The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-22
THE ALABAMA CYCLONE.
The Track of the Blast a Scene of Desola"
tiOn and observation-disclosures Swept Away
Railroad Trains Over turned, Forests Lew
eled and Many Persons Killed or Injured.
ETrpATrrA Ala Januarv Il.

The Track of the Blast n Scene of Desola-
tion and observation-disclosures Swept Away
Railroad Trains Overturned, Forests Lew
eled and Many Persons Killed or Injured
EUFAULA, ALA, January a..
Sunday nights storm was almost unpre'
cedented in severity. It arose about nine
in the evening, and was accompanied by
vivid lightning and heavy peals of thun-
der. Hale, Perry, Bebb, Chiffon, Macon
aud Green Counties all suffered great de-
struction of property. The storm crossed
the Louisville Nashville Railroad fifty
miles north of Montgomery. Near Calera,
on the same road, freight train was
blown off the track and ditched, the en-
gine overthrown and cars damaged con-
siderably, but fortunately no lives were
lost in the wreck. The cyclones path
was half mile wide, and traces of de-
structiveness are left on every side.
Three men were killed at the camp ground
in Macon County. Trees, fences and
houses were swept away like chaff.
Among the debris of one house demol-
ished near Calera the body OF a man was
found so terribly mangled as to render
recognition impossible. Another man,
name unknown, was killed near the
Cahaba River, in the western part of the
State.
Forests were laid waste, trees several
feet in diameter being torn to splinters.
Wherever the cyclone struck the
railroads the track was strewn with
trees, telegraph poles and wires. In
many places wagon travel is stopped.
Houses several miles from the path of
the storm were made to tremble as Ii
moved by the upheaval of an earthquake.
On several large plantations stock was
killed aud houses razed to the ground.
In Green County cotton bales were
blown hundreds of feet in the air, and
near Eutaw a house was struck by light
ming and burned to the ground. The cy-
clones career was one of undated fury
and destruction. The people of Alabama
have suffered loss of property TO the
amount of hundreds of thousands
of dollars, besides much loss of hu-
man life. Some three miles further
off two other residences were completely
blown away. In one of them were thir-
teen occupants, all of whom received
more or less injury. Great damage is re-
ported to farm property generally, owing
to high water. 1t is impossible to obtain
accurate information as to the full extent
of the damage caused by the cyclone, but
enough has been asc crtained to report
that, while it was very disastrous, it was
not as severe as the storm which passed
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last spring. During all of Monday and Q
greater part of Monday night
HEAVY RAINS FELL,
flooding all the streams and low lands
and making it almost impossible TO gain
further information. The heavy clouds
which accompanied the wind were seen
from this place. There was a continuous
roaring like distant thunder for some
thirty minutes before the wind passed,
One family became frightened before the
tempest approached, and ran to neigh
boring house a short distance away
which was blown away, while their own
house, from which they had fed, remained
standing The track of the cyclone was
about 200 yards wide.