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hito tihe woods, and some of the bales of cotton tnore thai a 100 yards from (aell other. The next farm in the course of the desroyer is thit of S. 1Stalnaker. I-iS dwelling is badly' wi'ecked, cim 1wneys blown dowu,and all his laborers hon ies inl his extensive grove a complete wreck, and also his son's residence. Foi-tunately, however. only one col Ored women was seriously hurt here. 'ihe Saddest of all is W. II. Stal wort i's can. He lett'his home thaIt morning to visit Cha14rleston . When the stormstrtk his Place his family were hi the house, except his two sons, whio wa at the barn feedig thig stock. The house, a hirge well-built structure, went crAshihg down in an instant. The two dauglters and mother were crush ed and imprisoned first by tle bricks from a falling chimney, then by the debris of the builing. Th'lle soils vere blown fr om the barn out across an or chard, badly stillned, but recovered and hastenied to the house, extricated all from the building, whicl had now caught from the fire on the hearth, orI in a cooking stove, except the eldest daughfer, Eddie, 16 years of age. She was covered so deep beneath t he brick ald I mortar, with heavy tim.Cers also across the place, thiat it was impossible to extricate her alreiady lifeless body before it Was entirely Consuimend by the ilarmcs. Mln. Stahvorti and daughter, w ho were saved from the burning wVreek, are seriously but not, fatally ini j1red. Four nlegroes onl the lace are badly and olle fatally hurt. Several horses, m1uiles aid cattle were Crippled and one horse and Lvo or three head of cattle killed. Not a single house of any de scription on this plant atiol is left standing A bale of cotton here was I)lowIl ald dragged over the ground until it was separated from the tieS and scattered by the w inds. Buiggies wag 0ns an1d a gill, from t ie gin-house, were literally demolished. J. II. Buirnett, wvho lost his dwelling and half his outbuildings by fire last every house on his pIlace save one, wihwas out of t he linem of thme storm,1 levelled and11 1 sctteredl like ChlatT, b~ut fortunately onily one of hlis family, hi wife, was seriously bruised. Pink Ihary ly had his house blown dlown', and an inifanit of a few mioths was blowni more t han a hun dred yards fromn the' house and was not found by the family, who( were all badly hurt, for several hours afterwards. of mior'e than 40 famiilies are diestroyed, and the long forage, and1( inl some cases cornl andl oats, of mraniy others w~hos2e (Iwellings are safe are entirely dlestroy ed1, b~es ides the fenciog_ scatter'ed anmd the cattle killed or cripled~C(. In someW cases on light soils graini is seriously injmied by being blown uip b~y their roots. The phy13siianIs were kept busy goin g from place to laice to attend the* wounded. I satw one Methodist and~ t wo Bapt ist lminssters going f rom house to house speaking words of sympathy and consolation. :. w. .. I). T1he next place lIn .the track after. Mays's was thme Dunovant place, now owned by Jeff Kinard. Ever'y house On tile phace Was -lev'eled. Luther' Ki mmn aelsnon suf'nerd bad11. ho occupied it was killed, her body I blig horribly nmashd. At Concord several brick dwellitiks t ere badly dmaged and others un- v Ofed, and all the fenchig and mn.y I the trees blown down. The 21st was spent in burying the t ad in Rockingham. Mart hi Diggs,1 >Ior'ed, Who waiI'i reported yesterlda a, i issing, has been found dead. Asa awkins, aged 13, died last night from i s lijuIries. The ijured number I >out 32 colored and 20 white. Three the whites are in a prectrioits coti tio), and two adults aud three child n, Colored, are thoughL to be inl dant- 1 -r. About4 fifty houses vere blown)VI >wn in this vicinity by th istoiml, and Ie (amlage to property cannot be es iuited. Th1i m number of dead bodies oi;.;ht into Rockinghamn reached' enty. This, it is thought, is a ful L of the dead in the Philadelphia, N , horror. Among the bodies was t.hat a woman with a dead child three eeks ol clasped in ler arms.' The t al dead in Ilichmind county is 23. Union county, N. C., on each side Moni roe, was swept, IIany residenI s bei ng dstro yed. Ma I I ri! Ten as killed, a Colored child waz burned a wrV-elced loue, anid two white >ildrenl