The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, February 28, 1884, Image 11
180. M. H. Rodt. Repairing enure....
377. Pinckney Brown................ m ..Bridge account
103. \V. V. Gill .....Board Equaliaation
177. M. H. Rodt Special Commissioner....
J» 1. Lee .m..^.*lnry ticket.
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We, the undersigned, County Commissioners,do certify that the foregoing
statement is a true and correct report of the business transacted
the fiscal year 1882-1883.
W W. MATTHEWS.
CharacUr of Claim.
Amount.
11. J. CROFT.
j. c. McMillan.
. Trial Justice |29a
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M. H. Rodt, assignee Trial Justice
M. H. Rodt, assignee..., Trial .tustice
W. M. Bostick Trial Justice
W. M. Bostick Trial Justice
M. G. Tobin Trial Justice......
C. Pechniann, assignee .....Trial Justice
C. Pechniann, assignee Trial Justice
C. Pechmann, assignee.... Trial Justice ......
T. S. Dunbar.,, Trial Justice
W. M. Bostick Trial Justice
M. II. Rodt, assignee Trial Justice
C. Pechmann,assignee..... Trial Justice,
C. Pechmann, assignee Trial Justice
C. Pechmann, assignee. Trial Justice..
F. L. Davidson Trial Justice..
C. Pechmann, assignee Trial Justice
C,Pechmann, assignee .Trial Justice
C. Pechmann, assignee Trial Justice
Jno. W. Freeman Trial Justice
Jno. W. Freeman.. Trial Justice .7
M. H. Rodt, assignee-... Trial Justice
M. If. Rodt, assignee Trial Justice.
J. B. Hunter Trial Justice... ...
WalterJs. Eaves,
Clerk of the Board.
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Maanixc, 8. (J., February
blow extended in every section of this
County, but most severely in the Deep
Creek neighborhood. Iff that part the
loss of property and life was great.
Only two person* wore- killed outright,
but many were wounded.. As before re-
ported, Mr. James Cabbage and young
Baggett-were instantly killed: Mr. Bag
gett and his family were slightly injured.
All tUc members of Mr. Bedding Can
non’s family wore injured. Mrs. Cannon
sustained the following severe and jmssi-
oly fatal injuries, viz. l Left arm broken,
right hand mangled and several cuts and
proach by the Appearance of a cloud
shaped like a cone. It was like a huge
screw winding around in mighty spirals,
or like a mighty anaconda, that, in its
winding, wraps its folds around and re
duces to a pulp everything it touches.
As it turned on its axis in vast eddies and
whirls, it’s diameter here was not more
31.—The * ^8) yards.- Towards the axis all the
Currents of air seemed to Ik* flowing, or
Imiling and surging around it in counter
currents. Wherever the apex of the storm
struck it blotted out houses like a sponge.
Its movements round seemed contrary to
Brooks, the miller at Masters’ mill, was
blown down. Mr. Brooks, two women
and three children were in the house,
which was blown off at the floor. Mr.
Brooks was killed by n falling timber,
his head and face I icing braised. He
was found lying on top of the wreck,
which was scattered on both sides. The
women and children ran out into the
orchard and caught hold of some peach
trees, where they remained until the
storm was over. None of them were in
jured.
Mr. J. M. Keys’ dwelling house, out
house's and three tenant houses were
blown down. His stables were also de
stroyed, though the stock escaped injury.
No one was hurt on Mr. Keys’ place.
In addition to this, considerable dam
age was done upon upon the plantations
of Messrs. T. J. McClure and Oliver
Bolt, where two gin houses and two or
three tenant houses were blown down.
Extending further East and Northeast
considerable damage was doner Two
tenant holiscs were blown down upon
Mr. W. C. Pearman’s place,,.
On Mr. Wm. Shirley’s the outbuild
ings and two tenant houses were blown having
down. i oiit. P(
Bobbin's plnec, on
tenant houses were
those of the hands of a watch. After
descrtWng a parnbolic curve, the aperof „
which was at Mr. Bovd’s house, which the Clt y- The tin roof ov
was its last work of destruction, it could r,K,m of Mc * re ’ " ’ S ‘ ^
be traced no further. Its course up to
that point had been nearly due East.
THEMTOlOl IN I NION.
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Several 1'lunlalioiiM Devaslntetl itndVliiiiy
People llomeleKH. . —
J. M. Skinner Trial Justice « 5 33
Jacob Williams Trial Justice 1 33
M. H. Rodt -....Sheriff. 121 79
M. II. Rodt Sheriff........ 163 03
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M. H. Rodt.......
