The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-05-30
HONEA PATH HIT By CYCLONE.
Much Property Damage in Anderson
County TOWn.-NO Lives Lost so
Far rs Known.

Anderson, May pa cyclone of gi-
gantic proportions and revolving at a
terrific rate Of speed, but travelling for
ward slowly, swooped down on the
town of Honea Path, this county, about
13o o'clock this afternoon doing con-
siderable property damage.
Luckily there were no fatalities so
far as can be learned here tonight.
Honea Path is completely cut off from
wire communications tonight. Passen-
gers arriving here on the interurban
from Greenwood at 2.30 o'clock, who
watched the cyclone as it advanced on
Honea Path from point two miles
south of the town, say that the cyclone,
in its usual funnel shape, came from
the direction just south of the city OF
Anderson. and that it touched the
ground for the. first time in the busi-
ness district of Honea Path, smashing
plate gass fronts in the stores and do
ing other damage.
Some of Buildings Damaged.
One side of the brick store room oc-
cupied by the Latimer Clothing Com
pany was blown out. The steeple and
roof of the Baptist church was par
TALLY demolished. The seed and out
houses of the oil mill were turned over,
as were the smoke stacks of the mills.
Many small houses in the town were
knocked down. Bricks and sticks were
flying in the air and one man, a line
man of the interurban, was hit in the
head, causing considerable pain. One
or two automobiles and other vehicles
were overturned, throwing the occu-
pants out and causing some injuries.
Interurban Station Hit.
Terra Gotta roofing Of the interurban
passenger station was badly damaged,
while the roof on one side of the frame
warehouse of this road was practically
destroyed. This damage seemed to
have been wrought as an afterthought
by the cyclone, as after it had passed
over this building, a gust of wind
forming a suction of great strength
reached back and literally sucked
hole at least twenty feet square in the
roof. 1t looked as if projectile had
been fired through the roof from the
iside.
: Freaks of the Wind.
Several freaks are reported. A horse
was blown against box car on the in
terurban yards, and was instantly
killed. A box car left on side track
was picked up by the wind and hurled
over the derail on to the main line
Then it was forced back at terrific
rate of speed on to another side track,
jumping another derail, a thing which
is considered practically impossible.
So far as can be learned here, with
all wires down, the cyclone did no
damage before reaching .Honea Path.
The amount of damage wrought be-
yond Honea Path and on this side C
the Saluda river is not known. Rain
fell in torrents during the visit of and
after the cyclone had passed over
Honea Path.
Seen Several Miles off.
Witnesses on the interurban car,
which was stopped when the cyclone
took off the electric power, say that
they could see the cyclone approach
ing for several miles; that it extended
from the ground in Honea Path way up
into the heavens, until entirely out of
sight.
The cyclone as it came in contact
with other clouds, would burst them
into pieces, hurting pieces of the
clouds for several hundred yards. The
cyclone was most spectacular and yet
very uncanny.