The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-03-08
aiken COUNTY SWEPT
BY terrific CYCLONE
Five Killed and Many Injured in
Storm Which Rages on The
Savannah River
GEORGIA STREAMS
y OUT OF BANKS
Mill Villages in South Carolina Are
- Hard Hit-Many Miracu-
lOus Escapes

Aiken, March IA cyclone, bring
ing death and desolation in it's blast,
swept over the hills of the little mill
town Of Warrenville, Horsecreek Val
ley this morning before daybrcak, and
left in its wake the dead bodies of
five people, crushed and mangled,
beneath the debris of their humble
cottages. The village of Steifletown,
near Graniteville, was also visited by
the roaring whirl, and it, too, suffered
in loss of property and in wounded
houses in the thickest part of the
settlement being swept away and
twisted into a mass Of scattered tim
ber, tin and brick. The dead are:
Fred Hoover, aged IL.
Dollie Mitchell, aged s.
Mrs. Boyd, age unknown.
Son Wood, aged Id.
Daughter Wood, aged 6.
There are scores of injured, many
of the mseriously, Mrs. Lavaria Wood,
mother Of the two dead children, be-
ing among those badly hurt. The
telephone, electric light and telc-
graph wires were all down and the
roads blocked by uprooted trees, and
could be rushed from Aiken. Miss
Agnes Campbell, Of the Aiken Chap
ter of the Red Cross, at once drove to
the scene and established headquar-
ters for the wounded in one of the mill
houses. Aiken physicians, DR.. Hast
ings, Wyman, DR.. P. l.. Ncvil, with
DR.. Wright and DR.. Greene, of Horse
creek Valley, attended the suffering.
Mr.. r. G., Tarrant and Miss Eleanor
Phelps, Of the Red Cross, were on the
scene.
t Twenty-Five houses in Warren
Vile were torn to pieces by the
fearful wind, and five in Stiefetown
, were upset or carried away. One
garage from the hill was carried
from it's foundations twenty five
feet and landed on the porth of q
home opposite in Stiefetown. Many
poles thrown across the tracks of
the Southern Railway delayed the
Augusta morning train to Charles
ton three hours.
Park Is Hard Hit
The beautiful park at Langley was
q mass of broken and uprooted trees,
while the Baptist Church there had
one side of the roof completely lift
ed away. Several smaller buildings
in Langley were blown down and 9th
ers damaged.
At Warrcnville, the center of the
fierce storm, several families had
to be rescued from their three
room cottages with saw and ham
mer, being fastened securely under
the timbers. The escape from death
in several instances appeared to be
miraculous. One mill operative,
Frank Williams, was with his wife
and five children, found in his home
which sad been blown down flat, un-
injured. They were removed from the
wreck by busy rcscuers with saws
and poles used as levers. Another
mill operative had his home partly
carried high off in the winl and he
and his two children were left un
harmed BEND partition asleep III
bed Coats, bed clothes and other ar
ticles were found hung fifty feet high
on the trees in the path of the cyclone,
which had it's beginning in the Beech
section, and cut swath one hundred
yards wide, dying out at Moseley's
Crossing on the A. and A. trolley line,
where it pulled up the trolley station
from it's moorings and scattered it
over the fields. At Glovcrvillc, two
buildings were blown down, but no
one injured.
A fund has been started for the
relief of the homeless by Mr.. John
G. Chafcc, and the Warrcnville Manu-
featuring Company, is standing solid
1y by it's unfortunate employees.
The injured at the Aiken Hospital
. are: Harry Munday, Mrs. Josie
Harley, Mrs. Wood, Mr.. Edward
: Clark, who is unconscious, Mrs. Ru-
fus Munday, thought at first to be
dead, Mr.. Owen and Mr.. George