Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-21
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porting similar difficulties in many
| states.
Hiram. Ga, % miles west Of Atlanta,
was completely isolated to-day as the
result Of a severe wind, rain and hail
storm that swept through the south
west part Of Cobb and southeast sec
ton of PauIding counties about
o'clock this morning.
Houses Blown Down.
SorrelTs cotton warehouse at Hiram
was demolished. The railroad tracks
near there were blocked this morning
by fallen timber and telegraph poles,
delaying trains.
South of Dallas and Hiram, in the
southern part of Paulding county, three
houses and a barn were blown down,
but all occupants escaped without in
jury, according to reports thus far re-
ceived. These were the homes Of ]. \.
Grant, w. K. Baker Jr.. and Bennett
Cooper and the barn Of w y. Dobbins.
This section was in the path of last
weeks storm and considerable damage
was done then, a number OF houses be
ing wrecked.
In this same section Lon Weldon's
house was blown down and his two
children seriously injured. while Bud
Bakers house was demolished and
burned.
Just below Hiram four telegraph
poles and a pine thicket along the
Southern railway were swept down by
the terrific wind.
Powder Springs Hit.
Powder Springs, just east of Hiram,
on the Southern and Seaboard Air Line
railways. suffered considerable damage
from wind and hail. A window was
blown completely out of its frame in the
Southern depot.
At Lost Mountain, between Powder
Springs and Hiram, the wind and hail
we're reported as unusually heavy.
At Austell and Lithia Springs, just
east Of Powder Springs, heavy rain,
accompanied by wind, fell for an hour.
At Dallas. in Pauding county. west
of Hiram, wind and rain were Of storm
proportions,
The storm center seemed to be along
the border line between Cobb and
Paulding counties to the south of Ken
nesaw mountain
At Marietta the wind blew a chimney
off a residence and did other slight
damage to property.
The storm disabled telephone lines
west Of the Chattahoochee river be-
tween Atlanta and Marietta. However,
no damage was reported to the Mari
eta car line.
Heavy wind and rain swept over
Douglas county, south of Paulding and
Cobb. but no serious damage is reported
from Douglasville or Douglas county.
At Rome and in Floyd county there
was heavy wind that blew down factory
stacks and chimneys of residences.
Telegraph Wires Wrecked.
Wires Of the Western Union were
down to-day in all directions from At
lanta and the city, while not entirely
cut off from Geographic communication
with the outside world, found such DIFF
fculty in sending and receiving mes
sages that the isolation for some time
was practically complete.
The worst havoc was wrought by the |
storm south and southwest of Atlanta |
Messages to and from Mobile and New |
Orleans reached their destinations only
after being relayed by the most cir |
cuitous routes and taking hours in their
transmission
Chattanooga Isolated.
Chattanooga also was almost impos-
sible to reach by wire and the wide
area of the storm damage put a score
of other large cities and the towns in
termediate in the same plight. The To-
cal office found that there were long
delays in transmission in messages sent
to or coming from Nashville Memphis
Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati. Louis