were blown aIway aid have not -eu heard of. One fatiily exposed the wild, vis blown into a fore:st inid a crash of fallineg tress :Ind ever itch of Iloth"iI. was blowi :ndi torn 4)1) theim. Fowls exposed to the 0rm wre fotund dead, with all thir athens llowNN1 oil. Moi ngoliery is th latest couit.y le1111 from and th nes is dIiredfil. hle ;storml 'wept 1p Lite LUharrie River, aig a&ci oss from Pee-dlee, and( ex i1led a1'lo either "Ide of the river. om) the Sa1er1vis phre-e" to Mrt. Polly raNwford's. The force w18 terni le anld ari&,'y a house ill its track was left LI linIg. Whole chlips of trees >rooted and piled in tangled muasses I di aill the fencees were swept clear to V gro11A. hlorses, pig.. Cows. shie), '.ekens:n ldogs kill(d :d their bod S blow over di'etanwes varving from ty yards t o h al f a inile. Neil McKoy, sonu of Solomion~ McKoy, of TProy', left mie on the morniing of the 19th to sit S'tanuleyS Goun ty, bit on arriving ,1irk's Ferry founda that hm coiuld >. cross untiil eveing, biut the waiters ill being too high to cross lhe repaiir I to thielhoui-e of Willis Dennis where Sstopped(. for the night. About 9 (clo)k a f rightl fuil roat ing~ somad wasI 'ard coIming, and before the alarmed tople col con jec'ture its mieaninig Ie tuimbers. of .lhe ho~use wvere fallihg >out thei: head s. Thme residen ce, barn, ib), smoke(4. ho' iSe an i Ikitc'h -n were )in letely dem'nolished,. not so nu1ich as jiieee of timber beig left on the nee. Matre~ses, blankets, sheets, oth inig, articeles of furiniturec, corn. heat aill h~acon we're scattered for iilf a uitile in' the course of the st orm. r. McKoy's h1uggy was hurled for a 1-.dredl yartls, anid broken to pieces. is'trun k w as crushed and( 'con tents ere scatteredl beyotnd reach. Ilis horse as... fatally .injured. Mr. Dennis's >r'ses disappeared in thle storm anil iye tnot since beeni seen). While this as goiig .oin feigilledI seamis we 'ard across the ferry. It W-as a tan ds >ice calling 'fdA help, bumt no ihlp cduld one(. In' t 6e mOrnigs it was geenu rhiat When the cyclone reache.d the neigh.. w borhood of lalfiwanger's store the b< scene was terrible. Every cablu and Jwelling-house, barn and stable on w Win. Burkhalter's place was utterly rc lestroyed. On N. M. Burkhalter's ol plaice the same may be said. They lost i lie horse each. On J. M. Proctor's di place several eablns and his stables c( were carried away. Mrs. 11. Dyson m Also lost several cabins. It crossed the D Salida River into Newberry Comnty 'I near the railroad bride. at Oi the morning after the fearful ol tornado, J. Massey Knight, a reliable di -itiz7eni of Lancaster county, on his rc way' to town, found lying in the road, gt tbout six miles east of Laincaster comit d< liouse, two fishes of the pike or jack ti -pecies, about 8 inches long, and inl a til live state. The pllic was in a flat b 2ointry, in the piney woods, and dis- tv rant about t wo miles from any stream. ii, Ile placed them inl a bIcket of water, C wherein) they swaml and b1)1frouight them ol into town and had thlm Coked. The w writer received Ih , facts. from the te miaoith of t he witness, who is known to be a man of veracity. 1o A lmii L S. C., February 22.- e S'incee the stoim of the 19th instanit w MIs. Lyon I is died from her injmries. i Mirls. Giriflin's daughter is inproving, 1l1 it is ib )p (d tiluit tle. accil delti tobI)< Mrs. an1d Miss Stalworthii are not, a; s(. t riouis as at first reported.:n A reliable gentIlan from the sa- st vaiiah side of the cotmity informns mue fr tAt the 'hail fell inl such qua utity th i IL it it hly on ih i groluni like snaow, andI I iih it. ( 111 huil-stonles were in lmi ny instanucles is large as guineua (egs. lit IN NORTIH CAlROLILNA.T Capt: 1 Frank L'anlier, litiinmam for the e Southerni telegrai h company, reports. t v hlat as b - pazsevd Woodiward's oil the ir C. & A. I tillrol, the reImaiINi. of a C (egro im maanl hi.; wife Ihul just be(' s Ixtrieate-d from the riils of I 'Air de- .; noliNshed eahinl. Their bodies wvere I; erribly brikse d l mashed atl tei : leati linust h1 Ive ocirred instant ly. 11 F M Gray, a promitient citize Iof 1i AnIson1 Couity, lived i hearl Polkton. ie Mionday nighli h'. retired ;as uuual with 1 lis famiily. but wazs wake.1 shoIrtly' af- a erwards by ih.' timbers