The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-28

third story of the cotton seed
oil mill was blown in. Two stories re.
main. The loss is over two thousand
dollars. Two men were in the mill but
escaped injury. A house adjoining the
hotel was unroofed and the family occu-
pying it effected narrow escape. The
bell tower in the centre of the town was
blown down. and fell between store and
a barber shop on the main street, FORUM
ately doing no serious damage. Both the
white and colored Baptist churches wele
blown down. The nNapet wall of a
range of stores near lie bell tower was
blown down. The Central Hotel lost its
tin roofing. At the depot of the Narrow
Guage and the Charlotte Railroads, three
box cars of the Charlotte road were lifted
from their trucks and dumped on the
adjacent platform, and two freight cars
and a passenger coach belonging to the
Narrow Guage Road we're blown from
the track. A machine shop next to the
depot was unroofed. a great many
houses in the path of the storm were un-
rooted and innumerable chimneys were
blown down. The damage to the town
was estimated at 0,000. If the tornado
had occurred during business hours my
informant thinks that many lives would
have been lost. The main street was
filled with debris and wreckage.
II will be seen from the above that
there were two distinct tornadoes in the
Eastern part of the State both moving
from the Southwest. One struck Ches.
ter at I p. M, and the other Darlington
at 1890 p. IN. Notes of the storm come
from various places. Passengers on the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad saw where the tornado had
crossed the track, cutting swath through
the forest and actually stripping the bark
from the pine trees along the edge of its
track.
Clarendon County.
MANNING, February 21.-The gale of
Tuesday night was felt in every portion
of the County, but more seriously and
disastrously in the region of "Deep
Creek" about six miles below this place.
Through that section the wind was terrific.
Trees were overturned, fences levelled
AMI many houses blown down. The de-.
struction was very great. About 2
o'clock the houses Of Mr.. Redding Can.
non was overturned, injuring all the in.
mates, seven in number, some slightly,
others seriously, all painfully. Mrs.
Cannon's left arm was broken, her right
hand badly shattered and she received
several contusions about the head.
About the same time the gale struck
the house of Mr.. James Cubbage, over.
turning and demolishiug it entirely, and
in the falling timbers Mr.. Cubbage was
caught and instantly killed. Mr.. Ben
Baggett lost his house and son, a lad of
about eight years. The length of the
cyclone was not great. It's width half
or three quarters of mile. The suffer
ers were mostly poor people, and lost
very heavily. The sick and wounded
have been kindly cared for by the sympa-
thizing neighbors, and their wounds
promptly dressed by DR.. j. G. Diukins,
whose tender heart and ready hand makes
him indeed the "poor mans friend"
The damage in other sections has not
been very great. Mr.. Selwyn had his
new dwelling house frame blown away.
The principal losses in other sections are
to fencing, roads aud timber. Court is
in session, Judge Wallace presiding.
There is no communication between
here and Charleston by telegraph. The
wires are down.
Letters from another correspondent,
J. A. NJ. c., confirm the above account
and contain the additional information
that Mrs. Watts, a widow, lost every
thing by the storm, and that her son was
injured.
Fairfield County.
The Winnsboro' NeUs and Herald
says of the storm in Fairfield: Upon
the plantation of Mr.. Jas. w. Bankhead
about twenty tenant houses were blown
down. The roof of his house was taken
off, and an old man residing on the
premises was killed during the night.
Other colored men, women and children
were seriously and some of them perhaps
fatally injured. Mr.. Bankhead himself,
while in the act OF passing from ono
house to another during the storm, was
lifted off the ground by the violence OF
the wind and carried distance of thirty
feet, but fortunately sustained no injury
by the flight.
Upon the premises of Mr.. James F.
Kennedy, near Ridgeway, a Clubhouse
and carriage. house were blown down
and other damage was done in the sur
rounding country.
In the Northern section of the County,
near Albion, the storm probably was tho
most violent and terrible known in that
portion Of the country in years. The
dwelling house, shop, gin. house, other
out houses and four tenant buildings of
DR.. r. G.. Douglas we're blown to the
ground and the Doctors family miracu.
lously escaped serious injury.
A large number of buildings were also
destroyed upon the plantations of Messrs.
J. S. aud w. B. Douglass on the same
night. The houses were not only shat
tered and torn down, but many of them
were fired and the fragments utterly de-
stroyed. The fire seems to hare been
carried upon "the wings of the wind" )"
and an eye. witness OF the scene states
that at one point twelve different fires
could be clearly seen.
Other injuries are reported upon the
plantation of DR.. Samuel Mobley aud
upon adjoining places. The storm seems
to have been general all over the County,
and it is likely that other resultant in
juries are yet to be reported.
Aiken County,
AIKEN, February 2l.-The storm Of
Tuesday night was heavy one and felt
severely at Aiken, although it caused no
damage. A report reached here to-day
that it did considerable damage i'll yari.
Gus parts of the County, especially on and
near Mr.. Tyler's place about seventeen
miles from Aiken, where five colored