The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-03-08
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
LEFT in TORNAD0'S PATH

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Augusta, Ga, March S.-The mill
authorities are working to relieve the
homeless and the injured in yester-
days storm swept area of Warren
vile and Stiefeton in the Horse Creek
valley. Approximately 200 are with
out shelter. Funeral preparation for
the five victims at Graniteville are
being made and seven of the injured
are in the hospital at Aiken and all
are expected to recover except Harry
Munday. Others injured are Mrs. Jo-
sic Hardy, Rufus Boyd, Owen Wood,
Joe Green, Mrs. Henry Wood and
Frank Clark.
Wilson, N. c., March S.-The local
hospitals where nearly score of in
Jured were taken yesterday following
the storm report that all would re-
cover. Frank Bats and wife and six
children are most seriously injured.
Property damage, including the de-
struction of ten homes and many
barns, may reach $75,00G.
Augusta, Ga, March THE cor
rected list of the persons who were
killed in the storm at Warrenville is
as follows:
Fred Hoover, age IL; DOLLS Nit
chum, age 8; Mrs. Dellie Boyd age
10; Theodore Wood, aged 2; Lucius
Wood, age 1-2 years.
Besides the above dead the follow
ing are not expected to live:
Mrs. Henry Wood, mother of Theo-
dore Wood, who was killed, and Henry
Clark, an employee in the Warren
Manufacturing company. They are
both in the Aiken hospital. Five 9TH
ers who are seriously hurt, though ex-
pected to recover, are also in the Ak
en- hospital. There are 16 other resi-
dents of Warrenville who received
treatment for cuts, bruises and other
minor injuries, some of whom are he
lieved to have been internally injured
from falling timber.
The funerals of all of the victims
of the storm will be held tomorrow.
Augusta, Ga, March z. - Warren
vile, South Carolina mill village in
the Horse Creek valley near here, to-
night is preparing to bury the five
persons who met death early sathis'
morning when terrific thunder squall
struck the town. In Aiken hospitals
six persons lie at the point of death,
while fully score of others today
were brought to the hospital for treat
ment and after receiving it went out
to aid other members of their families
in seeking homes to replace those
ra"o1 hv the wind.
While the storm only took toll of
dean IN Warren lille, the villages of
Langley, Gloverville, Stiefeltown and
in the Horse Creek valley suffered
from The blow, in injured and prop
erty loss. Only the injured in War
renville, where the force of the storm
was felt, were brought here for treat
ment Those seriously hurt are Rufus
Munday, Mrs. Josie Hardy, Hardy
Munday, Mrs. H. T. Wood, Dooley
Clark and man named Green.
Efforts tonight to estimate the
property loss were unavailable. At
Warrcnville 20 homes were demolish-
ed, dozen houses were razed or dam
aged at Langley, and the roof of the
Baptist church was carried away.
Stiefeltown suffered the loss of two
houses and garage, which was blown
from it's foundation and set down on
the piazza of residence 200 yards
away. Gloverville suffered the loss of
n half dozen houses. Outhouses, chick
en- coors, fences and other imbellish-
ments Of dwellings were town down or
carried away, while hundreds of trees
from Bath, four miles from Augusta,
to Aiken. stretch Of over dozen
miles, are down.
The Red Cross chapter Of Aiken to-
right was providing shelter and food
for those made destitute by the storm
Many of the homeless are being cared
loT HeTc Willie OIneTS nave Den pro-
vided at Granitevlle.
Granitcville is another little mill
village in the valley, and it is there
that the loved ones Of the dead mourn
for the bodies of the victims in the
morgue of the towns only undertaking
establishment
Graniteville, March MANY build
ings in Graniteville suffered from the
tornado this morning although there
was no loss of life. Several build
ings were unroofed and a number Of
automobiles exposed to the fury Of
the wind had their tops blown off.
The mills here are closed today and
there were NJ sessions of the public
school on account Of the tragedy at
the very door of the town. COM
'hincd with an automobile accident in
Augusta in which Supt. Howard NJ
'Bvrd and Mrs Bvrd and n teacher