Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Atlanta, Ga., two negroes were blown to atoms by an explosion of blasting powder. Thirty feet down they struck granite, and commenced drilling for the purpose of blowing up the rock. After one explosion they descended and drilled several more holes, inserting the explosive. Instantly an explosion followed, when the two

bodies were shot ’ fifty 'feet in the airi One”’of f the bodies fell on the ground about one him- | dred feet away from the well, horribly mutilat- , ed, the head being all but severed. The other . body shot straight up in the air and fell back into the well. A party of four girls and two boys went into the woods of Webster County, Kentucky, to gather nuts. They were assaulted by | tramps, who nearly killed the lads and bore the young ladies to a thicket and murdered them all Citizens who turned out in search identified and killed two of the tramps. At Daingerfield, Texas, a cyclone killed a colored family of six persons. A t funnel-shaped storm-cloud did great damage at Busk, Cherokee County, Texas, blowing down a number of houses. The village of Brownsville, Sumter County, Ala., was almost obliterated by a tornado, many houses being blown away and others damaged. Wide swaths of destruction were cut by a wind-storm through South Carolina. A cyclone at Decatur, Ala., sunk two steamboats and did other damage; Corinth, Miss., was visited by the heaviest hailstorm ever known in that section. Heavy rains in the Carolinas caused great damage to cotton and late corn. Similar visitations in Tennessee are reported, railroads suffering seriously on account of washouts.