Alfred Aldrich...
J. W. Qgilvie...’..
G. M. Hunter....
John Abstance..
Willie F. Aaron
C. H. Brabham..
C. Pechmann.....
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M. G. Tobin Constable......
Miles Bennett Constable
H. 1 j. Creed) Constable
H. L. Creech. .-Constable
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.1 M. Dickinson Constable...'...
H. L. Dickinson.. Constable......
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A. P.-Manville Constable
M. H. Rodt... .’ Constable
M. H. Rodt Constable
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M. H. Rodt Constable
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A. J. Hunter Constable
M. H. Rodt Constable
F. II Brown Constable...
C. Pecbmanii™ Constable
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Sank Kci>h.7 Constable
J. A. Kennedy Constable.
W. R. Kelley Constable
M. H. Rodt Constable
J. M. Lancaster Constable
J. M. Lancaster Constable
J, L. I^ee Constable........
John A. MoCormick........... . . Constable
i'BruTses about the head,
be buried to-day at Oak
Thu wuuudcil wenupromptly attended by
I)f. Dinkins, who did much to relieve
their suffering* and wants. Mr. Selwyn
Dingle’s House, near—Kommerton, (yas
blown overt 4mr no lift
ily harm done in.that section, a. ii. B.
('iiHiinliieH in Clart-ndwn.
1 f Sjpri'Aif "IHtpmtrTi To T7i? Rn/ixli r.]
Mannino, S. February —The
cyclone of Tuesday night made a slight
dip into Brewington Township, over
turning the house of Air. Harrington and
severely (perhaps fatally) injuring his
grown son. u. u. n.
A Drinilt-il Report of Ike Wi'crk, liutiiiind
I.ohh of Mil- in niM liiiiiliin. -
[ SfMi'itll C'ui'mtjxtmtftixr of Till HnjmU t‘. ]
Daui.Inoton, S. (’., February 21.—On
last Thursday night about 11.25 o'clock,
a cyclone, coming from the Northwest,
fell upon one section of the Western part
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* (t o ion Timrx, February 22. j
i A terrific tornado passed over the lower
The dead w ill section of this County last Tuesday night,
Grove Church. ; doing considerable damage to houses,
fences and other property. (Jn JWsjor
Steedman’s farm, near SimsvUle, we learn
it blew over the tenant houses, wounded
two colored men and injured two mules.
It carried destruction to everything in its
waslost norbtxL way, but the full details of the mischief
it did have not readied,us as yet.,
The following extract taken from a
letter received here yesterday from agen-
tlcinanTmng at Herbert, close to Major
Stecdman’s farm, near Broad Biver bridge,
dated 20th, tells a sad tale from the tor
nado;
“A cyclone -struck P. P. Hamilton's
place yesterday about 0 o’clock, and blew
down thcudwclling, kitchen, stables and
every tenant house on the place. “It also
Mowed down every house; on Mr. John
Wix’s plnec, every house on the lower
end of W. T. Jeter’s place, and every
house on Miss Elma Jeter’s place. AH
are out of doors and need hell ) as soon as
possible.”
. 320. T.S. Myers v Constable.
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Daniel Odom Constable .:
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L. G/ RVcbanhonT Camnhle.....
Al. H. Rodt Constable
M. II. Rodt, Constable
M. H. Rodt. *» * • * > rrwi w*'»Tr*-r»~ryr . Constable
M. H. Rodt Constable .
I. A. Blanton Constable .,
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I. A. Blanton Constable .
I. A. Bianton Constable .
I. A. Blanton Constable .,
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M. II. Rodt Constable .
M. H. Rodt Constable .
M. H. Rodt Constable .
M. H. Rodt Constable .
M. H. Rodt......... Constable .
Preston Bandifer Constable .
Preston San'difer Constable .
E. C. Behliug......
B. Brown ....
P. W. Farrell
James A. Jenkins
M. H. Rodt
W. J. Martin
Rice & Copeland.
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of thU town. Its appronch was heralded
by an-aw fid noise, somewhat like the rush
of an immense volume of water suddenly
bursting the barriers behind which u was
imprisoned and rushing forward. Most
iM'ople had gone to bed and had no
inf iin-.it i<ii> ol its i»p|>ron< li till-they- f<4t
their houses.tnmliliug about their ears.
