Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-27
WILD WINDS AGAIN FREE
LIVES DASHED OUT AND BUILD
TNGS TORN TO PIECES.

LIVES DASHED OUT AND BUILD
TNGS TORN TO PIECES.
Some Damage Dealt North Georgia and
One or Two Children KiIled-The
Death List in Some of the States APP
palIing-Total Figures asYet Unobtain-
able.
BOYD, KY, March 26.-About O'Clock
yesterday afternoon destructive cyclone
passed over here, blowing down every
thing in its way. The inmates of houses
fed to wells and cellars. Many persons
were injured. Live stock was blown
about like feathers. A rough estimate
places the damage at $500, 900. The home
less are being cared for.
AT GAINESVILLE, GA.
ATLANTA, March pa cyclone yester-
day struck Gainesville, unroofng several
houses and killing a negro woman.
ATLANTA, March 26, 7 p. M.-Later re-
ports from the cyclones of yesterday show
greater damage than was first suspected.
A terrible thunder storm last night ac-
| companied by floods of rain has added to
the damage to farm lands.
Many buildings were demolished in the
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child or two, no loss of life is reported.
Several people were injured, some Sc
riously, but none. it is believed, danger
Ous1y.
| TERRIFIC DESTRUCTION AT GAINESVILLE.
AURUsTA, GA, March pa dispatch
gives the particulars of cyclone. AT
Gainesville the storm was very destructive
to property, many houses being leveled
TO the ground. 1t Travelled northeast
with rotary motion. HaiIstones as large
as guinea eggs fell thick and fast. The
track OF the storm was 80 yards wide.
The cloud was black with silver gray
! background. Three lives are reported
| lost, and furniture, beds, roofs, trees and
timber cover the ground in every direc-
| ton.
THREE CHILDREN INJURED AT GREEN
WILLIE, $. c.
COLUMBIA, S. c., March pa spe-
cial from GreeRyile, in this State, says:
"A severe cyclone passed over Anderson
county, near Piedmont, destroying the
house of A. NJ. Watson. Three of his
children are thought to be fatally in
| jured"
MANY LIVES LOST IN NORTH CAROLINA.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., March 26.-SpeciaIs
! show that last nights storm was the most
severe at Newton and Lenior, fifty and
sixty miles northwest of here. AT
Newton thirty houses were blown down,
! the Methodist Church wrecked, and the
! residences of Rev. Coley Killian and
Charles Jewett swept away. Cline
~ Williams Touring mills were
partially destroyed. Mary Hunsucker
was killed and fourteen other persons
were wounded. Rumors from LenOir say
that whole family were killed there.
| Six ladies are known to have been killed
! at that place, but the telegraph wires be-
ing 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.
LOSS OF LIFE AT PITTsBURG.e
LOUISVILLE, March pa special from
London, KY, says: ga terrific cyclone
passed near this place and Pittsburg, two
miles north of here, about 4 O'Clock yes
terday afternoon. The Methodist Church
was razed to the ground and much other
property damaged.
At Pittsburg, John Mailman, a brake
| man. was blown from a freight car and
carried about 90 feet, lighting on his
| head in creek. His neck was broken.
Three freight cars, two coal oil tanks and
the caboose were blown from the track
/ and several persons were slightly injured.
little cabin occupied by a family
named Broughton was blown down and
Mrs. Broughton and two little children
| were instantly killed. The following per-
sons are thought to be mortally wounded /:
Col. &. w. Stringer; he has both legs
! broken and is cut in the head. Mrs. Q.
W. Springer had hip mashed. Robert
Ridings, his spinal column is broken and
he is cut in the head. Miss SaIlie Goff:
| she is cut in the head. James Warren
he has two ribs broken and is wounded in
| the head.
AT FALMOUTH, KY.
LOUISVILLE, March ga Falmouth,
KY, special says that fearful cyclone
passed through the woods just south of
that town on the Kentucky Central Rail-
| road at O'Clock yesterday afternoon
The track of the cyclone was half mile
wide from east to west, uprooting trees
and everything else in its path. Many
trees were blown across the railroad track
and are now being cleared away by work
men. So far no lives have been reported
lost nor dwellings destroyed.
COLENIANsYILLE REPORTED DESTROYED
LEXINGTON, March 26.-It was report.
ed here last night that the village of Cole
mansvilie, i'll Harrison county, forty
!, miles from here, was almost entirely de.
strOyed by a cyclone which swept over ii
said that ten persons were KILLED by the
flying timbers and debris, and fifteen Oh
twenty injured. Nothing definite is vet
known.
NEAR DAYTON, OHIO.
DAYTON, March 26.-Further details ol
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 frightful. The cloud
first appeared in a southwesterly direc
tion from Lebanon and passed rapidly tC
the northeast. Its track was most marked
in the vicinity of Oak Ridge, on the narrow
gauge railroad, where whole forest has
been leveled and buildings razed. The
railroad is blockaded by falling timber
and trains are delayed. The Oak Ridge
House and barn and other outbuildings
belonging to Thomas Anderson were
blown quite a distance by the wind, and
he was buried under the falling timber
The path of the cyclone was fifty yards
in width, and forests show where it rose
from the earth and descended again. Or
the Lebanon pike it passed between the
house and barn of William POpenoe, but
being high up 1t did little damage. A
little daughter of Abram Wilson, 9
farmer, was crushed under the timbers o.
barn near Oak Ridge, and other loss O
life is feared. The full extent of the los.
cannot yet be given.
TALES OF TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION.
DAYTON, o., March 26.-Intelligenc,
from ShakertOwn, Rldgeville, Centreville
Spring Valley, Trebin's Station and SOutI
Charleston tell OF terrible destruction BY
the cyclone of last evening. Two brothers
|. named Johnston were killed at RidgeYille
The damage to property cannot be esti
mated.
AT GREENFIELD, IND.
GREENFIELD, IND, March 26.-A
heavy storm of wind and rain YESTERDAY
afternoon blew down fences and outbuild
ings, and unroofed many houses.
AT RICHMOND, IND.
RICHMOND, IND, March ga de
structive storm occurred here at 5 o'clocl
yesterday afternoon.
AT CONNERsVILLE, IND.
CoNNERsvILLE, IND, March 26.-A
cyclone passed about one mile south O
this place yesterday afternoon, tearin:
down q wild forest. So far as known M
lives were lost.