The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-04-23

'u"itioh W lHiS, CHlHiHeyS were DioWii
down and fences torn down.
The Beech Grove Christian church
was almost completely demolished,
but the school building at the same
! place was not so badly wrecked, it
having been lifted off its foundations
and set down some eight or ten feet
away.
Jamisonss store was twisted almost
off its foundation and the roof skewed
to one side SO that the deluge of water
falling at the time of the storm pour.
ed directly in upon the large stock OF
goods causing great damage.
The blacksmith shop at Jamison s
store was blown down and completely
| wrecked, but a Tin Lizzie sitting in
the shop at the time of the storm was
blown through door and escaped
| without scratch.
The home of Judge S. @. Weatherly
was badly injured On this place
three barns were blown down, one or
two sheds suffered a similar fate and
much fine timber was destroyed, and
fences torn down.
| DR.. Gray, who made the trip to this
! section reports most trying expert
| ence in trying to reach the scene of
the storm. He says that between
Spring Hill and Jamison's store great
trees were lying in the road, and it
was necessary to cut these out before
! the car in which he was riding could
proceed. Telephone poles were across
the highways, and telephone wires
were piled in twisted masses all along
! the road. He said it was with the
greatest difficulty that the trip was
made, and it was only through the as
sistance of practically. every citizen
I in the community that he succeeded in
reaching his destination at all. Farm
ers worked like beavers to clear UP
| the wreckage, and to open the high
ways to traffic again.
DR., Gray says he saw many homes
along the road ethat had been sadly
damaged by the storm the owners of
which he did not know. The damage
to those residences consisted largely
| in unroofed buildings, chimneys being
blown down, fences wrecked and tim
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Santa Fe Escapes. ,Et 4
Early reports in Columbia were to
the effect that the village of Santa Fe
had been almost wiped from the face
of the earth by the fury of the storm,
and Columbians who had relatives
there being unable to get in touch with
that section because all telephone
lines were down feverishly drove to
that place in automobiles. Fortunate
ly the village itself escaped without Sc
riOus injury, but those who made the
trip bring back with them stories OF
the terrible damage done between Co
lumba and Santa Fe.
Among the losers on the Santa Fe
pike are: Jean Sewell, whose home
was badly wrecked, the kitchen being
blown away. Jack Dawson had a barn
demolished, the home of Young Mckee
was blown away; two barns belonging
to Jess Vester were demolished
The Elmwood school house was
blown from its foundation. For a strip
nearly mile wide in this section tim
Der is leveled, great trees being liter
ally twisted in two by the fury of the
storm. Outhouses are down, and tele.
phone lines are lying in a tangled heap
along the highway.
The path of the cyclone missed San
ia Fe by just half mile Those who
came to Columbia this morning report
additional damage, and tell stories of
remarkable escapes. Probably the
worst damage in this section was at
the home of Cleveland Jacobs. who
with his family seeing the approach of
the cyclone hurried into his storm Gel
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