The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-03

graph lines were blown down for miles.
NEW ORLEANS, April 23 "A special
TO The Times Democrat from West Point,
Miss, says: A terrific gale from the
northwest struck our town at - o'clock
yesterday afternoon accompanied by tor.
rents OF rain and the largest hail ever
seen here. The court house, LAWYERS
Row, Central Hotel, Cotton Exchange
niiices, Olympic saloon, Henry House.
w. "A. Bibb's store and Flanagan Hall
were ali unroOfed and materially dam.
aged. Fences and trees were Frustrated
and considerable damage was done. No
lives lost.
NEW Orr EANs, April 23.-The Times.
Democrafs Red Lick, Miss, special says
Al ii O'Clock yesterday morning a lorna.
90 passed about mile east of here,
causing some loss of life and great dam.
age to property. The track of the storm
was 200 yards wide. Everything in the
track was swept away. dwellings, cabius,
trees, fences, cattle. &c. On the Ross
place, a mile from here, the storm
levelled quarters and fences, killing a
colored child and inju. ing several per.
sons. Only one house remains standing.
On the killingworth plantation great
many cabins were blown down and much
damage was done to crops and fences.
In one cabin were five people, who say
that the walls and roof of the houses
were lifted and carried away, leaving the
people standing unhurt on the floor.
SAVANNAH, GA. April pa special
to the Morning Ncrs from Eastman,
Georgia, says that cyclone passed over
the town early this morning doing great
damage. John Registers house WAS
blown down and his two children killed.
Samuel Harris's house WIS demolished
and his wife and children badly injured.
ATLANTA, April 23.-The Constitu-
tons specials tonight mention the pas.
sage of the cyclone through lower Geor.
gia with destructive results, also wind
aud heavy rain all over the State. The
was continuous, and one could
read by its light. Fences and dams were
washed away and many houses were
blown down. AT Albany eight persons
were killed and about twenty five wound.
ed. AT Eastman two are reported killed.
The track Of the cyclone in Dougherty
County is reported as quarter of mile
wide.
MACON, Ga, April 23.-Specials to
the Telegraph and Messenger report a
terrific cyclone in Southwest Georgia,
attended by large loss of life and prop.
erty. Not less than twenty five deaths
are reported, while the number of in.
jured cannot be estimated. The damage
to railroads and telegraph lines prevents
the gathering of details. No estimate
can yet be made of the loss. In many
instances there is an entire loss Of farm
houses, residences, cattle and produce.
The dead and wounded are being looked
after, and everything is done that is pos
Bible.
ATLANTA, April 23.-An Americus
special reports much destruction and
many people injured by the storm at diff
ferent houses. One baby, Il woman and
two negro men and whole family of
five were killed near that place.
AUGUSTA, April 23.-A special to the
Chronicle says destructive cyclone
passed along the Athens branch Of the
Georgia Railroad last night. Two
dwellings, near Woodvile and Lexington
were blown down.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN, April 23.-
Fully $4,000 damage was done in this
city by the storm last night. Depots,
dwellings and stores were unroofed,
fences thrown down and trees uprooted.
Reports from the surrounding country
show the storm to have been very de-
structive. The wires are down and par
1iculars hard to get.
KNOXVILLE, April ga land slide
at Blackjack Ridge, few miles north of
here, last night stopped tho running of
through trains Oh the Knoxville and
Ohio Railroad. The track will not be
cleared for three days. The wind aud
rain here last night did little damage.
The wind blew 50 miles per hour. and
three and three-guarter inches of rain
fell last night, tue largest fail in any one
day in five years.
New ORLEANS. April ga Tusca
Ioosa, Ala, special says: This section
was visited yesterday by heavy storm
of wind and rain, which continued until
midnight. The Warrior River has risen
thirty teet in the past twenty four hours,
and is now fifty feet above low water
mark and still rising. Hundreds Of
acres Of the richest lands in the War.
rior bottom that have been already
planted are submerged, and planters will
suffer heavy loss. 1t is thought that the
rapid and unprecedented rise in the river
has caused also great loss OF stock, as
there was no warming OF the freshet.
New ORLEANS, April 23.-A Colum.
bus, Miss, special says: A destructive
cyclone passed eight miles north of here
y yesterdny afternoon near Tibbee Station
on the Mobile aud Ohio Railroad. Much
damage was done to houses and fences.
At Cooks plantation on the Bigbee
River nearly every house was demolish-
ed. Crossing the river fourteen houses
we're destroyed on Dan Hutchinson's
but no lives lost. At Gale
donia, twelve miles north Of Columbus,
the storm seems to have concentrated its
fury. Every fence for miles around was
blown away, trees were blown down and
carried before the wind like chaff, and
many houses were torn to pieces. Jack
an estimable young man,
while bending over his wife to allay her
fears was struck on the head by falling
beam and Instantly killed. Mrs. Kalb
was dangerously wounded, as was also
Mrs. Oden.
An Aberdeen, Miss, special says: {:
The most terrific cyclone passed over
that portion of the city known as Freed.
manstown, at noon yesterday, destroying
much property and cattle. Eight or ten
lives were lost and about fifty persons
injured, mostly negroes, some of whom
will probably die. The storm track vas
about three hundred yards wide. The
direction was southwest to northwest.
New ORLEANS, April pa Stark
vile special giving an account of the
storm says: At a colored church q negro
man was taken bodily up and the last
seen of him he was far above the earth
wildly beating the air rs if seeking some.
thing TO stay his progress.