The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-04-24
THE GEORGIA CYCLONES.

THE GEORGIA CYCLONES.
.nc.r Terrible wo,k ;iene,ved--Threc
Hundred Persons Killed and Fifteen
Iiundr :d w ounhc IL -Ieiicf for tho Suf-
frrers.
Correspondence of the louisville Conrier-Jourpal.
AUGUSTA, Ga, March 24-The recent
cyclone which passed over this region
was the most awful ever heard OF in the
United States. L have been along a
portion of its track, and, having just
returned, will endeavor to give the
readers Of your paper an account OF it.
It crossed the Chattahoochee river
from Lee county, Alabama, and entered
Harris county, Georgia. From thence
il passed through the counties of Talbot,
Upsop, Monroe, Jones, Baldwin, Han
cock, Warren, McDuffie, and Columbia.
It crossed the Savannah river fifteen
miles above Augusta, entered Edgefeld
county, South Carolina, 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 NIilledgeville, crossed the Ogee-
chez river Is miles below the village of
Mnyfeld, in Hancock county, and pass
ing through Glascock and the lower
edge of Richmond, crossed the Savan-
nah, ~ miles below Augusta, into Beech
island, South Carolina, and from thence
ran due east into the Atlantic.
As ! was along the northern one of
these cyclones, l 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
he 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. II was illuminated with
phosphorescent light, and momentarily
would glitter rs if one million matches
had been ignited i'll it.
1t was accompanied by 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
it with calmness. There was n force
and power, a sublimity and grandeur
about it unnatural, awful, wholly it's
OVID. But thousand incidents are re-
lated showing that the hand of Provi-
dence was in it-that it was governed
" laws rs regular and immutable as is
the sun.
1t travelled from west to little north
Of due east, going rs straight as crane
or cannon ball would fly. It passed
over the entire state of Georgia in ex-
actly three hours, travelling at the rate
OF fifty three miles per hour.
ion 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 sub
scribed in Augusta, SIS, 900 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 too day from this city. Never was
charity more fitly 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
Holr OF Ihe deaths OF other victims OF
this unparalleled calamity.
Through Carolina the devastation
and death were equally as great. The
southern cyclone crossed the Savannah
at Fury's ferry, sunk the boat, struck
the plantation of Mr.. Foreman, tore it
to pieces, and killed and wounded
great many on it. From thenceforward
to the ocean the accounts are as terrible
and as appalling.
On the 4th day..of April, 1904, nov
lacking but few days of II years,
great storm like this came up from the !
direction OF Dooly county, and passed
through Hancock, Warren, and Rich.
mcnd, crossing the Savannah Is miles
above Augusta. There are a few people
now living who remember it, and plenty
who have been told by their parents Of
it. It was described in the Augusta
Chronicle. All accounts are agreed
that il was illuminated by the same
strange light as the one Saturday.
Nobody was killed by it.
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