The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

children killed. Samuel Harrel's house was
blown down and Mr.. Harrel and his wife
seriously injured and all their children hurt
more or less. All the houses on the premises
were blown down. The out-houses OF JON
athan Males were laid waste and his cattle
killed. The property of w. A. Coleman, in
the same neghborhood, was injured. In Ogle-
thorpe county A. W. Wilkns's new residence
was blown from the pillars. The colored
Baptist Church was torn to pieces, not a stick
of timber being left upon another. The
trees were stripped of fruit and the forests
demolished. In Rockdale county the house
of Dr. Glenn was blown down, and the fam
lily narrowly escaped. Robert Fleming's
house was blown down on the family, and
the family were borne along with their cabin
some twenty-five yards. Then the man,
wife and children and all his appliances were
scattered around promiscuously as the play
things of the heartless winds. After some time
he succeed in picking up his children by the
aid of the lightning's incessant glare. George
is wounded on the shoulder The top of
John Green's barn was carried hence and the
contents of the barn exposed to a pelting
storm. William Marbut's kitchen was de-
molished and his dwelling twisted around.
Trees, fences, vehicles and palIngs are now
lying scattered around in the general wreck.
The track of the storm would seem to be
about 900 yards wide. The wind in its fury
did not seem to blow more than about fifteen
minutes, but the rain continued to pour in
torrents until daylight. In Floyd hailstones
fell four inches IN diameter. In Ebert,
where the storm passed out of the State into
South Carolina, hailstones fell, some of which
weighed pound. In Quitman the rainfall
was five inches per hour. On the Griffin e
Carrollton road there are five washouts, ag-
gregating 800 feet Trains cannot run
through in week. The damage is $4,000.
The Oostanoula river rose eight feet during
tl,o ,iobt Tn oil lkor
mill-dams all washed away; loss about 50, 600.
The frame of new house on the place was
blown fifteen feet and smashed to pieces
Along the East Tennessee road, from At
lanta to Macon, mill-dams and bridges are
all gone, the water moving them with the
greatest ease. Corn and cotton are washed
out. The rivers and creeks are higher and
the bottoms are covered deeper with water
than they have been for fifty years. The
lightning was terrific, making everything as
bright as day. and the continued roar of
thunder frightening even the bravest. At
Locust Grove the operators instrument was
torn to pieces. At McDonough the green
pine planks were set on fire in the telegraph
office. A freight train was ditched in a
washout near Hollingsworth mill. A few
minutes after leaving McDonough a pas
senger train came to a sudden halt on the
long trestle over Pates creek Conductor
Guerley crawled over the engine and went
forward to see what was the matter. Within
one hundred feet of where the train had
been so suddenly stopped by the skillful and
experienced engineer a bent of this trestle
had been undermined and dropped six
inches. While examining it the heavy tim
Der cracked like pistol shot, and sunk three
inches. A fatal accident, in which twenty
five lives would have been lost, was narrowly
avoided Many fine fish-ponds were washed
away, and thousands of fish from old ponds
washed on land and destroyed. In Webster
county, Dan Ford was killed; Frank Will
Jams, leg broken, and Tom Cannon and wife
killed in falling building, In Preston, w.
W. Pool and negro were killed. Asa Ans
ley preacher, was caught sitting in chair
and was killed before extrcated. Two miles
from Americus the house of NJ S. Locket
was lifted up and carried away leaving the
family in bed under the rain. Mr.. Locket's
little girl was killed by piece OF flying tim
Der. On Woodrutfs plantation, Mr.. Wood
ruff's wife, with week old baby and five
other children, were killed and mashed to a
jelly. c. B. Lewis on. QuaG), of the Detroit
Free Press, was at the Marhall House, Green
vile, s. c., last night. So vivid was the cleo
tricity that he got up and wrote letter of
two pages by its light. The loss of life in
Georgia is certainly over a hundred, and in
the track of the storm through the rural
region many lovely cabins were swept away
and the inmates killed.