Washington County GaArchives News.....Hebron News February 23, 1921
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The Sandersville Progress February 23, 1921
  I visited the scene of the storm stricken area around Gardner with many 
thousand others who desired to see the gruesome sight. Many freakish and 
peculiar tricks were turned by the wind. A bureau was broken into splinters 
but the glass was left on the floor unbroken. A box of meat was blown away 
leaving ten sacks of ground peas unmolested. A glass door was blown over a 
hundred yards and was none the worse for the experience. A house was seen 
flying up in the air, during the flurry of the wind, and two people were seen 
to drop from it, then the house bursted into hundreds of parts. One man while 
in the air saw as a flying partner, a brick chimney and also saw it when it 
tore to pieces, this man was not seriously hurt. The shipping clerk heard the 
roar and mistook it for the freight. He said "the freight is not quite due but 
she is coming". A large pine fell near one of the few cabins left, and had not 
the pine broke in two it would have crashed through the center of the house. 
The top was broken off and passed over the house and fell in line with the 
other part of the tree. Both ends are near the house. Near twenty people out 
of every hundred were killed or injuried.

Additional Comments:
Tornado at Oconee.

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