The Marlin Democrat
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 14, 1904
BLUE RIDGE
STORM SWEPT
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Houses Blown Away, Trees and Fences
Leveled.
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A considerable portion of the Blue
Ridge country was swept by the winds on Thursday afternoon. The greatest damage
reported was done in the vicinity of Woodland settlement. The, residence of Mit
Cormelison was entirely blown away and the family miraculously escaped death or
serious injury. The contents of the house, furniture, etc, were scattered in all
directions, amounting almost to a total destruction.
A negro tenant's house on the Ward farm near Reagan was
blown away, but none of the occupants were seriously hurt.
Small tenant houses, smoke houses, barns, fences and
trees that happened to be in the path of the storm were in most cases swept
away. The path of the wind, which was of a cyclonic nature, was scarcely more
than thirty yards wide in any place, and in some and in one or two instances
halt a house was torn away and carried off, leaving the other half standing.
The storm came in several sections and from different
directions. Its trails were like those of a serpent winding in and out in its
course of destruction.
There was no rain or hail on lower Blue Ridge, but the
hail fall at Otto and near Odds and at old Ogden was very heavy, doing the crops
much damage in some localities.
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