Connecticut western news., 1884-02-27
TORNADOES IN SIX STATES.
THOUSANDS OF HOUSES DESTROYED AND HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST.
One Village was Entirely Swept Away and 23 Persons Ktlled-Other Villages Wholly or Partially Destroyed,

One million dollars worth of property, 5000 houses, and 300 to 400 lives are the forfeit paid to the terrible tornado that swept over the south and southwest on Tuesday.
 Forming in the valley of the Chatta- hooche, in Georgia, it spread into ian shape in Columbus, one arm running into Alabama, until interrupted by the Red Mountains, thence across to Cave Springs, Rome, and Canton, and, de- fecting 8 little southerly, to Athens, 1t demolished property in Banks, Jackson, and Madison counties. Another arm shot through Carol and Chattahoochee counties, killing many people, and an- other arm crossing the State from Colum- bus to Columbia, passed through the town of Ninety-six, $. C., and thence to the ocean. From all three arms many smaller tornadoes formed, which ran up the valleys, carrying with them death and desolation. Oxmore lost ten to fifteen lives. Sixteen persons were killed at Leeds. In Rome and it's yicin. ity the calamity was distressing.
 The rainfall during the tornado was tremendous, and there was a heavy fall of hail. One thousand residences were destroyed in Floyd county, Ga Ad. vices received from Cave Spring report great loss of life. MT. Billiard and his son were killed by falling beams. Two negroes were also killed. Every where fences, barns and outhouses were demolished.
 In Cherokee and Jasper counties, faI removed from communication, the dis aster was frightful. Within a space of two miles twenty-two persons were killed and twenty-five wounded.
 Seven miles above Canton, a schoo had been dismissed on account of the threatening aspect of the weather. Som, of the children on their way home stopped in a house to escape the rain The storm struck the house, blowing 1 down and killing ten children anC wounding 0 number of others.
 A strip of timber four miles across was completely levelled, making 1t lool as though an immense moving machine had been run through it. Trees tha had stood for nearly hundred years the largest oaks and hiekories, wer, snapped of like straws or pulled up by the roots.
 At Indian Spring, Ga, there was th' heaviest hail storm ever known, and fo half m hour stones fell as thick as rail drops until the ground was perfectl, white with them. The first ten minutel the hailstones were small, but they con tinued to increase in size until the, measured nine inches in circumferenc by actual measurement. The stone were in shapes of full blown roses dohlias aud erysfuls The damaoa dou was very great. Many persons were in jured, holes were made ill roofs, limbs c trees were torn of and glass was shattered
 At Blountsville, Ga, the house of w A. Miller, a farmer, was blown to pieces and his wife and three children wer killed, and an infant was blown away Six negroes on the same farm were als killed, and their bodies so mutilatod tha they were recognized with difficulty The force of the wind was so great tha the bodies of the victims were carried in some instances, half a mile away.
 The settlement of Philadelphia. il North Carolina, contained about 2I houses. Everyone of them was rage, to the ground. A party of men began search of the ruins for bodies, and with three white and eight colored men. On, white man, John Dalkin, was fount with a piece of splintered timber a large as a mans leg through his abdo men. All the bodies were badly mutt lated. Reports from Alabama, Ken lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, southern Illinois and southern Indiana state tha serious damage was done by the tornado