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A Gale's Victims

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
March
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Yobk, March 25. - A Columbia, S. C, special gives further details of tha storm in that State. The dispatch says that the f ury of the cyclone was principally feit in Sumter. Kvery house was shaken to its foundation, roofs were carried away, fences demolished and trees uprooted. Ma Richardson waa killed by a falling houso; two men, names unknown. were fatally injured and many persons were badly bruised and cut. Many buildings wero demolished. The bridge over Broad river, on the Spartanburg, Union & Columbia railroad at Shelton, was blown off the piers into the river and coniplctely demolished. An unknown man standing on the bridge was carried with it. In Chestor County the tornado did. great dam age. Several small villag'e are also badly wrecked. At Blackstock the academy building waa destroyed and several smaller strucfrures blown down. Or.c woman and several ehildren are reported fatally injured. In Orangoburg County many houses were unroofed. In this city the immense ventilating roof of the State penitentiary was torn from its position and thrown down upon an adjoin Ing building. A score of convicts narrowly escaped death. Ie is reportad that the town of Prosperity has beeTn swept away, but as the wires are don nothing can be learned. A special from Camden statesthat the cyclone struck a house there, killing Mrs. Easterling, who was in the act o! giving medicine to her step-daughter. The bed the sick child was on was torn to pieces and the mother killed, while the child, though thrown into the yard, escaped without the slightest injury.

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Ann Arbor Register