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The Ypsilanti Daily Press
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan
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Tornado devastates northeastern Georgia and parts of South Carolina, killing 38 and injuring over 300 on April 17. It destroys 147 homes, damages 103, and hits towns like Royston and Greenwood, with a hospital unroofed but no patients injured.
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Atlanta, Apr. 17-AP- Weary rescue workers, digging into the wreckage left by a tornado that roared over a 100 mile strip in northeastern Georgia and western North Carolina early Sunday, fixed the death toll today at 38, with more than 300 persons injured.
Twenty one deaths were reported in Georgia-12 in the Royston area and nine in the Nuburg community of Hart County. Seventeen persons were killed in South Carolina.
American Red Cross representatives said that at least 147 homes were destroyed and 103 homes damaged.
Striking around midnight, Sunday, the storm was likened by many as a gigantic, death dealing ball, which bounded from one community to another, leaving untouched spaces between. Others said that it "roared like an express train," and was accompanied by heavy rain and electrical display.
The first area hit was in the vicinity of Gainesville, in Hall County, Ga., where in 1936 another tornado killed 183 persons and injured more than 200. The storm then rushed on across the Georgia line into South Carolina, striking at least seven places with renewed fury.
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Residents of Royston, a town of 1,400 in Franklin County, Ga., where 12 were killed, said the storm dipped into a row of houses three blocks from the business section, leveling eight in line. Five persons died in one residence there.
Doctors, hampered by power failure, used flashlights in treating the injured. Mrs. Alvin Dove, brought to a hospital shortly before the tornado struck, gave birth to a baby during the storm.
Principal damage at Greenwood, S. C., aside from houses leveled, was to the two-story brick hospital. This building was unroofed and so heavily damaged that all patients, except a few on the first floor, had to be evacuated.
No patients in the hospital at the time the storm struck were injured.
Resultant death and destruction of property.
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Northeastern Georgia And Western North Carolina, Including Royston, Nuburg, Hart County, Gainesville, Hall County, And Greenwood, S.C.
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Early Sunday, Before April 17
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A tornado struck a 100-mile strip in northeastern Georgia and western North Carolina, killing 38 people and injuring over 300. It destroyed 147 homes and damaged 103 others, hitting areas like Royston where 12 died, Nuburg with 9 deaths, and South Carolina with 17 deaths. The storm caused significant damage including to a hospital in Greenwood, S.C., and a baby was born during the event.