Tornados Hit Newberry County, South Carolina Tornado in Newberry County The State - July 8, 1891 Prosperity, S.C., July 7 - A terrific tornado passed near here this evening, doing much damage.  B. F. Boozer's work shop is completely demolished.  At George Counts several out=buildings were unroofed and blown down.  Jacob Hawkins had a strong ginhouse blown down and other buildings damaged. The storm seemed to vent its fury on Clinton Feller's place, tearing into pieces a large, two-story barn and otherwise doing great damage. At some points the storm assumed cyclonic proportions, uproofing large trees and literally twisting others off.  Devastations of trees, fences, orchards and corn marks the path of the storm.  I have not heard of the loss of any life or bodily injury.  It is impossible at this hour of the night to get all the particulars.  The rain was very light her. Wild Work of the Wind - Great Destruction Wrough in the neighborhood of Little Mountian The State - September 14, 1892 Prosperity, S.C., Sept. 13 - This afternoon, about 3 o'clock, a tornado passed, destroying vegetation, forests and buildings in its track, which fortunately was quite narrow.  Its course was from southwest to northeast. We first hear of it near Hendrix' mill, where it struck a cotton field, blowing off the very bolls.  We next hear of it about three miles from that point, where it struck the premises of Michael Sheely, tearing away one end of his dwelling and doing other extensive damage. About one mile from this place it struck the residence of John A. Sheely, a good frame dwelling, near Little Mountain, which it tore into splinters.  Mr. and Mrs. Sheely were just getting home, and seeing the storm coming, ran to get their children out of the house.  They succeeded in getting them all out except one.  A part of two rooms was left partially intact, and in one of these was the little girl, who was miraculously saved.  The bedding and furniture is all broken and blown away.  Every building on the place is blown away.  The stables were lifted literally from the ground, leaving the mules unhurt.  Two bales of seed cotton in the cotton house is all blown away.  Five hundred bushels of oats were blown away and cannot be traced.  It is indeed miraculous that Mr. Sheely nor any of his family were killed.  The distance from the scene and the lateness of the hour prevent ascertaining anything further tonight. School in Newberry Wrecked by Storm - Two Teachers and Thirty-five Children have Remarkable Escape from Serious Injury The State - May 8, 1915 Newberry, May 7 - A tornado struck the Garmany school house at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and left it a complete wreck.  Not a piece of timer that composed the two-room building was left standing.  It looks like it might have been blown up by dynamite.  There were two teachers in the house engaged in their work and 35 children, and marvelous to tell, not a life was lost; there was nobody seriously hurt, though numbers suffered painful scratches and bruises.  A few minutes after the thing happened the telephone brought the news to the city, and in a little while numbers of physicians and scores of citizens were on their way in automobiles, making the distance, three miles, in a few minutes.  The building was a mass of ruins.  It had been struck on the southwest side by the tornado and moved about six feet from its pillars; the sides had collapsed inward and the roof was mashed down upon the mass as if some titan had crushed it in with a blow from above.  The teachers and children had crawled out through the debris as best they could, the walls and roof being held up partially by the desks in the rooms, though the desks had been broken to pieces.  Miss May Brown and Miss Margaret Burton were the teachers, in separate rooms; but Mrs. Wilson Brown was teaching today for Miss Brown.  One of the teachers says a cloud came up and it became very dark.  Some of the smaller children became frightened and asked if they could not get near to the teachers.  She said yes, and at that instant the house was struck as suddenly as if by a cannon ball, and the exact instant it was a mass of ruins, with children screaming and moaning.  It was an awful moment, the teachers supposing that numbers of the children had been killed.  Their delight was as great as their surprise when, by the aid of the teachers and the larger pupils, the last child was free from the ruins, and it was found that nobody had been seriously hurt. The tornado passed not high over the town of Newberry and was heard and felt to some extent in the western part of town.  After demolishing the Garmany school house, it struck the earth again a few hundred  yards farther on, going eastward, and damaged John A. Shealy's crib and barn. Storm in Newberry The State - June 27, 1918 Newberry, June 26 - A tornado struck the section of Newberry County yesterday afternoon lying between Jalapa and Whitmire and did considerable damage, chiefly to the corn crop.  Many trees were blown down and some small houses.  The large dwelling on Mrs. Kate Swittenberg's plantation near Jalapa was crushed under a falling tree of large size.  The tornado was accompanied by heavy rain.  In the city there was only a slight shower and no wind.   This is a FREE website If you were directed here through a link for which you paid $ for, you can access much more FREE data via our Newberry County index page at http://genealogytrails.com/scar/newberry/index.htm Also make sure to visit our main Genealogy Trails History Group website at http://genealogytrails.com for much more nationwide historical/genealogical data and access to our other state/county websites