Morris tribune., 1884-02-27
THE HALF NOT TOLD.
Over Six Hundred Victims of the
Fury of the Storm.
Details OF the southern Cyclones
Work Grow More Awful as They
Grow More Complete.
-Frightful Facts.

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 2S.-As details are
received of the disasters attendant upon the
windstorm which passed over sections OF Ala
bama, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee, Tues
day, the 10Th inst, the extent of the
awful visitation can be realized. The
first reports were not at all exaggerated,
but rather understated the loss of life
and property. Within a radius of ten
miles of Rock Run, Ala, sixty persons are
known to have been killed. In the section of
this state near Talladega, 210 persons lost
their lives. In Georgia the fatalities are es.
timated at 200, while many are mortally
wounded. In South Carolina twenty-five
were killed. In North Carolina it is said that
seventy-five victims are enumerated. These
figures show the aggregate loss of life
to have been nearly 600. This will
be largely increased as news is received
from sections with which communication is
difficult. The loss of property is immense.
Whole villages have been swept entirely
away and plantations and farms denuded of
everything valuable. Live stock in great
numbers were slaughtered and MANNED so
that it will have to be killed. Much valuable
timber was also blown down and splintered
to the extent that it will be worthless. In
Georgia the pecuniary loss is estimated at
81, ,000, 900, and in one portion of Alabama it
is said that $1,000 900 win not cover the
damage
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 23.-1n and
around Leeds immense trees are uprooted,
twisted and broken. The storm swept over
the mountain top and darted down through
the valleys and gullies, leaving nothing
IN itc Tho hro1yoT, firf,har.s
splintered lumber, and crumbled brick of
houses lust erected told the story of destruc
ton. Horses, COWS, mules and vehicles are
strewn through the woods for miles, and it is
impossible to estimate the amount of damage
done to property. A saw-mill was lifted
from its foundations and thrown into val
ley, engine, machinery, and ALL AS reports
come in the destruction appears much more
extensive and the distress terrible. A great
many families are begging for help, having
neither food, clothing, nor bedding. Among
the sufferers are many colored people, and
members of that race are responding nobly
to the call for help. The relief
committee are still at work. Not one dollar
of help has come from distanca
Leeds, new town on the Georgia Pacific
railroad, twelve miles from Birmingham,
was the next stricken locality, twenty seven
houses being blown into splinters and four
teen people killed outright
In the heart of the valleys of the Talla-
hatchie and Hurricane creek lay the lovely
towns of Anderson, Ladiga, Goshen, Rock
Run, Stocks Mills, and Cross Plains, all of
which have been totally ruined. None of
these towns are more than ten miles apart,
and here the mortality was great.
Near Rock Run school-house containing
forty children was blown into atoms killing
the teacher, but not child was hurt. Higher
up the valley six children were killed in
school-house. Two hundred and ten people
were killed in this section of Alabama and
S3,00000O, worth of property destroyed.
This is as accurate as IS possible from a
careful and personal inspection of many Of
the places visited by the cyclone.
COLUMBUS, S. c., Feb. 23.-Particulars Of
the terrible devastation wrought by Tuesday
nights cyclone continue to arrive, and the
additional details show that the first reports
of loss of life, injury to persons and destruc-
tion of property has not been exaggerated,
but are rather less than the reality.