The dwrtltng house Jlf Mr. 11. Ed
wards was literally annihilated, not one
stone Ireing left u|»ou another. Mr. E«l-
wards’ and his wife and a young lady,
Mt*» Hancock,' were buried in the ruins.
Mrs. Edwards was very seriously injured,
and may not recover; Mr. Edwards and
Miss Hancock were slightly injured. A
colored woman, who had that day died
on the place, had her body stripped of its
burial clothes and the corpse was buried
under the ruins of a chimney. * A colored
man, named Lester, had his dwelling
blow n down, and he and his wife were
slightly injured.
On Mr. Edwards’s place, .trees, fences,
outhouses and everything alsVvfythe earth
was wi|H“d out as with a sponge.
The cyclone tore off the roof of the de
pot and the front piiosas. Part of the
roof was found a inilo4« the East. Mr.
Henry Ham's dwelling house,
jtvajrlT'veled; Ills wife was blown fifteen
yards and wounded m the leg. VV. 11.
StokesVhouse was demolished and MrTI
Stokes was blown sixty yards and hurt
in the shoulder. Mr. J. Stokes; iu the - ;
same house, was severely hurt in the back
and legs; his three children had tlieir
clothes stripped from Their Lacks; one
.boy was cut on f the head—and leg; his
wife was hurt iw the head. Mr. 11.
Gilmore's gTu-liiouse was so badly mutil
ated as to be nearly w orthless ^t he steam
engine attached w;w luidly injured - mm
The III<iw iif l.aareiiM.
| From thr biurruxrilli Jleivhl, Febntmry 22.]
A severe storm of wind, hail and min,
visited the up|K*r portion of this County,
iu the neighlsrrhood of Eden, last Tucs-
day uight. The barn and stables of Mr.
W. H. MidiaffeyW( re blown down, kilT
ing a mule belonging to him and a horse
belonging to Mr. Henry Jordan. Wehave
as*yet beard of no other damage to prop
erty in said neighborhood, or in any other
[H»rtion of the County by the storm.
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ANDERHON.
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The Severn,! Ilnle In ItatT ■ fenlBry -
>1 any Holme* IIIohh Dowo One Alnn
KlHejfwiul Oiher* Woundeil.
On Mr. W. J.
Broadaway, two
blown down.
Two outhouses were blown down on
Mr. Crosby’s place.
The stum did no extenxivu damage in
or the store-
iigon A Co. was
torn up on the Northwest corner. No
damage was done to their goods.
A two-room kitchen, just completed on
Mr. L. L. Green’s lot, on South Main
street, was thrown off of its foundation
at one end, but the timl>ers remaim'd to
gether.
The colored ^tethodist Church, w hich
was in process of erection, th^ building
having been framed and ready for the
weather-boarding, was blown down.
In various portion* of the city con
siderable fencing wm blown down and a
number of trees uprooted.
The storm did its most destructive
work just one mile Ik'Iow thecity.de-
stwy+Mg the dwelling house# of Mr. B.
W. Todd, our County School Commix-
sioner, Mr. J. L. Fant and Miss Anna
Wilcox, the latter's being leveled to the
ground.
The main jmrtion of Mr. Todd's house
was left standing, the up|>cr half-story
and roof being CTTTricd away. Tlie glass
in the windows of the lower story were
shattered, and in several rooms the sash
blown out. The. furniture was laidly
damaged and broken up. As soon ns the
occupants could escape from the house,
they went out and lay down on the
ground, preferring to be in the rain
rather than risk the house. None of |
them were hurt.
A large tree fell across Miss Wilcox’s
house. The furniture was broken and
scattered in almost every direction. Mrs.
Chatfield, Miss Wilcox’s sister, was the
only iMTson in the house at the time.
Sl|c heard the storm approaching and
got up to close the door, which luul
blown o|tcn, when in an instant the
; crash came. Viewing the wreck, k seems
impossible for her to have escu]>cd a hor
j rible death. However, she came
| with only a slight bruise, I
Mr. Faut’s house was left in almut the j
same condition as Mr. Todd's., ||is i
household goods wen; also badly dam
Alexander'* place were wrecked. The
fine new house of Griffin Headricka ia
reported to have been entirely blown
a wav. On* end of the house of Harvey
Rein was Wrecked and bis stables were
unroofed. For long distances every tree
in the track of the monster blast was
leveled! Fences, limb*, trees and tim
bers from buildings are strewn over the
ground. The public rood leading from
Freeman’s bridge to Foster A Bro. ’# rtbre
presents a remarkable appearance.
