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

BY E. B. MURRAY &
cut to pieces and the ground strs&a with
bonghs and leaves Of trees, clipped of
by the hail, which is said to have been
enormolis. Some parties say the stones
were as large as mans fist, and crashed
through the fields of corn like mimic
balls, cutting large stalks, an inch in
diameter, to the ground, and strewing
the burrows with them until the fields
looked as if the reaper with his scythe
had passed along. Trees were nprooted
and hurled with violence against houses
and fences. At the sixteen mile post o
freight car was
BLOWN FROM THE TRACK.
The hsil stones, which came down as
thick as rain drops, penetrated into the
houses through the pahes of glass, and
in one instance that we heard Of, through
the blinds. It is said that at one place a
bushel of hail stones were gathered from
the floor of room. Coming on down
the Georgia Railroad the storm struck
Mr.. Thomas Wynn's place, half mile
above Berzelia, and in moment his
large cotton gin mandatory
FELL BEFORE THE WIND,
Burying beneath the ruins quantity of
valuable machinery and forty new gins.
One end of the building, which was q
two story wooden structure, 100 feet long
by 40 feet wide, was blown out and car
ried clear across the creek, distance of
about twenty yards, The gins, which
had recently been completed, were val.
ued at one hundred and fifty dollars each.
Mr.. Wynn says he may be able to con-
struct one gin from the wreck of every
three, but it is impossible as yet to say,
as everything is buried beneath the debris
of the building. Besides the destruction
of the mandatory and contents, Mr..
Wynn suffered considerably from the de-
molition of his crop and fencing. Cotton
and corn were cut down even with the
ground. Fencing was blown distance
Of forty or fifty feet. Mr.. Wynn and his
wife had been out riding, and had just
arrived at home when
THE STORM BURST UPON THEM,
Mr.. Wynn was in the stable unhar-
Messing his horse, and Mrs. Wynn was in
the dwelling. In an instant the tornado
ragged around them in all its fury. Three
huge trees were uprooted in the yard,
between the stable and the house. Mr..
and Mrs. Wynn, separated by these bar
riers, each thought the other had been
killed until the storm subsidized sufficient
ly for Mr.. Wynn to get to the dwelling,
A carriage, which was in the factory, was
demolished. Mr.. Wynn estimates his
loss at from 5000 to $4,000. He is left
entirely without means in his old age,
and will be unable to remove the debris
of his factory and put up temporary
structure unless he receives assistance.
he will be thankful for any aid either in
provisions or labor. (!
After leaving Mr.. Wynn's place the
storm went in the direction of the Sa-
vannah River, which it crossed at the
Locks. Near the latter it swept over Mr..
w. II. Howard's plantation like besom
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 to pieces as if it had been
between two contending armies, many of
the trees bearing large indentations
where the huge hail stones had struck.
Corn was struck down to the burrows.
The hail 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-
tion, 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. leaye the
remnants of the corn and cotton.
Messrs. Geraty & Armstrong, who have
place near the Locks; lost considerably
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.. Shaw's place fences were blown down
and cotton, corn and fruit destroyed.
Rev. J. P. Mealing, DR.. Hudson, Mrs.
John Mealing and Others were visited by
the storm and their crops destroyed.
The hail crashed through everything,
even through shingles. The oldest in
habitants declare that such storm was
never before seen in this section. We
are informed that
A WAGON LOAD OF ICE
Could have been obtained from single
fence corner, so great was thefall of bail.
At Batesburg, s. 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
of the river, was in the track of the storm
and evidences of its visit are plentiful.
Crops were injured, trees and small
houses blown over and glass smashed.
A citizen of Augusta who was at the
Locks when the storm passed, says the
hail stones were enormous, many of them
as large as mans fist. He picked up
one, put it in his handkerchief and
brought it to Augusta, and it was still as
large as a partridge egg, several hours
after it had fallen.
At Mr.. Brooks, near Bel-Air, chickens
were killed by the hail. The dwelling
and kitchen form an 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 this time to estimate
the full amount of the damage. The
total loss from destruction of crops, how
ever, is certainly very large.-Chroniclc
and Constautionalist Of 11th inst.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE WIND
AND HAIL TORNADO.
From every portion of the devastated
regions come saddening details Of Sun
days cyclone. At Mr.. Henry Merry's
place, in Berzelia, the clouds, deep and
angry, came from the southeast and pre-
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