Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
rs Dead in Wake of Tornado
Town Of Tucker Is Devastated
Entire South Swept by Storm

through the district and moved down
/ "A lOo-foot swathe.
Starting i'm the very city limits Of
I Atlanta ITS entire twisting course was
towards the northeast. Late yesterday
Afternoon the lowering clouds in the
I vicinity Of the Soldiers Home gave
/ every evidence Of an approaching
! storm sure to be severe in character.
| The inky blackness Of these heavy
! clouds, their gray edges proved alarm
/ ing 10 old weather seers.
] Suddenly. as resident, Of that sec
| ton STOOD on their porches viewing the
| phenomenal there came a binding flash
OF lightning. The deafening roar Of
| thunder was heard for miles. Out Of
/ the clouds shot a whirling clinical
| mass. The huge cloud cone fell upon
the startled district 1t sucked up into
its vortex trees, roofs, chimneys and
| porches.
Blacksmith Shop First Hit.
The first obstacle in its path was
! blacksmith shop, owned by G. W. Col
lier Picking the roof from the struct-
ure the cyclone carried the huge tim
! bers a score Of yards, dashing them
into a clump OF oak trees which were
| uprooted by the impact. Collier and
two helpers had closed the shop only
! fifteen minutes before and had left for
! their homes.
From the blacksmith shop the wild
cleaving storm coursed through the
woodlands to the barn on the place of
I g. r. Marbut. The barn was entirely
..+
! like a paper bag The storm reached
the house. tearing the porchcs both
! front and rear from their positions.
! Mr. and Mrs. Marbut were at dinner
| when the storm struck 4 huge beam
torn from the front porch was catipult-
| ed through the front wall Of their
| home coming to a stop within ten
feet of where the couple we're sitting
| Both Marbut and his wife were slightly
hurt by flying missiles
| Riding it's saddle Of destruction the
great sucking cyclone next attacked the
house of NJ. l.. Wing This place was
cut in two pieces as clearly as a knife
| sewers cheese. A trunk from the sit
ting room was lifted and hurled dis
| lance of 300 feet. The barn on the
country place was demolished scarce
/ ly a timber being left standing.
House Inverted; Another Burned.
An empty tenant house near the
Wing home was turned upside down.
Racing with a 80 mile an hour We
! locity, the storm then struck the tiny
! home of Tom Campbell. a negro. A
fire was blazing in the big hearth crate
when the cyclone struck and flying
| embers ignited the wreckage The lit
p, tie place was entirely wiped out Mel
lie Campbell, an elder daughter and
| two smaller children were burned in
/ trying to save household effects.
! The rof of a store i'm Flat Shoals
/ road just a short distance from the
! Campbell house was lifted and hurled
across the road into COW lot. The
stock of the establishment was ruined.
/ BY this time the storm had reached
/ the proportions of a tornado. Quickly
( the cirCHng clouds rose to the Sky.
They seemed to disappear for the space
/ of ten minutes Then suddenly they
/ dropped and with their fullest force
We to come, hurled themselves upon the
. village of Tucker
With report as Of many guns the
( devastating storm burst upon the little
! place
In the twinkIing of an eye it had
! taken into its deadly grasp human
lives much valuable property and left
! destruction strewn in it's path.
Two Negro Boys Killed.
The home place of Dr. c, T. Brockett
was destroyed Two tenant houses
were demolished. Two negro boys were
killed and a negro woman was blown
! over 100 yards from her cabin to a tree
! where her nfeless body was found to-
day covered with debris and heavy tim
! bers
The storm all but tore to bits the
! home of Esma Thomas. Thomas had
| his arm broken by falling bricks and
! his wife was wedged under twisted tim
| bers sustaining fractures Of both legs
! Troy Thomas, aged fourteen. was so
severely injured that She is not ex-
pected to live. Paul Thomas. a son.
| was severely injured.
At the Harrison home tenant house
was blown across a pasture lot. Mrs.
Sallie Nash and a young son. colored.
were crushed TO death when the cabin
: left its moorings
/ Rushing To the northeast. none If
its fury spent, the storm struck Stone
| Mountain. Three houses We're unroof-
( ed there No one was seriously injured
| though several persons were struck bl
flying debris
From Stone Mountain the wild hun
ricane went straight into the wood
] lands. The tmbers i'm that district