Haralson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Holman, James April 1939
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, APRIL 20, 1939

RANBURNE HIT BY TORNADO ON MONDAY

Fifteen persons were injured, several houses were demolished and many other 
unroofed when a terrific tornado swept through Ranburne in Cleburne county 
shortly after 6:30 o'clock Monday morning. Most critically injured was the 
eight month old child of Mr. and Mrs. Whit Teague, which lies in a 
Carrollton, Ga. hospital unconscious. Mr. and Mrs. Teague were also injured 
when the walls of their frame house collapsed about them. Mrs. Teague 
suffered a broken leg when a heavy beam fell upon her. Mr. Teague received 
scalp wounds.

The storm, which lasted only a few moments, cut a narrow path a mile long. 
Coming out of the southwest, it struck west of the main business district. 
Roofs were torn from Pollard's Store, the Masonic building and the 
Mandeville gin.

The Rev. Jesse Holloway, who resided across the street from the Teague 
dwelling, was the first to reach that scene immediately after the storm, 
said that it was accompanied by a heavy rainfall. Immediately afterward, he 
said, the sun came out to brilliantly illuminate the shambles.

Most of the injured were taken to the Carrollton Clinic. Dr. O.R. Styles of 
the clinic estimated the number as at least 15. Also he estimated between 18 
to 20 houses practically destroyed. Some of the wounded were attended at 
nearby Bowdon, which is only a few miles from the Alabama line.

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SURVEY MADE AFTER STORM

Montgomery, Ala., April 12

Seven small communities in a wide area between Atlanta, Ga. and Birmingham, 
Ala. today were surveyed for damage caused by rain-laden, tornado winds that 
brought death to two person and injuries to several. Dwellings were damaged, 
some beyond repair and telephone and telegraph services were interrupted. 
The storm, described by the weather bureau officials as of tornado 
character, reached its peak Tuesday afternoon. It had subsided by nightfall.

Near Tallapoosa, Ga., JAMES HOLMAN, a 78 year old invalid, was fatally 
injured when his home was destroyed. His daughter was slightly injured.

Robert Merritt, 35, of Fort Payne in extreme northeast Alabama, was killed 
when the Butler Mill, a landmark of the Paint Rock river section, about 40 
miles west of his home, was demolished. A companion who had joined Merritt 
and others in seeking refuge at the Mill when the storm interrupted a 
fishing party, was injured.


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