New-York tribune., 1884-02-21
ACROSS THE CAROLINAs.
CHURCH SPIRES I evELLEp-TwENTY PEOPLE SLAIN
AT ROCKINGHAM, y. c.

cpr-pcU SPIRES I .vEILED-TwENTY PEOPLE SLAIN
AT ROCKINGHAM. y. c.
RALEIGH. y. c. Feb 20.-A storm accompanied
bv LaH struck Chester, : c., near the state hne'
last night. The roofs of the bank and many stores
were torn off, The Catawba on mill the BdptSU
and PRESBYTERIAN churches, and many pHNale
dwellings we're wholly or partially destroyed
Freight cars were blown from the tracks 10 the
deDot platform. The damage Is es lma'ed al
$4,000. . c,.o,o++o Y r
ond tore the roof from Biddle's foundry:
II is e.timated that from fifteen u twenty per
soos were killed al ROckIl lShau, n. q, ana a i'I-'
TTnInbsT yypunded. one entire family was SLAIN.
All bn.ine,s there has been suspended. D.,
The cyclone strnc6 the trp.lnA E5t',o ,-,h
road berweeu Hamlet and PoiktOn. ne teleeftP1
wires are down, and reports have been Iec'iNeu
from few towns. :loa fr,.,
At Charleston, S. c.. the gale prevaq&et LEI IL It tba
Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning Dut as tiie ne
wind wa. OF the land no damage was uQhe; 40
steamer CITY OF Atlanta was detained Oh 'he ndI ooi
Dy 1hg tb oaH ton Of Bradleys $ c. on the Augusta
and Knoxville Railroad, the residence or Dr. Lleon
W. blown down and has vile was oauil ihJ'u u.
At Nmejv-six :. c., a house was bIO"A uo"A
The house Of W. II. Slattworth, near 4 Ihe4ix, rSe
Edgefed County, ;. G., vas blrWn u9Tni I'm
ruins caught fire and MI. ol@l'"oruD i'''e ''''7-
L, rSr M-S dWeiIne-bouse Of j. c. Hankinson and the
f+ore o. }. = Boyd at Jackson > w. were D'o " q
5,rrn and three ne rrOes were killed. Inc J0"I OF
N;itn ON lie Georgia Ceutra. RAJ road. was hetl y
1.etroved and trains were uupe'ieL The telegraph. I.
Nyires ar. down and thu mails are irregular ana
ONLY une.sr-e particulars can be obtained
WHOLE VILLAGE KAZED.
The most terrible destruction caused by the storm
1vos a. 3 settlement called Phi adelphia, two miles
from Roekinuham, on the Carolina Central Kali
road. The settlement contained about twenty-five
houses. Every one of them was RACED to
tie ground This morning a party Oh men
begoD search of the ruins for bodies
and within a short time eleven had been
reoovered three white and eight colored men
One white man. named John Dalkin. was found
viii a piece of splintered timber through hii
.b5omeu rs large as a mans leg. All the bodle'
Tvere bodlv mutilated. The bodies were placed II
a wagon and carried TO Rockingham, Whel
1he wa ror re urned tO the scene Tor more bo0 eS
as il was known that Others were IN thc ruIhS' H'
wagon had not returned with ITS secohd loaq Nhi Nhei
the train left this evening. ana the telegraph WIZ
being down further particulars cannon De oO
taIued. ~ -. 49,,
AZ Pioneer Mills, IN CabarTus County six house,
were blown down and a colored woman Wnos
name Is unknown. was killed Al N0o1WiI,
Oh the Charlotte, CO4umbla anu Augusta l'SiIiOao'
a segro man and his wife were Killed. A. Nllhis
bOro thre- negroes and an aged whIte ia9y' hame'
Mir. sterling were killed. Mrs. Sterlings son ant
daughter We're blown from a house and lodged IL
tree. AT POikton, n c.. the wife of i. NJ. GRAY,
pr0mineLt man, was killed 10y falling house. 4
Concord two brick residences were partly deluOl
tshed but the inmates miraeulously escaped.