McIntosh County GaArchives News.....TERRIFIC STORM September 2 1881
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Darien Timber Gazette
This vicinity was visited on Saturday the 28th ult, by the severest wind storm 
which has occurred since the hurricane of 1824.  For several days previous, 
the weather had been _____, the wind blowing from the north-east, our usual 
storm-point oat this season of the year; but up to Saturday night, there were 
no indications that the wind would exceed an ordinary "north-eat blow."   
Towards night however, the wind veered to the north-north-west and the gusts 
became more frequent and heavier.  By nine o'clock the wind had got around to 
the west, and by ten it was blowing a gale, and increasing in violence, from 
11pm until 1 a.m. of Sunday, it blew a hurricance from west-south-west.  At 
the lastnamed hour, or perhaps a little sooner, the storm began to subside, 
and gradually sighed itself away, until nothing could be heard but the falling 
rain which continued in uncertain showers until morning.  Day broke on a 
desolate scene in this city.  The streets were strewn with sign-boards, in-
roofs, fallen trees, broken limbs, drygoods boxes, and every conceivable 
article that goes to make up the debris of a storm.  We are glad to say, 
although few fences withstood the abock, no buildings were overthrown in the 
city, except the Second Baptist Church, colored, in process of erection, and 
no lives were lost, except Mr. Roughen, who was drowned on Saturday in 
attempting to make his way from Doboy to his home on the Ridge.  The principal 
injuries to buildings, were the roofs torn from the fine residence of Mr. J.K. 
Clarke, and the stores of Messrs. Joseph Mansfield, Philip Keller, Robert 
Levison, Wilcox and Churchill, George Mansfield, the roof on the shed over the 
ice house of Mr. Aiken was torn off together with a portion of the shed, the 
roof of the saw-mill of Messrs. Todd & Huntington was also torn off.  Nor are 
we able to compute the damages in dollars and cents although they must 
necessarily be heavy.  In the country the losses were quite as great as those 
wrought in the city.  On the Ridge the beautiful trees between the.....

Additional Comments:
This article was on a page with the death of Mr. E.F. ROUGHEN, a butcher at 
Doboy and on the Ridge, who drowned in the hurricane and left a wife and 6 
children.  Unfortunately the above article looks to be incomplete.

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