The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-03-16
A DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE,
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
AND TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.

The storm Visits. NJ ississippi aud &c o rgIa
Tho Town OF HreenvIlIo In tho Lattor I
State Completely wreoked-A Call for
Help.
ATLANTA, Ga, March 6.-The OK.
tent of the damages done by the cyclone
that swept through this State on FRIDAY
Is worse than at first thought. The cy-
clone seems TO have struck the State
near West Point, where the destruction
was terrible. Every business house was
swept TO the ground. The college there
was mass ofruins, the churches have
met the same fate. aud three. .fourths of
the houses of the town are wrecks.
The storm struck about $3.50 O'Clock,
and the people were glad to escape with
their lives. Many got out in their night
clothes and saved nothing else. Rich
| and poor alike are sufferers. Strange
| to say, Only one death is reported "a ne
gro, name not gwen. The citizens met
today aud issued au appeal to the public
for aid. The appeal states that great
| suffering is reported from the country
outside the city, but no details are CIV
en-, and there are no indications that the
reports, except Odessa, a small place in
the country, where it is said six people
were killed, are true.
| From LaCirange is reported great
damage In the lower part of Troup
county. The path of the cyclone was
200 yards wide, and every house for
some distance was demolished Several
people were injured, but none killed out
right. Many narrow escapes are re-
ported. A party was being held in one
house, when a giant tree was uprooted
and crashed through the building split.
tug it into kindlng wood, yet nobody
there was hurt. A baby rot ,onth
old was carried from the house. a dis.
lance of thirty yards, and for halt an hour
ay beneath lot of boards, appareotly
uniniured.
At Piedmont the destruction was
great, only Two houses in the little town
escaping. Here Miss Daisey Hawkins
was killed outright, as was a negro,
name not given. Many were injured,
some fatally. Near Barnesville, An.
drew Revlerc was killed and aumber
OF Others were more or less injured. Al
Molina, Pike county, all principal build
lngs OF the town were swe pit away. A
lady, Mrs. Beet, was killed, as were
four negroes.
| THE CYCLONE IN MISSISSIPPI.
MERIDIAN, MI as, March G.-The
cyclone that passed through Georgia on
Friday also passed through the counties
OF Marion, Toomsuba, Keewane,
Pachuta and Barnet, doing considerable
damage. 1t has been impossible, so far,
TO even approximate the financial loss
occasloned by the cyclone, but il will 90
into hundreds of thousands. A. J.
kcctan one Of the richest merchants al
Toomsuba, is left penniless. all of his
property having been swept away by the
storm.
A child was blown out of it's mother's
arms at Marion and instantly killed, its
mother escaping without injury. The
funeral Of five of the victims of cyclone's 8
wrath occurred at Marion today. The
Injured are doing we'll and the majority
will recover. The only deaths reported
from Marion today were two negroes,
who had been injured by falling trees.
Nine bodies have been recovered from
The Wreckage at Barnett Station, thirty
miles south of Meridian, on the Queen
and Crescent railroad. seven of them
being members of the family OF Daniel
Barnett.
Mrs. Sarah Harrington, who lived
with her daughter at Barnett, was blown
away, and her body has not yet been re-
covered. A great many houses wele
blown down and people injured in the
track of the storm, but so far as heard
from the above are most serious casual
ties. Many pranks Of the winds fury
are reported. Water was blown out of
the tank at Bartlett, while the tank it.
self was not damaged in the least. A
fino Jersey cow was blown one mile at
Pachuta and alighted on a Baptist
church uninjured.