Butts-Spalding County GaArchives News.....A SEVERE STORM August 23 1894
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of August 23, 1894
Jackson, Ga. – August 23, 1894


Jackson has never had a full fledged cyclone, but she had a brother in law to 
one last Friday evening about three o’clock.

It comes up from the west, and the wind howled along through Jackson at the 
rate of 50 miles an hour for quite awhile.  The hardest rain ever seen in these 
parts immediately followed the wind storm, and so dense were the blinding 
sheets of water that it was impossible to distinguish large trees across the 
street.

Considerable damage was done in and around Jackson by the wind and water.  The 
tin roof was blown off of the bank Hall and dumped out in the middle of the 
streets. The water then ran through the ceiling and did considerable damage to 
the stock of goods owned by Mr. R. Cohen, who occupies the storeroom 
immediately under the Hall.  Large trees were blown down at several places, and 
the house of Wash Ball, colored, was blown off the pillars.  Col McKibben’s 
barn was blown away back, and the shade trees of Judge Pound and Mr. A. G. 
Hitchums were leveled to the ground.

The storm did greater damage near Ringgold, in Spalding county, however, than 
it did here.  It is reported that a church was blown down over there, and ‘tis 
said the wind cut a path about 100 yards wide through the woods leveling the 
trees to the ground in regular cyclone order.  The people in this neighborhood 
were considerable frightened, and they had a perfect right to be, for it was 
the hardest wind and rain storm that Jackson has ever had the misfortune to 
experience.

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It seems that the people won’t build a new court house in Jackson, so the wind 
has taken the matter in charge.  It blew off one of the chimneys on last Friday 
evening and dislocated several of the shingles just to let the people know it 
can help to destroy the present edifice if it can’t build a new one.

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We have heard that Mr. R. N. Etheridge was somewhat excited during the storm 
last Friday.  Boxes, barrels, etc., were flying up the street when suddenly Mr. 
Etheridge saw the chicken coop fly by.  This was too much for him and he 
exclaimed: “Take the coop too, Lord, if you want it, but for the sake of 
alittle girl and an unfulfilled engagement leave this sinner and call later.




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