The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-05-06
TORNADOS TEAR AND
TWIST THROUH SOUTH
DESCENDED UPON WIDELY
SEPARATED SECTIONS OF
SEVEN STATES.
MUCH DAMAGE in GEORGIA
More Than 100 Persons Killed, and
Damage to Property Is Estimated
At 10 Million Dollars. Desolatlon
And Wreckage in Storms Wake.

Damage to Property Is Estimated
At 10 Million Dollars. Desolaton
And Wreckage in Storms Wake.
Ninety-hve dead, more than score
of persons missing, approximately 500
injured and property loss estimated at
nearly $10,000,O00 was the toll taken
by a series OF storms which descended
with tornado violence Wednesday up
on the southeast.
Tornadoes descended with devas-
tating violence upon widely separated
sections in South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama North Carolina, Virginia,
Louisiana and Arkansas.
With. total OF 70 dead South Caro-
lima bore the brunt of the disaster.
Fourteen were killed in Georgia, II in
Alabama and S in North Carolina,
while one each met death in Louisiana
and Arkansas.
Hit Wide Territory.
A picture OF desolation and wreck
age was left in the wake of the storm,
which traversed a path roughly esti-
mated at more than a thousand miles
long
Dead and injured and many of
those unhurt were picked up by the
fierce winds and hurled through the
air some hundreds of feet. Miles of
telephone and telegraph lines were
torn down, hundreds of dwellings and
other buildings were ripped from their
foundations and demolished, trees were
uprooted and numbers of live stock
were killed, while bridges were wash
ed away and roads flooded in many
sections by torrential rains which ac-
companied the storm.
The storm originated over Oklaho-
ma but did not become destructive
until it had swung over Louisiana and
Mississippi Moving in a southeasterly
direction it gained in fury until it took
on the proportions of a tornado over
a belt more than 200 miles wide
through Alabama, Georgia and South
Carolina, where it spent itself.
Whole settlements were destroyed
in some places, while in every town
and city in its path at least a few
houses, trees and wires were destroyed.
Damage in Georgia.
Houses, churches, stores, barns and
outhouses were destroyed in almost
every section of Georgia.
The greatest loss was at Lawrence
vile, where the property damage was
100000. A Mrs Boggs was reported
fatally injured AS many as 20 families
were buried under the debris OF their
homes.
In Bib county Mrs. L. E. Holt and
her -months-old child and Charley
Morris, a negro employed on Miss lda
Hollis farm, were those killed The
heaviest loss was at the A. t. Small
Brick Company's, where the plant was
demolished, the damage being estimat-
ed at $150000. Heavy damage was
done to peach orchards in several sec
tons. John T. Moore's orchard in that
county, where $4,000 trees were LOADED
with fruit. was hit by the tornado
! One-hfth of the trees were destroy
ed and the fruit stripped from the re
mainder. The rest of the peach bel
appeared to have suffered little dam
! age.
The homes of G. T. Green, railroad
man; Leonard E. Holt, also rail
road man, and Harold B. Jones, 10
Gated within few yards of one an
other. were all three blown completely
away. Household effects were founc
as far as a half mile away. Timber
fell upon Mrs. Holt as she held he
baby in her arms and crushed he
skull.
20 Injured Near Reynolds.
Near Reynolds % suffered broker
legs and arms and other injuries, ant
a large number of persons in the Skip
perton district were found injured lat
Wednesday.
The village of Ficklen, Ga, ii
Wilkes county, virtually was wipet
off the map, when the storm Strucl
there, killing the postmaster, Henri,
G. Patrick, and injuring many and de
stroying nearly every building.
At Chipley. near Columbus, MIN
persons. two of them white women
were killed, 80 injured and undeter
mined property damage caused. Tn
dead are Mrs. Virgil Morris and he
12-year-old daughter.
Nine were reported injured betweei
/ Warm Springs and Greenville.
In Colquitt county the home o
Walter Purvis was destroyed. Purvi
and his family were in hallway ant
that portion of the building remained
intact, while the rest OF the eleven
room house was wrecked Ever.
building on his place was destroyed
At Fitzgerald the Primitive Baptis
church and the residences OF John Nc
Cowan and A. f Thurmond wer
wrecked. { Dozens OF smaller dwelling
in a negro section were demolished