The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-21
TORNADO TROUBLES.
A Blizzard WhirlS Through
Eastern Towns,
And Spreads DesOlatiOn in Its
Course.
A Great Many People Killed
and Wounded.
The Tornado.

Franklin, KY, 20 This town wa
visited by a tornado yesterday after
noon. a large tobacco factory
owned by New York parties wa:
blown down. The Borceau Hotel,
Opera House and ether building:
were unroofed.
Wilmington, n. c., 2O.-A Star
special says: A terrible cyclone
passed near Rockingham last night,
killing from fifteen to thirty people
and WOunding a gre9t number.
Chicago, 20.-Ihe storm in the
vicinity of and west of st. Paul,
and south through Iowa, eastern
Dakota and Missouri, played havoc
with telegraph wires, and service in
those directions is more or less i'm
paired. The same Is true in Texas
and the southwest, and in measure
east and southeast of Cincinnati.
st. Paul, MINI :, 20.-Dispatches
from various points in the north
west this morning indicate that
clear and cold weather has succeeded
the blizzard. Trains which were
badly delayed and in several cases
abandoned, are being resumed, and
Geographic communication is re-
stored. Advices from Lamoure,
Dakota, bring as yet no tidings of
the missing stage coaches lost in
the storm.
Cairo, Ills, 20.-The torn yester.
day did no damage, al,hough the
velocity Of the wind at one time
was sixty miles an hour. At Met
ropolis it blew down about forty
houses, including one church, in
Juring several people, but as for as
learned no one fatally. Reports are
very meagre. Il is also reported |
that several were supposed to be
lost from boats and skiffs, but the
report is not substan tiated. At
Paducah the tobacco house of Buck.
ner & Co. and the Chess CAREY oil
ware house are the only houses re-
ported destroyed. No damage is
reported at Mound City. The river
is 81 feet 6 inches and rising slowly.
Macon, Ga. 20.-The city was
visited yesterday afternoon and
night by tremendous storm. There
came rumors of deaths and destruc-
ton in the surrounding counties.
A special Atlanta telegram reports
fifty killed north of that city. A
special from Columbus reports
several killed and wounded.
birmingham, Ala, 20.-A cyclone
swept through Cohaba valley yester-
day at noon. It is reported that
thirteen were Injured in one cons
munity.
Louisville, KY, 20.-The special
kilograms sent to the effect that the !
storm last night resulted in loss of {
life are without foundation. The {
wind blew down several old houses ,
on the river front; but nothing [
more.
Augusta, Ca, 20 Yesterdays ,
storm was the severest since the .
cyclone of 1875. In Hancock county ,
the storm overturned outhouses and {
unroofed bouses. At Harlem, be- ;
sides the damage in the interior, {
the plantation Of George Granade is
Houses were demolished
and timber carried off. On the
plantation Of DR.. Reese a negro
was killed, ard Mrs. V. M. Wade, {
wife of the overseer, was seriously
wounded. The town Of Bradley,
s. c., was nearly blown away, The t
residence Of D. Logan was blown !
DOWN and his wife badly injured; t
ninety>six houses were wrecked {
Md child killed. The residence t
IF W. S. Slattworth. Edgefeld t
county, s. c., was blown down, 6
he ruins taking fire. and little t
yirl persisted. The dwelling house '
II J. G. Hankinson and the store of !
J. G. Boyd at Jackson, S. c., were g
blown down, and three negroes f
Tiled. Tho town of Milton was
early destroyed.