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t AO ' ' i, -, i' r '""""I . rn n I u THE ESTABLISHED NEWSPAPER OF MA DISON COUNTY VOL. 34 8 Pages MARSHALL, N. C, THURSDAY; MARCH 28, 1935 PRICE $1.00 A YEAH BUILHI .ViriMlriUL -Umvli U U 0 1 Uliywit l.J IVMi i - " saw aiai i j j mm aw ibsi .1 v i m.a aa k ar mm mm mm u sat a . asai a .1 m air nan n mm mm mm mm mm mm m m mm mm mm mm mm m. m mm mm -4 ,. , mm w & .m mm mm m u mm mm mm mm mm M&iy Homes andOther Prqperfy; Destroyed By Wind Monday ONE HAN KILLED AND MANY MORE OR I LESS INJURED IN STORM STRICKEN SECTIONS Little Pine Section Worst Hit Of Any National Red Cross To Assist Desolate People In Regaining Homes In the space of two or three minutes last Mon day afternoon, property amounting to thousands and thousands of dollars was destroyed by the worst wind storm ever known in- this section in the memory of the oldest people. Scores of homes were completely destroyed' or damaged almost beyond repair. Hundreds of people have visited the sections to .look with their own eyes upon scenes which cannot be described in words or pictures. So great is the damage and so gen eral in that section that the National Red Cross and Federal Relief organizations will help to re store the property to the point where the people .an holn fhpmsplvps One man of the Little Pine VUll 11V it VWww t wm ' section suf? ered a crushed skull when his house was literally blown a considerable distance to a field on the other side ot tne roaa ana crasneu ..... n 1 ;. mi C i with him ana his wiie ana son m it. 1 ne wiit; was seriously injured, the son slightly injured, and juries." . ' ..;. Visited by photographers and news writers of the Asheville Citizen and Asheville Times; the catastrophe was about as well described as could be done in words and pictures, and jn this de scription we are quoting largely from those pa-! pers. Wednesday's Citizen says: j fiO or more homeless persons who ' jhave sought temporary shelter in the homes of relatives or friends. carried after the fury of the wind had subsided. The list of injured includes the fol lowing: Mrs. A. F. Sluder, several broken ribs. Baxter (Back) Ledford, injured hand. Fred Redmon. 15, injured hand. Mrs. Lyda J. Brown, badly bruised leg. , Gracie Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyda J. Brown, injured arm. Mrs. Lloyd Dockery, flesh of leg badlv lacerated and torn. Wesley Fortner, shock and bruises. Mrs. Wesley Fortner, shock and bruises. Eugene Ward, outs and bruises oh head. Mrs. Eugene Ward, slight bruises. Relief agencies were making plans todav to 8ro into the sections to as sist those in distress. The Red Cross i is expected to lend assistance to those j in need. First signs of the storm were found by newspaper men today as they drove over the Little Pine road at a noint a)out six miles from Marshall. On a little knoll, just above Little Pine Creek, stood the home of Baxter (Back) Ledfordj a farmer. Today the scene was a picture of destruc tion: The five-room frame' house had been destroyed and the lumber from the dwelling was scattered over the nearby fields. In a tree. 100 yards away, was a piece of clothing, put there by the wind. No one was in jured at this house with the exception of Ledford, whose hand was cut. Farther yp the creek there is a lit tle settlement that has srown around ford. Here the storm centered its church building, was drven by the Roberts' stock barns were, blown to fury, leaving in its wake badly dam-, win through the back wall of the I the ground, and although his cattle aged buildings. The Caney Fork I house and into a dresser in one of 'were uninjured, men had to dig into Missionary Baptist chruch building in the living rooms. The nlank force I jthe debris before they could be freed, this little settlement was destroyed, the dresser aside. The roof of anoth- ;A large chicken house was blowjj In ks Darts beinir scattered in the fields e House, owned by Wlev Roberts, to the creek. j P111. .. . C t S m 4 v' if -IT- in 'A 1 ivemums 01 mouniain nomei, gucn as tnis, were leit ty ma wind storm WHICH swept through a section oil (Madison county late Monday afternoon. The photo shows what Is Tt of the one-storv cement block houMl uttie Fine creek section. fthat Belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Lyda J. Brown on Shoal Hill road in Tha wbstfl Braced the walls outward, thereby saving Its occupants Xrora serious Injury. Mrs. Brown's leg was injured aod mwi (daughter, Oracle, ruSttrtf so Injury to her arm. - Above cut and description courtesy Asheville Citizen and Asheville Times and along Little (Pine Creek. Wiley Roberts' home was damaged on the roof, and a wank, blown from the was 'damaged, and the store, owned ; At thig mCe, a large piece of the by, Kberts and Ledford, was badly timber from the church building was damaged ai the tear. Three of Wiley hov,n -400 feet against the bridge a- ... , ;.