March 3, 1893 Chambers County Tornado

From The LaFayette Sun, March 8, 1893, pg. 2:

Destruction.

A Cyclone’s Awful Work

The Killed And Wounded

An Appeal For Help.

Last Friday afternoon the weatherwise plainly discovered signs of stormy weather. Their fears received sad confirmation in the early evening, and while our immediate community was spared any great disaster, the northern part of the county received a fearful visitation from the storm king.

             The Sun has industriously gathered all possible news from the lips of those who were in the cyclone’s track as well as from those who have rode over the scenes. Beginning at a point near the Tallapoosa River the first scene of destruction is at the home of Mr. --- Abner, whose home was completely demolished. Taking the track eastward the following is the sad record:

             Luther Walls – killed and house destroyed; he was buried on Sunday.

             The house of a colored man named James, destroyed.

             Joe Welsh – house, crib, stables all destroyed, one horse killed.

             Fletcher Partridge – house and contents all blown away.

             Mrs. Crumbie – all the houses on her place destroyed.

             James Patterson – house blown in.

             T.J. Lett – house and mill-house damaged.

             --- Palmer, colored, house and contents destroyed.

             Mrs. Beaty – roof left on only one room of house.

             Ellis Knight – house and contents destroyed, and his shoulder dislocated.

             John Harmon – house and contents swept away and one child killed.

             James Knight – houses all destroyed.

             John Foster – houses destroyed, and his grandmother, Mrs. Forshee, killed and his leg broken.

             George Brady, colored – house and contents destroyed.

             J.P. Blackston – buildings all torn down except one log house.

             John Weaver – this place almost wiped out of existence – one horse killed.

             Charles Pool – house and contents destroyed.

             John T. Lowe – every building completely destroyed. Loss between two and three thousand dollars.

             Charles Slay, colored – house and contents destroyed, and his shoulder dislocated.

             James Moon – house unroofed, pillars moved and contents of house badly damaged.

             Henry Davis – house destroyed and he hurt.

             Rube Day – house destroyed.

             Wiley Day – house damaged.

At Chapel Hill.

             Wilson Brother’s store was badly damaged and the goods scattered. The old Wilson residence was wrecked, all of the tenant houses on the plantation were either badly damaged or entirely destroyed and one horse was killed. Their loss is heavy.

             Bill Smith – residence and everything blown away.

             --- Bolt – everything destroyed.

             John Smith – residence and all gone.

             Dave McCarley – some damage to fencing and out-houses.

             Jim Sharpe – considerable damage to barns and other houses.

             Henry Bonner – everything swept away – even to the clothing of the occupants of the house.

             Charlie Sharpe – everything blown away.

             John McClain – corn, fodder, meat and part of residence blown away.

             Pierce Satterwhite – residence damaged and barns, corn, etc., blown away.

             Dowdle McClain – house badly damaged.

             Jack Brown – residence unroofed and otherwise damaged and corn, fodder and bedding blown away.

             Mart Allen – residence unroofed and roof blown entirely away and corn, fodder, etc., all gone.

             W.F. Fuller’s plantation – gin house, negro houses and fencing badly damaged.

             Mrs. Sid Fuller’s plantation – several tenant houses, barns, fencing, etc., badly damaged. Baptist church at Fredonia damaged.

             Tom Fuller’s residence badly wrecked, all out-houses swept away, horse crippled and two new buggies torn to pieces.

             Jim Gay – dining room damaged and out-houses badly damaged.

             --- Jeter’s house and everything blown away.

             On Tally Chandler’s place Lizzie Young’s house and everything destroyed but the inmates.

             Mrs. Johnson’s smoke house and fencing blown away.

             Tom Tankersly – house badly damaged.

             C.H. Holmes – everything but one crib blown away.

             Z.T. Morris – his leg broken in two places, wife and child hurt and everything on the place blown away – not even a suit of clothes left.

             George and William Reden – residence and everything blown away.

             Bill Story – house blown away.

             Sherard Jacobs – new house freshly painted blown entirely away.

             Jim Jacobs – residence unroofed.

             Thos. Rodgers – residence wrecked.

             Major Clemens, col. – house blown away and his son killed.

             Bill Smith’s tenant houses destroyed.

             Here the cyclone crossed the Chattahoochee river and continued its dreadful work in Georgia.