Scores of immense trees arc lying across
the highway, while a large amount of
timber is so l>cnt across the road at some
places sx to form a sort of roof, the trees
having interlocked and—fallen against
each other. It will require many days
labor to clear the road.
In the vicinity of Williamston A man
lier of stables were unroofed and out
buildings blown down. No damage was
done in Williamstdij
,No damage is reported here. The storm
dune to us from the Southwest, and while
torrents of rain fell the wind was not rapid
enough to even prevent n man with aii um
brella from facing the weather without
the iinplmt
Portions of a few fences were blown
over at |K>intB near the fcity. The Bead
Biver and BichUmd (’reek were swell
s
considerably, but little or no injury from
that direction is reported. _ ,
NORTH 4,'AH.OI.IN A.
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TerrlWr Work of I lie \\ I nit nt Ko'-klngkam
—Bird* mid Fmk I* Mkorn of Thrlr Kralk
rr* ((real I .a** af I.IIV.
The TUaf Fixed a ad (ba Call
Caaaervalive Cfitaeaa,
Tmrtjt I avtied te Jet* la
■alea.
W AAimwiTON, February ii.—The Dean
ocratic National Committee met here to
day and selected Chicago, July 8th, a*
the jilacc andlTafc of bolding the Nation
al Democratic Convention. The follow
ing call wm presented by the Executive
Committee and agreed upon:
‘‘The National Democratic Committee,
having met in the city of Washington on
the 22(1 day of February, 1884, hat ap
pointed Tuesday, the 8»h day of July
next, at noon, m the time and dm choaen
the city of Chicago as the place of hold
ing the National I)einocratic Convention.
Finch State is entitled to representation
therein equal to double the number of
Senators and Representatives in the
Congress of the Initcd States. The
Democrats of each organTzeif Territory
and the District of Columbia are invited
to send two delegate*, subject to the de
cision of the convention as to their ad
mission. A|j Democrats, conservative
citizens of the United States, irrespective
.of past political associations and differ
ences, who are in unity with us in the
effort for pure, economical and constitu
tional government, arc cordially invited/
to join in sending delegates to the con
vention.”
The call was signed by all of the
National Democratic Committee. The
next meeting of the Committee will be
held in the Palmer House, Chicago,
July 7th.
Wii.minuton, N. C., February 21,—
Special advices to the Star give further
imrtieuiars of the cyclone. The centre
of the storm struck the outskirts of the
tpwu of Rockingham, and with such
sudden fury that the people were unable
to cscapa from their Houses. Buildings
were blown down into fragments. Home
bodies were found under the timbers a
others were carried by the wind 150 to
200 yards. A W(*man was found clasp
ing to her breast an.infant scarcely a
month old. Both were dead. The
liodics of the victims were terribly
bruised and cut. The force of the wind ftalHw in Ids testimony to-day before
was such that tw o millstones were moved
all the bark stripped
100 feet, (thickens and birds were found
picked clean except the feathers on their
heads. The largest trees were nprooted
and smaller ones had
from their trunks.
The storm first made its appearance at
7.20 P. M., coming from a Houthwcstorly
direction from Hamlet, Richmond’Coun
ty, N.~ C. Tin* Eastern sky was over-
shadowt'd by dark flying clouds, tinged
with red, growing thicker every minute
and the red tinge assuming a hue of Arc.
At 8710 P. M. there was a heavy fall of
rain and hatW the heaviest of the clouds
moving Westward. At midnight the
sky was dazzling red, and at 1 A. M.
then* was another heavy fall of rain.
The killed and wounded belong exclu
sively to the poor classes, and there will
l>c suffering and desolation among the
survivors. It is feared there.was great
loss of life and property at interior
itointx in the track of the xturm not yet
heard from. Already twenty-three dead
bislics have been found in Richmond
County, near Rockingham and Hamlet.
UBOBOIA.
