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Destructive Tornado

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
May
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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[Colnmbu (Ga.) Cor. Atlanta Horald.) Harris couuty was Tisited with the flfth tornado since tho 20th of MaTch on last Saturday. Tho oyclone was terrible. It swept everything beforo it, doing an iinmcnse deal of damago, tearing down housen, uprooting trees, seattering fonoes, and killing poople. Upon ontering tho county it scattered tho dwellings, out-houses, fenceR, and evervthing else on Henry Williani' place, wounding Bevoral of his people. { Ooing directly ast it playod haroc with I the farm of Henry E. Morse, two miloH ' Bouth of Whitesville. Thaxv is not a house of any kind left on his plfloƩ. Six i negroos wero killed by the falling j bers. Mrs. Morso is wounded, it is feared fatally. Af tor going about IJ miles farthcr east, John Bookor's placu was crossed, .all hia tenants wero seattered to the winds. The report of ' the mimber of killed and wounded there j is conflictiug. Thfi widow Bmith's, abont one mile farther eost, was the noxt place in the path of the tornado. Theru was no ono killed there, but tho list of wonnded is large, and the amount of damage is eonsiderabla. W. C. Davis' houso, abont threequartors of a milo further, was the next house that chanced to be in the track of the wind storm. His horuM was broken down, his leg brokon, his viic's leg broken, and three or four uhildreu injnred. Two miles further, and Judgo Hpence' place biocked its passage. After beating against the houso for a wlrle, it gathere uimsnal strengtJi, and, hurlinga tenement houso f rom its path, attacked the Baptist Chureh, which is on kin place ; in f act, " one stone was not loft j oiiaaothar." It then tackld his dwelling-house and blew one-half of it away. l')ur negroos were killed and six or seven wounded by the falling of the building. Soattering f en ces and iug crops for about three miles, it atruck Murray fe Spence's mili, and did not leave a timber stouding. Jourdan Beiley, the nogro miller, was killed, and tliree white men were wounded. Going up the creek about one mile, it ! laid low tho House of Pickens Murray. J He and his family were only aayed by leaving the houso and taking refuge in the peach orchard. 8ti.ll rushing eastward, it, aftor skipping orer two miles, struck Calvin Teel' place, leaying not a building standing. Tnen, cro4ing Pine i Mountam, it changcd its courso by turning a little to the south, and commencod its ravages on Col. James B. Mobley's place. Hia gin-house and all hia o'nthousos were blown down, and six negroes wounded.

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Old News
Michigan Argus