The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-23
Destructive Storms, Billiards and
Snow Blockades.

A fearful storm struck Ambersons and Lo-
Olga, Alabama, Tuesday afternoon. A large
number of houses were blown down and IA
persons were reported to have been killed.
The direction of the wind was southerly, and
the storm extended to Rome, Georgia, where,
Spring several houses were blown down and
an old man named Gaillard was killed. 1t is
difficult to obtain accurate information, owing
to the excitement.
A severe wind storm struck the eastern
portion of Columbus, Georgia, about noon
Tuesday, doing damage to the extent of $40, :
600. The First African Baptist Church was
unroofed and the walls damaged, and the roof
was also. blown from the County Jail and CO.
lumbus Oil Mills. The round house at the
Central Depot was demolished and six engines
damaged. A heavy hail storm passed over
the city two hours later.
Reports from Southern Dakota show that
the blizzard reported from the north extends
all over the Territory, the wind being so fierce
as almost to have stopped the progress OF a
train on the Northwestern Road near Ordway.
The running of trains on the Dakota division
of this road was abandoned. Later dispatches
report all the railroads in Southern Minneso-
ia and Dakota blockaded. The temperature
at Minneapolis Friday evening was six degrees
below zero and falling
The snow blockade throughout the San Juan
district of Southern Colorado still continues.
Business of all kinds is suspended. AtSilver-
ton, Ouray and other mining camps the snow
is six feet deep on level. In some OF the
canons where the roads run it is 80 to GU feet
deep. The people have to use snow shoes to
visit their nearest neighbors. 1t is thought
the blockade cannot be broken before April.
Snow slides occur daily. The snow confn-
ed entirely to the mountain districts.
MACON, Ga, Feb. 20.-This city was VS.
tied yesterday by tremendous storms. A
special from Atlanta reports fifty persons
killed north of that city. The storm was ter
rible in this section. Many houses at Indian
Springs were unroofed and many persons were
injured. The house of w. A. Miller, at
Brownsville, Jones county, twenty miles from
Macon, was blown to atoms. His wife and
three children were killed. The bodies OF the
dead were found at 200 to 800 yards distant
from the site of the house. Six negroes were
killed on the same plantation.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Feb. ga terribly
destructive cyclone swept through the Ca
hawba valley, in the eastern part OF this coun-
ty, Yesterday. Eight persons were killed and
thirteen injured, three fatally, near Newtown,
Leeds, twelve miles from here. The cyclone
struck Leeds and swept away the section
house of the railroad, killing three negroes
and seriously injuring an aged white couple
named Bass. The house of John Poole was
blown away and a son of II, daughter of 6
and negro child, were killed. Poole, his
wife, and four other children, were badly in
iured. DR.. W. +. Wright's house was demol-
ished, his mother killed and his five children
badly injured. NJ. Mclaughlin, }. T. Ian
drue, wife and daughter, were injured.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., Feb. pa destructive
cyclone visited this portion of the county on
Monday night. The settlement of Philadel-
phia, near Rockingham, of 25 houses, was
RACED to the ground. Three white and eight
| colored persons are known to have been
killed, and fourteen more dead bodies are
| said to be under the ruins, while as many
more were badly injured. At Winnsboro'
three colored persons and an aged white lady,
named Mrs. Sterling were killed. Mrs. Ster-
ling's son and daughter were blown from a
house and lodged in tree. At Polkton, n.
c., the wife of Mr.. F. NJ Gray was killed by
a falling house.
PETERsBURG, Va, Feb. 2O.-A tremendous
thunder storm burst over this city and viclnl-
ty about midnight last night and continued
until an early hour this morning. The storm
was followed by an immense rainfall and a
heavy gale of wind. All the streams are
greatly swollen. A number of county bridges
were washed away. The Roanoke river, near
Weldon, North Carolina, is p feet above
low water mark, and is still rising.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., Feb. 20.-A storm, ac-
companied by hail, struck Chester, S. c., last
night. The Catawba Oil Mill, the Baptist
and Presbyterian churches and many private
dwellings were wholly or partially destroyed.
Freight cars were blown from the tracks to
the depot platform. The damage is estimated
at $4,000.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Feb. 2O.-The storm yesterday
at Metropolis blew down about forty build
ings, including one church. Several persons
were injured.