| From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta,
Ga.) |
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| May 8, 1861 |
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| There was a terrible tornado
on the Columbia branch of the South Carolina Railroad, near Stilton's
yesterday afternoon, where both telegraph lines, poles, &c., were
broken and thrown down for many hundred yards. Large trees were thrown
across the track, and the telegraph poles were torn up out of the
ground and, houses were blown down, and plantations destroyed by the
force of the wind. A large force was put on last night to repair the
damage done on the telegraph lines. |
| Constitutionalist, 7th instant |
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