Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-15

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lana conserva ton department, died
here today from wounds received
Yesterday in a pistol battle with
Willie Johnson, a negro, at Wagga-
man, La. A posse of deputies and
citizens are searching the swamps
for the negro, who escaped.
MY Old Kentucky Home" was part
lv unroofed and otherwise damaged.
Reports of unsual accidents anu
narrow escapes followed close Oh
those of death and destruction
In Graves county members OF an
automobile party escaped Wlth
drenched clothing after they were
thrown into a swollen stream when
wind overturned their machine. A
house in Nelson county was report
ed to have been lifted from its floor
ing and carried by the wind to
point nearly quarter OF a mile
away, leaving the occupants protect
ed only by their night clothes against
the rain.
A corner was torn from a bedroom
of a house in Winchester, but
young woman occupant of the room
was not injured
STORM PUTS MACON
IN DARK THREE HOURS
MACON, Ga, March 13.-Macon
was in darkness from to o'clock
last night and cut off from communi-
cation to all points north. A tower
carrying power transmission lines at
jackson, Ca, was blown down by a
high wind.
The emergency plant of the local
electric company was fired up and
the city is being furnished light while
repairs are being made on the trunk
line to Jackson where the power is
generated.
A high wind amounting in velocity
almost to a storm was reported in
the region from Butts to Fulton
counties. The only casualties re-
ported are at Johnsonville, Ga, in
Lamar county, where several per
sons are said to have been injured
when house was blown down by a
high wind. There are no serious in
juries, it was reported.
NORTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA
SUFFERS IN HAIL STORM
COLUMBIA, S. c., March 10
Heavy hail and transforms, accom-
panied by high winds, hail and
electrical displays, did considerable
damage in the northern part of
South Carolina during last night
and early today, according. to re-
ports received here. Anderson was
cut off from Geographic commune
cation with the outside world most
of last night, according to dis
patches from that city. with com
munication reported still crippled
today.
Lightning struck the fertilizer
mixing plant of the Southern Cot
ton Oil company at Greenville dur
ing terrific thunderstorm this
morning. The plant was destroyed,
WIND VELOCITY RECORD
+ BROKEN IN CHATTANOOGA
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March
ia velocity of "A miles an hour,
the highest ever reported here,
marked a terrific windstorm which
smashed its way throughg this sec
ton Monday, doing considerable
damage. The wind maintained a
velocity of 60 miles an hour for
forty-five minutes, and siXty-two
miles for five minutes.
Smokestacks, wire poles and trees
were blown down, and plate glass
windows were smashed, and several
Industrial plants were more or less
damaged. No news of serious dam
age in the surrounding section has
been received here.
SEVERAL HOUSES ARE
BLOWN DOWN IN THOMSON
THOMSON, Ga, March IA
negro boy was seriously injured and
several houses were destroyed by a
heavy wind storm which struck the
outskirts of Thomson at 1880 o'clock
last night.
Occupants of one Of the dwellings,
family of seven negroes, miracu-
lousy escaped injury when the
house was blown down and parts
of the furnishings scattered over an
area of several hundred yards.
negro boy was in bed at the time
and was unframed. The mother
stuck a nail in her foot while walk
ing about the debris after the storm
had subsidized.
YOUNG WOMAN HURT
AS ROOF BLOWS AWAY
GAINESVILLE. Ca, March 13.
Storms, which took on the character
of cyclones, did considerable prop
erty damage through this section
late Monday. No lives were lost,
the only person reported injured be.
ing Miss Ethel Wise. who received
severe scalp wounI when Il
room of the home of o. W. Butler,
at Johnstonville. where she was
visiting, was blown away.
Many barns and outhouses were
blown down and thousands of trees
uprooted in different communities
SEVERE HAIL STORM
IN CONCORD SECTION
CONCORD, Ga, March 13.-The
heaviest hail storm ever known in
this section occurred about o'clock
Monday evening. Hail stones, some
as large as hen eggs, fell in sheets,
playing havoc with window lights
and knocking holes in fibre roofs.
The hail was accompanied by a
heavy rain and lots of damage was
done by the washing of the lower
lands. Every house reports from
one to twenty window lights broken