The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-04
SEVERE STORM
The South Swept by Destructive
Cyclones and TorGadoes
MANY PEOPLE KILLED

And the Damage to Property Will
Reach Millions of Dollars in Value.
Tennessee is the Heaviest Sufferer.
Houses Blown Down and Wire
Communication Interrupted.
A dispatch from Atlanta Says cy-
clones and tornadoes the like of
which have not been known for years
swept through the South Thursday
night and all Friday, leaving in their
wake hundreds of dead and mangled
bodies and the dismantled wrecks
of property worth many millions.
Tennessee was an especially heavy
sufferer. At 8 o'clock Friday night
careful estimates indicated that at
least so people were killed in that
State alone, with monetary losses
about $1,000,O00. At Franklin and
inHillsboro there was loss of life.
The latter town is said to be prac-
tically destroyed, while at Centreville
and adjoining villages the loss is re-
ported very heavy, both in life and
property. Near Pulaski, Giles coun-
ty, the death list reaches II and
many are injured. In the vicinity
of Chattanooga the storm was felt
at its worst. Telephone and tele-
graph wires were blown down and
the movement of trains was greatly
hampered. The hurricane followed
the Cumberland valley, wrecking
small towns and destroying farm
houses.
At Ebenezer Is houses were blown
down.
At Charlestown the storm swerved
up the Hiwassee river, destroying
much property.
At Fayetteville three are known to
have perished.
At Cuba many houses were blown
down, and at Gilestown not even
shed was left standing.
Memphis reports heavy loss from
towns withinIa radius of 100 miles
in three States.
At Horn Lake, Miss, half dozen
lives were lost and the property dam
age was very heavy.
In Arkansas eight persons were
killed near Mammoth Springs, and
score of buildings wrecked. Other
points in Arkansas report heavy
loss.
At Huntsville, Ala, fifteen are
dead, several score injured and $50
houses demolished as result of the
storm which struck Fayetteville,
Tenn, and vicinity Thursday night,
according to a reliable man who has
just reached Huntsville from that
section.
The dead at Harmes number five.
and many more are injured. The
Harms flour mill was destroyed as
we'll as number Of other buildings
in that vicinity.
Immense damage was done In Mad
ison county by hail and lightning.
Telegraphic communication with
Fayetteville has been severed since
early last night.
At Pulaski, Tenn, twenty persons
are reported to have been killed and
forty injured in tornado which
swept over the eastern section OF
Giles county early Friday. Bee
Springs, a village in the southeast
section, sixteen miles from Pulaski,
is reported to have been totally de-
stroyed.
Atlanta and most of Georgia es-
capped with only slight property loss
during the blow. But two young
people. brother and sister, William
and Pearl Withra, lost their lives
by the capsizing of a rowboat during
a suddcrl sQual1.
The hurricane continued upon its
course of destruction in Alabama
Friday night. Huntsville sends word
Of heavy loss of property, with prob
ably several lives sacrificed near the
Tennessee line. At Danville, in Nor
gan county, Alabama. the storm
struck with terrific force. At Harts-
Vile at least one is dead and many
hurt The storm is still raging and
seems to be travelling almost directly
southeast.
Soon after dark Friday night the
storm winds shot across the tele-
graph and telephone lines connecting
Atlanta with Chattanooga and Knox
vile. which had been kept up with
great difficulty during the afternoon
ceased entirely. The Western e
Atlanta railroad Offices here reported
that south Of Chattanooga, near
Emerson. several big trees were
blown across the railroad right of
way, bearing down wires and holding
IN five trains.
The death totals were swelled Fri
day night by three lightning victims
at Monroe. Ga. Late Friday after
noon a rushing windstorm, accompa-
nj 4 hv binding lightning. broke
over Monroe and one OF tho bolts
struck tho residence of NJ. +. Bar
rett. running down the chimney.
Barrett. his wife and his 17-Hear-old
daughter were killed and a 1S-ycar-