The Easley messenger. (Easley, S.C.) 1883-1891, April 04, 1884, Image 6
was totally destroyed, no one hurt
Two tenant houses on Thomas Dick
son's place were swept away. On Col
T.J. Pickens' place the main hous
was not seriously damaged. Two chim
neys were partly blown down, and th
kitchen. (lestroyed. A negro boy In th
kitchen was hurt, and Col. Picken
was struck on the head with somethini
as lie opened the door to render assist
:ince to the boy. Two tenant house
onl Maj. Simpson's place were destroy
ed, bit no one hurt. On G. B. Whit
ten's place all the outbuildings wer,
blown (own. On Willian Watkin'
place two tenant houses were deStroy
ed. The Passmiore brldgre on 3 and 2
ereek was torn up by the storm, oul:
the sills being left. Samuel lix lvi
his house unroofed and outhouses dc
stroyed. Osborne Watkins' house wa
blown down. IHe anld his wife wer
absent at the time. 0 and 20 ehurel
was destroyed. James Mullikin's hous,
vas uiroofed. George Muilikin's kitch
en was blown down. Richard Mull
kin's house was blown down. Ther<
were 12 people in the house. two o
whom. Mrs. Louisa Mullikin and Mis
Mary Campbell, were slightly injured
A negro iouse was blown down am
btrneld. The following people in Wil
limston township suffered more o
less from the storm: Mrs. Seawrigh
Mrs. Spearman and Dr. John Richard
son. One says that htuge trees am
rocks were hurled through the air lik<
iitl. Clothing. furniture, am pro
visionIs were scattered Over the coluint
for miles. The people of the countitr'
for miles around are flocking to thei
nearest point of the Cyclone and at
busy repairing an( rebtilding house;
for the suifferers.
Mr. James Miulligan's (welling am
tentant houses were all blown down
Mr. Mulligan's family were all in th
iouses, bit no one was hutrt. On Mr
D. A. Mulligan's place all the house
blew ( down. Iwo ladies were pain
fully hurt. Mr. T. E. James, who live
in Brushy Creek Township, Anderson
count.ty, has a Spanish silver coin o
1802, which was picked Ill) oil Tuesdai
just after the Cyclone passel by Mrs
Willie Merritt, in a pistuire. It i!
bright and clean, and had evidentli
been carefully, securely kept for a lon
Htime. The sul)ppositiont is that it is -
waif from the storm, blown from some
body's horise. If anybody Call give in
formation as to where it came from o
who owns it, Mr. James would be glat
to hear. from them at Brushy Creel
Post Ofilce. Tios. Mutirphy's place wai
visiftedI and Is ouitbulildinlgs-delstr-oyedO(,
and the piazza and chimneys blowi
from his d welling.
Mr. B. F. Russell informs the MEs
HENGER'I that he paid a visit to the plaC4
of Col. J. Jamnisont on T1huursday aftel
the cyclone, and there met an appall
ing sight, one never to be forgotten
Thelu dIwellinig and~ 18 other' buildings ot
the place were literally (dest royedl, t hi
chimneys even being thrown to th<
g~routnd antd the~ sills of the house being~
moved for somre dlistanCe. T1he yart(
ani l suirroundintg gro:undls arc a mass o:
rutbbish, Furniture, beds, bedding
(clot hing, &c , all torn to piees and car
ried away by the storm,except one fea
ther' bed. One of his horses were crip
pled and his flie cows all more or les
inljuredl, one of them losing one horn
Mr. .Jameson was absent at the time
and whenu the family saw the cyclom4
ap~proachting, they rushted out into th<~
yard and brought in some boxes am
barr'1els th-it were sitting by, placing
hem in one cornetr of the (dining-roon
just in time for them to htliddle aroumt~t
ithem, as the gable end( andt rOof soo1
fellI in, covering' them up, the boxe:
and barrels holding the mass oll' fron
all butt Mrs. Jamison andl one of be
datugh ters, wvho were soon1 released b.:
the O ohers,. vho1 hadIcrawledi out, TIhea
wvere not tmch injured. Chickens, tur
keCys, &c., were killed andl lying ail
around thme yard andl~ the feathers evet
were blown fi-om thenm. A lar'ge tree
standoing in the :yard .was pierced by
fece)C rail, the end going clear through
andl shivng on ta oppoien sid. n
of the plates from the house, 6 inches a
- square, was carried 300 yards and 8tove <
in the ground to the depth of four feet. <
e His wagon was torn to pieces, one of <
- the wheels beingearried entirely away. %
D Ils .buggy Is also a total wreck. In I
e fact. hi lland is about all that Is left S
s him. Ils loss will not fall short of m
- $3000.
