Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-03-15
\ FEARFUL TORNADO sTR1KEsI
Warrenville, Razing Houses and TAX.
ing Toll OF Six Lives.

Augusta, Ca, March 7.-Six per-
sons are known to have been killed
and scores were injured in the wind
and rain storm which early to-day
flooded streams and caused heavy
property damage in this section of
Georgia and South Carolina.
-Four mill villages es-Langley, Site
fleton, Graniteville and Warrenyille.
in the Horse Greek Valley Of South
Carolina-were struck by the tor
nado Just before daybreak to-day,
and houses were swept away, trees
uprooted and telegraph poles felled,
leaving the section In darkness and
without wire Communication with
the outside world.
The victims were caught under
their fallen homes. In some sections
the storm swept away everything in
It's path, scattering parts Of build
ings and furniture over the fields.
The brunt of the storm appeared
to have hit Warrenville and Stiefle-
ton, where six persons are known to
be dead. Every house In a row of
twelve, except one, in Warrenville
was razed. Four houses were de-
stroyed in Stiefleton. Four of the
dead were children under 10 years
OF age.
In Macon the rainfall was describ-
ed as the heaviest In twenty-three
years, and the weather bureau was
preparing to issue storm warnings
on the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers.
Around Milledgeville dirt roads and
bridges are reported washed out and
all train service entering Milledge-
Vile has been suspended temporarily
as the result of washouts.
The six who were killed at War
renville and Stieheton, s. c., are as
follows: Fred Hoover, age 10; Dolly
Mitchell, age s; Mrs. L. Munday, age
40; Mrs. Boyd, age 35; Son Wood.
age IA; Dorothy Wood, age 8.
Many of the injured are expected
to die. Estimates of the number In
jured in the two towns are conserva-
lively placed at 40.
Aid has been rushed from Aiken,
8. o., and the Aiken Chapter of the
I.s,- Cross, in charge Of Miss Agnes
Campbell, r G. florence and Miss
Anna Phelps, of Washington, d. c.,
is rushing relief measures.
searchers are looking through the
debris Of the houses for dead and
injured, many Of whom are believed
to be yet trapped under the fallen
structures
twenty-five houses we're razed at
Warrenyilie and six we're razed or
, blown away Mt Stietieton.
Mrs, I,ayira wood, mother Of Son.
and Dorothy Wood. two of the dead,
Is herself not expected to live. She
! with her two children, was crushed
In the ruins of her home. Others of
the injured are reported to be fear
fully crushed, some internally, and
1t is in this class of injured that fur
ther deaths are expected. Many of
the injured suffered broken limbs.
Reports from Warrenville at noon
were to the effect that practically
every person there received some in
Jury. though many have nothing but
minor scratches and bruises. War
renville is mill village between
Augusta, Ca, and Aiken, 8. c., just
of the Southern RAILROAD. Stiefeton
Is a small settlement q quarter Of q
mile from Warrenville.
The storm struck warrenville at
about s o'clock this morning, and It
was three hours later before any In
formation Of the disaster reached the
outside world. The town was COM
pletely isolated.
The bodies Of five of tho dead
were taken to Graniteville, where
norge has been established at an
undertaking establishment.
----S~s-----
~