The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-08
Debt less cash in Treasury 81, 133, 63i a
Decrease during March ............. 1861 81
THE GEORGIA CYCLONES.
Fearful Destruction Caused by the Re.
cent Tornado IN Georgia Three
Hundred Persons Killed and 1,5OO
Injured.

Fearful Destruc ton Caused by the Re.
cent Tornado IN Georgia Three
Hundred Persons Killed and 1,5OO
Injured.
THE recent cyclone which passed over
this region was the most awful ever
heard of in the United States. / have
been along portion of its track, and,
having just returned, will endeavor to
give the readers of your paper an account
of it.
1t crossed the Chattahoochee River
from Lee County, Ala, and entered Har-
ris County, Ga. From thence it passed
through the counties of Talbot, Upssn,
Monroe, Jones, Baldwin, Hancock, War
rem, McDuffie and Columbia. 1t crossed
the Savannah River fifteen miles above
Augusta, entered Edge efield County, S. c.,
passed through Barnwell, Lexington,
Richland, Sumter, Marion and Horny
Counties, OF that State, and finally ran
into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast Of
North Carolina.
A second cyclone, precisely at the
same time, seemed to have formed this
side of Milledgeville, crossed the Ogee-
chez River fifteen miles below the vii
lage of Mayfeld, in Hancock County,
and passing through Glascock and the
lower edge OF Richmond crossed the Sa-
vannah twelve miles below Augusta, in
to Beech Island, S. c., and thence ran due
east into the Atlantic.
AS was along the northern one of
these cyclones | will 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 mile high, half a mile wide, was
cylindrical in shape, and travelled very
much like revolving barrel coming end
foremost. 1t was Illuminated with phos-
phorescent light, and momentarily would
glitter as if 1,000,0 600 matches had been
| ignited in it.
1t was accompanied by a continuous
T, roaring sound, as of 500 cannon in the
| decisive moments of a pitched battle
| The bravest man ever born could neither
have felt, seen, nor heard it with calm
ness. There was force and power, a
| sublimity and grandeur about it un-
natural awful, wholly its own. But a
| thousand incidents are related showing
that the hand of Providence was in it
that ii was governed by laws as regular
and immutable as is the sun.
1t travelled from west to little north
of due east, going as straight as crane
or cannon ball would fly. 1t passed
over the entire State of Georgia in exact
| ly three hours, travelling at the rate OF
| fifty-three miles per hour.
The whole number of killed in Georgis
viii not fall below 300, and the wounded
| reach 800 ff -s.s
| Through Carolina the devastation ant
death were equally as great. The south
! ern cyclone crossed tie Savannah a
Fury's Ferry, sunk the boat, struck the
plantation of Mr. Foreman, tore it tt
| pieces and killed and wounded greaf
many on it. Thenceforward to the
ocean the accounts are as terrible and a.
appalling.-Augusta, Ga. (Aarth2 24l, Cor
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