The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-02-28
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almost levcllcd to the ground. Nearly
every house was either blown down
or badly injured. The Seceders'
Church was entirely destroyed. The
residence ofDr. Ligon was, overturned
and broken to pieces. The family OF DR..
Llgon were oXtricated with difficulty
from the ruins, and all of them were
more or less bruised. Mrs. Ligon,s
collar bone, leg and arm were broken.
Considerable damage was done
along the Central and Georgia Rail-
roads. The train on the former did
not leave Augusta. as the road was
blocked. The depot and water tank
at Mclean were blown down. Several
houses and barns were blown down
near Thomson, on the Georgia Rail-
road. One negro was killed and q
few was seriously injurad by the dcs-
truction of q cabin on the Rev. f.. G..
tecs's place near Wrightsville. Mrs.
Virgin nj. Wade was painfully hurt bv
piece Of falling timber. Jhon Fos-
sett's mill and ginhouse, eight miles
south Of Thompson, were blowo down.
Five negroes were killed at Jack.
sons, on the Port Royal Railroad, by
tho storm. Ten persons, five white
and five colorcd, were killed ut Hud-
docks on the Macon and Augusta Rail-
road. The storm passed on both sides
of Augusta into South Carolina. AT
Blountsyillc, Ga, Mrs. w. a. Blount
three children, Gus Hart and six nc
groes were killed.
ATLANTA, GA, February 2O.-Re-
ports reach here of destructive
cyclone passing from southwest to
northeast along the western edge of
the State. by Rome, Cave Springs,
Cal tersvillc and Jasper. AT Canton
several school children were killed by
falling house. There have been sew
eral deaths at Cave Springs. Many
persons were injured and much prop
erty destroyed wherever the cyclone
touched.
ATLANTA, February 21.- Inforn,a-
ton from Grassy Knob shows that
within space of three miles twenty
persons were killed by the recent
cyclone.
MACON, February 2O.-Thc storm
was terrible in the section around
Macon. The Telegraph received a box
OF hail stones from Indian Springs,
some being three inches long and one
and half inches thick, and others
weighing two and half ounces.
Many houses at that place were un-
rooted, and many persons wounded,
but no deaths have been reported. The
house of William A. Miller, at Hiount-
vile, Jones county, twenty miles from
Macon, was blown to atoms. His
wife and three children were killed
ana the baby was blown away and
has not yet been. found, The bodies
of the dead were found 200 to 500
yards distant from the site of the
house. Six negroes were killed on
the same plantation and Young man
was dangerously wounded. The wife
of DIR. Bullard heard the cyclone COM
ing and remembering that the corner
OF the house nearest the storm was the
safest she crOuchcd there with her
babies and two little negroes. The
house was swept away, except the few
timbers behind which the party
crouchcd safely. The store of Jerry
Smith, some miles from Clinton, Jones
county, was blown away. a person
named Finncy, who was in it, was
fatally injured.
MACON, February 21.-Thc cyclone
Of Tuesday blew down the residence
and outhouses of Col. Robert e.. Hum
bers, in Putnam county. One of Col.
lumbers's ankles was broken, and he
received injuries about the chest which
1T is thought will prove fatal. Mrs.
Paschal, who was passing, left her
buggy when she saw the cyclone COM
ing and took refuge in Col. Humbcrs's
house. She was instantly killed when
it was blown down. Seven negroes
and nearly all the stock on the place
were killed. Davidsboro, on the Cen
trail RAILROAD, was almost DESTROYED.
The stores of j. j. Palmer, A. Her
mann, John Hudson, =. l.. Brown,
Brown ~ Hall and Chcatham Bros.
were blown down, as was also the
brick depot of the Central Railroad.
An cmploye of the railroad company
named Varim was killed and many
others were seriously wounded. The
only particulars thus far obtained
have been from points on the railroad.
When reports from the interior towns
come in the list of casualties will be
largely increased.
Fearful Work In Alabama.
ROME, Ga, February ia fearful
storm struck Ambcrsons and Ladiina,
Ala, at one o'clock this evening.
Houses in large numbers were blown
down and fourtocn persons were re-
ported to have been killed in that
vicinity. The direction of the wind
was southerly, and the storm extended
to this place, where it did but little
damage. AT Cave Springs several
houses were blown down and an old
man namcd Garllerd was killed. Capt.
Lapsley's house was blown down and
his sister-in-law was buried under it
and is supposed to have been killed.
Ten or twelve houses in that vicinity
were destroyed. Great excitement
prevails, making it difficult to obtain
reliable information.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, February 90
A terribly destructive cyclone swept
through the Catawba Valley, in the
eastern part of this county, YESTERDAY, !
at noon. A special to the Datly Age i
from Leeds, twelve miles from here,
on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, gives
the following account of the storm in :
that region: The cyclone struck Leeds :;
about l.3O p. m., and swept away the
section house of the railroad, killing
three negroes and seriously injuring
an aged white couple named Bass, !