Six Hundred Dead The Southern Cyclone's Terrible Work
A midnight storm unleashes a giant blast leaving hundreds dead as buildings collapse and birds are scattered. The sky glows red and victims are crushed or cut, with no warning before disruption.
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Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1884
Page
5
Deadly North Carolina storm leaves many dead and ruined
A Raleigh dispatch reports a ferocious cyclone sweeping across Richmond Johnston and surrounding counties. It killed numerous residents, wrecked homes and farms, uprooted trees, and left hundreds destitute with more lives feared lost as the track extended toward Rocky Mount and Philadelphia.
Deadly South Carolina tornado devastates towns and farms
A massive cyclone struck South Carolina on February 21 causing widespread destruction from Allenton to Darlington. Dozens of homes, barns and public buildings were destroyed. At least ten people died and many were injured including two infants found buried in debris. Numerous livestock perished and property damage surged across Reynolds Manning Jackson Station and other remote districts.
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ColumeBus
S. C
Allenton
Golightly
Darlington
Reynolds
Mary Pitty Taro Tae
Shs
D. C
Ee Sert
Jackson Station
Eaves
Las Bess
Tornado wreckage and near miss at Bradley church
A violent tornado left a man dead with fatal injuries to his brain after a tree crash killed a family member. Twenty five houses were demolished at Bradley and Dr Ligon's nine-person family hid beneath a church, which survived the storm intact despite surrounding pines uprooted.
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Bradley
Dr. Ligon
Sc Ular
Darlington
D. C
Ferocious storm leaves dozens dead across Georgia and Mississippi
A Tuesday cyclone devastates Cherokee Pickens and Putnam counties with widespread fatalities. Reports call 22 killed and 40 wounded in the Georgia line, six killed near 96 railroad station, Hillsboro swept away, Humbert injured, and 50 killed north of Macon. Also hit Starkville and Grassy Knob areas with multiple deaths.
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Atlanta
Cherokee County
Cherokee
Pickens
Jasper
Hillsboro
Senator Hill
Putnam
Lobert
Humbert
Macon
Atlanta Telegram
L’utnam
Starksville
Miss
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Grassy Knob
Destructive cyclone strikes Cahawba valley near Leeds
Alabama dispatch reports a Tuesday noon cyclone devastating portions of Cahawba valley in eastern Jefferson County. At Leeds the storm killed Jeff Ford Dan Cloud and Bert Keith and injured an elderly white couple and others. Dr Wright and family suffered severe injuries. Harriet McCrew was killed. vast property destruction followed with trees uprooted and ground cleared of stones.
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Birmingham
Ala
Cahawba
Leeds
Jeff Ford
Dan Cloud
Bert Keith
Bass
John Poole
Sop
Poole
Fong
W. F. Wright
Kerr
Dr. Wright
Storm Devastates Rivers Towns Hits Hotels and Factories
A severe storm battered Montpelier and Metropolis, flooding rivers and wrecking hotels including the Metropolis stove factory and foundry. The National Hotel once famed by Dickens collapsed, with numerous buildings demolished and extensive losses estimated around 100000 dollars. Dozens of homes and yards flooded, families displaced. In Shawneetown, lives are feared lost as towns face near-total destruction.
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Dickens
Monttpelier
National Hotel
Charles Dickens
Martin Chuzzlewit
McCawley
Mrs. Green
Metropolis
Metropolis Foundry
Soemores
Ill
Shelton & Co
Green
Richer
Johnson & Shelton
Shawneertowyn
Caseyville
Uniontown
Shawneetown
Blizzard Strands Dakotas Stages. Driver Frozen Man Survives
A severe blizzard in Dakota Friday night blanks out four stages. only one arrives. Ellendale driver Sutley, frozen face and hands, dug a snow bed to survive, unhitched horses and waited till daylight. A liveryman Sanderson and a passenger vanished, with searchers scouring the countryside for them. Fires light upland to signal rescuers, but fears grow they perished as Jamestown stage also unaccounted.
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Storsh
LA Movurg
D. T
Dakota
Ellendale
Sutley
Sanderson
Jamestown
Sr. Paul
Los Angeles Flood Devastation Destroys Homes Damages Railroads
San Francisco reports a severe rainstorm in Los Angeles area on Sunday the worst since 1857. Floods hit Santa Ana and San Bernardino rivers, Tehuanja dam broke, Balima creek created a lake near Santa Monica. Drs. Jeffreys and Cook drowned. Fifty houses swept away with immense property damage and nonfatalities noted.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Santa Ana
Sancer
Balima Creek
Santa Monica
Railroad Washouts Hit Mojave And Tehachapi Line
Through Soledad canyon thirty miles of tracks are washed out and must be rebuilt within a week. The Colorado division between Tehachipa and Los Angeles is badly wrecked with slides at several tunnels. San Fernando tunnel is carved at both ends. Ravenna section foreman reports LOCO men at work while in Los Angeles city houses were damaged but no lives reported.
