Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-02-25
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF LIFE
AND LOSS OF PROPERTY.

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unprecedented rise of the Ohio river
and its branches, carrying destruc-
tlou to many cities, and hundreds of
towns along their shores, has only
begun to subside when the fierce tor
nads bursts on many of the submerg-
ed towns, and tears down by wind
and wave hundreds of houses which
have withstood the water, causing
great loss of life. In other sections
lower down the river the waters are
doing great damage, while the rivers
in Arkansas are on rampage almost
as severe as the Ohio. While atten-
ton is turned in these directions re-
ports come from Southern California
of the sweeping away of towns and
railroads by the heavy rains
that have swept that section. A ire
mendous cyclone has swept through
Georgia, North and South Carolina,
of which the following will give some
idea:
MACON, Ca, Feb. 20. The city
this morning is full of rumors of
death and destruction in the sur
rounding counties. A special CORES
pondent at Atlanta reports 80 killed
north of that city. A dispatch from
Columbus reports the destruction of
the Central railroad round house and
engines. Several persons were kill
ed and wounded. The storm was
terrible in the section around Macon.
Many houses at Indian Springs were
unroofed and many persons wound
ed. The house of w. A. Miller at
Blevatsville, twenty miles from Ma
con, was blown to atoms. His wife
and three children were killed and
the baby was blown away and has
not yet been found. The bodies of
the dead were found 200 to 800 yards
from the house. Six negroes were
killed on the same plantation and
young man was dangerously wound
ed. The store of Jerry Smith, five
miles from Clinton, was blown away
and a man named Finney was fatally
injured.
ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. p. The
storm of Tuesday, on reaching Cher
okee county, became perfectly furi-
Gus. The largest trees were uproot-
ed. 1t is reported that within a dis
lance of three miles on the line be-
tween Cherokee and Pickens counties
% persons were killed and 40 wound
ed. No deaths occurred in the coun-
ties contiguous to this.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Feb. 20. AT
Bradley, on the Augusta and Knox
vile railroad, the Baptist church was
demolished and the place generally
wrecked. Two persons were badly
injured. w. H. Statworth's resi-
dence took fire when toppled by the
storm and his eldest daughter was
burned to death. At Dickert's plant
alton in Newberry county, on thu
Broad river, hundred acres of orig
inal forest was swept away and al
outhouses were demolished. st
Matthew's Lutheran church was com
pletely wrecked. All the plantations
in the vicinity were badly damaged
and several large fires have been Oh
served in the track of the storm
Chappells, small station on the Co
lumbia and Greenville railroad, wa
swept away. Not house was lief
standing.
In the lower part of Clarendo
county there was much loss of prop
: erty, and James Cubbage, Ben Bag
getto and a child were killed. L
Darlington county the storm wa
l particularly severe. The dwelling O
5 w. R. Boyd was destroyed, himseI
seriously injured and two negroe
killed. The dwelling of Mr.. White
near Darlington court house, we
blown down, and himself and wifi
were killed. Six persons are know
! to have been killed in the county an
; fifteen wounded. Serious loss of lii
Il and property is reported in the vicil
$ thy of Williamsburg county.
IS WILMINGTON, n. c., Feb. 2
q Special advices give further pa
/ ticulars of the cyclone. The cent
u of the storm struck the outskirts
81 the town of Rockingham with SUI
. sudden fury that people were unab
i to escape from tLeir houses. Bull
. Jugs were blown into fragments, sol
/ bodies were found under the timber
le others were carried by the wind L
e. to 200 yards. A woman was fou
t. clasping to her breast an infa
III scarcely a month old; both We
IS dead The bodies of the victil
'e were terribly bruised and cut, pl
1. senting CHASTITY appearance. I
Vi force of the wind was such that t
10 millstones were moved 100 fe
" Chickens and birds were found pit
ne ed clean. except the feathers on th
rs heads. The largest trees were
It, rooted and smaller ones had all
~ bark stripped from their trunks. !
NC storm first made its appearance a
nc p. M, coming from a southweste
Is direction from Hamlet, Richm(
'ea county, N. c. The eastern sky '
III overshadowed by dark, flying clio
re- t;nged with red, growing thicker
ey- cry minute, and the red tlnge ASST
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