The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-31

The Atlanta. Ga, Constitution O
the 24tb, gives full particulars If ihe
recent terrible tornado IN that Stare
and South Carolina. Eight %coGEli,-
10 Georgia, aud three ia South Gar
DINA, need relief gsom the eli, cts 81.
the tornado. The list OF the killed
and wounded is appalling. The
march Of the tornado was west from
Harris county, across Talbot. Epson.
Monr9e. Jones, Baldwin. Hancock.
: Glaseoc1, McDuhie and Columbia.
touching Richmond also, and passing
into Carolina. IN Hancock county,
sixteen houses were DESTROYED at
one place, and in Glascock thirtv-
Eve lives were lost. At Mayville, in
Warren county, three negroes We're
killed, their bodies being carried a
halt mile. The total list Of killed
and wounded foots, los killed, and
I23 wounded. The tornado is thus
described by a correspondent Those
who viewed it from the South de-
scribe it Is being densely black.
while all who viewed it from the on
pos.te direction agree in describing
1t as being luminous rs flame. II
was funnel-shaped, with the point
resting upon the ground, and its
broad top melting in The distance.
where the eve could not reach. 1t
moved with 2 numbering sound, as if.
thousands Of pieces IF artillery were
pouring IN ineessant cannonade upon
the earth. One gentleman saws if
every cannon in the world bad been
fred simultaneously and necessarily
the roar would no. have equaled
that Of the wind. Never was such
a tornado felt in Georgia. Tie
front cloud was pitch black. half "a
mile high, and half q mile wide. 1t.
was barrel-shape at times. and al
times il took the form of Il half moon,
revolving from north TO south. The
rear was Illuminated with a Iurid, i
phospnoresccnt, but wholly unnatu
raj light. It travelled at the rate OF
seventy miles per hour. - was flank
ed on the north and south sides with
dcAse clouds. but stood out in bold
relief alone. 10 demolished each
plantation in twenty seconds It
accompanied by a sound as Of
Gye hundred cannon Ia the decisive
moment Of pitched battle. Not Il
drop of rain fell from it, but a great
rain storm came up three hours after
wards, and dclused the earth, ac-
companied by hail, wind, thunder
and lightning.
The cloud first appeared in a north
westerly direction, and gradually
south to a point where it
must have net Ont opposing force.
My attention was attracted by a dull,
heavy roaring at apparently some
two or three miles in a westerly d.
r%ectioH, which induced the expecta-
ton of . severe storm. | had bat
expressed this when the tornado was
upon Us. l spent its greatest fury in
about three minutes, my dwelling be-
ing about the centre, and the breadth
Of the main column not exceeding
400 yards. The senses were utterly
deadened. There was a crash, a
roar, the minSling Of d hundred ter
rife and unknown sounds the glass,
shattered by the mere force Of the
wind, were thrown across the rJOii5
with force enough the penetrate the
flesh; the shutters were Wrenched
from their hinges. OF FIVE hundred
noble oaks that had withstOod the
storms Of a century, not a half dozen
were left standing, and of that hosto of
oaks that surrounded my dwelling, .
but a solitary enc stands sentinel
over the graves of its brothers. \
man who saw the tornado
cross at Furry's Ferry, says it was q
terrible sight. The air was filed
shingles and limbs Of trees
whirling along at a tremendous
In Baldwin county a shiDgie
was driven, sharp end foremost, sew
eral inches into the body Of a small
oak tree it happened to strike direct
". The ifeless body of a negro w0-
man was found lodged in the
branches Of a lofty tree, not exactly
in the hurricanes path and a child Of
same race was blown away, and has
q been found at all. Dick Gond er
killed by having the upper half
Of his head cut off smoothly by a
plank driven by the wind, and the
missing top of his head has not been