The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-21
RUINED BY CYCLONES.
Winds Complete the Work of
the Waters
GREAT Loss OF LIFE AND PROP
ERTY WEST AND SOUTH.

ERTY WEST AND SOUTH.
MACON. &C., Feb. 28.-The city this morn
Ing Is full of rumors Of death and destruction
in the surrounding counties. A special cor
respondent at Atlanta reports SO killed north
OF that city. Dispatches from Columbus re-
port the destruction of the Central Railroad
! round house and engines. Several persons
were killed and wounded The storm was
terrible in the section around Macon. Many
houses at Indian Springs were unroofed and
many persons wounded. The house of w. A.
Miller at Blountsville, 20 miles from Macon,
was blown to atoms. His wife and three chill
dren were killed. A baby was blown away
and not yet found. The bodies Of the dead
were found 200 to 300 yards from the house.
Negroes were killed on the same plantation
and young man dangerously wounded. The
store OF Jerry Smith, five miles from Clinton,
was blown away and man named Finney IA
tally injured. A Central train from David
son this morning brought the wounded men
here Wh report the town swept and many in
jured. The storm followed generally the old
cyclone tracks, differing from others in break
ing up into several independent storm centres.
New YORK, Feb. 20-A louisville despatch
says that the worst gale ever known in that
part OF the Ohio valley was sweeping it from
end to end this morning, carrying destruction
and death with every blast. Waves are surg
ing to such an extent as to make the transit in
yawl from the shore to the lifeboat station
almost impossible. Captain Devan, who is in
charge of the life saving station, declares that
the houses in the submerged portion of Louis
vile known as the Point are falling by scores.
The upper stories of these are occupied by at
least $50 people. Captain Devan says it is i'm
possible to reach any more of these people
with boats No boat can reach them. No YES
sci could live to reach them. Every packet on
the Ohio river that cannot put into the shore
| is bound to be lost. Below Evansville there
are miles and miles of flooded country whore
| no steamer could possibly mako shore. The
| timber skirtiDg the banks is under water To
strike upon it means destruction. There was
| but one fate for any vessel loose on the Ohio
| last night. A fiat boat which had ventured
| out to take off some people on the point, was
| overturned by the gale and part, IL not all, of
| It's occupants drowned. All submerged places
must inevitably be swept from existence.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Feb. 20.-A heavy rain and
hail storm visited this city and vicinity last
| night, and as the telegraph wires in many
places are down particulars are meagre. In
| Columbia county many head of live stock
were killed. At Comak, Warren county,
| three houses were blown down and child
| killed. Fatalities are feared in many sec
| tions. The storm struck here at O'Clock and
was the most serious one for many years.
PADUcAH, KY, Feb. 20.-A terrific gale last
| evening blew down Chess Carley s. Cos oil
house, and two tobacco warehouses.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 20.-Yesterday at.
| ternoon it blew almost hurricane from the
northwest. Not much damage to shipping
| was done there, but it is feared that news from
| submerged districts will report much loss of
| life by drowning. The weather is growing cold
| and snow storm prevails, with no signs of
the wind abating Relief boats will patrol the
| river this morning to relieve the suffering.
The river is still slowly falling.
The river is strewn with wrecks of houses
| swept away by last nights gale. Many ru-
mors are aioat Of loss Of life but no definite
| information is obtainable. Doubtless it was
| heavy.
| heavy rain storm, telegraphic communication
| with Southern California has been interrupted
since Sunday night. Dispatches last evening
from Los Angeles via ii Npeming and Ogden
state that the dam on thSHNsSs Angeles river
| was broken Sunday night .duciRg the most
| part OF the city is completely inundated and
| forty buildings we're swept away. Hundreds
| of families were obliged to abandon houses and
| seek shelter on the hill. The loss amounts to
| $l50,0O0. From Los Angeles to Mojsve, a dis
tance of hundred miles, hardly mile of the
| Southern Pacific remains in place, and east to
San Corgonce, eighty miles, the devastation is
| equally great. The California Southern road
Travel in all directions is suspended. It will
| probably be two months before communication
| can be properly established.
PETERSBURG, Pa, Feb 20.-A wire bridge
| spanning the river at Apollo parted the wire
| cables today Immediately over the pier in the
| middle of the river and went down with a
| crash. One man was drowned.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 20- The river is falling
| slowly. The storm last night was fearful In
| its effect upon the flooded property and New
| burgh has just telegraphed for boat to go to
| the assistance of people to be seen in distress
| opposite that town, which is 10 TO Is miles
| above here
| NJ nal, The x,,,,t 80,
| rible destruction caused by the storm was at a
| settlement called Philadelphia two miles from
| Rockingham. which contained about % houses
| every one of which was razed to the ground.
Yesterday morning. party began the search
| for bodies, and within short time IL had been
| discovered, white and colored men. All
| the bodies we're badly mutlated. They were
| placed in wagon and carried to Rockingham.
| More bodies are known to be in the ruins.
At Winnsboro, three negroes and an aged
white lady named Mrs. Sterling, were killed.
Mrs. Sterling's son and daughter were blown
| from the house and lodged in the trees.
Damage to the extent of $4,000 was done at
| Chester.
RALEIGH, N. c., Feb 20,-Lsst night a cy-
| clone struck the Carolina Central railroad bs-
| tween Hamlet and Polkton. At Rockingham
| there was great destruction OF property and Is
| lives lost One entire family was killed. The
| telegraph wires are down, and no reports have
been received from other towns.
| BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb 20.-A terribly de-
| structve cyclone swept through the Catawba
| valley. in the eastern part of the county yes
| terday at noon. Eight persons were killed at
| Leeds, and 13 injured, three Of whom cannot
| live. News of the disaster reached here late
| in the afternoon, and relief party with ply
| scians went Immediately to the scene by spe-
| cial train. The cyclone struck Leeds abont
| 1.30 p. M, and swept away the section house
of the railroad, killing JEFF Ford, Dan Cloud
| and Bert Keith, negroes, and seriously iniur-
| ing an aged white couple named Bass. Three
| miles south Of Leeds the house of John Poole
was blown away, and a son, aged II, and a
daughter of 6, and child of a negro tenant of
| the place were instantly killed. Poole his
| wife and four other children were all very bad
| ly injured.
The residence and premises of DR.. w +.
| Wright, a railroad contr actor, were completely
demolished. The body of DR.. Wright's moth
| er was found hundred yards from the house,
| fearfully mangled and with her skull crushed
| Annie. aged 30, Jennie, 16, Thomas, IS, James
| II, and Edward, IL, children of DIR. Wright,
were badly injured. Harriet McCraw, a cook,
| was killed, half of her head being taken off
| The house occupied by w. Mclaughlin was
| blown away, and he was badly hurt j. P
| Lsndrue, his wife and daughter, all had legs
broken. The house of man named Kerr
took FIRE during the storm, and was burned,
Mrs. Kerr being fatally injured.
| The railroad, for several hundred yards, is
| thickly strewn with the debris of the cyclone
| delaying the trains.
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