Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A negro named Bill Johnson was banged by a mob at Gonzales, Tex., for brutally assaulting a respectable white woman. Fuller and more accurate details ot tho cyclone which recently swept through North Carolina make the disaster greater than first reports indicated. Eight counties were laid waste, nearly twenty people killed and wound' ed, and the damage to property will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars-* In Catawba County alone the loss is over SIOO,OOO. Some of the fanners in that county lost whole herds of cattle by the destructive elements. Some of these were blown a hundred yards away, and buried among the debris of the wreck. Over 100 houses were blown down in Catawba County. Eight or ten of the persons wounded will die. Hundreds of women and children escaped by crawling into caves in the mount' ains, cellars, and underground places. Sev eral women climbed up into the tree-tops, where they remained in their night-clothes throughout the fearful storm, and were found by their friends next morning and removed.