The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-02-28
WHAT THE STORM DID.
Devastating Enccts of Tuesdays Storm in
Alabama, south Carolina and Georgia--A
Hundred or More Lives Lost, and Ruin
Everywhere Visible in its Path.

state. At CneSter Lhe Bapblst ana cOloreu
churches were bIown down. The presby-
terian Church tower and bell were blown
hundred feet The cotton-seed oil mill
buildings were partially demolished. Many
private residences and business houses
were damaged. The loss is estimated at
$4,000
At d. ID. Dickelt's plantation, Newberry
County, a hundred acres of original forest
was swept away. st. Matthew'S lutheran
Church was blown down. William II. FL
lers' residence was carried off, and he and
his child seriously injured. All the plan
tations were badly damaged. Several
large fires were observed in the track of
the storm.
Chappel's Station was swept away; not
q house left. The wife and child of George
+. Read We're badly hurt. Mrs. Rosalie
Simpkins had an arm broken and colored
mans skull was crushed.
John Scarry's residence was destroyed
and he and his wife and child hurt. Mrs.
David NJ. Dickerps skull was fractured.
G. M. Shuiford, Postmaster; Bozeman w.
Reed, and one or two others were in the
second story Of Reeds store. Shufford was
killed; Bozeman had an arm and leg bro
ken, and Reed an arm and rib broken. 9th
efS were more OF less CUT up.
Eight loaded cars standing OH the track
were carried forty yards and tern to
pieces.
A woman and child are reported killed at
Anderson.
In the lower part Of Clarendon County
James Cubbage and Ben Baggett's child
were killed.
In Darlington County the dwelling Of Il.
w. Boyd was destroyed, himself seriously
injured and two negroes killed.
The dwelling of Mr.. White, near Darling
ton Courthouse was blown down and him-
self and wife killed.
Mrs. G. Edwards was seriously injured
In the fall of her house. Six persons are
known to be killed in the county and fifteen
wounded.
Serious loss Of life and property is re-
ported in the vicinity of Williamsburg
County. The loss OF property everywhere
was great.
BIRMINGHAM, Ara, Feb, 20
A cyclone swept through Cohaba Valley
yesterday at noon. tits reported that thir-
teen are injured in one community.
At Leeds the cyclone swept away the
section house of the railroad, killing three
negroes. An old white couple named Bass
were seriously injured.
Three miles south of Leeds the house Of
John Poole was blown away. son and
daughter and child Of a tenant were in
stantly killed, and Poole, wife and four
children very badly injured.
The residence and premises of Dr. w. II.
Wright, railroad contractor, We're demol-
| ishea. The body of DR.. Wrights mother
was found a hundred yards from the house
fearfully mangled, Annie, Jennie, Thomas,
James and Edward, children OK DR.. Wright
have arms or legs broken.
Harriet Mctfrew, cook, was killed. W
twenty-four carts, two wagons and three
horses on the place, nothing remained but
the carcas- Z. one horse. ,.L.l
The house occupied by Mr. Mclaughlin
was blown away; Mclaughlin was badly
I hurt A neighbor, j. P Iandrum, wife
and daughter, all had legs broken.
The house Of man named Kerr took fire
\ and was blown away. Mrs. Kerr was ia
tally injured. The railroad for several
hundred yards is thickly strewn with de.
bris, delaying trains.
Later intelligence but adds to the horror
of the awful story. VIM. Wessou, aged
| fourteen, near Kerr's Gap, was killed.
| George Davis, a boy ON the Poole place,
was killed. Miles Of forest In Cahaba Val
| ley were leveled by the storm. The bodies
4 OF strange cows were found around Leeds
| In many places Tho ground is as clear Of
stone as IL carefully swept. Stumps and
trees bear the marks of flying rocks. There
/ is absolutely nothing TO indicate where DR.
1 Wright's residence and out.houses stood
John Poole died Of injuries at Leeds. Many
1 wires are down.
AUGUSTA, GA, req. ~.
Yesterdays storm was the severest since
the cyclone of 1873. In Hancock County
the storm overturned out-houses and un
rooted houses. The stables OF David Dick
son were destroyed by lightning. In Co
lumbia County the barn and stables Of j
| ". Ballard were blown down and threi
horses killed. The plantation Of Geo. Ora
made was ruined; houses demolished an'
timber carried off. On the plantation o
DR.. Rees negro was killed. Mrs. X. NJ
Wade, wife os the overseer, was seriously
wounded. The gin-house of John A. Faw
cett was demolished.
The town OF Bradley, s. c., was nearly
blown away. The residence Of DIR. hgor
was blown down and his wife badly in
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