The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-03-20
IHREE PERSONS KILLED AND
.-,orsANDs OF DOLLARS DAM
,cE DONE BY TORNADO.
RIN DISASTER AND DISTRESS

s.no Plantations Scarcely a
pnilding Was Left Standing and
T,ro Hundred People Are House.
's ord Clotheless. Some Freaks
Of the Storm
,o+or details of the storm which
~ab+ destruction to life and
1ortv on several farms in the
,tborn part of Terrell county
~ fopr o'clock Friday morning
~, e TO have been even more dis
IRONS that was at first reported.
Tbousands of dollars worth OF
.onor+v was swept away, three per-
vs we're killed and scores injured,
"a several mules and other farm
FINALS we're killed and others hurt.
Tho tornado was one of the worst
81 has ever visited Terrell county,
A1most aoualing in its fury and dam
90 the cyclone that swept through
IL county on Feb. q, 1882. That cy-
8Iono first swooped down on the farm
n NJ L. Harp in the Eleventh dis
IT, coming from the southwest,
loening Darallel with the Central
<oiIroad and going through the coun-
IL in a northeast course. Scores of
houses we're demolished and a dozen
r. ca Deople. white and black, were
RiIIed and many wounded. The
broperty damage was great.
Hardly a Building Left Standing.
/ L. Edwards was perhaps the
heaviest loser from Fridays storm.
Dn his plantation twenty-five houses
mere blown down, including the
dwelling house, the stOckade, tenant
houses and cribs.
One negro child about eight years
bid was killed, a negro mans leg
8was broken above the knee, and
Fourteen others we're injured, but,
remarkable to say, none of them
were seriously hurt.
One mule was killed by the fail
kng timbers of the stockade. Be-
hween thirty and forty stacks of hay
.and two or three thousand bundles
.Of fodder were swept away and are
Il complete loss.
Mr.. Edwards estimates his loss al
between $4,000 and $4,000, and he
has $2,916 insurance in the Farm
|ers Mutual Fire Company of Terrell
county.
Mr.. Bridges Loss Also Heavy.
Mr.. Eli B. Bridges, whose pIanta-
|tion adjOins the Edwards farm, was
also a heavy loser, hardly building
besides his own residence being left
standing on the place.
Eleven tenant houses, the stock
AIDE and four small barns were dash
ed to pieces by the wind, a store
house was blown down, and the gin
house was lifted from it's founda-
tons. A negro child was killed and
two mules were hurt.
Mr.. Bridges estimates his loss al
$4,000, and he had no insurance, a
policy for several thousand dollars
having been allowed to lapse last
month
On the Lewis Farm.
On the farm of John McLendon OF
SaSser, near Chickasawhatchee, and
winch IS leased by Lewis Brothers
tnTee tenant houses and the barn
were blown down, entailing a loss
I'll ABOUT $1,000. Mr.. McLendon had
.$o9O insurance in the Farmers Nh.
tual.
On their own farm Lewis Brothers
lost three tenant houses and had one
mule killed and four injured. They
tesIilate their loss at $500, and
Iad $3.50 insurance in the Farmers
Mutual company.
on the farm of DR.. J. H. Lewis one
tenant house was blown down. II
for $3.50. " = o.
Ohe Killed on Todd Farm.
IN the farm of Mr.. B. F. Todd one
Tesfo was killed and another hurt
I"o tenant houses were blown down
U u.n room and the porch of another
were were swept away, and another was
t Gauiaged, He had 1921 insurance
J" the Farmers Mutual.
oro Noan Johnson, the well known ne
So farmer of the Third district
I muse place adjoins Mr.. Todd's farm
eOI b. elgnt tenant houses, a barn and
Z a4 mousse in which guano was stored,
Us ., loss is several hundred dollars
~eSsrs' F. G. and c. H. Brown,