Muscogee County GaArchives News.....Tornado Does Great Damage To Columbus - March 1913 March 18 1913
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The Butler Herald
The Butler Herald
Tuesday, March 18, 1913
Page One	

Tornado Does Great Damage To Columbus 

Columbus, March 14 – 

Damages estimated at more than half a million dollars was inflicted by a 
tornado which swept across the central part of Columbus from west to east at 4 
o’clock this morning.  No one was injured.  The storm came into Columbus from 
the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River, after wrecking twenty residences 
on the west bank in Girard, Ala.  The first damage on the Georgia side was to 
the plant of the Eagle & Phenix Mills, its mill No. 3 being partially 
demolished.  A wholesale grocery warehouse was party destroyed.

Stores on both sides of Broad Street, the principal thoroughfare, were unroofed 
and otherwise damaged.  On First Avenue, two livery stables were almost 
demolished.  Striking across the residence section, the storm unroofed and 
otherwise injured residences and left the city on the eastern border at the 
plant of the Swift Manufacturing Company, which was heavily damaged.  The path 
of the storm was not as wide as a block at any place, and at some points was 
not more than 100 feet wide.

Electric power and light wires were damaged badly, and it was not until 1 
o’clock this afternoon that it was possible to operate electric cars.  Among 
the heaviest losers by the storm are: Eagle & Phenix Mills, Swift Manufacturing 
Company, Sol Loeb, wholesale grocers, Bowden & Co., livery stable, Herring & 
Knight, undertakers, D. Rothchild’s Drug Store, and the Columbus Power Company.

Many fine trees were uprooted and broken in the city.  No street electric 
lights are burning tonight but all residences having electric lighting 
equipment are being served.  Reports of wide damage in Russell County, Alabama, 
and in the northeastern portion of Muscogee County, Georgia, are being 
received, it being stated that much livestock has been killed and country homes 
wrecked.  As yet the details are lacking.


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