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Twealy-iwa l*rr*aa> Klllr* aa* Fartr
\Vaaud<'4 au (he l.lae Krlweea Ptckraa
and ('brrakr* ('aaatlea.
f Fi>‘iu the Aiuh rxon InJrlliyemrrr, Ftbruary 21.]
| About half-past 5 o'clock on Tuesday i
evening the attention of our citizens was
railed to \he fact that a shdwer of rain ;
was approaching by several vivid flashes .
of lightning and sharp peals of thunder, j
The morning had been Uautiful, balmy
and spring like, with no indication of'
rain, so that even a shower was an eu—|
tiiely iflii'Apw led event. As the little
cloud approached us it gathered in size,
near by;—and soon spread over the entire horizon
iu a manner indicative of a heavy rain
fall. At the first approach of the_L'loud ,, ^ ■"V', . ^ ,
iTrilght shower of rain, mixed with httil -t•I‘’ r *>ckx pUce was unroofed.
aged and broken. His family were all
in the house, but none of them were in-! M-win, February 21.—The cyclone of
jured. Mr. Faut’s. stables were uplifted Tuesday blew down the residence and
and torn asunder, -bat his horse escaped j outhouse of Col. Robert C. Humlicrs, in
without a scratch.
A largo untenanted house recently
occupied by Joe lice, colored, was also
unroofed.
The scene in this immediate neighbor-
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fell, accompanied with a severe blow
Whieti, however, did no harm. Rack of
this cloud, which was black and threat
ening, a clear streak of golden light ap
peared, and some jH-rsons thought a clear
sunset wotdd follow.
In a few moments, however, another
cloud followed and^rapidly assumed u
more angry and threatening appearance—
G»egFCH4-e«rrent*-of wind and rain flying
in every direction, with black clouds
above crossing white strata, which
seemed to be boiling up beneath.. Two
or three clear reverberating claps of
thunder - in quirk succession seemed to
form the storm centre a little Southwest
of, the cHy of Anderson, and all the seeth
ing mass of clouds rushed to join the de
vastating force, and forming a huge black
tnnfcs. dipping down nearly to the earth,
in a funnel shape, shot off in an Easterly
direction, revolving and roaring in - a
fearful manner. It came with perfect
torrents of rain, and leveled trees, fences
and houses in its track. Soon after it
.started the cloud burst and formed
into two or more funnels, each of
which carried devastation and ruin before
it. The tornadoes proper passed about
one and a half miles South and four miles
South of Anderson.
The storm did its work quickly and
was gone. The winds, which rushed to
form the tornado, din great damage
themselves in blowing down fences, lift
ing roofs and uprooting trees, but the
tv. ■
such oases the storm did not sweep uni
formly uj>on the earth, but would strike
with devastating force for a few hundred
yards, and then as if to gather fresh
power from the raging elements; would
rise and make its course for some distance
through the air, returning again to leave
additional wrecks to mark its course. In
thc-path of its greatest fury scarcely a
large tree was left standing, and acres of
felled forests may be found to-day to
show the force of this storm. Houses
were shattered os playthings Indore its
power, and huge timbers carried for hun
dreds of yards before the raging.winds,
or lifted and driven into the ground with
superhuman power.
As far as we are able to learn, the tor-
nado seems to have commented its dead
ly work at or near Master’s mill, about
three or four miles Bouthwest of the city,
its track lieing lietween a quarter and a
half mile in width. It (wept everything
before it, travelling in a Northeasterly
direction.
On Mr. John Hall’s place, the chimney
of his dwelling house, all his outhouses
and one or two tenant houses wert
blown down. No one hurt.
W. D. Hall's stables were dam-
Dr. Chas. Davant...
Dr. C. J. Faust. fast mortem
Dr. E. J. Frederick Examination of lunatic....
Dr. E. J. Frederick Examination of lunatic....
Dr. Joe Hazel Examination of lunatic....
Dr. L. 8. Hay Examination of lunatic....
Dr. H. \V. Kearse Examination of lunatic....
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Dr. L.C. Bicptieus?;
Dr. P.- F. Stokes....-
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Dr. J, M. Smith ........
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Walker, Evans & Cogswdll...
J. C. McMillan..
F. J. Black.
Chas. Brant
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mule was killed on this place. Messrs.
Edwards A (’okos’s wholesale warehouse
at the (lejtot was crumbled up like .r ball
of dirt between the fingers. Mr. Earnest
Lucas had his horse in a stable nearly
killed. Borne houses within* a few feet
of those.wrecked did not have a shingle
or board started or a. brick displaced.
Noeh Burch, a colored man, bad his
dwelling house ami trees mid fencing
blown down around him.-bnt nobody was
hurt. A large two story house, unoc
cupied, near the depot, was somewhat
injured^ A negro named Africa had his
dwelling house destroyed. A negro
woman named Lucy Harrison had her Two
dwelling houses destroyed. Mr. Janies
A. White had his dwelling house
destroyed; he, his wife and child were
buried under the ruins and badly injured.
