The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1875-04-01
THE TORNADO ATTHE SOUTH.
TIE MOST DESTRUCTIVE STORM IN TIE
ANIMALS OF THE COUNTf-lu0 PEo-
PIE KILLED AND 123 WOUNDED.

TIE MOST DESTRUCTIVE STORM IN THE
ANNALS OF THE CoUNTY-l05 PEo-
PIE KILLED AND 123 WOUNDED.
The Atlanta. Ga, Constitution of the
9th. gives full particulars Of the recent
terrible tornado IN that State and South
Carolina. Eight counties i'll Georgia, and
three in South Carolina, need relief from
the tornado. The list of the killed and
wounded is appalling. The march Of the
tornado was west from Harris county.
across Talbot, Upson, Monroe, Jones, Bald
win, Hancock, Glascock, McDuthc, and
Columbia, touching Richmond also, and
passing into Carolina In Hancock county,
sixteen houses were destroyed at one place,
and in Giasscocl, thirty-fye lives lost. At
Maryyille, in Warren county, three negroes
were killed, their bodies being carried a.
half mile. The total list of killed and
wounded foots, '105 killed, and 123 wound
ed. The tornado is thus described by a
correspondent Those who viewed it from
the south describe it as being densely black,
while all who reviewed it from the opposite
direction agree in describing it as being
luminous us flame. 1t was funnel-shaped,
with the point resting upon the ground,
and its broad top melting i'll the distance
where the eye could not reach. 1t moved
with numbering sound, as if thousands
of pieces Of artillery were pouring an IN
cessant cannonade upon the earth. One
gentleman says if every cannon IN the world
had been fired Simultaneously and inees-
sanity the roar could not have equalled
that Oft the wind. ever was such a tornado
felt in Georgia The front cloud was pitch
black, half mile high, and half u mile
wide 1t was barrel-shape at times, and at
times it took the form of half moon, re-
yolving from north to south. The rear
was Illuminated with 4 luIid, phosphores
cent, but wholly unnatural light. 1t tray
eled at the rate Of seventy miles per hour.
1t was fauked on the north and south sides
with dense clouds, but stood out in bold
relief alone 1t demolished each planta
ton in twenty seconds. 1t was accom-
panied by sound as Of five hundred can
non in the decisive moment Of pitch bat
tie. Not drop of rain fell from it, but
great rain storm came up three hours at
terwards, and delugcd the earth, accom-
panied by hail, wind, thunder and light
ming.
The cloud first appeared in u north
westerly direction, and gradually moved
south to point where it must have met
some opposing force. My attention was
attracted by dull, heavy roaring at ap
parently some two or three miles i'll Yves
terly direction, which induced the expccta-
ton Of u severe storm. | had but ex-
pressed this when the tornado was upon
us. 1t spent Its greatest fury in about
three minutes, my dwelling about the cen
ire, and the breadth of the main column
not exceeding 400 yards. The senses were.
utterly deadened, appalled,. There was a
crash, a roar, the mingling of a hundred
terrific and unknown sounds; the glass,
shattered by the mere force of the wind,
were thrown across the rooms with force
enough to penetrate the flesh the shutters
were wrenched from their hinges. OffveI
hundred noble oaks that had withstood the
storms Of a century, not a half dozen were
left standing, and Of that host Of oaks that
surrounded my dwelling, but a solitary one
stands sentinel over the graves of its breth-
ren. \ negro man who saw the tornado
cross at FuTy's Ferry, says it was terri
bic sight. The air was filled with shingles
and limbs of trees whirling along at a tre-
mcndous speed. In Baldwin county a
shingle was driven, sharp end foremost,
several inches into the body of small oak
tree it happened to strike directly. The
liltless negro woman was found lodged in
the branches Of lofty tree, not exactly
in the hurricanes path and child of the
same race was blown away, and has not
been found at ALL Dick Condor was killed
by having the upper half of his head cut
off smoothly by Il plank driven with the
wind, and the missing top of his head has
not been found.
Another correspondent, writing from
Richmond county says Mr.. Brown was
found with his head under heavy plate
His skull was fractured six inches. Mrs.
Brown was severely bruised, but their child,
little boy six years old, was unhurt
Three negroes on this place were killed. One
woman was blown l50 yards through the
woods, and was broken and mangled fear
luilN. y Clilti was DlONl from the arms
of ono Of the women, and its body had not
been found mp to the time that our infor-
mant left. Some cntials were found in
the woods on Sunday, which, in the opin-
ion Of DIR. Hardeman, were those of the
child. In crossing the river the wind lifted
the water up in solid mass until it seemed
a perfect wall of water Charles johnson,
a man employed by Colonel Johnson was
hauling load of lumber to town from
Scotsboro, and seeing the danger, hastily
unhitchcd the horses. The wind picked
the horses up and dashed them against the
ground injuring them quite severely.
Charles, the driver, sustained a painful in
jury-the wagon and lumber were blown
away. y goat on the plantation of Colonel
Fair was blown of, as was all the poultry.
Small rocks were blown with such force