Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-21
Section Around Atlanta Swept
by Wind and Rain of Great
Intensity.
STORM CENTER COMES
IN COBB AND PAULDING
Heavy Damage Is Done at 5
o'clock This Morning During
Terrific Gale.

violent wind ana ram STORM III A.
r,rra and its suburbs caused wide
snread damage to-day. and cut off sew
sraI nearby towns entirely from COM
,,,nication with the outside world.
ra1ephone and telegraph companies
vs,orted wires down in many sections
ND ryasbouts held up trains at numer-
ms points Telegraphic communlca-
ZION in particular, was very seriously
5ampered. the big press associations re-
norting similar difficulties in many
states
Hiram. Ca. 25 miles west of Atlanta,
completely isolated to-day as the re-
srlr Of severe wind, rain and hail
ro-m that swept through the south
,rset mart Of Cobb and southeast Sec
ZION of Paulding counties about
o'clock this morning. Thus far 1t is
imnossible to ascertain the extent of
the damage in Hiram and vicinity as
an telephone and telegraph lines to that
town are out of service.
Powder Springs. just east of Hiram,
on the Southern and Seaboard Air Line
-aiIwavs. suffered considerable damage
from wind and hail. A window was
blown completely out of its frame in the
Southern depot.
storm at Lost Mountain.
At Lost Mountain, between Powder
Springs and Hiram, the wind and hall
we're reported as unusually heavy.
At AustelI and Lithia Springs, just
east Of Powder Springs heavy rain,
accompanied by wind, fell for an hour.
At Dallas. in Paulding county, west
of Hiram. wind and rain were of storm
proportions
The storm center seemed to be along
The border line between Cobb and
Pauiding counties to the south of Ken
0asaw mountain.
At Marietta the wind blew chimney
IF residence and did other slight
carnage TO property.
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 ]. n.
Grant W. K. Baker, Jr., and Bennett
This section was in the path of last
weeks storm and considerable damage
was done then, number of houses be-
ing wrecked.
Just below Hiram four telegraph
poles and a pine thicket along the
Southern railway were swept down by
the terrific wind.
aP h. INT
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
houlty in sending and receiving mes
>ages 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
'Wlous routes and taking hours in their
Transmission
Chattanooga Isolated.
chattanooga also was almost impos-
Sloie 10 reach by wire and the wide
area Of the storm damage put a score
'' other large cities and the towns in
'esmediate in the same plight. The 10
Office found that there were long
eIaEs in transmission in messages sent
or coming from Nashville, Memphis.
nlCago st. Louis, Cincinnati Louis
'le Knoxville, Baltimore and Phila-
de.phia.
As the cities for the most part are
+'se RELAXING centers, It affected all CT.
NE towns between those points and
atlanta.
The storm disabled telephone lines
est of the Chattahoochee river be-
"een Atlanta and Marietta However.
no damage was reported to the Mari
etta car line.
'EaFy wind and rain swept over
1s.as county, south of Paulding and
'9', but no serious damage is reported
n Douglasville or Douglas county
mar trouble was experienced by
rgstal, although not over so great
~ tory as the Western Union. Long
asS were encountered in sending
.aSeS TO points west. Nashville,
ME and Cincinnati were the
cues that could not be reached
we towns on their relays were cut
10 the same extent.