McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-02-28
APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE.
The Southern Section of the Country Wis.,
tied by a Cyclone Which Makes
Fearful Havoc.

The Southern Section of the Country Wis.
tied by a Cyclone Which Makes
Fearful Havoc.
SHAwNEETowN, ILL.,, February 90
The mayor of this city has issued procla-
nation in which he says:
''Again we are compelled to appeal to the
public for aid for our suffering people. We
had hoped until yesterday that our people
would not be left entirely homeless, or even
to the extent Of last year; but, alas, we are
doomed to disappointment. Yesterday at
O'Clock p. m. terrific storm swept over
our city, carrying destruction and desolation
in its path. Hundreds of houses that were
deluged to their roofs and tottering on their
foundations, were swept away and dashed
to pieces, leaving hundreds of families with
out houses or shelter of any kind after the
flood subsidies, which is hoped for, but
which is an event still in the dark future, as
the river has now passed the flood height of
last year and is still rising, and what height
it will reach we cannot know
AUGUSTA, Ga, February 20.-Yester-
days storm was the seyerest since the cy-
clone Of 1875. In Hancock county the storm
overturned outhouses and unroofed houses.
At Harlem, besides damages in the interior,
the plantation of George Granade was
ruined, houses demolished and timber car
ried off. On the plantation of DIR. Reese,
negro was killed, and Mrs. V. NJ. Wade,
wife Of the overseer, seriously wounded.
The town of Bradley, S. c., was nearly
blown away.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, February 20.-A
cyclone swept through the valley yesterday
noon, and it is reported that thirteen per-
sons were injured in one community.
At Leeds the cyclone swept away a Sec
ton house of the railroad, killing three
negroes. An old white couple named Bass
were seriously injured. Three miles south
Of Leeds, the house of John Poole was
blown away, and his son, daughter and child
were instantly killed. Poole, his wife and
four children, were very badly injured.
Later intelligence but adds horror to the
woeful story. William Wassen, aged IA,
was killed. George Davis, boy on the
Poole place, was killed. Miles of forest in
the Cahaba valley were leveled by the storm.
The bodies Of cows were found around
Leeds. In many places the ground is clear
of stones, as if carefully swept.
EVANSVILLE, February 20.-A relief
boat from below reports awful scenes of
desolation as the result of yesterdays
storm, but no loss of life is reported.
Within fifteen miles of Evansville fifty or
more houses were washed away. The town
of Fairplay, containing fifteen houses, was
swept out of existence. The boat took
great many people from trees and hills,
some badly frozen.
WILMINGTON, N. c., February 20.-A
Star special says; A terrible cyclone passed
near Rockingham last night, killing from
fifteen to twenty people and wounding
great many more.
MACON, Ga, February 20.-This city
was visited yesterday afternoon and last
night by tremendous storm. There are
rumors of death and destruction in the sur
rounding counties. A special from Atlanta
to the Telegram reports fifty killed north of
that city. A special from Columbus re-
ports several killed and wounded. Twen-
ty-five houses were leveled by the cyclone
The bodies of three white men and eleven
negroes have been recovered. Search is
making for others believed to have been
killed. At Pioneer mills six houses were
blown down and one man killed. At Wood
wards two men were killed and at Winsboro
four were killed. AT Polkton one was
killed.
WILMINGTON, N. c., February 21.-
Specials give further particulars OF the cy-
clone. The storm came SO suddenly that
the people were unable to escape from their
houses. Buildings were blown into frag.
ments and the bodies Of the dead terribly
bruised and cut. The force of the wind was
so great that two millstones were moved
hundred feet, chickens and birds were
picked clean and the largest trees uprooted,
and smaller ones stripped of bark. At mid
night the sky was a dazzling red. The
killed and wounded belong almost exclu-
sively to the poorer classes and there will be |
suffering and restitution among the survi-
vors. Already twenty three dead bodies
nave Deen Iouuu III hlcnmOnu county.
ATLANTIC, February 21.-Reliable in
formation from Grass Knob shows twenty |
persons killed within space of three !
miles.
ATLANTA, Ga, February 21.-Relia-
BILE reports state that on the line of the |
Cherokee and Pickens counties, within |
space of three miles, twenty-five persons
were killed and forty wounded. No deaths
occurred in the other counties contiguous to
Atlanta.
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