The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-04-09
The Georgia Cyclones.
Further Details of the Terrible Rcsul,.;
of the Great StOrm-Thrcc Hum
drcd Persons Killed and
Fifteen Hundred
Wounded,


Especial Correspondence C"irior-.Tourl,nl.j
AUGUSTA, Ga, March 2i--The rcccnt
cyclone which passed over this region was
the most awful ever heard OF in the United
States. ] have been along portion of it,;
track, and, having just returned. will
enue:,vor to give the readers of your paper
account Of il.
WHERE II I:NrEHID rIiI, STATE.
It crossed the Chattntooc;ioc river from
Lee county, Ala, and entered Harris county,
Ga. From thence it PASSED through the
| baldwin, Hancock, Warren, McDutlie and
Columbia. It crossed the siavannah river
fifteen miles above Augusta, entered, edge
field county, South Caroline, istsSfc through,
I;arnweil, Lexington, Riciiiand, sumter,
Marion ana Horny counties OF that state.
the coast of North Carolina.
THE SECOND CYCLONE.
A second cyclone, precisely, a! The same
| time seemed to have formed this s!do of
MilictireSlle, crossed the O3ccollco river
| fifteen miles below the village Of Mayic.d,
] in Hancock county, and passing" through
crossed the Savannah twelve miles below
| Augusta, into Beech island, South Carolina,
| and from thence ran due east into the
| Atlantic.
THE NoKrHEE> cyCLo&I!.
AS was along the northern one of these
| cyclones, l viii! more particularly describe
shape, color and .:evastation- They were
both tho mos: terrible visitations over sent
by IrOVi dcnce upon tho States Of Georgia
and South Carolina.
| WHAT II LOOKED LIKE.
The cloud was, in color, ini>y BLACK, half
| u mile high, was cylindrical i'll SE,,pe, and
travelled worry much like Il revolving barrel
coming end foremost 1t was Illuminated
| with phospholcocent light, and monlCutari-
ly would glitter as if one million matches
! had been iGnteG i'll it.
1t was accompanied by 4 continuous
| roaring sound, as OF five hundred cannon
in the decisive moments II Il pitched battle.
have felt, seen nor heard ii with C:,luncss
There torco and It power Il s:tiitnity
wholly its own. But Thousand incidents
are related showing; that the hand OF Pro%i-
dence was in it-that it was governed BY
laws regular and iInmutabIc is tho
sun.
| ITS COURSE AND VELOCITY.
1t travelled from west to II little north O.
cannon bah Would NY 1t passed over Tho
entire State Of Georgia in exactly three
hours, travelling at the rate OF iiity-thres
miles per hour.
You have already seen and rcpubiislcd
from the Georgia papers III detail the
which marked the course oftiic cyclone
and this letter is simply to give you tho
| general results
RELIEF FOR THE sUrFEkEKS.
| Six thousand dollars have been subsc:ib-
ed III Augusta, $4,000 i'll CttiuH,'us, and
| many thousands at other points for the
wounded and suffering: 4 great many
"a ~
We're forwarded yesterday and to day from
:his city: Never was charity moro fifty
| bestowed.
| THE NUMBER OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The whole number of killed i'll Seor.i;
| will not fall below three hundred, and The
| wounded reach fifteen hundred. Captain
Stovai1 died last night. He was gallant
officer in the Confederate army. Reports
are coming, i'll by the hour OF the deaths {,
i other victims Of this unparalleled c,i:tnity
1 THROUGH CAROLINA.
The devastation and death We're equally ;ts
great The southern cycotic crossed tho
savannah at Eury'S Ferry, sunk the boat
struck the plantation OF Nh Foreman, tor.
it to pieces and killed AID Wounded
great many on it. rrOu thence forward t..
the ocean the accounts are as Lorri.!,. ant
! as appalling.
THEsTORM or AI'It.i- i, lS0i.
On the 4th day OF April, 1901, now lack
ing but II few days Of seventy one years,
. great storm iiCthiS rtt,,!c UP from III;
direction OF DoDiy county L.,I paS-",
| through Hancock, Warren and R:hiln!,i
crossing the Sh..tttt9.tiI iti,cru miles tbr<t
Augusta; there are :: icw i'rNpt" now Twin,
who remember il, aud i't";,iy MA, I4a..
bccu told by ihair parents OF II. IT wa:
described in the Angus "throui"ir.' vi
accounts are agreed that It WAS illuminated
by the S:,lic Stran@:c light 81 thr one sat
. ur,fav. Nobody WIS Killed. Ivy Il.
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