Pontiac Hit Glancing Blow By Twister

Salley, April 8 – (Special) – Salley dug itself out today from the wreckage and debris of a tornadic windstorm which struck here early last night.

Hardly a house in the town escaped some damage but there was no loss of life.

Mrs. Alton Fogle, who lives one mile south of Salley and who was painfully injured by flying glass, was the only reported casualty. Her home was severely damaged.

Electric power and telephone service were knocked out and the electricity did not come back on until 7 a.m.

The storm cut a wide swath through the residential section. Many large old trees were uprooted.

The high school field house was partly unroofed. The Salley Gin was badly peppered by the large hail stones which fell.

One garage was blown away but the automobile in it was undamaged.

A huge oak fell across a Negro house occupied by an aged woman. A large timber was blown through the walls of another house.

The house of a Negro couple and their nine children completely collapsed about the family, all of whom escaped miraculously.

Many barns were demolished or damage in the immediate vicinity.

Aiken and Orangeburg Red Cross workers are rendering disaster relief.

Townsfolk expressed appreciation for the help of men from the South Carolina Electric and Gas company and the state highway patrol, who worked all night and are still on the job, repairing lines and clearing roads of debris.

Pontiac Storm

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and near Pontiac on highway No. 1, winds of tornadic force dipped doewn and caused relatively minor damage in a path a mile and a half wide, uprooting many trees, practically demolishing two small houses, bowling over a windmill and unroofing out-buildings, but injuring no one.

J. A. Riley of the Clemson Sandhill Experiment station near Pontiac said the storm blew over two packing sheds at the station, collapsed a garage on top of a car and damaged alfalfa and small grain crops.

Mr. Riley said Captain R. W. McNeely’s wind mill was blown down and Wilson’s filling station damaged slightly.

Mrs. Horace T. Jacobs said outbuildings were damaged and some roofing blown off the residence at her home.

A large tree was lifted bodily from Mrs. George Seeley’s place and carried across both the Seaboard railroad tracks and highway No. 1 before being tossed into a field.

Wagener Hit by Hail

At Wagener, eight miles from Salley, there was little wind but a terrific hail storm. The stones were described as big as “goose eggs.”

Roofs suffered server damage. There were many large holes in the roof of the new theater, the interior of which suffered rain damage.

Automobile tops also were badly damaged by the hail.

Sharp lightning and heavy thunder accompanied the storm and a calf on a nearby farm was killed by a lightning bolt.

At Perry between here and Wagener, many panes were broken by the hail and the lightning interrupted power service.

The storm also visited parts of Saluda county. In the town of Saluda, a carnival suffered heavy damage when its tents were blow away and several trailer trucks overturned.