The house of Mr. B. B. White, near by,
was destroyed, and he and his wife were
buried under the ruins and killed. Mrs.
J. D. Lido’s house was moved off its pil
lars on the ground. An outhouse on
Mrs. A. E. Law’s place was destroyed.
tyri W. A. Player had the ehimuey, of his j wreck which the tornado made surpasses
dwelling house taken off at the top, some 1 any calamity that has visited our County
outhouses demolished and his buggy | in the last half century. As is usual in
swept away to parts unknown. Mr. B.
W. Boyd’s dwelling was annihilated, as
was everything on the place; he was
buried under the ruins and was severely
hurt. Everything on the place was con
verted into ]>Crsonal property, and most
of it had wings furnished it by the
storm. Borne of Mr. Boyd’s furniture
was found in a mill ]>ond a mile distant.
An outhouse in Mr. Boyd's yard was de
stroyed, in which were two negro men
and awoman, all named Swinton. One
of the men and the woman were killed;
the other,man was badly injured. All
three parties were blown many yards
from the house.
( The storm first fell upon this County,
as far as is known, in a section known as
Wild’s quarter, a kind of •hamlet occu
pied exclusively by negroes, and there
the. damage done was most extensive and
general. The following _ai^ the casual
ties there: Dozier Dnvista house was de
stroyed and huswife injured. The
house of Joe Douglass, Anthony Gran
ville, Bettie Ervin, Alonzo.Jackson, Ann
Thomson, Betty Marshall, Pate Wild.
Bam. Thomas, .Henry Norward, Aleck
Myers, Wellington Ervin and Bternimr-
ger were all destroyed.
The loss of property is very great.
The houses arc so utterly demolished that
the timbers tlmt remain oh the places 1
where the foundations once were can be
of little use for reconstruction, as many
important parts have been blown so far
that if found they could not be identi
fied. The furniture is in the same condi
tion.
hood on Wednesday morning was terri
ble. Thr track of the tpruudo did not
ap|M-ar to have been more tban a quarter
of a mile wide, and Miss Wilcox’s resF
denec se'cms to luive-Jn'cn about in the
centre. Pieces of furniture, clothing
and timlx;rs were curried several hundred
yards away. All the trees of any size
were uprooted.
A small tehanl house on Mr. 11. O.
The occu
pants were not injured.
Several tenant houses on Mr. J. W.
Thompson’* place were blown down. A
negro man and three children were pain
fully injured by . a chimney falling in
upon them. One of the children, it is
Putnam County. One of Col. Humber’s
ankles was broken and he received inju
ries nlxtul the (host which it is thought
will prove fatal. Mrs, Haschal, who was
passing, left her buggy when she saw
feared, is fatally wounded;
The storm at Mountain CireeTv wits alwr"
very severe. The brick church l»eing
unroofed and seriously damaged. We
have been\nable to get additional par
ticulars from this section.
Two houses on Liberty Hill were blown
down. . "
While the storm was nt its height, two
gentlemen were riding horseback on
Bouth Main street, near the mile post,
when they were blown from their animals,
falling ten or fifteen feet away.
The above details are only a jwrt doubt
less of the terrible work of the stormy
At present we cannot make any esti
mate of the damage done by flic storm,
but enough has been heard to carry the
losses considerably up into the thousands.
the cyclone coming, and took refuge in
Col. IIuiiUmt’s house. Bhc was instantly
ktHed when it was blown down. Bcven
negroes and nearly all the stock on the
place were killed. Davidslmro, on the
Central Railroad, was almost destroyed.
Tlie. stores of J. J. Balmer, A. Hermann,
John Hudson, J. L. Brown, Brown &
Halt and Cheatham Bros, were blown
dojvn, as was also the brick depot of the
Central Road. An employee of the rail
road company named Varim was killed
and many others were seriously wounded.
The only particulars thus far obtained
have been from jioints on the railroad.
When rejiorts from interior towns come
itr the list of casualties will he largely
incmtscrl
The storm-of
AtEanta, February 21.
Tuesday, on reaching Cherokee County,
liecame perfectly furious.. Tlie largest
trees were uprooted. It is rojiorted that
within a distance of three miles on the
line between Cherokee and Pickens Coun
ties, twenty-two jicrsons were killed and
forty wounded. This section is far re
moved from communication, hot the rc-
|H>rt is considered reliable. No deaths
occurred iu Counties contiguous to this
tFulton) County.
