Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-09
SEVEN ARE KILLED
AND SCORES HURT
IN CA. sc. STORM
WarrenviIIe, Langley, Stief-
Teton and GraniteviIIe Are
Struck Trains Delayed,
Wires Down

scores injured by high winds ana
flooded streams in this section Of
Georgia and South Carolina.
Four mill villages-Langley, STEELE
ton, Granitevil1e and Warrenville,
S. c., all in the Horse Creek valley,
were struck by a tornado just be-
fore daybreak Tuesday mad houses
were swept away, trees uprooted and
telegraph poles felled, leaving the
section in darkness, and without
communication to the outside world.
The victims were caught under.
meath their fallen homes, many of
them being awakened by the falling
timbers. In some sections, the storm
swept away everything in it's path,
scattering parts of buildings and
furniture over the fields.
The brunt Of the storm appeared
ton, where six persons are known to
be dead. Every house in a row of
twelve, except. one in WarrenVille,
stroyed in Skeleton.
The dead are: Fred Hoover, -;
Dolly Mitchell, 5; Mrs. L. Munday,
40; Mrs. Boyd, IS; Son Wood, IA;
Dorothy Wood, 8. 49,
Many of the injured are expected
to die. Estimates of the number
injured in both Warrenville and
Stifleton are conservatively placed
at forty.
Mrs. Lavira Wood, mother Of two
Of the dead, is herself not expected
to live. She, with her two children,
were crushed in the ruins Of their
home.
Reports from Warrenville at noon
were to the effect that practically
every person there was scratched
or bruised.
Warrenville is mill village be.
twene Augusta and Aiken, just eff
the Southern railroad. Stiefleton is
& small settlement a quarter of i
mile from Warrenville.
The storm struck Warrenville
about 5 o'clock this morning, and 1t
was three hours later before any in.
formation of the disaster reached
the outside world. The town was
completely isolated.
The bodies of five of the dead
have been taken to Graniteville
where a morgue has been estaD-
lished.
Aid has been rushed from. Aiken,
S. c., and the Aiken chapter of the
Red Cross is rushing relief meas
ures.
Searchers are looking through the
debris of the houses for dead and
injured.
EVERYTHING IN PATH
OF STORM DESTROYED
COLUMBIA, S. c., March S.-A
five persons are dead and fifteen to
twenty injured at Warrenville as a
result of storm. Houses in the path
of the storm were shattered. A NOR
que has been opened at Aiken. Sew
eral of the injured were expected to
die, the dispatch said. 49,
Passenger and train crews arriv-
ing az Columbia at noon reported
that Graniteville, another mill town
in Horse Creek Valley, had suffered
from the storm, but they were with.
out details.
Trains were running three hours
late, owing to blocking of the line by
telegraph poles
The tornado swept down upon the
mill village, located in what is
known as Horse Creek Valley, at b
o'clock, with terrific force, Destroy
ing everything in it's path. Houses
were crumpled up, their occupants
being trapped within, trees were up
rooted and nearby fields were strewn
with roofing, household furniture
and wreckage.
Four of the dead were children
under ten years old. Mrs. Belle
Boyd, So, was instantly killed.
Most Of the damage was wrought
in Warrenville. In one row of
dozen houses one was unchanged.
From this village the tornado swept
on to Stifleton, quarter of a mile
distant, where four houses were de.
stroyed.
Relief parties were at the scene
before daylight. r.
RECORD RAIN IN MACON;
OCMULGEE is RISING
MACON, Ca, March 8.-Follow-
ing the heaviest rain in Macon since
the weather bureau was established
tWenty-three years ago, the Ocmul-
gee river was out of it's banks this
morning and the government wealth
er observer was preparing to issue
flood warnings for both the Ocmul-
gee and Oconee rivers.
The rainfall from 1925 p. m. yes
terday until o'clock this morning
was 6.37 inches. The Ocmulgee
river stood at 2O.6, two and a half
feet above flood stage, at 8 o'clock
this morning, and was rapidly rising.
Record Rain
Forecaster Geddings Tuesday
predicted that there would
be an additional rise at the river
of several feet before the showers
were exhausted, the final mark prob
ably lacking only several feet of at
tanning the record high water mark
of December II, 1919. Reports re-
inches of rain in Atlanta, and large
rainfalls in Griffin and other near
by towns.
More than 600 telephones were out
Of commission this morning. The
Dixie Flyer and Southland tourist
trains on the Central of Georgia
railroad were delayed several hours
at -Powersville, fifteen miles below
Macon, this morning, as the result
Of a washout about 100 feet long.
One side of the track was Inundated
Temporary repairs were made, and
the track opened. Minor washouts
were reported by the c., S. & F. OPP
Grating south of Macon.
The Southern railway reported
schedules were being maintained on
their line. and no material damage.
Flood warnings were sent out by
the local weather bureau office to-
lay to points south of Macon on the
Ocmulgee river. No loss Of life had
been reported Tuesday morning.
Most of the trains operating in and
put of Macon were from thirty min
ties to fnll,: hnIlrs late the