New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-24
THE STORM IN SOUTH CAROELNA.
WIDE DEVASTATION IN THE sTATE-TEE NEGROES
TIE GREATEST SUFFERERS.
Try IFIHGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNE.l

fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
COLUMBIA, Feb. 23.-FrOm many sections OF
the State from the telegraph offices reports Of the
terrible work wrought by the cyclone are just coming III
by mail In the upper part of Pckens County, near the
Blue Ridge Mountains, the storm swept away scores Of
snail houses and stables killed hundreds Of horses, mules
AMI CATTLE Household effects scattered beyond re-
covery The country roads completely bOckaded by
fallen trees Advices from Anderson County show that
thirteen large pantatiOns adjoining each other were com
pleteiy destroyed While many persons were injured
there was only one killed In portion Of Fairfield
County houses were blown down and all the inmates mum
bering about forty less Injured Tue ruins
of one of these houses caught fire and old
taken from the debris badly burned similar accident
srepored from the Of StrOthers The first accounts
of the storm in Union County received this evening
Every tenant house the plantation Of j. b. steedman
(oDe Of the largest In upper South Carohn was demo
lsbed. Several negroes were Injured and many head OF
stock killed p H. Hanilton's dwelling, Kitchens sta
bles and tenant houses were also destroyed. Ike
calamity visited the places Of joan Wlx, W. TJe'eI
and Elma Jeter Every family upon these four planta-
tons Is homeless and destitute The most distressing ac-
counts come from Edgeeld County, where the de79sa-
tior ia almost indescrbabe For a distance OF twelve
mes plantations orchards and forests IN ruin Forty
panlaiors have been laid waste several pers0rs ked
and many wounded Over sixty families have lost their
homes and all Their household goods The large store OF
Alton ~ Statnaker completely demOnshed ana the
goods blown several thousand yards In every direa
tion Two young clerks, Holngsworth and Luguir4
who were sleeping in the store stunned 10 be
unconscious and were covered in tbs debris
When nrshbor hour afterwards, he found that
the f!c from stove had caught floor and burned II
through ana would have reached plac8 where
Kerosene had been overturned He extingrlshed the
fire and obtadng hsr, eXtrcaei the two men and car
Ied them to place OF safety where they were restored
TO cOnscionsness Luguire Is fatally hurt but HOlng'-
worth will recover ia thls section tie hardest ana most
swamp oaks and hlckores are snapped and twisted
as If they had been only Old held pine Everything ls
colOred 6y the freshly broken trunks OF
the trees look II the bd OF some great freshet
had surrounded them and In many places the earth Is
bare. timber cart and wagon loaded Wltn cotton
were hurled broken badly, hundreds OF feet into the
woods Of the bales OF cotton were more tan
hundred yards from each other Houses are utterly de-
mOshed The negroes have been tue greatest euerers
aud many sad cases Of destuton reported among
them Physicians and ministers taxing their energies
TO the utmost ia attending the wounded and dying
will be several days before all sections OF ths state
visited by will be heard from and weeks before
tbe daInige can be computed.