The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-14
STRUCK
 BY HEAVY WINDS Many Houses Wrecked and
 Fences Blown Away DAMAGE WILL BE SEVERE At RandoIph's Mine House Is Blown Down and Bed Is Blown From Un- der Man and His Wife With
 out Hurting Either.
DAMAGE WILL BE SEVERE

Blocton, April 1S.-Between 5 and o'clock this morning Blocton and vicinity were visited by a cyclone which did great deal of damage to property. At | Campbelltown the Baptist church was completely demolished and other damage resulted as follows
 The warehouse of Mrs. I. B. Roycroft was completely swept away and the stock of feedstuff and other goods it contained were greatly damaged.
 The front porch of tMrs. Roycrofts house was blown away and carried dis tance of about 200 yards, where 1t struck the kitchen of Judge A. H. Gentry's resi- dence The kitchen was knocked into splinters by the awful blow and all the furniture was broken into fragments.
 Miss Rosa, a daughter or the judge, was in the kitchen few seconds before il was destroyed, and her escape was just in the nick of time.
 Many Houses Damaged.
 Mir. Rufus Bearden's kitchen was swept away and his dwelling unroofed and all his furniture broken.
 Coi J. N Campbens kitchen and part of his dwelling were unroofed.
 Sam McCartney's dwelling was unroofed and his kitchen was moved four feet.
 The chimney of Mrs. Martha Aldrich's dwelling was blown down.
 The roof of MT Robinson's dwelling was blown off.
 A dwelling owned by Patrick Shannon was completely destroyec. Mrs. Pinckney's summer dwelling was damaged by a large tree falling against it.
 The stables and buggy houses of both Col. J. N. Campbell and A. B. Roycroft were completely destroyed.
 Twelve Goats Killed.
 Not a soul was hurt in the town but about a dozen of the town goats, which were sheltered under the warehouse of Mrs. A. B. Roycroft, were killed.
 At Primitive Ridge some damage was done to houses. Ben Wallace's dwell- ing was unroofed
 Mrs. Hunter Aliens house was un- roofed and the kitchen of John Majors was blown down. while the pillars of his store building gave way, which set the building on the ground.
 A house belonging to Milt Cundiff was completely destroyed Nobody was hurt at that place.
 At Bucktown the negro Baptist church was swept away and one dwelling house was destroyed.
 At No. mines the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company's tipple was blown down, the boiler house unroofed and the scale house destroyed. The Losses.
 It is impossible to ascertain the exact financial loss at the different places which suffered, but the losses are esti- mated as follows:
 At Campbelltown, $4000.
 Primitive Ridge, 5000.
 church at Bucktown, 5000.
 No mines, injuries to the Tennes- see Coal, Iron and Railroad company, $15O0. It will be several days before the company will resume operations at No 2.
 The cyclone did some damage to prop erty at West Blocton. A large tree was blown on the residence of Dan Belcher, which did some damage to the roof. Many residences were blown down and l a tract containing several acres of large timber was felled in the county Much damage was done to fences and at Ran dolph's mill four miles west of town, the house of MT. Colburn was blown down while he and his wife were in bed. The bed was blown from under them and they did not receive a scratch. During the cyclone heavy rain fell and the heavens were aglow with flashes of lightning.
 Coleanor Territory Swept.
 Coleanor. April 13.-(Special)-A terrific wind storm passed over this section early today and for a while it was believed that numerous fatalities would be report ed. The storm passed through the great wooded district from Garnsey to Coleanor, traversing some of that district which god hu Ind of ago. when one person was killed and sev- eral injured at Piper, a mining camp a few miles from here.
 Three houses at this place were badly damaged by the storm this morning. Re- ports from Gernsey state that fears were expressed during the storm that some of the houses would be blown away. Trees were blown down along the path of the storm. A rumor reached here from Hele ma that some damage was done there, but there is no verification.
 The trees and telegraph poles along the Southern railway, used also by the Birmingham Mineral railroad. were blown down and all trains were delayed more or less this morning.
 The crew of the Mineral train passing here between and 10 o'clock had to re- move no less than forty trees from the track, losing from an hour to an hour and half of time. Piper was not injured this time. As far as can be learned no one was hurt in the storm today. The path of the storm will be followed to ascertain exactly how much damage has been done.
 The storm was accompanied by heavy downpour of rain.
 The little tornado which formed a short distance from here was funnel-shaped and the clouds were so black that many peo- pie became alarmed. Many were up pre- for fhn nrlr nh fha storm came The mines at this point are operated by MT. F M. Jackson and associates of Birmingham.
 One Man Killed. Evergreen, April 13.-(Special)-A wind storm visited the northern portion of this county today, destroying considerable property and killing Henry Softer.