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Soledad Canyon
Colorado
Tehichipa
Los Angeles
San Fernando
Ravenna
Loco Men
Storm Center Drives Severe Winter Weather Across Midwest
A deep storm from the Northwest swept into Missouri and Illinois, halting trains by snow and causing widespread suffering. Temperatures plunged to ten below in Dubuque as sleet fell, while a northernly wind reached Texas, threatening early crops. High waves on the Ohio River caused damage in Indiana, Kentucky, and nearby towns.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Ilinois
Dubuque
Iowa
Texas
Ohio River
Indiana
Hil Nels
Kentucky
Ohio Un navigable During a Pest Heavy Losses by Wreck of Buildings
A ferocious storm along the Ohio valley on Tuesday night brought gale force winds up to forty miles per hour, with rain turning to sleet, flooding miles of river banks below Evansville. In Paducah, a dozen people were swept from a house on Black Bottoms and are missing, likely drowned.
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Ohio
Louisville
Ohio Valley
Evansville
Paducah
Wisconsin Storm Bound shuts Western travel in blizzard
A severe blizzard on Tuesday blocks roads across Western states, following mild weather and heavy snowfall in Minnesota and Dakota. Travel is virtually shut. reopening will take an extended time.
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Wisconsin
LA Uross
Minnesota
Dakota
Tremendous Virginia storm causes major damage
A fierce thunder storm swept Piteravu rg Virginia on Tuesday night with torrents of rain and spectacular lightning. Bridges washed away, trees toppled, and extensive property damage reported. Meanwhile in Indiana, Evansville dispatches note severe storm losses at Metropolis Caseyville Uniontown and Paducah with widespread suffering and destruction to houses mills and warehouses.
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Piteravurg
Indiana
Evansvilta
Ind
Hopkins
Cairo
Metropolis
Caseyville
Uniontown
Paducap
Numbering the Dead After Devastating Cyclone Across South
Reports from Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas tally about 600 lives lost as a cyclone devastates Rock Run Alabama area, Talladega, Georgia, South and North Carolina. Death tolls: 60 near Rock Run, 210 Talladega, 200 in Georgia, 25 in South Carolina, 75 in North Carolina. Property losses run to millions with entire villages razed and timber and livestock destroyed. Estimated damages total around 5 million plus in initial tallies.
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Atlanta
Rock Run
Ala
Talladera
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Alabama
Cyclone Tracks Ravage Davisboro and Camak Georgia
Eyewitness accounts describe a cyclone ripping through Davisboro with toppled trees, shattered buildings, and debris along the rail line. In Camak, Warren county, a storm center since 1875, a house wing collapsed onto the tracks, trapping family members but with no fatalities reported. rescue crews freed them as telegraph wires tangled the road.
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Camak
Warren County
Georgia
Hill
Mix. Hill
Balls of Fire Amid the Whirlwind
A McBean Ga correspondent reports a cyclone roared in from the southwest varying 800 to 400 yards wide traveled northeast near parallel to the 1875 storm striking McBean miles away. Eyewitness says unearthly sight with electricity balls fire wind lightning and brief rain. Trees fell at right angles and obstacles were hurled about as the weather system unleashed sand colored by the wind. The event lasted from 7 80 to 8 45 PM causing fear and arousal among residents and leaving fields strewn with birds.
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McBean
Terrifying tornado obliterates Blountville home in Jones county
A massive storm near Macon left William A. Miller's house in Blountville, Jones County, blown apart. His wife and three children died, the baby missing. Six enslaved people were killed on the plantation, a young man wounded. Nearby Charlotte area, Logtown, suffered structural damage as debris toppled cabins. one elderly man narrowly escaped while seated in his chair. The Telegram received hail stones from Indian Springs, some three inches long.
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Raleicn
N. C
Hamlet
Richmond County
Rockingham
Johnston County
Rigsden Ellens
D. Hi. Jones
John Adams
Gus Wormack
Joe Pleasants
Mr. Adams
Merritt Overby
Benjamin Young
Susan Johnson
Tracy Munns
Donaldson Turner
Henry Finch
Robert Johnson
Philadelphia
Polkton
Patrick Gray
F. M. Gray
William Little
Ansonville
Wadesboro
Concord
Hornet County
Gether
Macon
Indian Springs
William A. Miller
Blountville
Jones County
Charlotte
Logtown
Presence of Mind Saves Family During Cyclone
The wife of Dr. Bullard of Blountville heard the cyclone approaching and, recalling that the safest corner of the house faced the storm, crouched there with her babies and a small child. The house was swept away, but the couple and children took shelter behind the remaining reverse, surviving the disaster.
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Bullard
Blountville
Molasses Car Blast Destroys Homes At Chappell Station
A car loaded with molasses was blown from the track and hurled about thirty feet at Chappell's Station in Newbury county D C. Several houses collapsed and a man named Shuford was killed.