Mr. Russell also says that Fred Ow- t
s ens, who lives near Mr. Jamison, suif- t
fored from the cyclone pretty much in <
the same manner on his place. There A
cx were seven women in the house at the t
s time, on1e of whom had in her arms a t
- five weeks old child, which was twisted 2
D from her arms and thrown ito the i
V yard and covered with the debris, but i
1 strange to say was not even scratched. I
Mrs. Owens received a slight scratch
s over one eye, and her little (daughter I
Le received a blow on the back of her 8
a head, which gave her nmuch pain, calls- i
e ihg her to be delirious all day Thursday, t
bit is not considered dlangerous. Noie t
- of the rest were hurt, but fearfully %
B friglitenied. There was a large force v
f of men at each place helping to clear i
away the inbbish and rebuilding. The t
. Six-and-Twenty Baptist Churcl was i
.1 taken bodily up 20 feet into the air be- i
- fore going to pieces, and was an entire s
r wreek. Mr. Russell lives 6 miles North t
t. of the storm track, and says that on his i
- place fell fraginetts of fodder, fence
I rails. boards. shingles,plan k. scantling.
pine twigs, oak leaves, &c.
[From the Seneca Free Press.]
A cyclone passed through the town
ships of Center and Seneca in our
county about 5 oulock on last Tuesday
afternoon . It made it first d(cenat.
so far as we can learn, na r Earle's
Mills, inl our1 coluitty, and from this
point proceeded in a niorthasterly di
rection, passing t hrough t h farmi of
John Gibson, Dr. Yarborohrl, Parker
Whittield, J. W. LiVings.ton, Princet
Riley, Moses Lewis, John)I Maxwell anid
o0n thiougli the Phillips place and the
old North place to the Seaborn planta
tion below Pendleton. Upon tile Gib
s0 farm, dwelling houses and all the
outbuildings were blown down, bit no
persons seriously injured. Old Provi
detnce Chur ch , which h1as been used as C
a school-house, was blown down and -
the dlaughter of Mr. flezekialh Bruce I
was killed and the dauiglter' of Mr. Cole C
Seriously iujilre(l. uponi tht Yarbor- -
ouigh plantation several tenant houses I
were (estroyed. The dwellilg house of
Parker Whitflelid was unroofe(, but. his
family escaped uninjured. Oh the Liv- I
ingston plantation the large dwelling a
houise and1l 14 othe r houses were swept t
away. Mr. John Patterson, with his
wife and his wife's mother, Ms. McCra- t
ry, andl ten of his childreni were in thme I
large plantitation house, which had 8
-roomas besidles three piamzzas, andl none 1
were injured except Mrs. McCrary, 1
who haid ani armU broken. How they (<
escaped is miost wonder'ful. Mr. TVhos.1
aPatterson living on this plantation. lost ai
ins hiorse by au piece of weather-board
ing~ going through its head. After the '
storm, thme anaimnal camne tup from the lot i
I to Mr. Patterson with the boarding, I
I which was about 4 feet long, remain
ing in its head. The boalrd was pulledl 1
- out andI tige hiorse walked about breath- 1.
-ig t broughl tile opening made by the (1
- plan) , unttil Wednesday evening wheni
he shot it. On thme farm of Coesar Sing
letonl, coloredl, all thme housies were a
blown (down. is wife was seriously t
inljuredC anud a child so severely cut a-<
bout its head that the p~hysicians think
I it will lose one of its eyes. Prince Ri- I
e ley, colored, had all the houses upon01 t
a his 1place swept aw4ay. The tenanit 1
i hlouses on1 the planitution of Dr. .J. HI.:
a Maxwell. occupied by G. B. Whitten, I
a Ilollis Whit'ena, Moses Lewis and Char
a lie Regular andl all the ouatbuildings i
r. were. swept away. Mrs. Whitteni was
e .severely bruised. The wife of Char- I
,e lie Reguilar was seriously,. if' not fatal
- 1rly i injred by a tree falling upon har, 1
1 and her little baby tow~o weeks old, hid I
i its thigh broken. ilolils W hitten,' liv- 1
ing on the same plantation, frad all his 1
hou ses torna (lownv andi two 61 his 'cows
ikilled. On the Phillips amta the ol I
3 North plauitat ions not a houne a left Ii
dwelling. At Newton, Catawbacoun
ty, a Methodist Church was swept
e away and a colored settlement obliter
ated. A family of six persons is re
ported killed at Lenoir, but there was
1 no other. loss of life. A house wis
lifted up bodily and put across the
I track of the Atlantic, Tennemqce and
- Ohio road. Vast damage was done by
- eyclones in Kentucky, Indiana, amd
I Ohio, many buildings being demolish
ed and a number of jersons killed.
THOMAS'
Smoothing
HARROW,
AS A
1
, and is especially adapted f'or
rcultivating Corn, Cotton
1 an1d Small grain crops.
1
Thousands of them are
beingr sold every yeart.
Let every farmer save
t time and MONEY by pur
chasing one.
HUDGENS & HUDGEN8,
Easey, S. C.
Agents for Pickens C o
Mar 28--9in
TILE SOLUBLE
PACIFIC GUANO,
AND
DISSOLVED BONE Acid
- PHLOSPH[ATE,
SO)LDJ]]Y
1SAAC0 WILLiAMS
- A'asley, S. c.
