The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-07
DBA7HIy THB AIR
Three Killed bYa Cyclone
at Fayetteville.
SCORE OF PEOPLE HURT
Thirty Houses, a School and a
Warehouse iD Ruins.
NILLEN GIVEN A SHAKING.
Darlington County Also in the
Storms Path.
SCORE OF PEOPLE HURT
NILJEN GIVEN A SHAKING.

A Farmer Named Travis, a Girl Named
Graham, an Unknown Negro Child
m the Death List at Fayetteville-The
Floor of q House Blown Out and the
Walls Lett Standing With the Fam
uv Between Them-Scenes no Pen
Can Picture.
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. 6-Three people
! uere killed outright and between twenty
and thirty injured in a cyclone that swept
over the little town Of Fayetteville, twenty
miles from here on the Atlanta and Florida
road between and z o'clock las. nigh5.
Those killed were:
SALLE GRAHAM. daughter Of J. W. Gra-
d ham, aged 10 years.
Il WILL TRAVIS, a farmer. aged 80.
A NEGRO BABY, name unknown.
News OF the disaster was first brought to
this city this morning by Sheriff j. B.
Hewell of Forsyth county.
So far es can be ascertained, the cyclone
having swept over a wide district, the
wounded are:
Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. HENDERSON and her daughter, MISS
EMMA.
MB. and Mrs. J. W. GRAHAM ard their
two daughters and son, MISSES LILLIAN
aud BERTHA and Rus. These were slightly
injured by falling timbers.
Mr. KNOX and wife.
THOMAS GARRISON and wife and their
little baby
THOMAS KERLIN.
THOMAS BUsBIN.
EUGENE TRAVIS.
Mas. TTAv1s.
The last two were very seriously
wounded.
DIRECTION OF THE STORM.
The cyclone came from the northwest and
was gong southeast. At Fayetteville it
slightly changed its course. curving to the
east The path Of the Cyclone was about
20 yards wide.
lAomas McLendon of the Atlanta and
florida railroad says in places along the
FalIFoad the telegraph poles were torn to
pieces by the lightning. Such thing was
never before known in the month Of Janu-
aFy' The first evidence McLendon saw of
We storm was about fifty-three miles from
Auanta, where small houses and fences
we're blown down.
'uoSe WHO witnessed the cyclones work
@y Ii reminded them of a battlefield. Raft.
" were blown 100 yards from a house and
u''eh ten feet in a hillside.
BREWING OF THE STORM.
Sheriff Heweu, in describing the de.
'S'aVlnE sweep, said: First, blue black
'~uu "es noticed in the northwest, and a
W. .Y4ll was momentarily expected. A few
% lllu'0s before o'clock there was death
CAIN, and then a peculiar roaring
..Sul was heard in the direction of the ap-
'0SCnlng cloud. Up In the heavens the
s, ,'.l1s mad assumed the shape of an inverted
,'D1ei' which was coming right to ward
Town. Tho outside OF the
~h1. cylinder was on fire
WITHIN was dense black cloud thai
SpvAIeu to be very hell in its furious
hS anu seething. 1t came down upor
~. mage ike vulture swooping upon it!
Wherever it struck there was death
IL. uesIr rnchon, aud when the blow came
'-0Uu OF lire appeared to be shaken anC
CIV aSunder in its efforts to clear a nath.
:. DoONDED LIKE A BALL.
~. "ould then rise as if the effort had
nra, Yoo much and gathering renewef
,o. w. would swoop down on some other
T.. up and down it bounded and fell like
NJ. IS. rubber ball, roaring and frettins
4, \, '0ile Wild beast wrought TO a frenzy ir
@.a auiy' The fiery cyclone could be plainl,
nr4a - Oa Atlanta, but no one of the thou
Rv VINO We're attracted by the lurid-li
bad 'ue direction Of the wrecked towr
asuon' 'oes what it was until Sheriff
hp " came to Atlanta this morn
nSa .oo o pen can truly picture the ter
''S'es In the little village.
A. HAPPY HOME WRECKED.
arnv ,19 nome OF Mrs. A. J. Henderson
bartb.. 'allliy was gathered about th
hr dsrat' Mrs Henderson, Mrs. Travis
den fsu'or, VIII Travis and his two chill
by ,5oa,l o,i-i9u tho happy group The build
he soo. d little. Mr.. Travis stepped Il
b ,.a. ~ see what it all meant just a,
sns [pp0u 5a3 upon the porch the cvclon
IL u'"n upon the house. The roof q
. ,s.t. was hrst taken off, and, strang
'tspebs4 the floor of the hous
sld its away and the inmate
ssh Of ~ SOn'ents we're left within tn
Ms ~ u-0 mouse upon the bare ground
As rSuuerson NJ was badly hurt.
Teauslv' avs ia. and the children wer
Biz ma. .'a7iS was not found pntil o o,c,ocb
as6 Ioo remains were picked up in al
ole ssn5,1 yards from the residence