The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-05

MI. Hill Davis house was torn to pieces
his wife's jaw bone broken and his little
girl Lillian badly injured. Mr.. Davis
himself was seriously hurt Every
building was torn down, and tho bark
was literally torn off the fruit trees in
the orchard. 1t il supposed that this
was done by the pelting of rocks against
the trees, rs the field across which the
storm swept was filled with pebbles
These were hurled down in q perfect
shower upon the houses and timber. It
then crossed the creek into Mrs Thomas
Stelling's place, which it devastated in
terrible manner. Mr.. James Burton's
farm was the next in the route Of the de-
stroying elements. This gentleman's
residence and out-buildings, with nearly
all the timber, were destroyed A re-
markable fact was noticed at Mrs. Stell-
ing's. The top soil, trash and rails in
blown up steep hill, which actually
looked afterwards as if mighty food
had swept up its side. The drift was
piled against the sides of large logs ex-
actly az it would have been BY a torrent
of water. Mrs. Stelling's chimneys were
snapped of and fell upon the roof of
her dwelling. crushing through. The
gardens were destroyed and out-build-
ings also. Mr.. Crowley's house and
fencing were demolished. Buildings,
fences and trees were leveled at Shoury's
place. At Rutledge the Masonic Hall,
In the Eastern part of the town, was
completely torn down.
Near Covington, the tornado seems to
have divided into three-one, moving
from the Southwest, travelled a little
North to East, and was that which passed
| near and over Rutledge. This was about
half a mile wide. Another of the three
went due North. This passed over
Maxey's, a station on tho Athens branch
OF the Georgia Railroad, blew down o
number of buildings and killed young
man named Maxey and negro A party
of young men out fishing at the time had
their wagon blown away and the horse
killed. Up to the time when our infor-
mant heard from that section, all the
fishing party had not been found, and it
was supposed thnt several of them were
Killed. The tornado crossed the Oconee
River at S1ill Shoals Factory. All the
buildings. except the factory were blown
down. The third fork of the tornado
travelled in Southerly direction, and is
said to have caused great destruction in
Jasper County
A letter from Bairdstown, Ca, SAYS:
It IL impossible to estimate the damage
done by the cyclone-completely de-
molishing houses and destroying farms.
Several persons killed. and many
wounded.
The storm created considerable da-
mage i'll some portions of Barnwell
County. s. g. A farmer from that Sec
ton was in the city yesterday for the
purpose of purchasing horses and mules,
al! OF his, five in number, having been
Killed by the storm, which blew q stable
down on them.
I-Auyusta Chronicle g. Sentinel.
YOUNG MARrYR.-The death of Miss
Fitzgerald. of Paterson, N. j., by kero-
| sene burning, heretofore announced, was
case OF martyrdom. In getting out of
bed to procure relief for q tooth-ache
| she upset the lamp and set fire to the
bed. Her first thought was not of her
self, but of some children who were
sleeping in the same room with her, and
she carried them out, and ran into the
street. all burning and naked as she was,
the binding snow affording q grateful
sense of relief. Her cries aroused the
other inmates of the house, among them
DR.. Cahill and his brother William, who
ran to her rescue and carried her into
| hands severely burned in so doing.
Meanwhile, the unfortunate girl was suf-
fering untold agony from her burns.
Her whole body, from her neck down,
was burned-her sides to crisp, and her
foet and limbs SO that the skin peeled off
and fell down in strips. But she bore
her sufferings like u martyr, and when
DIR. Cahiu applied oil and lime water to
ease her pain, she said, gratefully: That
feels good; I shall never forget you, doc
tor" 1t was evident that her injuries
were fatal, and that all that was possible
TO be done for her was to ease her pain.
She fingered till about 100 o'clock, when
she died.
ELECTION NEws.--Reliable information
was received last night to the effect that
the Democrats elected eleven out of Sc
venteen Aldermen in the city of Raleigh,
Monday. The Aldermen elect the Mayor,
| thus giving that Office to the Democrats.