Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-03
SLEEPER AND BED
DEPOSITED IN ROAD
WITH COVERING on

A check-up of Wednesdays tor
lado toll over the south, in which
b hundred met death, several hun
ired were injured and immense
property damage done brings in the
Usual grist of queer pranks played
by the wind, mingling laughs with
grim tragedy.
At Anderson, S. c., the wind
picked up a street car, and laid il
pm its side in a yard so feet away,
probably fatally injuring one of it's
occupants.
A e-months-old infant and the
&nattress on which it lay was
&vhirled through the window of it's
ONE in, Florence and deposited in
open field a hundred yards away.
he child was not hurt.
A similar incident occurred at
ppelika, Ala, where a man was
picked up in the bed in which he
Jay and hurled far into the road,
where he was found, still between
he covers. without a scratch.
These are but few of the many
pouring in
STUDENT LEARNS
: HER HOME is DESTROYED
MACON, Ca, May Miss Vir-
mia Frank, a student of Wesleyan
Xollege, was informed last night by
wire that her home in Anderson,
c., had been destroyed, and that
IRIS. Mast, a graduate of Wesleyan,
as killed.
APV AMI NrATTPESS CAPRTEn
HUNDRED YARDS BY WIND
FLORENCE, S. c., May Il
matching a five-months-old baby
nd the mattress on which it lay
ON a home near here, the tornado
hich swept this county Wednes
Ry whirled the tiny child through
window, supposedly, and deposit
u it one hundred yards away in an
Z pen field. The infant, still cuddled
a its mattress, was Inhurt. The
|ome was demolished.
HOES AND SON BLOWN OFF
ONE MANS FEET AT MACON
MACON, Ga, May Along with
rim tragedy, yesterdays tornado
1rnished many marvellous and
ughable Incidents
l.. b. Adams, railroad machinist,
as found standing where a tent
Rd stood. He told how doctors had
Id him he would have to go to the
buntry and live in the open air to
i've his wife's life. He erected a
ut a few days ago, put all his per
bnal effects in the tent, and when
arrived there after the storm
ere wasn't even tin pan left. He
und his wife in the hospital.
Mrs. l.. E. Hort, with her three
tile children, saw the black cloud
lshing toward them, and she sum-
oned her neighbors, Mrs. L. It.
dams and Mrs. G.. T. Green and
be latter's children. They all
bught refuge in the Holt home, con-
dered safe. Three minutes latel
lie house was swept away. Mrs.
otis baby was found under the
boring of another wrecked house
. 10 yards away, it being necessary
chop through the flooring to
cover the body. Mrs. Holt was
lied. Their two other children are
the hospital, as are Mrs. Green
hid her child and Mrs. Adams.
Sox Blown off Feet
w. J. Shelley was in the kitchen
his home when the storm strucA,
told reporters.
1.-THE next thing I knew I was
1t in a field hundred yards away"
said. when I came to I found
lat my shoes and socks were gone,
it'll the exception Of a part of one
bck. ] had them on when the storm
.oke"
SO far as known only one chicken
Jas picked of it's feathers by the
rnado. There were lots of chick
his killed. One COW was killed when
piece of lumber, hurled by the
Ind, was thrust through it's body.
Mount Pleasant church, on the
bizella road, was razed, according
people who passed there last
ght.
j. r. Lamb, who operated a steam
howell at the Cherokee brick plant,
iioining the A. It. Small brick
bird, said his machine was turned
to a whirligig by the twister. He
opped the shovel and escaped.
J. A. Lowe, telegraph operator in
barge of the Southern Railways
ration office, was found buried in
reckage when the tornado wrecked
: building. He was taken to a
bspital where 1t was found that he
as stunned and bruised, but not
ricusly injured.
k Ancient Mill Wrecbage
storm wrecked w. r. Carr's
five miles from Roberta, in
Mwford county, the mill having
God there for three generations.
was a two-story structure. -Four
cmes near the mill also were
rocked.
The storm appears to have de-
ended near Rocky Creek, about
We miles from this city, out the
custom road, where 1t cut a swath
big woods, breaking off huge
ees.
Steel signal posts on the Central
Georgia Railway, set in concrete
lried four feet in the ground, were
tied out by the storm and the
eel bent in two. These posts
eigh more than ton.
Two steel coal cars and a loaded
eight car were lifted from the rail-
bad tracks in the yards in the
puthern part of the city.
OUPLE ABANDON AUTO;
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE
SHREVEPORT, La, May BE
ted reports today from the town
Many, in Sabine parish, victim
a tornado late TuaSdaV stated