People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — TORNADO AT AUGUSTA, GA. [ARTICLE]

TORNADO AT AUGUSTA, GA.

Many Houses Blown Down and a Nu a- I ber of People Seriously Injured. Augusta. Ga., March 20.—At 9 o’clock: • this morning a tornado descended on Augusta, back of the old Lafayette race course. The first house struck wfis hurled across McKinnle street ami thrown against the house on the opposite side. Its sole occupant, a colored woman, was badly but not fatally hurt. Nothing but the floor of the house was left. In the next house demolished a. negro woman and five children wereburied under the wreck, but after an. hour’s hard work were extricated alive, though some of them were badly bruised. In the central southern part of the city a dozen houses were wrecked and all along the path of the storm trees and fences and outbuildings were levelled. A small house was hurled through the roof and into one of the bigrooms of the Miller fl»ur mills. The Central railroad roundhouse and', paint shops were badly damaged, and one engine smashed under the debris. It is extraordinary that no lives were lost and that few people were hurt. The entire police and fire forces reinforced by large numbers of citizens are at work on the ruined houses, and those whohave been hurt are being cared for at the hospitals.