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"The Anniston Hot Blast" :
Anniston, Calhoun Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 23, 1884

CALHOUN County Local News

Tuesday, the 19th, is a day long to be remembered by the people of Alabama 
and Georgia, living along the track of the terrific gale which swept from 
the gulf across to Hatteras on that day. Death and destruction followed in 
the wake of the tornado and it will be a hard matter to tell of the entire 
damage under several days. Telegraphic communication and railway connections 
were considerably impaired, but the linemen and track hands have remedied 
these. The great handle which marked the track of the destructive tornado 
from the Gulf, near the Alabama line in Harris county, split like the prongs 
of a fork, the one taking a northeast direction up the Chattahoochee Valley, 
bending west to strike Birmingham, Cross Plains, Cave Springs and Rome, 
across Bartow, Pickens, Cherokee, on in the direction of Norfolk, Va. This 
latter wing of the elements, all through that section of Georgia, was 
terrible to life and property. It is estimated that two hundred lives were 
lost by the cyclone and five thousand houses demolished; something over two 
million dollars worth of property.

In Anniston, the winds blew a regular gale for a few hours. . . 

. . .Cave Springs, between Anniston and Rome, on the east Tennessee road, 
suffered considerably. Mrs. Hoke was seriously injured and the family of Mr. 
Ford were all badly hurt.


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