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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

$50,000 and it is thought that that amount will not cover

the loss by several thousand dollars.

Goods of all descriptions were scattered to the winds, and

can be found all over the surrounding country. Many

families are today homeless and without clothes or

money, and the scene is indeed heart-rending.

There is no public building of any description left

standing in the town. There were three white and four

colored churches in the town, and they succumbed to the

force of the wind first, and then followed the largest

business houses.

The farmers seemed to have been the worst sufferers from

the disaster. They have saved nothing worth speaking of,

and very few of them have a shelter on their farms. Those

who had gathered a portion of their cotton crop and had it

in their cotton houses had it blown away, and also most of

their com. Only a small portion of the cotton in them.

There is not a fence left standing anywhere, the rails

being scattered all over the fields. Many farmers lost

portions of their cattle and hogs and even horses were

killed by stables falling on them.

Fort White is a total wreck, and will never again build up

to what it was before the storm. Many families are

preparing to move away, while there are a great many

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