(NIVEime a call, and get prices.
I w ilI lease to ser*ve all t tt
old friend1s of the Pacific (Guano
.and~ of the Acid Phosphiate.
See me at~ the Warehouse on East
end( of the Dep)ot.
f Feb 22---tf
J. G. DLAVK,
Main St.., Greenville, S. C.
3Yrd fi)oor .'Thore Coffee S.
(7ENUINE Wmn. Rogers (Cutlery,
. J Set of Knives and F'orks $8.50O.
Generald assortmnent of good .Jewehty
carefully selected. Best family
Sa specialty, arnd at close figures.
Repairing wattche.s and jewelry
r1 lpromptly (done. feb 2'- -Smu
tanding. Jim Reed, colorad, livii
in the former lost an ox. The trael
of the cyclone was about one-qtuartei
If a mile inl width. In it large rocki
velghing several imudred poinds wer
orm(d which had plotghed up the earti
is if fired from a cannotn. Large treei
md small bushes had the bark peele<
off and torn from t I -ir roots or twist
Ad off above the groundI(l. At Johui Pat
erson's. on the TLivilngston place, ok
iaks which had been standing "tim
Yihereof the memory of man1 runneti
tot to the contrary" and which meas
tred 4 feet in diameter were. torn ui
mdrl carried some 10 or 15 feet fron
vhere they were standing. Plank
md shingles were found drivan int
he stuips of the trees left standint
Lnd a wooden pin which no doubt cam
I romi the house in which Mr. Patter
oil was living. was foun1d d(1riven two
uches into a tree which stood abos
ell feet from the dwelling. Mr. Pat
erson h:td about 30 chickens whiel
%-ere not only killed but had the feath
rs pickedl otr. Several rabbits wen
ouid with the hair torn off and leg
>roken. A large bird was also picke<
Ip with its wings broken. A colorel
nan who Was sta (nding on a hill aiu
aw it pass through this plaltation say
hat the cyclone was shaped like a fim
il and had a blieish black appearanc
nd carried- before it a cloud of mu
Mu wath and bralncheiS of trees. I1
ays that it wotld move for a m1om1en
vith great rapidity and then whirl a
o11nd. Ilis staIteient is confirmed bi
01r. .I'atterson. wIo says he saw I
oming in this wa and thatl he c011
asily have geui to a place of saf(ety i
Itch could have been fouid, In th<
rack at intervals the trees were lyin(
ole with their tops inl one dirlectiol
nd others with their tops inl a diflei
ut (irection. ,Thie peojle living alon
he track of the cyclone both white am
olored turned out in full force on Wed
lesday to render such assistance a
hey could to the sufferers'
Ghester Bulle tin : A cyclone passe<
little Nort ii of here Tuesday evenini
bauit 6 o'clock. Soue of Walker Bin
is's houses were blown down. Mos
if Joshua L. Abell's houses were de
troyed. All of V. II. Abell's houses
acludinug Ik dwelling, were demolish
d. Mr. Abell, his wife, father, E,. 11
thell and a nurse, vwre serio'usly in
tired. Wade Dunlap's house was tori
lown and their child lost or swep
.way. These are the tidings that hav
(ached us from th-, track of the storn
.t its nearest point. It is to be suippose<
hat it was just. as bad at other places
The Yorkville Enquirer says : Thi
rack of t he storm was north-east front
1. If. McCorkle's, 0one mile and1 a hal
uorth of town. On this place it wa
lestructive t~o timber. It passed north
v'est, blowing down much timber ini it
ourse, to the residence of Dr. J. H1
Vitherspoonu, where it was quite de
tructive. Ihis stables were torn dlown~
auch of his fodder carriedl away, tree
vere upjrootedl, fowls killed, stock crip
led and other damage done). Mis
ouisa Robinson also sufferedl. lie
welling was destroyed and she wa
~adly hurt. and1 much (damage to tim
or in her neighborhood. James Got
oni's place suitferedl severely. The res
lence of Mrs. Caroline Thomtasson
Lear Gordon's place, was pairtly uni
oofed, and a portion of the chtimne;
or'n down. The track of the storn
ontinued north-east of her place. Thi
esidenice of R. L. Simons, on Generat
aw's plac, about 2& miles north o
own, was badly damaged, the r'oo
ilown entirely off, the chiminey (lown
.nd the house movedl about 10 fce
rom its oiginal foundation. A bugg
ai the yard w-is torn to pieces. T
iuildinlgs on J. fleury Wallace's lacu
vere inljuredl. S. J1. Harvey also sul
ed~ in dlamiage to his builings.
From. North Carolina cyclones ar
ep)ortedl 'in Mecklenburg, Iredell, Cai
awba and Cald well, the last strikin
muildilngs were destroyed and1( vast quar
it;Ies of tiinber blowin (down. Rober
lay, of Meeklenburg, was badly in
tired by timbers of his demolishe