oif his mnansioni 11 iahing abou t. his head. in the twinak- vi Aing of ani eye, rain surrounded(. hin. at Ilis house was torn by the mnighty m whinrlwind anid scattered along the st 1'rIck of t he storm. Mr. Gr ay, vu ith, e hxis chihireb, esc5aped, but ini th ri'iuin in th~ beloved mother and wife was lost. I) 11er dea(1 body wa picke~d "P near thle h< ia the neighborhood of Pioneer t~i mills, Mrs Mart ha Black a short time al f;ame d welling. Shortly after she re- C( tired1, the haowhnig winads awakened h''r, a Find hearing the timbers cracking. she pl prepared to fliee from the house, bult e1 before she could get out the house comn- w meneeCd tumllblinig abhot her head. Mrs ll Black's famify also e'scaped, but all yj were njurd bythe falling tinbrs iSa ia aged1 lady and( wa1s qunite so- [l riouisly hurt. About a mile from Mrs a Black's, -Monroe' Iewis's' 'oiithoiinss a wecre blowna awvay, but his dwelling I) house withstoo( -the. storm. In the samue neighbprhood flive (dwelling hous-- -w e~s were dem~olished. Near Mii-.. Black's 114 house a negro: eahinx was SWept: coim- V< uletelv a way, an(l, the nego-e woman C( he residence and all the outbuildhigs t the po1t frofn which cries oris ress.had beei heard had disappeared, aid there vas n6 ign of life about thle >lace. The% storm continued on its surse directly ub the river,layling low ivery houseI in Its track. Silas Kern 's ouse was unroofeil tnd his'etabhda de niolishied. Wiley iart'is's hose Was Iestroyed. Elzevan Sanders lost hits Aew residence, store, kitchen and gin kouse. John Morris's house was level d to the ground. Ed. Mulinix's housN. ,vas blown down. and burned. -Mary lurley's honse was destroyed, and mirned after it was wrecked. Wllson I Davis's house was blown down' anl birned. James Byrd's house was de stroyed. Rlchard )entmts house was 2a rried away. iaisel Beaman's house was completely wrteke(l. Aunt Pol ly Crawford's house vas tunroofed. In several of these wrecks lives were merificed. The list of dead, as com plete as it couhl be ascertained by Mr. D C W ade, clerk of Montgomery Supe :lor court, is as follows: Child of It W 11lls, child of Wiley Morria, Wim. Morris, James Byrd, Mrs James Byrd. Mrs Richard )enims and a child of Mrs Richard~ Dennis. lHanselI Beaman and~ bi ree child(1re 1 were seriously eCritS1ihd. L'vo of hIs children had both of their 'gs brokei and another had her arm orn nearly oi, it being Iteft hanging to ier shoubler by a piece of skin. W S gralenn1, a prominileit citizel of Iontgomery cointy, is reported killed . le was caught out in thei storm and his )Ody w% as terribly miuttilated. Ie was oing to Troy from A11hboro', was in L biuggyv alone ani in front of him weie wo of his w-agronIs (Irivel by Colore(I neI. A t a poiIt het We CI Mount Gil a and Swift Island the cyclone truck thei. Mr. IngrahamN was blowni omne di-tanee across a hill and instant y killed. Both legs and bot h arms vere broken. The wagons were to ally dest.royed, and one of the drivers ille(l and the other fatally injured. Il Amson colnty the storm was (s st rous. Wim. Little lost every build uig oni his place. Hie was very badly murt by dlying timbers. Flake & Al (en's store(., ten mtiles northeast, of' N~adesboro', wvas blown1 awvay. Flake's esidlence was enitirely dlemolished. It will be observed that t her cyclone truck Andlersonu at 5), C~happel's a lit le after 6, Golightly, Spar'tanbuirg co., Ch, ii"ter anud Ellenitoni at 7, Concord SC, att 8, Phiiladelphiia at 'J, aundl Dar inigton ait 10) o'clock. From this it eems t hat there wer~e two eyCloneQs ra ~ing down through the State, which ~onfirmns the theory that th'i original ~yelone startedl on the gulf coast and~ wep across Alabama, diid~ing when otn half way across Georgia and1 ma (ing hirge leapls so a. t o mliss someit pha efs applarently right in itii tr-ack. Ches eri and~ Ellen ton, whlich- arie at almost >lposite sides of the State, were struck it about the samec time. UJpper Piek.. mns andl Gr(eenvihll an id An1dersonI suf ~ered~ heavily, but are niot. in the same rack att all. TIhere wvere probably 250 to 500 lives ost in the traek of the cyclone. The - oss in piroperty Is beyond esthnate. We have ntot spiaee to g't~iveI eorts I'rom Alaama and( Georgia in this is m'(e hitt wvill ini our next.