- .X. .. '' . v -i . - Residents of the Little Pine Creek, Bear Creek, and Bailey's Branch sec tions, south and west of Marshall, Madison county, began counting their losses today following the destructive freak wind storm of late yesterday af ternoon which resulted in the death of one man, the injury of at least 10 other persons, and property damage amounting to at least $50,000. The (property losses include the destruction of one church building, damage to two other church struc tures; the destruction of numerous dwellings and barns, damage to other The wind storm, which was one of - , .! J. 1 U a series OI sucn aisturuanues tentu- : ing back across the country was due to a low-pressure area. Victims of i the wind, in describing the storm, uaid dark clouds gathered suddenly, 1 and without warning, the full force of the wind struck the section. With- j in 1H or 15 minutes it had subsided,! leaving a pathway of destruction a-' long a mile-wide strip. I A. F. Sluder. 64-year-old farmer of houses, barns and corn cribs. nnH the i tho T.ittlo Pino C. , destruction of forest stands, thous- fatallv injured in the storm which : ands of trees having been uprooted ! wiecked his home. His skull was vi snapped on; at the trunk. The storm, which cut a mile-wide path for a distance of 1 O Or 1 9 milaa in tne area across the French Broad died at 9:15 o'olock last night at the i yerfrom Marshall, left in its wake home of a neighbor where he was ' crushed when the wind carried his house across the road and deposited it in a held adjoining the creek. He i 'Al 'vFtf& The destruction of the bouse, the remains of which are shown here, caused the death of Its owner, A. F. Sluder, 63-year-old farmer of the Little Pine Creek section. The wind picked up the three-room house, which was on a knoll, carried it across the road, and deposited It In a field. As the house settled. It fell apart. Mr. Sluder's skull was crushed and he died Monday night. , . . .. . Aoove cut and description county Ashev.lle Citi.-en and Asheville Timpq &r Widow Is Left Homeless By Storm c Marshall Seniors Banquet cross Little- Pine creek, demolishing the railing. All along the way up Littte Pine creek uprooted trees or trees snapped off at their trunks, were in evidence. Jiebris was pattered in all direction nd gardens along the creek bottoms were ruined. Half a mile up the creek from Wile (Roberts' place was the home of hia uncle. Bud Roberts. Here no one rwas injnredr but the house, a two- -' story Trame structure,' was praeacai-... ly demolished. The walls remain . standing, but the interior is exposed. Three barns, a corn crib, and a corn mill were swept away by the wind. At the mill only the floor and ma chinery were Jeft in ."lace. The top of a small house, near the Bud Rob erts' home, lost its roof. The house was occupied bv Wayne Roberts. About 600 feet up Little Pine creek fiom the Bud Roberts' place was the home of A. F. Sluder, where the storm caused the greatest tragedy. Mr. and Mrs. Sluder and Mrs. Slud er's 15-year-o'd son, Fred Redmon, were in the three-room frame struc ture, which was biiilt on a knoll above the creek. When the storm came, the wind swept the knoll al most bare, carrying the house, with its thcee occupants, down the hill, acorss :t'e Pine.cieek road, and de posited it in the bottom lands near the creek bed. As the house settled, it fell apart, leaving nothing but pieces of wood and household fur n''iings scattered over the field. Mr. Sluder's skull was crushed. He . .11 . L was carried bv neignoors to a nearoy house where he died last night. Mrs. Sluder surf-red several biok jn ribs and the Redmon boy, who sought a haven of refuge behind a stove, es caped with the exception of an in jured hand. Still iaither up the creek and on a stee-, hill on the Shoal Hill road, Lvda J. Brown and his famiy suffer- mm