Schley-Marion County GaArchives News.....Hurricane i Schley, 1877 April 13 1877
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The Atlanta Constitution  
The Atlanta Constitution  April 13, 1877

From the Americus Republican

From our correspondents, "D.S.H." and E.S. Baldwin, Esq., of Schley county, we 
learn that a most terrific hurricane passed over that county and Marion, on 
Saturday night last; the wind continuing untill about 2 o'clock, followed by a 
heavy rain until near daybreak.  The roar of the elements was so great that 
people were aroused from sleep and jumped in fright from their beds.  Houses 
trembled on their foundations; fences and trees went down before the blast 
likr reeds.

Our informants tell us that while there was no damage done to property in 
Ellaville, the work of the storm in the vicinity of Mr. Sam Williams, about 
seven miles northwest of Ellaville was quite diastrous.  A negro man was 
crushed to death by the falling timbers of the house he was staying in.  At 
Mr. Walton's, a short distance above and just over the Marion line, another 
house was blown down and a negro occupant killed.  On Mr. Fed (Fred?) Rainey's 
place nearly every house was blown down.

Some two or three miles due north of the last mentioned place, mr. G.W.C. 
Munroe's, in Marion county, the destruction to fences and timber was also very 
great.  We heard of no personal injury to individuals.  We gear the worst has 
not been heard from.



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