A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . AUTOGRAPHS OF ROMANS OF THE PERIOD AROUND 1870-71—III. Miscellaneous—Two Playful Windstorms 445. Carnegie Library and the City Auditorium. but this did not come. A stiff wind most of Sunday aggravated the seemed to be that fruit and crops would be hurt, but not seriously. TREMENDOUS STORM On Thursday, the 12th inst., at one oclock, a violent storm, moving in a South-erly direction, passed over this place, carrying with it dense
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . AUTOGRAPHS OF ROMANS OF THE PERIOD AROUND 1870-71—III. Miscellaneous—Two Playful Windstorms 445. Carnegie Library and the City Auditorium. but this did not come. A stiff wind most of Sunday aggravated the seemed to be that fruit and crops would be hurt, but not seriously. TREMENDOUS STORM On Thursday, the 12th inst., at one oclock, a violent storm, moving in a South-erly direction, passed over this place, carrying with it dense, black clouds of dust,leaves, branches of trees, and all sorts of light trash, and doing very considerabledamage in its course. The bands of ^olus seemed to have been loosed and verilythe winds did blow and crack their cheeks. The following damages by the storm have come to our knowledge: Two freightcars standing on the track just north of the depot were driven down the track, bythe force of the wind, to the foundry, where a switch being turned wrong forthem to go farther, they were thrown from the track and one of them smashed up;about one-third of the sheet iron roof of the depot on each side of the building,commencing on the north end
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