Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-22
WIND AND WATER.
Many People Killed or Wounded in
Georgia-A California Town Entirely
Washed Away.

ATLANTA, Ga. Feb. 81.
The storm of Tuesday on reaching Chero-
kee County, became perfectly furious. Its
reported that within a distance of three miles
on the line between Cherokees and Pickens
Counties, % persons were killed and forty
wounded. No deaths occurred in the counties
contiguous to this and Fulton County.
MACON. Ga, Feb. 81.
The cyclone of Tuesday blew down the
residence and out houses of Col. Robert c.
Humber in Putnam county. Col. Humber
received injuries which is thought will prove
fatal. Mrs. Paschal who took refuge in Col.
Humber house, was instantly killed when it
was blown down. Seven negroes and nearly
all the stock in the place were killed.
Davidsboro, on the Central railroad was
almost destroyed. number of stores were
blown down, as was also the brick depot
of the Central road. An employee of the
railroad COMPANY named Varion, WAS killed,
and many others were seriously wounded.
The only particulars thus far obtained have
been from points on the railroads When
the reports from interior towns come in the
list of casualties will be largely increased.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 81.
1t is estimated that the storm destroyed
from 100000 to $4,000 worth of
property, within fifty miles of Evansville.
w itiiih spdSS iuilN tHC bunuhks
were swept away, and sixty or seventy thou
sand bushels of corn lost.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 81.
A dispatch from San. Bernarduo, says
that there is three feet of water in the
streets, and the houses are flooded. The
town of Fab Brook is reported to have been
entirely washed away. Many of the inhabi-
tants are missing, and the >upposi,ion is that
they have been drowned. Many orange
groves aud vineyards in the San Gabriel Val
ley are completely Destroyed 40
PoMERoY, O.. Feb. 2l.
The severity of the food is being felt now
more than ever before Along the river for
fifty miles west of GallipolIs, there are nu-
merous small towns having no rnilroad or tele
graphic communication whose people are
chiefly devoted to numbering and barrel max
ing. Their mills and log and stave bolts
have all been swept away. Many of their
houses are gone. Their stores no longer
exist and they know not where to turn. Mil
lersport, a town Of SOC inhabitants, lost its
barrel factory and seventy houses.
Alfalfa. Ohie, with population of 800,
lost barrel factory and all its houses but one
went out on the flood. Hectonville. West
Virginia, lost twenty houses and factories.
1t is only repetition of the same story in
numerous places and in the district men
toned. The river is just lifting its veil and
showing the SCARED features of destruction.
The mud is forming land still under water.
The celebrated Quaker bottoms are still
overfowedss Seven houses we're lost on Jen-
kins' bottoms in West Virginia. Among
them the home of the widow of ex-confeder-
ate General jenkins Bottoms. In bit Of
bend, are fifty houses washed into one wreck.
WILMINGTON, N. c., Feb. 81.
Special advices give further particulars of
the cyclone. The centre of the storm struck
the outskirts of the town of Rockingham
with such fury that the people were unable
to escape from their houses. Buildings were
blown into fragments, Some bodies were
found under the timbers. Others were car
ried by the wind $50 to 200 yards.
A woman was found clasping to her breast
an infant scarcely month old both were
dead. The bodies of the victims were terri
bly, bruised and cut, presenting ghastly ap-
pearance. The force of the wind was such
that two mill stones were moved 100 feet.
Chickens and birds were found picked clean
except the feathers on their heads. The
largest trees were uprooted and small ones
had all the bark stripped from their trunks.
The storm first made its appearance at T.
NJ. coming from a southwesterly direction
from Hamlet. Richmond Co., N. C.
The eastern sky. was oyershadowed by
dark flying clouds, tinged with red, growing
thicker every minute, the red tinge assuming
the hue of Gre. At $50 there was heavy
fall of rain and hail. the heaviest of the
cloud moving westward. At midnight the
sky was a dazzling red and at l A. NJ. there
was another heavy fall of rain. tH-
The killed and wounded belong almost ex-
clusively to the poor classes. and there will
be suffering and destitution among the survi-
vors. 1t is feared there was great loss of
life and property in the interior points in the
track of the storm not yet heard from AL
ready "a dead bodies have been found in
Richmond County near Rockingham and
Hamlet.