Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1875-03-25

the enormous income received by to-
National Grange Of the Patrons Q
Husbandry in Washington from su
bordinate Oranges in all parts OF tn
.ountry, and much curiosity has beer
+ expressed as to the disposition mad
OF the fund which accumulates tror
,,-,.sss ..sss sale OF disnensations" and to
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and whirled them about like feathers.
A letter was carried by the cyclone
from Thomson to Edgetield county, and
was found on the premises OF Mr.. II. r
Wright, about six miles from Edgetield,
a distance Of sixty miles from Thomson.
On the Port Royal Railroad.
Private advices state that serious tor
uado occurred at Jackson Station, or the
Port Royal Rail ,oad, eighteen miles from
Augusta, last Saturday evening. Three
houses were blown down and one color
ed woman was fatally wounded. The
railroad track was covered for more than
three hundred yards with falling tim
bcrs On an adjoining plantation three
colorcl men were crushed to death. The
falling trees cbstructed the road, and
threw the up day train from the track.
Fortunately 40 material damage was
done and no one OIL the train was injured.
Two trestles on this road were washed
away by the rain, but they have been re-
paired, and as this extra goes TO press
the track is reported clear and the trains
are running as usual.
Harnweil.
Mr.. William Woodward's plantation
in Barnwell county, s. c., was visited by
thestorm, and great damage done. Every
building on the place, except the dwell
ling, was blown down. II is reported
that several persons were killed and in
jurcd in the vicinity
Since the storm, We have seen and
talked with number of our fellow citi-
zens OF the desolated tract, and their ac-
counts Of the disaster are at the same
time appalling and Interesting. Gen. NJ.
c. Butler gives graphic account of the
scenes in Meriwether Township. Among
minor details he tells us that masses of
clothing were picked up i'll his lowlands,
blown across the river from tho Georgia
sidc--and not only clothing, papers, light
debris &c, but also large mattrass, and
heavy, handsome, paneled door. He
speaks of the ruin at Mr.. John Briggss
as most complete and very melancholy
as also at Mr.. Jas. Callaham's, Mr.. Joe
Thurmonds, Mr.. Sam. Gardnor's, and
DR.. Hugh Shaw's. The devastation at
Mrs. Sophia Tillman's, on the old Au-
gusta road, is represented to us as being
really awful That old landmark, I" the
Old Wells" suffered beyond almost eve
ry other point. Our friend, Mr.. Geo.
W. Turner, had the roof blown off his
house, while his outhouses, fences, for
age, supplies, cattle, were completely
destroyed. Mrs. Ann Gray widow Of
the late C. NJ. Gray, who lives in the
same section, lost everything she owned
house and all The Miles Mill neighbor
hood was also laid waste. Mr.. e Keese,
of our office, was in Graniteyillc at the
time, and informs us that the storm was
scarcely felt there. The whole face Of
the country for twenty or thirty miles
on either side OF tho narrow track OF this
tornado, is literally strewn with strange
boughs, bits, fragments and ruins-odds
snd ends of broken furniture, articles OF
clothing, planks and shingles letters
and pal .ers from sixty miles away, books,
inIlstands, blocks of ribbon, DC, &C., dc
The only lives actually lostin our County,
so far as we have been ablo TO learn, were
those of two negros at Mr.. John Driggs's.
Several individuals however are seri
ously wounded. ' ''ss'''''''< ~@'S,l.'',i ~
Next week VIC si,aii r-obably be able
TO give more minute de.ails of this great
and destructive Storm 49, S'tt''f' .
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