Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-01-16
SOUTH CAROLINA. syIlnS
TORNADO HIT MACON HARD
Camp Wheeler Suffered from Cold
and Wrecked Tents.

curing at 4.4V p. M, Is knOWn&tOi
have killed one man. Three otbers
are known to have been injured 81 Az
cloudburst followed the first toriiado$|
and the greatest damage to Camp
Wheeler, seven miles south, OF the
city, where more than 10000 men
are encamped, Is from water. ManyS|
tents were blown down. The Icolsl
lapse Of corral in the 122d infantry
caused the only death reporteds & at
Camp Wheeler, private named Har-t
ris, of Atlanta, a member Of the sup-s
ply company Of the 122d infantry,
being the victim. 8gI
Great Damage In Macon.
The storm did great damage stn&tRe
city Of Macon and at Central Gltys'
Park Estate fair grounds).. " sAtTth heSJ
fair grounds two huge grandstandsi
one at the base ball park, where the:
New York Americans train. and tie?
other at the race track, wore denloI-
ished. A brick building In which
the animals OF Sum Brot Hors' circltss
were being quartered Ias wrecked
and the animals imprisoned9in. the
debris. Several animals were killed.4
A kangaroo broke away and Is stilE
at large. .v, 4 II t,s5'3$l
The tornado broke after ah all-day
rain. A heet wave came Sint and
many women became alarmed at the
| sudden change In temperature and
notified the police. The air was stl-.
| fling at times, they reported from dif-
ferent sections of the city. $ (. W
| AS the storm broke railroad trains
| on the Macon, Dublin and Savannahl
railroad was passing Camp Whsotar.,4
| The train Of IA freight cars iwfst
hurled from the track. syts
The wind next struck the fair
grounds buildings and twisted them
to pieces. 1t then jumped to the
| wholesale district of the city, near
the new Terminal station, where the
roofs OF dour mills and Wholesale.
houses were lifted and ends and sides
of buildings torn away. Water tanks
on top Of many Of these buildings
were blown down. The roofs OfStheS
| round houses OF the Central OF q cor
| gta and the Southern railway were,
lscarrisd away. The big Cent raj 81 VIZ
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m Sew ,TaI fires occurred duriug the
day and tonight, but none VI these
got any heaJway before being check
ed by ths department. %
A Later Report.
Macon, Ca, Jan. 12.-With the
temperature falling rapidly and indi-,
cations that~it will go down ten to
fifteen degrees lower than last night,
when 1t dropped from 68 to 13 de-
grees above zero, the people Of the
city of Macon and the soldiers at
! Camp Wheeler are trying to recover
from the severe storm.
There Is suffering at Camp Wheel
| er and also in Macon. Soldiers we're
forced to spend the. night in wet
| tents, but every effort was made to-
day to obtain dry clothing from the
commissary department for them.
Some OF the tents blew away after,
the men had settled down in them
for the night.
Three Deaths.
There were only three deaths re-
| ported In this section Of the state
up to late tonight.
John Tulley, taxicab driver,
whose home Is in Kentucky, was
| found dead inside Camp Wheeler
this morning. He had picked up a
Give" electric wire that was in the
path Of his automobile, after he was
passed by the guard: and was shock
ed to death.
Marvin Harris, WAGNER, attached
to the supply company of the 122d
! infantry, OF Newman, Ca, was killed
by the collapse OF corral,
An unidentified negro was shocked
to death by an electric wire near
Tennile. "
More Pneumonia.
The base hospital at Camp Wheel
er tonight reports several new cases
OF pneumonia with three deaths.
The Ocmulgee river is rising rap
idly. A 16-foot rise Is looked for at
Jackson, which will permit the ope-
ration of the water-power lighting
system, idle for many weeks.
1t was recalled tonight that 32
years ago Tonight the Ocmulgee
river was frozen over.
Life Lost at Chester.
Chester, S. c., Jan. 12.-Lbss OF
one life and property damage esti-
mated at $25O,000 was reported to-
day from the territory surrounding
Chester as result of last nights
storm. A negro woman was killed
when her residence was blown down.
The heaviest property damage was at
Lowreyville.
Coolest Recorded Since 1900.
Washington, Jan. 1.-THE coldest
weather experienced in the United
States since 1899 tonight extended
from the Rocky Mountains to the
Atlantic coast and from the lakes to
the Gulf. Zero temperatures were
registered almost as far south as !
Birmingham, Ala, while in North
Dakota the thermometer went to 80
degrees below zero, and 1t was only
l2 degrees higher In many parts OF !