rr -A 7 The Marshall high school o-litfnllv entertained at a banquet Friday night. March 15, 1935, given in their honor by the ju nior class. All the seniors p.sent seemed to be present blessed with good appetites because' loads of de licious food disappeared in a very short time. The junior boys made very efficient waiters. The St. Pa trick's Day color scheme of green at Swannanoa. Mr. Roberts will be remembered as having spoken here at ej tne oss 0f their five-room home, the Presbyterian church two weeks ' which was built of cement blocks, seniors ago. I (Carried to last page) .at BANK STOCKHOLDERS RELIEVED OF DOUBLE LIABILITY In the interest of relieving the, W'hen Wreckage, such as shown abora at tha Wilson nina on rii rmh w - '.v.. . terrtflo wind storm that struck tha on 'an7rS "Kn7- lJl ::T.""i , Phot h'r WUsod, 70-yearld widow, and her two grandchildren surreylnf th. renn, of their KJf horns. They escaped Injury. When arte about her xperlences dUrlnC the storW wlbonTstSS1 to "Pits U ail her trouble Mpl.eU: "I aont know what happened." , s wuson, sun .Above cut and description courtesy Asheville Citizen and ; Asheville Times .ndwhtoTbsYV ciri.d stockholders in the Banks in Madison Mday oft m.t Ra FYiahv iravtt a toast to the """-y ,.ul..v; ou, w,uuiu senior class. Tom RudisUl, senior S0 d,n ,n tllee institutions, class president, responded to this Mr Wdta from the Examining toast. Lola Bkll gave a short read- Staff of the State Banking Depart ing. Bruce Hunter, the other junior t " '? ,Mfar8ha"Ma hJ ' i ? class president, gave a toast to the! Th. Legislature Friday. March 15. faculty. Mr. Dillard responded in Li?say Bill (H. B. No. behalf of the faculty. June Elaine ;J "1 and it was i immediately ratified. Ramsev gave a reading and sanr, , It makes the followmg provisions for "Mv Wild Irish Rose", with the en- stockholders m State bank- tire groun Joining her in the course. ln, nsHranona oi douwe uaouny. Robert Btvan. senior class noet re-' 1. Publcation by the Bank in. a ritoH . noem nertainino- t th- ban- newspaper having general cuxu a- ouet. Many songs were sung by both ?on, n .w1, community where the classes. An unusually , good time ?a"K ' aie' oncB.f"cnT1 was enjoyed b eJnM V 1m- it. 1fl35. of the bank's interest HELEN DENNIS. ito anch - -.. , , senior viass reporter. Special M u s i c At ' Presbyterian Church Next 2. Mailing written notice to each d epos'. tor and to each other creditor PRIOR to May 1st, 1935. , r ' 3. .Sworn .affidavits from a bank officer ..theti such notices have been mailed an H Worn affidavits from .the S U li irl a V Pdblisher' 'on' each insertion of the Mr." A. L. "Roberts and the "Gospel r.- been mad-. " - .: Team" of singers will be at the Prea-I On the comnletion of these Brc- byterian church in Marshal next Sua- ceedings and the forwarding of such Jthem the North Carolina or Uni' dsv morning at It K)0 o'clock. .The affidavits to the Commissoner of States bond nlmdeeA in onnect public and esneciallw the TOunir boys Banks. State bankinr institutiona ean:HtK that met .nd th- .am- tima ana pris are invited to near tnese accomplish mis relief to their stock- obtain relief for tvc:r stockholJer announcement was made ernoon that the Lindsay rould hecome a law, Mr. liood, the Commissioner of Banks, immedi ately oflganized the State into twen ty temporary districts, and planned to send twentv men from his staff in to the field immediately to explain the measure and aid and assist the State banks in taking advantage of its provisions. His forces worked far into the night Friday. March 15, pre paring rorms, amaavus, advertise ments, etc.. and beginning with Mon dav of last week each and every Bank and each and every branch bank will ' UV Visited UV WQSV SflC9CllwiM,va. r . It is Mr. Hood's earnest desire that every North Carolina banking insti tution be listed on July 1st, 1935, :, free from double liabilitv on their . stock issue. We must re-establish a market for bank stock. The ' Lindsay Bill provides that banks previously organized or reliev- ' ed through the provisions of the Ay- cock Bill, an enactment of tha 1933 ' Legislature, an taVe advantage of the sane methods of procedure out- lined above. - and have released to ted . ionv young peopje from tht Farm Sctaoolholders by Jury 1st, 1935. from all double liability. -
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