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Chappell’s Station
Newbury County
D. C
Shuford
Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good
New York February 24. Mr. Beecher argues the Old Testament records experiences not invention and contrasts it with the New Testament. He praises kindness as the true method against evil while acknowledging violent impulses in early history, urging restraint, forgiveness, and persistent reform through positive action. He calls for tolerance in church matters and personal moral strength to overcome evil with good.
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New York
Beecher
Christ
Jerusalem
Jesus
Christ Jesus
Terrible coke mine explosion near Pittsburg claims nineteen lives
In West Lessenring near Uniontown Pennsylvania a mine explosion caused by firedamp killed about twenty five miners. Seventy went underground at 3 am and nineteen bodies were recovered by noon. Dick Balseley escaped to tell the tale and coroner Batton opened an inquest.
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Uniontown
Penn
West Lessenring
Here
Ustar
Dick Balseley
Balseley
Gettig
Michael Respko
Batton
Fire devastates Jackson block killing four and injuring many
A morning blaze in Jackson Michigan destroyed Union block and five adjacent stores totaling about 200000 dollars. Four people were confirmed dead with several missing and others seriously injured. The fire started in a cigar store near the brick block and spread rapidly.
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Jackson
Mich
Union Block
John Crack
Charles Cornell
Charity Banks
Joan Prior
John Herns
Cleveland
Charles Kimball
Kalamazoo
James Brenghen
Union Hall Block
Daniel B. Hubbard
Evans Will Causes Widow Legal Complications
Hartworp February 25 John Evans of South Meriden left about 50000 to his wife for life, written by himself. The phrase as long as she lives may bar her from disposing of the estate and could escheat if the widow cannot remarry or make a new will. England heirs cannot claim, and legislative action may be pursued to hold the estate in fee simple for Mrs. Evans.
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Hartworp
John Evans
South Meriden
Evans
England
Chicago Manual Training School Opens for Local Boys
Chicago's manual training school opens with sixty five boys. The unfinished building will hold eight hundred fifty pupils and offers carpentry wood turning pattern making iron chipping and filing forge work brazing soldering and machine shop tools. Two year course includes drawing and shop work with daily study allocations. Each graduate must build a machine. One third of applicants were accepted. School funded by Chicago Commercial Club members and moderate tuition expected to sustain operation.
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Chicago
Chicago Commercial Club
Baltimore Robbery: Valet Arrested in $4000 Silverware Theft
Baltimore detectives arrest John C. Distance, the colored valet of George Brown Esq., for robbing his master. Distance stole $4000 worth of silverware, with about $1500 recovered. A $0000 diamond necklace reportedly escaped notice, Distance's wife known as the colored belle of Baltimore.
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Baltimore
John C. Distance
George Brown
Distance
Financial Markets Hold Steady Amid dull business mood
Finance and Commerce notes a steady money market with moderate loan demand and abundant supply. Banks offer discounts around 4 1 2 percent while mercantile paper ranges 5 to 14 percent, with collateral loans and short term loans at low rates. Clearing house totals push over 12 million dollars, with New York funds and foreign exchange firm, and weekly bank statements showing reductions in several items while excess reserves rise.
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State Street
Good Mercantile
Prime Corporation
New York
Fraucs
Foreign Exchange
Bank of British North America
Crade
WBC
Government Bonds Hold Firm Prices Through Week
Government bonds stayed quiet with firm prices. Closing bids show slight advances over last Saturday for registered and coupon issues, while the 3s8 4 per cents hold steady. The list provides closing Saturday prices and opening prices this morning for United States bonds.
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United States
Boston Markets Trade Notes Rural Goods Prices
Commercial matters from Boston markets list bean prices for multiple pea varieties, butter and cheese markets with varied regional quotes, corn and flour rates, and freight figures. Fresh meat shows steady demand with quotes for beef hindquarters and mutton, lamb, veal, and pork cuts. fruit and dried fruits report fair demand with Malaga raisins and Smyrna figs priced, and cherries and dates noted for sales.
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New York Markets Show Dull Drought Across Commodities
New York markets closed with dull trading across grains and futures. Wheat futures weakened with mixed spot demand while oats and corn also slipped. cotton and provisions showed modest gains and losses amid fluctuating exchange and import pressures. Oil refined steady as crude prices rose on shorts covering, with overall cautious activity prevailing.
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Livestock arrivals at Brighton and Watertown markets
Week ending February 22 1884 reports totals for cattle and sheep by region. Western cattle 960 Eastern 219 Northern 505 total 1571. Sheep and lambs 3200 3183 and 6383. Swine 10384 horses 224 Venus 361. Beef cattle prices per 100 pounds live weight list various quality grades. Hides and tallow prices and leather items noted.
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Ile
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Gloucester Fish Market week ends with large business
Special Gloucester report notes a busy week with higher totals as Lent nears. Aggregate receipts reach about 273,000 pounds of fish, including 104,000 pounds of fresh halibut and 40,000 pounds of hake and herring. Prices for fresh and market fish listed, while sales vary and many varieties like codfish, haddock, pollock, and mackerel appear in bulk and barrel lots.
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