The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-27

1ltV NOuUuCus MANCaN LhN Jaw
non had every house destroyed. Mr. Billy :
.oD,on's house was left standing. but
.urned completely around. At MIR. Buck
every building was destroyed
and every member of the family more or
hurt. Mr.. j. P. Horn $ cotton press
and shop were destroyed. At MIR. ;. +;
Ross every building was destroyed and
his wife injured. Mr.. Cebron Pope.s
barn was blown down. At Mr.. Lewis
Krimenger's every building was destroy
ed, and his sister injured.
John Bivens, col, had everything des-
.royed and himself and family were blown
to the woods. The clothing, was torn
from them and their hand and faces lac
Grated. At Mr.. G. d. Aliens every
building was destroyed, and Mr.. Alien
and one child slightly injured.
Mr.. Marley Grifin's house was blown
down and burned up, and Mr.. Griffin 1t
is feared is MORALLY wounded.
The Enguirer names 40 farm houses
which were destroyed. In many places
the trees were twisted off by their roots
and carried off. A stump five feet IN
diameter and not over two " feet hlgh,
was blown UP by the roots and carried 40
wards; it would have required 4 strong
men 10 carry il. The storm was not more
| han fifteen wide and its track looked IKE
| the bed of a river or creek, so completely
was everything removed from 1t. Inc
scenes at many of the houses were most
| harrowing-the houses, clothing and bed
| clothing being blown away, many OF them
wounded and bleeding and left without
| sufficient covering to protect them from
the cold.
From Union county, the Demons raced
along the river into Montgomery. Char
lotte Observer says:-
ssMr. Neil McKoy left Troy on the
morning of the 10th, to visit Stanly coun,,
ty, but on arriving at Kirk ferry, founo
that he could not cross on account OF the
high waters. He tarried at the house OF
" Ills Dennis. About nine o clock, a
frightful roar was heard coming, and be
fore the alarmed people could conjecture
it's meaning, the timbers OF the hons
were falling about their heads. The
residence. barn, corn crib, smoke-house
and kitchen, were completely demolished
not SO much as a piece OF timber being
left in the place. Mr.. Mckoy's buggy
, was hurled four hundred yards and brok
, en- to pieces. His trunk was crushed ant
!, it's contents were scattered beyond reach
: His horse was fatally injured. MIR. Den
| mis- horse. disappeared. J.
"While all this was going on, terrlnet
f screams were heard across the terry. L
was a mans voice. calling for help, blu
no help could come. In the morning,
was seen that the residence and all tn
outbuildings at the point from which tn
r cries of distress had been heard, had dis
appeared and there was no sign OF Ill
about the place. !,
The storm continued directly up th
d river, laying low every house in its track
O Silas Ksrns' Wiley Harris, Elzevan Sar
ders new residence, store, kitchen an
pin house. John Morris house was leve
g ed to the ground. Ed Mullinix's hous
L was blown down and burned. Mary Hu
t, ley's house was burned. Wilson Davi
!. house was blown down and burned
James Byrd's house was destroyed
, Richard Dennis house was carried ava.
Hansel Beaman's house was complete
3, wrecked.
In several of these wrecks, lives we
sacrificed. Child Of r. w. Halls; chi
of Wiley Harris; William Morris Jam
u. Byrd; Mrs. James Byrd Mrs. Richal
Of Dennis child of Mrs. Richard Dennis.
ee Hapsel Beaman and three childr'
~ were seriously crushed. Two ofhis CHI
dren had both of their legs broken, al
Sc another had her arm torn nearly of,
being left hanging to her shoulder by
2. piece of skin. +.
Mr.. w. S. Ingraham a prominent q
zen was caught out in the storm and |
body was terribly mutilated. Mr.. |
as graham was going to Troy from Asl
boro. He was in a buggy alone, and
pr. front of him were two of his wagons,
:, ing driven by colored men. At a poi
between Mt. Gilead and Swift Island t
mt cyclone struck them. Mr.. %Ingraham v
ia. blown some distance across a hill a
.ad instantly killed. Both his legs and be
his arms were broken. The two wage
were totally destroyed, one Of the drlv
was killed outright and the other '
rec fatally injured. Mr.. Ingraham was {
of the wealthiest men of the Pee
rts section"
Senator Pemberton writes to CHI
ere lotte Observer, naming a dozen tar
which were totally wrecked IN Sta
ion county. He says
loa "A daughter of Mr.. w. F. Hinson
'ea killed outright, and in Montgomery co,
ty eight lives have been lost 50 far
que heard from. James Bird and wife. N
~ Dennis and child, a man named Har
,i ne ton and three others whose names
could not learn. 1t is a long story an
i n cannot give you the full particulars. ]
10y old and historic town of Blakeney. VIII
eeH in 1928 the ''B!akeney Gazette was p
lished, is no more.
In the Mangum neighborhood, NJ,
ere damage was done, Presley Stanba
! a losing several houses. Mr.. John c.
at Titles Mills, had all the houses
C;y his place blown away save one. All
the houses on Mr.. John D. PembertC
'rm plantation were demolished and
nth horses, mules, &C., killed. G. w. Lut
The lost all his buildings save his dwelling
did also A. t. Tyson. Ben. Harris.
NJ. Chappell, Jim Usse'y, and Law
18th, Ussery had their houses blown do
some of the occupants being wound
Ia but fortunately 0 n were killed.
Near PoIkton the house of Mr.. f.
gia. Gray, a prominent citizen of the coul
ost, was demolished and MIS-. Gray was
age ed by the falling timber. Mr.. Gray
nth his children escaped;
and VI.
her While these shocking events '
anne transporting, a more deadly Demon
lrds coming through Darlington and Marll
to into Richmond county, and IN thro
oil Harpett, Johnston, and Nash coun
not At Philadelphia, a negro village, l
we're Rockingham, SO houses were destro,
'ged and many lives. The Rockingham 81
the gives the following list of whites k
own and wounded in that neighborhood
arge Killed. Richard Dawkins, aged al
cap 40 years; Charles Sanford, a SO
aged Asbury Sandbury, aged IA years