Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-01
MONDAYS CYCLONE.
ITS TERRORS IN SOUTHERN
GEORGIA.
Great Destruction I'm sumter, Lee,
errells Randolph. Dodge, Dough.
erty and other COunties-SeveraI
Persons Killed aud Many Injured.

PERSONS A1lIed aud Many IDj ureda
ARCoLA, GA, March 29.-Editor Morni1Q
Neaos: A terrible cyclone passed over the
eastern portion of this (Bulloch) county on
the night Of the 9th inst. The houses and
plantations Of Louis Hutchison, Mrs. War
nocb, James Wise and William Hogan were
blown down, and Mr.. Hogan's wife and
child were killed instantly in the wreck,
and he was badly injured.
The plantations of Captain W. D. Bran
men and ]. T. Mikell suffered great damage,
also the turpentine farm of Oatland, Bran
men 81 Co. Many head of cattle, sheep and
other kinds of stock were killed. Birds
stripped of feathers were found dead In the
course Of the storm.
Anlericus Republican.
On Monday night last, between the hours
OF ten aud eleven O'Clock, terribly de-
structive storm swept over Lee and the
lower portions of Sumter counties. We
learn that houses were blown away, great
deal Of stock killed, and many persons in
lured. 1t is said that negro man named
Britt Shepherd was killed, and child had
its arm broken. In the fifteenth district of
Sumter the plantation Of Jas. Bass was de-
nuded of fences, and every house
on 1t, except his dwelling, blown
away. His brother, Alex. Bass,
had everything - his dwelling house,
barns, stables, fences, clothing, provisions,
fodder, aud everything else blown away.
Wesley Bass and family, Thomas Lightfoot
and family, James Richards and family, the
widow Carter and family, are homeless and
bnI
shred OF clothing gone. These persons are
in very destitute condition and call loudly
for help. The neighbors are helping as
much as they can, but they can do but
little, as they themselves are sufferers from
the storm. Outside help is imperativelY
needed-help at once. Wade Richards
is supposed to be mortally injured,
his father and mother also badly
hurt. The house was blown down on
Wesley Bass, his wife and three children,
all of whom were more or less injured. The
wind entirely demolished the gin house of
Alex. Bass, blowing it a distance of fifty
yards, tearing it all to pieces, not leaving
two shingles together. Our informant, DIR.
j. W. Jones, says that his crop is ruined,
that the timbers are Tapped over his fields
in inextricabie confusion, and that 1t
clear the debris. Mr.. j. n Carter, of this
place, received dispatch from his brother,
D. A. Carter, of Lee county, stating that
everything was blown away, and for his
father to come down on the first train, bring
ing with him hands and carpenters. Mr..
Carter had four mules killed by the storm.
In this place, between the hours of
ten and eleven o'clock, Monday night,
an earthquake was sensiblY felt. Many
of our citizens felt their houses tremble,
window shutters rattle, and crockery to be
violently Jared. One of our cit zens noticed
a door in his house open apparently of
itself, a thing that he never noticed before.
That It was not wind is clearly demonstrated
from the fact that at that hour but little
wind was blowing here, though at the same
time a violent cyclone at the distance of
fifteen miles was making sad havoc with
lives and property. DIR. Jones also stated
to the floor by the violence Of the shocks
felt.
Albany Net0s and advertiser.
As the train drew near the town of Smith
vile, perhaps three quarters of a mile from
the VILLAGE, the passengers, who craned
their necks out Of the windows, saw a
sight that, when they attempt to describe,
human credulity will hardly gulp at one
swallow. Immense pines felled, cabins
razsd to the earth, and fence rails scattered
in every direction. A company of men
repairing track and telegraph wire and
poles. The train ran perhaps five hundred
yards before the track of destruction had
been crossed.
A few seconds ride brought us to huge
pine trees that had fallen across the way,
and after we had leaped and ridden around
a hundred yards of trees we came to vast
pile of lumber, brick aud mortar, about
which was sonowfully grouped knot of
men.
"Who lived here s' we asked.
'Mr. Jack Bats, )" said negro. That's
him standing thar" pointing to young
man.
We stated cur mission to Mr.. Bats, who
kindly asked US to dismount, and led the
way to the mass of ruins. He told us that
this debris was what remained OF a two
story, stronely-built frame house, to which
he had brought only five months ago a
Young bride. He had improved the dwell.
ing, and was pitching crop. He said:
cat about half past eleven o'clock l was
awakened by the noise OF terrible storm.
It frightened my wife so that she wanted to
get up. / restrained her, and there was
crash, and the roof fell on US. Myself and
wife were sspdwiched, as we lay, between
two rafters. l could put my hand up and
feel the roof. Grasping my wife with my
right arm began the work of extficating
reaching a window which opened on por-
tico, at one end of which was the kitchen.
succeeded in breaking through the win
dow and reaching the porch, when was
blown across the porch, a distance of fifteen
feet, into the kitchen. The wind ceased,
aud, recovering my poor wife, made for
shelter, which found in negro cabin not
far away"
Captain Mckinney arrived in Smlthville
TpTroll IN irctf
Of the storm are seen as you cross the Jor-
dan mill creek, about four miles from
Smithville, and the other end was, as far as
could be ascertained, at Mr.. Sanders place,
five miles from Smithville, which would
make track nine miles. OF course It may
be longer than this. This is the length we
know 1t to be.
furniture, kitchen utensils and wearing ap-
parel are found in the woods three miles
from the track of the storm.
From passengers on the Eufaula train,
which rolled up at Smithville few min
utes before the Albany train departed, we
heard the most marvellous stories OF the |
storm, and the number of deaths ranged
from half dozen to forty. At Browns |
Station the passengers were regaled with |
the sight of hands making coffins to bury |
the dead. Conductor Shelman informed |
US that there were four deaths at Browns |
Station, or rather Geise's saw mill.
HalOkinsUiIIe Dispatch.
On Monday night last, between eleven |
and twelve O'Clock, a cyclone or tornado, |
about three hundred yards In width, struck |
DIR. V. H. Walkers plantation. in Wilcox |
county, prostrating every building on the |
place except the dwelling and crib, and the |
roofs of these buildings were blown off, |
The family fortunately escaped with slight |
bruises, but cooking utensils, crockery and !
provisions were carried away, and boards |
from some o. the Outhouses were blown sew |
eral miles. The buggies and wagons were |
crushed under the buildings, the furniture |
destroyed, and the bedding that was left |
was covered with the heavy rain that fol- |
lowed. We received a note from DR.. |
Walker saying that he was without dry |
room for his family or the few things that /
were left. His neighbors (though the coun- |
try is sparsely settled) were rendering such |
assistance as they were enabled to offer. |
The tornado was confined to q
space about three hundred yards |
In width, and passed between the
places of Perry Wilson and Pink johnson,
Henry Lawson and Alfred Ban, Isaac Ad.
kins and Abraham Mccormick. Timber
and fencing were carried before the wind as
II so many straws, and stock In the course |
Of the storm were killed, though no lives
had been reported lost up to late accounts
The storm continued In an easterly direc-
ton, crossing the Oemulgee into Dodge |
county, destroying the dwelling OF Isaac
Bowen, iDjuring the new frame dwelling OF
Stephen Daniel, and completely blowing
away the cabin of q colored woman.
One of our merchants returned from a /
rip to his plantation on Gum creek, Dooly
county, on Tuesday morning, ani Informs
rs that about III O'Clock on Monday night a |