Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1875-03-25
THE MOST DISASTROUS TORNADO
THAT THE PRESENT GENERA
TION HAS WITNEssED.

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BILE destructionain several Counties o
Georgia lying abreast of us, CROSSED tn
river at Fury's Forry I'VE quotctrom tin
columns of the e2sronicle ce Sentinel
sunk the ferry boat, tore the top off MI
nearmond's house and passed on inuc
Edgefeld county. The Curryton section
in that county was completely desolated
Dr.. II A. Shaw, who was in the city yes
terday, y,sreports that the destruction wa
| terrible. All but two houses OH Gen Nj
c. Buffers plantation were destroyed
| At Mr.. Jas Callahan's six houses wer,
levelled. At Mrs. Tilman's Dineteer
buildings, including the gin,house anc
scrt :, were blown down. At JOS. Thur
= ,nd's all except two negro houses were
destroyed. Mr.. Jno Briggs resided in ;
handsome brick house. The top of this
was torn of, and the house otherwise in
jured. A workman from Mr. VIM. III
Goodrich's went over to N1r. Briggs yes
terday and examined the walls He re-
ported that the latter would have to be
torn down and an entirely new building
erected. All except two small houses on
this place were destroyed, and two ne
groes, one chlld, killed. Loss fully
$1,000. No fencing Is left on the place.
At Mr.. Geo. Turner's the tornado was
terrific in the extreme. Fences, houses
and trees were swept away like straws
Mr.. Turner's gin house, screw, and 9TH
er buildings were destroyed His loss is
very heavy. At Mr.. Whitlock's place
the gin house, screw and other buildings
We're destroyed. Mr.. James Holly was
crushed, and it is supposed that his in
juries will prove fatal. All the houses on
Mr. Joe Vikings place. near the Char.
lotte, Columbia Il Augusta Railroad were
destroyed. Mr. Robt. Buffers mill dam,
Just across the river, was washed away.
The water came upon it like solid wall
and lowered above il. a negro man who
saw the tornado cross at Fury's Ferry
says it was terrible sight. The air was
filled with shingles and limbs of trees,
whirliug along at a tremendous speed.
Hail five or six inches long fell
Near Augusta
While this immediate section escaped,
by the blessing Of kind Providence,
the terrible disasters which visited other
places, some Of the effects of the storm
were felt. Two or three miles beyond
the Augusta Arsenal fences were blown
down and the planks carried several
hundred yards. Mr.. L. S. Kendrick' $
mill dam, five miles from the city, that
of Mr.. Thomas Wylds, five and half
miles from Augusta, and Uhrs mill dam,
three miles from the corporate limits,
were broken by the flood. The bridge
over the creek, on the old Southwestern
Plank road, at Uhl's mill and many 9TH
er bridges in the county, were washed
away. The roads were also considera-
bly, damaged.
Incidents.
When the tornado passed over Edgefield,
DR.. FL. a Shaw was at Mr.. Thurmond's.
The house commenced rocking and crack
ing so feariully that DR.. Shaw became
that it would fall. He
therefore took charge of Mrs. Thurmcad
and her children, rushed out in the yard
and clung to large tree, while Mrs.
Thurmond and the child; Ell held to him
firmly n ear Windsor hail stones so
large fell that SOW and several pigs
were killed. One hail stone crashed
through mans hat and cut a cash in
his head. In the l24th District of Rich
mond county the tornado carried off all
the chickens in its track. Birds were
dashed against trees and killed. A ne-
gro coming down the river near Fury's
Ferry saw The storm ahead Of him. 1t
s.
;6Mh III Mhtrl6dtions 81 dues WHICH It IS es- |
must reach several hundred
thousand dollars per year. A cor
'espondent of the Sun, vino Is an
,iiiiser Of a Grange in Texas, sends
rat paper some information on this
subject which is explicit and intes-
sting to those who possess curiosity as
> the doings Of the Changers. The
correspondent says that the Grange
If which lie is me;aber sent the
customary fee Of Sl5 to the National
Grange, and in return received one
in box with brass lock and key a
blank book fJr the Secretary, and
another for toe Treasurer, thirteen
manuals and thirteen song bo ks;
thirteen copies Of the Constitution Of
the Naticna! Grange; one suit OF re-
e.,lia for men, and one for women
members, as patterns, together with
copies Of the different blanks used in
the Grange, all Of which cost proba-
bly, $G or 81, which would reduce the
amount FROM one subordinate Grange
inthe hands Of the National Grange
to IS IS or 50, not counting the annual
dues. When the great overflow oc,
Cured in Louisiana the National
Grange distributed $4,000 among
the suffering Grangers shere,. and thS
correspondent says that it has ctf
tribu,ed large sums to the relief Of
CIR neers who have suffered from the
devastation caused by the grasshop-
pers in Kansas and Nebraska, while
the balance cf its receipts has been
invested in I .ited States interest.
bearing bonds and held as a fund
from which to draw for the assistance
OF distressed Changers in case OF need.
lie adds that if all the money sent
by his Grange to the National Grange
had entirely disappeared, he would
have considered it as good invest
ment, on account of the benefit which
he and his associates had derived
from the organization in many differ
eut ways.-Waysuillc Eagle.
A Mother Of Criminals.
Some seventy years ago young
girl named Z" Margaret" was left
adrift in one of the villages of the