Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-05-06
The South Swept by Destructive
Cyclones and Tornadoss
MANY PEOPLE KILLED
And the Damage to Property viii
Reach Millions of Dollars I'm Value,
Tennessee is the Heaviest Sufferer.
Houses Blown Down and Wire
Communication Interrupted.

| Interrunted
A dispatch from Atlanta says cy-
c'ohes and tornadoes the like of
"hich have not been known for've,rs
swept through the South Tbur,a.
night and all Friday, leaving in their
| wake hundreds of dead and manp,ed
oouies and the dismantled wrecks
VI property worth many millions
| enhessee was an especially heavy
AT y O'Clock Friday night
| eiul estimates indicated that NJ
.east 90 people were killed In th,t
state alone. with monetary ,ossas
| ABOUT $1,O00.0OO. AT FrankI;n 90
| lnHillsboro there was lose ne ,,sSs
n iat.er town is said to be prac-
Vi'aiy destroyed. while at CentreviIIe
ana adjoining villages the loss is re-
| poi'eu very heavy. both in life and
| property Near Pulaski. Giles coun-
~ 'he death list reaches ~ and
| many are inbred. In the vIcinitv
VI chattanooga the storm was feIt
1T its worst. Telephone and teIa-
| s'"ph wires were blown down and
"e movement of trains was greatly
naIhpered The hurricane followed
'i% cum berland valley. wreck,n,
small towns and destroying farm
| houses.
AT Ebenezer Is houses were b,own
| down oio"h
Al Charlestown the storm swerved
up Inc Hiwassee river; destroying
| much property.
have nerlshed. = 70
At cuba many houses were blown
'own' and at Gilestown not even q
| shed was left standing
memphis reports heavy loss from
towns within radius of 100 miIes
In three States.
At horn Lake. Miss, half a dozen
ives were lost and the property dam
age was very heavy.
In Arkansas eight persons wera
killed near Mammoth Springs. and a
score of buildings wrecked Otber
points in Arkansas report beavv
| loss.
AT Huntsville, Ala, fifteen are
| uead' several score injured and $50
houses demolished as a result of the
storm which struck ,FayetteviIIe
Tenn, and vicinity Thursday night.
according to a reliable man who has
Just reached Huntsville from that
section
The dead at Harness number five.
and many more are injured. The
Harms flour mill was DESTROYED as
well as number of other buildings
In that vicinity.
Immense damage was done I'm Mad
ison county by hail and lightning.
lelegraphic 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 a 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 Wthra. lost their lives
by the capsizing of rowboat during
a suddeDt squat.
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 'duripg the afternoon
ceased entirely. The Western 6
I, 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 noldlns
up five trains.
The death totals were 'swelled FRI
day night by three iightning- victims
at Monroe. Ga Late Friday after
noon rushing wfndstorm. accompa-
:, MED by -blinding lightninga broke
|, over Monroe and one of the bolts
struck. the residence of NJ, B. Bar
rett. running down the chimney
Rarrett. his wife and mis- 17-year-oid
e daughter we're killed and ls-year-
old son and younger chiias were Sc
: riously shocked. -,