The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-20

cut to pieces and the groHnd stivTA win
5oughs and leaves Of tIees, clfpped Of
by the iail, which is said to have been
eaofmols. Some parties say the stones
| were az Large as mans fist, and crasbeCl
through the fields of corn like mimic
balls, cutting large stalks, an inch in
diameter, TO the ground, and strew;no
the furrows with them until the fields
looked as If the reaper with his scythu
mad passed along. Trees we're rprootet|
and hurled with violence against houses
ana fences. At the sixteen mile ,,ost q
freight car was
BLOWN FROM THE TRACK.
The hail stones, which came down as
,hick as rain drops, penetrated into the
houses through the pahes of glass, and
IN one INSTANCE that we heard Of, through
.ne olinds: IL IL said that at one place q
nashei OF hail stones were gathered from
he moor OF room. Coming on down
tae Georgia Railroad the storm struck
Mr. Thomas Wynn's place, q half mile
aooVe Berzelia, and in a moment his
large cotton gin manufactory
FELL BEFORE THE WIND.
Burying beneath the ruins quantity of
valuable machinery and forty new Tins,
One end of the building, which was q
Two story wooden structure, 100 feet lonp
by 40 feet wide, was blown ont end car.
rled clear across the creek, distance OF
about twenty yards. The gins, which
mad recently been completed, were wall
ued at one hundred and fifty dollars each.
dr. Wynn says he may be able to con.
strucc one gin from the wreck of every
three, but 1t IL impossible as yet to say.
as everything 10 buried beneath the de6r;3'
OF the building. Besides the destruction
OF the manufactory and contents. Mr..
wynn suffered considerably from the de.
moiition of his crop and fencing. Cotton
ana corn were cut down even with the
ground. Fencing ives blown a distance
OF forty or fifty feet. Dfr. Wynn and his
wife had been out riding, and had lust
arrived at home when
THE STORM BURsT UPON THEM.
Mr. Wynn was in the stable unhar.
Messing his herse, and Mrs. Wynn was in
the dwelling. In an instant the tornado
{aged around them in all its fury. Three
nuge trees were uprooted in the yard.
between the stable and the house. Mr..
and MRS. Wynn, separated by these bar
risrs,, each Thought the other had been
Killed until the storm subsidized sufficient!
iy for Mr.. Wynn TO get to the dwelling.
A carriage, which was in the factory. vaa
demolished. Mr. Wynn estimates hin
loss at from $4,000 to $4,000. He is lefs
entirely without means in his old age.
and will be unable to remove the dc6r;ss
OF his factory and put up temporary
s.:s:cs.:s1c iiHie05 Go receives assistance.
de will be thankful for any aid either in
provisions or labor.
After leasing Mr.. Wynn's place the
storm went in the direction of the Sal
vannah River, which it crossed at the
Locks. Near the latter it swept over Mr!
W. ID. Howard's plantation like pesom
of destruction. Nearly all the cotton on
two hundred acres was ruined. In some
instances it was cut down level with the
ground; in others the stalks, were
stripped of leaves and small boughs and
left standing bare and SCARED. A pine
thicket was cut 70 pieces us if il mad been
between two contending armies, many OF
the trees hearing large indentations
where the huge hail stones had struck.
Corn was struck down to the furrows,
The hait stones were as large as goose
eggs and fell with great force. Mr.,
Howard estimates his loss at not less
than $4,000. Mr.. Frank Beale's planta!
sion, near Mr.. Howard's. was also in the
path of the storm and suffered fearfully,
We understand that Mr. Beale expects to
PLow HIS FIELDs
Over again, and plant peas, as he does
not consider it worth while to leave the
remnants of the corn and cotton.
Messrs. Geraty & Armstrong, who have
O place near the Locks, lost considerable
by the storm. The crops were badly cut
up and several houses were blown down.
including barn.
Crossing the river the storm PLAYED
havoc in the Currytown settlement,
Several plantations were devastated. On
Dr: Shhsw's place fences ~ers blown down
and cotton, corn and fruit DESTROYED
Rev. J. P. Mealing, DR.. Hudson, Ms.
John Meaiing and others were visited by
the storm and their crops destroy 81.
The hail crashed through everything,
even through shingles. The oldest in
hah'tants declare that such O storm was
ne, * before seen in this section. We
are informed that
A WAGON LOAD OF ICE
Could have been obtained from q single
fence corner, 30 great was the fall of hail.
At Batesburg, 8. c., two cars were blown,
over and trees and crops destroyed.
Mai. Geo. w. Cranes farm, about eight
miles from Augusta, on the Georgia side
cf the river, was in the track of the storm
and e ences of its visit are plentiful.
Cr5us were injured, trees and email
houses blown over and glass smashed.
A citizen of Augusta who was at the
Locke when the storm passed, says the
hail stones were enormous, mGny of them
rs large as q mans fist. He picked up
one, put it in his handkerchief and
brought it to Augusta, and it was still as
large as g partridge egg, several hours
after it had fallen.
At Mr.. Brooke, near Bel-Air, chickens
were killed by the hail. The dwelling
and kitchen form on L, and the space
between them was filled up with ice.
The storm was accompanied by vivid
lightning and very loud thunder.
1t is impossible at thie time to estimate
the full amount OF the damage. The
t.;tl &c f-:::: destruction Of crc.,a hee
ever, is certainly very large Caroaicle
and C6nstitutionalist Of 11tb inst.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE WIND
AND HAIL TORNADO.
From every portion of the devastated
regions come saddening dstailB sf Sun
days cyclone. At Mr. Henry Merry's
place, in Berzelia, the cloufs 8. ie5P and
angry, came from the southeast and pre-"
cipitated q storm of aboat two minutes
duration, accompanied by deadening
roar. SO complete was the rapid WORK
that fields Of corn, which but few min
uoes Defore gave every PTunii5o 0f u. q heavy hoi,7y
yield, were cut through and stripped Of
their blades; cotton plants were denuded,
nd Ill IL tAA aIn