The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-04-02
The Deadly WhirIwind Another
Great Disaster.

Sunday and Monday of last week were
noted for heavy and Warm rains. By
Tuesday night the moisture and fog as
ceuding to the upper strataS OF colder air
produced disturbances and unequal gusts
Of wind, which ia more than two dozen
instances took the shape of great whIrl-
winds that went spinning across the sur
face of the South, -carrying death aud
destruction in their mad career. Four or
FIVE States were visited By these cAlami-
tous walters At Pittsburg, Kentucky,
nine persons were killed, % wounded,
and loo families robbed Of their homes in
the twinkling OF an eye. \ train was
blown from the track and wrecked. One
of the train men was carried fifty feet
and dropped in a creek, head downward,
breaking his neck. One entire family
was slain.
At Nashville, and other points in Ten
nessee, there was great wreckage. The
same thing in the L~ynchburg section Of
Virginia.
NEARER HONE.
Raleigh was fortunate Is usual. The
town has witnessed the passing Of many
storms through the adjacent regions but
has not felt the fury of the direct blow.
On Tuesday night there was much alarm
among people who happened to be awake
Ga baby in the house,, and some even
arose to don their clothes.
But the storm deviltry was serious in
the Piedmont country.
At Newton thirty houses were blown
down, the Methodist church wrecked,
and the residences of Rev. Colby killian
and Charles Jewett swept away Cline X
Williams Touring mills were partially
destroyed. Miss Mary Huasucker was
killed and fourteen other persons were
wounded.
In Mecklenburg five or six residences
were destroyed, but no lives were lost.
The cyclone also passed through lredell
county, doing great damage to fruits and
blowing many houses.
In Montgomery and Randolph counties
the storm died much damage. Pekin
was badly struck, and more than two
dozen houses in Montgomery were blown
in pieces. A negro named Alfred and
his wife we're killed: many Others hurt.
INCIDENTS.
Can't. Clarkson's train on the States
vile h. R., found a negro cabin blown of
| from a hill, and set astride the track.
On the North Carolina X. r., some 10
miles east of Greensboro, a freight train
| crashed into a washout, and Is cars were
ditched. No one hurt.
On the h. 4 G. r r., nine telegraph
poles were demolished by lightning be-
tween Louisburg and Franklinton. Louis
burg 1,nles says Henderson ~IIale's smoke
house unr0ofed.
RALEIGH, n. c., March pa hail
fall which accompanied the storm was
very severe, the hailstones being as large
as 2 A dwelling near Mebanesyille
caught fire from the lightning and was
destroyed.
GREENvILLE, S. c., March 26.-Cy-
clone passed near Piedmont, destroying
the house Of a Mr.. Watson. Three Of
his children are thought to be fatally in
jured.
AUGUSTA, Ga, March %. -Cyclone at
Gainesville. Hail stones as large as
Guinea eggs fell thick and fast. The
track of the storm was $50 yards wide.
Three lives are reported lost, and furnI-
ture beds, roofs, trees and timber cover
the ground IN every direction.
JACKSON, Miss, March pa report
from Rodney, Jefferson county, says
Two thousand persons are rendered des-
titute by the overflow.