Ilaakr Bariied Prari'callaa* af Caaf* #f
(((‘acral Hr**l«n».
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Mr. >v. it. nan s stablcx were
aged.
Mrs. P. A. Masters' dwelling house
was’' slightly damaged and two tenant
houses destroyed. No one hurt.
- Two outhouses on Mr. J. H. Masters’
place were Mown down. No one hurt.
Mr. H. K. Crawford’s dwelling hotaw
chiomays wen Mown down, os use were
three house*. Mo
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( nine In Far Their Mbnre af the Drnlrar*
linn WroaKhl by the Elrnieats.
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(^rccnviltc and Pickens Counties did
not escape the violence of the (dements.
At Marietta the storm was very severe,
and the new Methodist Church was blown
down. Fences, immense trees and small
outbuildings were thrown down in- the
vicinity. In Grove Township the stuhlcs
and shed on Josiah Chandler’s place were
unroofed and partially destroyed. Two
valuable tmtles were so confimM by the
timbers that at a late hour yesterday
morning all efforts had failed to extricate
them. In the upper part of Pickens
County, in the neighborhood of Loo per
Postoffice, the work of the storm wax
most disastrous. At about 5 o’clock,
Tuesday aftetnoon, a black, funnel-
shaped cloud came up the Ooleuoj River.
As it approached, daylight almost disap
peared. B. A. Foster, of the firm of
Foster Bros., whose store is near Ha-
good’s bridge, gives a most graphic ac
count of the cyclone as he saw it from
his store. As the fury of the gale struck
the building if swayed and rocked, and
felt as if it was being lifted up. The
large trees near the structure l>cgan to
bend, crock and fall with wonderful
rapidity. Sixteen mep had taken refuge
iu the store, and when the storm was at
its worst and timber was crashing and
twisting and falling, some of the occu
pants of the store made efforts to leave
it, but were prevented by their compan
ions. Proviuence apparently exercised
protecting care over that building, for
huge pines and oaks fell within a few
feet of k and yet it was unharmed. Ily
the time the storm bad passed jt was
nearly dark aud the extent of the devas
tation was only revealed early yesterday
morning. Then huge trees, fences aud
houses were discovered t to have been
•wept over by the storm like so much
cbftff. Within a circfflt of ten miles nearly
every building on four farms'wo* reported
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Washington, February 21.—Ralph
committee investigating expenditures in
the Department of Justice, said that there
were more than sixty deputy marshal* in
South Carolina. He had examined the
accounts of more than thirty of them and
fonnd that two-thirds of these had made
false and fraudulent statements. He alao
testified that he had examined into the
official conduct of United States Marshal
Blythe, of that State, and found that he
had been ignoring the instructions of the
Department and the laws enacted by Con
gress for the guidance of Marshal* and
disbursing officers; that he was personally
rcsitonsible for reporting only about one-
fifth of the amount of fees and commis-
xions earned in cirH cases; that he had
fraudulently transmitted to the Treasury
Department, to lie allowed in,his favor,
receipts and vouchers from Mdrthalaol
the United States and jailers in charge
of prisoner*, without having paid to
such creditors of the United State* the
full amounts specified in such receipt* or
voucher*, and had made untrue state
ments in explanation of the reasons why
he did not pay their claims; that he had
applied monev entrusted to him for pur-
pooet other iKnii those provided in the
Act making the appropriation; that he
had rendered to the department weekly
itemized reports of disbursement* whicn
did not show all payments paid, and
weekly statement* of public fond* in
which he rc|K>rted fictitious tiolnnces;
and that he had knowingly presented to
the Treasury Dejiartment for approval ac
counts for fees and expenses of the de
partment containing false and fraudu
lent items, and had given as an
excuse that he did not examine the ac
counts when lie made oath as to their
correctness. Ballin also testified that
twenty-seven deputy marshals bad ren
dered false, frniMiulent-and fictitious ac-
caunts for services rendered by them.
The following, are their names: A. E.
i’hillipy, Julius Foaburg, C. 0. Kimbrell,
John A. Stevenson, Alfred Harris, J. J.
Pearson, Z. T. Pearson, Wm. M. Mittag,
W. M. Bridges, A. G. Smith, C. A. Car-
sou, i. E. Gaze, C. W. Cummings, James
Turner, M. I). Alexander, W. F. Gory,
W, V. Holden, Wm. Kennedy, R. E,
Evans, T. R. Fisher, W. C. Fisher, R. J.
