houses on his plan alton scat.
| nd ip,p1 N "a
wind, hail, and flooding rain. At Fonteuoy
ali the houses Of the factory hands are said to
have been ruined, with one exception.
| DIR. William Durham, of MaXey Station,
was untiringly engaged in calls TO attend the
wounded at Fontenoy, MaXey, BiirdstoWn,
and aujacent districts.
| IT SWEEPS THROUGH BAlRDST0wN.
Bardstown is seven and a half miles from
! Union Point, on the Athens branch. From
Mr, Jones O Hills, Il native Of that place, but
now residing ut the junction. gaihed the
information that the hurricane arrived there
at nearly ( O'Clock. A black cloud bad been
noticed IN the West, and rain had been fall.
ing for three quarters Of an hour, an impress
sion prevailing on q cessation Of the shower
hat the trouble was over. Dir. Qnills was
making Il yoke in the carriage shop Of Neal,
Newton 4 Co., when the wind shaking the
building caused him to approach the door.
Face TO face with the suddenly bursting ole-
ments, he advanced into the street for
safety. Several oaks fell near him. He
retreat ed into the portico Of Wilson &
Co.'s store, where humber of persons
had gathered, but the quivering Of the
edtice in the wrencning OF the tempest
made him doubt the security oil this retreat,
and jumping over fence be took refuge in
an adjacent apple orchard. No sooner there
than down came one after another OF the
fruit trees, and in desperation, rushing TO the
centre of the grove, Mr.. Quilts then chung to
a Young, sturdy sapp:ing, and thus anchored,
withs,ood the force Of the elements. AS the
hurricane approached the clouds hung low,
and lambert lightnlngs played over them.
The lumber.shed Of Neal, Newton & 20.
went to the ground in the terrible tornado
the gin aud clubhouse, of William r. Wilson
followed suit, and during the FIVE minutes
prevalence of the hardest blow shingles,
twigS, limbs, sand, planks, aud other oe6ras
danced and scudded through the apgered
air. Mrs. Sunsford, living on place Of MIR.
John Armstrong, some two miles from
Bairdstown, had all her out-houses and
fences Frustrated.
HEROIC GIRL.
The shade.trees in the church-yard at
Balrdstown were destroyed. Mr.. James
Lloyd's residence was terribly shaken, the
bricks from the chimney falling inside,
through it, aud on tue top of the edihce, and
soaring the frightened inmates TO a lotter
acme of terror. Mr.. William K. Wilson,