File:A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 (1922) (14590061128).jpg

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Title: A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Battey, George Magruder, 1887-1965
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Publisher: Atlanta, Webb and Vary Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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that the five small Gilliamchildren narrowly escaped death. Some were free, others caught under flyingtimbers and none hurt beyond a bad shaking up. They were gathered up andTaken to the home of a neighbor nearby. Mrs. Henry Gilliam was hit in the headby a flying timber and painfully hurt. She was attended by Dr. Henry A. Turner,of Rome. A baby three months old was uninjured. On Jim Stewarts place on the road leading over to the Oostanaula river, con-tinued Mr. Akridge, the one-story frame cottage occupied by W. H. Sims, had onlytwo rooms left after the twister had passed. The front and back porches, kitchenand two chimneys were blown away. It seemed like a thousand trees had beenblown down, he said. While Mr. Akridge was talking, a flash of lightning hit the telephone wire.Did you see that lightning? he asked. Lets get away from here! The tornado was traced westward below Rome to a point on the Coosa riverbetween Blacks Bluff and Mt. Alto. It skipped across the valley land northwest
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A TALL SENTINEL ON A LOFTY HILL Romes historic clock tower, built in 1871 by John W. Noble. Prior to erection of theplant on Fort Jackson it supplied the city with water. Miscellaneous—Two Playful Windstorms 441 of the Ab Dean farm and tore a path through clumps of woods to the neighbor-hood of Cherokee street and Branham avenue (South). At this point the windlifted off the front of the Hugley giocery store, then got into a block of negroone-story frame dwellings on Pennington avenue. Six houses in a row had theirbrick chimneys knocked off and one was smashed almost flat. In the house setdown upon the ground Mattie Rogers, crippled daughter of Fletcher Rogers, thecolored barber, was slightly hurt in the mouth. Two chickens (hens) were killed.Debris was scattered everywhere. Then the twister snorted up a ridge and blewa pine tree across a pig pen, where the pig grunted his eminent satisfaction. Ontop of this ridge was a one story frame dwelling said to be owned by Mrs. AliaHolmes Nun

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