The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-05-02


tie and confusion. Gangs of men
were at work getting out goods from
wrecked stores and scores of OK
teams were hauling recovered prop
Eerty away. The homeless people
had gotten together their remaining
effects and were moving them in
wagons and carts, and construc-
ton train was engaged receiving the
debris of the broken box cars. The
relief committee was actively at
work issuing rations and distribu-
ting clothing. In making the rounds
among the wounded very sad scenes
were witnessed, and The groans and
moans were heartrending; but par
ticularly touching was it to see little
children, numbers of them scarcely
more than babies. who did not un-
derstand at all, and with pain and
mystification had got beyond their
years and were heroic. Scarcely a
murmur was heard from the little
ones, and none complained. But one
little girl of three years wanted its
mamma to tome and fix my arm
"a poor, battered and bruised little
arm. No one could. fix it but mann
ma, and mamma was in the next
room, ali unconscious of her baby,
hurt unto death. There was FIVE
year-old boy whose face was bruised
and battered, and whose head was
gashed by an ugly wound. He was
unconscious, but even with his brain
clouded and not knowing where he
felt pain, he moaned and rolled in
bed He and the little girl were the
only babies heard to murmur or
complain.
A special telegram from Jackson
reports ten persons killed there.
A special from West Point says that
two cyclones passed over Clay coun-
ty Sunday. Both were terrific, lev
cling houses, fences and trees,
spreading death and destruction in
their paths. Near Hohenlinden
thirty persons were reported to have
been killed. and at Pine Bluffseven-
teen fatalities were reported. A
number of persons were killed in
different parts of the county, but
how many is not yet known. A
deed was found in the country that
had been carried fifty miles by the
wind. The afflicted and distressed
are being cared for by the more for
tunate. No estimate of the loss OF
property can yet be made, but it is
very great.
The cyclone passed through Mon
roe county, destroying lives and
wounding many persons seriously,
and carrying away everything in its
path. A suburb of Aberdeen, con-
tanning twenty-five or thirty colored
families was absolutely wiped out,
three of the negroes being killed at
once and two others have since died
from their wounds. while twenty
five are under treatment, many of
them in a precarious condition. The
county Jail is converted into a
hospital.
DESTRUCTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND
GEORGIA.
The cyclone in Barnwell county,
S. c., cut a path three-quarters of a
mile wide through the Saltkehatchie
swamp. The residences, negro cab
ins and outhouses were swept from
numerous farms. Most of the own
lers lost all of their furniture. Thos.
Creech was blown against tree
with great violence, but not killed.
William Still had two children
seriously hurt, one of them having
its skull fractured.
Reports from Crawford, Georgia,
show that considerable damage was
caused by the storm. A number OF
houses were blown down and many
were injured by lightning. There
was great loss of property. There
was negro killed near there.
The family of Josephus Root, in
Carroll county, were drowned in the
Chattahoochie by the Sunday night
freshet. The Savannah, Griffin and
Northern Alabama Railway was
damaged to the extent of $4,000.
There was an unprecedented over
flow in Carroll county, and much
damage was done to the crops.
ToRNADoEs WHICH CAME UP AND
DISAPPEARED RAPIDLY.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The Off
GERS of the Signal Bureau state that
the report of the tornado having
swept across Mississippi. Tennesse
and Georgia is misleading. The
tornadoes in these states had no
connection with each other, and
were different storms. They were
small local tornadoes separated at
different points. as the great storm
advanced from the northwest by its
meeting the warm current from the
south. These local tornadoes are
always liable to occur as the offshots
of main storm and are not, as have
been represented, themselves storms
moving over the country for any
distance. They spend their strength
and disappear, as in this case, in the
immediate neighborhood where they
originate. The Signal officers say
that the great storm which has been
sweeping across the country from
the Pacific coast since the 18th inst
is over, and clear weather is indica.
ted. 1t is thought that the winds
will veer to the south, and that the
temperature will rise rapidly and
bring sunshiny days to the north.
west. There is a faint suspicion
however, of another storm upon the
Pacific coast some distance to the
south of the starting point of the late
disturbance, but it is too soon vet to
tell what it will develop. 1t may
pass off on the ocean or into Mexico
or may disappear altogether. Should
it develop into another trans-conti.
mental storm it may delay the open.
ing of spring in the Northern States
another week.
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