The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-03-27
DEATH-DEALlNG CYCLONE.
SEVERAL STATES VISITED.
Much Property DESTROYED In Kentucky, In
diana, Ohio, and Georgia. and Large
Number OF Lives Lost.

Number OF Lives Lost.
lBy telegraph to the Dlspatch.I
LOUISVILLE. KY, March ga special
to the Courier. journal from London, KY,
says: A terrific cyclone passed near this
Place and Pittsburgh, two miles north OF
here, about p. VI. yesterday. The Metho-
dist church was RACED TO the ground, and
much other property damaged.
At Pittsburgh John Mailman, brakeman,
was blown from freight car and carried
about fifty feet, lighting on his head in a
creek. His neck was broken. Three freight
cars, two coal-oil tanks, and a caboose
were blown from the track. and several
persons were slightly injured. A little
cabin occupied by family named Brough-
ton was blown down, and Mrs. Broughton
and two little children were instantly kill
ed. The following persons are thought TO
be MORALLY wounded Colonel G. W. Strin-
ger, both legs broken and cut in the head;
Mrs. G. w. Stringer, hip mashed; Robert
Rulings, spinal column broken and cut in
the head; Miss Salie Goff, cut in the head;
james Warren, two ribs broken and
wounded in the head.
A VILLAGE ALMOST DESTROYED.
LEXINGTON, KY, March 26.-lt Is re-
ported here tonight that the village OF
COlesmanvllle, in Harrison county, forty
miles from here, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by a cyclone which swept over it
at 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon. 1t is
said that ten persons were killed by the
flying DEBRIS and fifteen or twenty injured.
Nothing definite Is known.
AT OTHER POINTS IN KENTUCKY.
CINCINNATI, March 2G.--A dispatch from
Boyd, KY, says; About p. NJ. yesterday
q destructive cyclone passed over here,
blowing down everything in its way. In
mates OF houses fled to wells and cellars.
Many persons were injured. Live stock
were blown about like feathers. A rough
estimate places the damage at $1,000
The homeless are being cared for.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March ga Fall
mouth Ky.) special to the COurier-JOmnaI
says d fearful cyclone passed through the
woods just south Of that town on the Ken
lucky Central railroad at 2 o'clock this af-
ternoon. The track Of the cyclone was
half mile wide from east to west, up
turning trees and everything else in its
path. Many trees were blown across the
railroad track, and are now being cleared
been reported lost nor dwellings destroyed.
THE STORM IN INDIANA.
GREENFIELD, IND, March GA heavy
storm OF wind and rain this afternoon blew
down fences and 0utbuildings and I'M
rooted many houses.
RICHMOND, ND, March ga destruc-
tive storm occurred here at O'Clock this
afternoon.
CONVERTIBLE, IND, March ga cy-
clone passed about one mile south Of this
place this afternoon, tearing down whole
forests. SO far as is known no lives are
lost.
THE DAMAGE IN OHIO.
DAYTON, o., March 16.-Further details
OF the cyclone near this city confirm the
first reports OF the damage done six miles
south OF the city. The destruction was
most general and frightiul. 1t first APP
pearcd In a southwesterly direction from
Lisbon, and passed rapidly to the north
east It's track was most marked in the
vicinity Of Oak Ridge, on the Narrow
Gauge railroad, where whole forest has
been levelled and buildings RACED. The
railroad is blockaded by falling timber, and
trains are delayed. Near Oak Ridge house
and barn and other out-buildings belong
ing to Thomas Andrews were blown quite
distance by the wind, and buried
under falling timber. The path Of the
cyclone was fifty yards in width, and the
forests show where ii rose from the earth
and descended again. On Lebanon pike
1t passed between the house and barn Of
William Popenoe, but being high up did
little damage. A little daughter OF
Abram Wilson, a farmer, was crushed
under the timbers Of barn near Oak
Ridge, and other loss Of life is feared.
The full extent Of the loss cannot yet be
given.
DISASTROUS EXPECTS OF THE CYCLONE IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., March 26.-Special
dispatches TO the Observer show that last
nights storm was the most severe at New
ton and Lenoir, fifty or sixty miles north
west Of here. At Newton thirty houses
were blown down, the Methodist church
wrecked, and the residences OF Rev. COlry
Killian and Charles Jewett swept away.
Cline Il Wiliams's fiOurng-mils were par
TALLY destroyed. Mary IIunsucker was
killed and fourteen other persons were
wounded.
Rumors from LenOir say that a whole
family were killed there. Six ladies are
known to have been killed at that place,
but the telegraph-wires being down,
further particulars cannot be obtained. In
Mecklenburg five or six residences were
destroyed, but no lives were lost. The
cyclone also passed through Iredell county.
doing great damage to fruits and blowing
down many houses.
AT GREENvILLE, S. G.
COLUMBIA, s. c., March 2G.-A special
to the Daily Register from Greenyille, in
this State, SAYS that severe cyclone had
passed over Anderson county, near Pied
mont, destroying the house Of a Mr.. Wat
son. Three OF his children are thought to
be fatally injured.
IT STRIKES GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, GA, March 2G.-The cyclone
struck Gainesville, unrOoing several
houses and killing a negro woman.
AUGUSTA, GA, March pa dispatch TO
the Chronicle gives particulars OF the cy-
clone at Gainesville. The storm was very
destructive to property, many houses be-
ing leveled to the ground. 1t travelled
northeast with a rotary motion. Han
stones as large as gulnea-eggs fell thick
and fast. The track OF the storm was 100
wards wide. The cloud was black with
silyery-gray background. Three lives are
reported lost, and furniture, beds, roofs,
trees. and timber cover the ground in
every direction.