The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
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Their Terrible Work RenaVVsd--Three
Hundred Persons Killed and Fifteen
Hundred WOunded--ERelief fort the suf-
1rrers.
Correspondence Of the Louisville Courier-JournaL
AUGUSTA, Ga, March 24.-The recent
cyclone which passed over this region
was the most awful ever heard of in the
United States. I have been along a
portion of its track, and, having inst
returned, will endeavor to give the
readers of your paper an account of il.
It crossed the Chattahoochee river
from Lee county. Alabama. and entered
Harris county, Georgia. From thence
II passed through the counties of Talbot,
Epson, Monroe, Jones, Baldwin, Han
cock, Warren, McDuffie, and Columbia.
IL crossed the Savannah river fifteen
miles above Augusta, entered Edgefeld
county, South Carolina, passed through
BarnweIl, Lexington, Richland, Sumter,
Marion and Horny counties, of that
state, and finally ran into tho Atlantic
ocean off the coast of North Carolina.
A second cyclone, precisely at the
same time, seemed to have formed this
side Of Miliedgeville, crossed the Ogee-
chez river Is miles below the village of
Maydeld, In Hancock county, and pass
ing through Glascock and the lower
edge of Richmond, crossed the Savan-
nah, II miles below Augusta, into Beech
island, South Carolina, and from thence
ran due east into the Atlantic.
As 1 was along the northern one of
these cyclones, 1 viii more particularly
describe that. The two were exactly
alike in size, shape, color, and devasta-
ton. They were both the most terrible
visitations ever sent by Providence upon
the states of Georgia and South Caro-
lima.
The cloud was, In color, inky black.
half a mile high, half mile wide, was
cylindrical in shape, and travelled very
much like revolving barrel, coming
end foremost. 1t was illuminated with
phosphorescent light, and momentarily
would glitter as if one million matches
had been ignited In if.
1t was accompanied by a continuous.
roaring sound, as of five hundred can
non IN the decisive moments of pitch
ed battle, The bravest man ever born
could neither have felt, seen, nor heard
1t with calmness. There was a force
and power, a sublimity and grandeur
about it unnatural, awful, wholly its
OwD. But @ thousand incidents are re-
lated showing that the hand of Provi-
dence was in it-that it was governed
the sun.
1t travelled from west to little north
of due east, going as straight as a crane
or cannon ball would fly. Tt passed.
over the entire state of Georgia in ex-
actly three hours, travelling at the rate
OF fifty three miles per hour.
You have already seen and republish-
ed from the Georgia papers in detail
the thrilling incidents and terrible re.
suits which marked the course of the
cyclone, and this letter is simply to give
you the general results.
Six Thousand dollars have been SUBJ
scrlbed In Augusta, So, 600 in Columbus.
and many thousands at other points for
the wounded and suffering. A great
many packages of money, provisions.
and clothing were forwarded yesterday
and to-day from this city. Never was
charity more fifty bestowed.
The whole number of killed in Georgia
will not fall below three hundred, and
the wounded will reach fifteen hundred.
Captain Stovall died last night. He
was gallant officer in the confederate
army. Reports are coming in by the
hour of the deaths of other victims of
this unparalleled calamity.
Through Carolina the devastation
NHO uSaIA "SAo S4 uh14y as great Inc
southern cyclone crossed the Savannah
at Fury's ferry, sunk the boat, struck
the plantation of MIR. Foreman, tore it
to pieces, and killed and wounded a
great many on it. From thenceforward
to the ocean the accounts are as terrible |
and as appalling.
On the 4th day.of April, 1904, now
lacking but few days of II years, a
great storm like this came up from the
direction of Dooly county, and passed
through Hancock, Warren, and Rich
mond, crossing the Savannah 10 miles
above Augusta. There are few people
now living who remember it, and plenty
who have been told by their parents of
it. 1t was described in the Augusta
Chronicle. All accounts are agreed
that it was illuminated by the same
strange Light as the one Saturday.
Nobody was killed by it.