Spratley, M. L. Care, R. M. Casey, J. B.
Dill, T. J. Bannister, W. I). Good.
FATAL KNOW HLIDK.
Tfcrtr CklMroa Killed a a* H«Tsral Haas**
Dessaltaked la I'Utk.
Park City, Utah, Februaxy 81.—Dur
ing a snow sltclc at the Ontario mine yes
terday, the residences of William Rich,
John Harris, Robert Johrfson and Henry
Drew were demolished. Rich’s home
was crushed to atoms, his three children
were killed and hie wife seriouely and, it
is feared, fatally injured. Hanis’a house
was demolished and hi* wife instantly
killed, while he sustained serious injuries.
All the families living in the Ontario
Gulch arc moving to places of shelter
down town. Other residents are moving
from the back streets, fearing another
snow slide.
The storm is the most severe one on
record, and is still raging, with snow
three to five feet deep. Trains on the
Utah and Northern and the Oregon Short
Line in Idaho are blockaded.
A (|aack Daetar LyackeO.
| Sjm-uil Corrttfomdtoto oj Thr Itryutrr. ]
Oakland, B. C , February 22.—The
dwelling and furniture, clothing and
brendstuffs, of Mary Johnson, near Oak
land, were destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 20th instant.
Eugene James, a colored lalmrer in the
of Mr. I). M. Brad ham, was seri
ously injured in the foot by a cur on the
tramway.
Court adjourned yesterday evening.
Tlie only convict from this term is New
ton McKnight, who goes to the peniten
tiary for two years on burglary and lar
ceny. I regret to say the presentment of
the grand jury was again unfavorable to
the County Conimtssioners. The case of
Lazarus Bell against the Central Railroad
of Bouth Carolina resulted in favor of
Bell to the amount of •8(8). 'it. it. B.
A Coloml Family 8**mii*4 (• Have R«ea
Killed (• Farsittk MMbJprl* far a Medical
Colls**'.
Cincinnati, February 22.—On last
Friday night a house in Avondale in
which lived Beverly Taylor and his wife
and Eliza Crambcred, an adopted child,
all colored, was burned down and the in
mates were missing. Last night the
bodies *ere found in the Ohio Medical
College and were taken to a city under
taker’s. An examination of the remains
shows that all three were murdered,
all, showing unmistakable sign* of
violence—tbe skulls of Taylor and his
wife being fractured. Whether the (‘rime
wa* committed for money or to furnish
subjects for the dissecting tabic is not, .Tobias Burnett went to-day to H. C.
known, but the general belief is that rt Turpin’s office and demanded • ratZAfr-
Cricaoo, February 21.—The latar-
Ocean's Freeport, III , dispatch says news
is received there of the bunging by a mob
near Denver, Col., of Ell Madlong, for
merly a resident of Freeport. It seems
that Madlong pretended to be a physi
cian, although he had no medical educa
tion. He prescribed medicine for one of
his patients which had rcsulUB in tbe
patient’s death. The victim's friend*
organized a vigilance committee and
lunged the doctor.
Hhaekls* Death of a YVell-kaawa Baattat
Mlalater.
Bi.ACKYltxa, 8. C:, February
Rsv. M. R. Buares, of Barnwell, one of
tbe.most talented and well-known Bap
tist Ministers in Bouth Carolina, was
killed this afternoon, near White Pond,
by the down freight train on the Booth
Carolina Railway. --- , J. W. tt.
Mardrre* by Rival Acral*.
Macon, Ga., February 80.—John
was done for the latter purpose. The
house occupied bv Taylor was in a deso
late spot, half mile from any neighbor.
Allan Ingalls, Jeff Ixm, Richard IngalU
and Rcnj. Johnson, all colored and' 1 resid
ing in the vicinity of the scene of tbe
murder, have been, arrested on suspicion
of being perpetrator* of the crime.
Over ('*mrraa's Vet* A*ala.
Richmond, Va., February *1.—The
Senate to-day passed over the Governor’*
veto the bill reapportioning the State fur
itatires In
tion of epithets applied by bun to
Burnett. Turpin refused, wt
wo* stabbed four times in tbe a
artery was severed and Turpin
from tbe loss of Mood. He and I
netts are rival sewing mnrMaa
The Burnett* ore In jatL i*-
A Won*
Martha Goodman,
W. Atchison'* 1 '
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