Evening star., 1924-05-01

tions by torrential rain which ac- |
companied the storm.
Women and children made nm q |
large part of the known Read.
Entire communities were, ,destloyed
in some sections and there, was not
a place in the storms pata which
escaped wholly unscathed.
In South Carolina, where the}torna-
does were most disastrous, Rorrelp!
Hill, twelve miles from Columbia, was
wrecked seventeen being killed and
numbers of others more or less stri-
ously hurt. Among the dead were
four schoolboys. who with seventy
five other pupils were buried beneath
the wreckage of the schoolhouse when
it was demolished.
Eight persons, five of them chf1dre
were killed and more than score
injured when they were trapped in
their crashing homes at Anderson.
Nearly fifty residences were raZed in
the riverside mill village, near there,
while numbers of dwellings in the
city proper were demolished
Early today fifty members of the
local American Legion post, armed
with rifles, are patrollins the stricken
in that section alone is placed at
s1,500,000.
Fifteen Dead at Florence.
At Florence fifteen persons met
death, fifty were injured and thirty
houses were destroyed by the storm,
which entered the county from the
west and cut a swath 500 yards wide
to the Atlantic coast, thirty miles
away. An undetermined number of
negroes are reported missing.
Other fatalities were: Twelve in
Sumter County, six in Lee County, six
in Lexington County, one in Darling
ton County and one in Columbia
Many of the dead and injured are
negroes. a.,
The village of FfckIen. Ga. near
Augusta, virtually was wiped out
when the storm broke there, killing
the postmaster, injuring many and
destroying nearly every building.
AT Chipley, near Columbus, nine
persons. two of them white women,
were killed, thirty injured and un-
determined property damage caused.
! Due to disrupted wire facilities there,
as in many sections of Georgia. only
the barest details could be obtained.
Near Macon a white woman, her
infant child and a negro man were
killed when the houses in which they
had taken refuge were demolished.
Georgia Towns Stricken.
Many other points in Georgia were
struck by the storm, including Law
renceville, where several persons
were injured. but available reports
chronicle no further loss of life.
In Alabama white child and four
negroes were killed at Union Springsi
four negroes were killed at Opelik At;
one negro was killed and nine in
jured near Clio. white woman was
killed near Roanoke and many suf-
fered injuries in these and other loS
calities. Heavy rains flooded streams
in various parts of the state to over-
flowing, washing away bridges and
damaging highways. :.
AS the storm spread with undi-
miniShed fury into North Carolina a
white man, his wife and son were
killed near Bynum and eight persons
injured Two children were slightly
hurt at Charlotte.
AT Robe rsonville, near Rocky Mount
nearly two score were hurt. several
buildings, including two churches s
were destroyed. while word Of pos
Sible other casualties in localities cut
off by the storm was expected mo-
menta-tly by relief workers.
Damage in Virginia was reported
comparatively small property damage
and minor injuries to four persons
neaI Maplewood.
Freaks Numerous.
Freak antics OF the storm, together
with many miraculous escapes from
po sSib BILE death, were reported from
virtually every part of the hurricane
swept area At Anderson, s. c.. the
wind picked up a street car and laid
it on it's side in a yard fifty feet
away, probably fatally injuring one
of it's occupants.
A five-month old infant and the
mattress On which 1t lay was whirle ed
through the window of its home. in
Florence and deposited in an open
field a hundred yards away. The
child was unhurt. The house was
wrecked.
A similar incident occurred al
Opelika, Ala, where a man was pick ed
up in the bed in which he lay and
hurled far into the road, where he
was found, still between the covers
| unharmed.