Numerous small dwelling houses, barns and garages were completely wrecked, several substantial homes were unroofed and otherwise damaged, hundreds of trees uprooted and telephone poles blown down and scattered in all directions early Sunday afternoon when Whiteville, the county seat of Columbus county, was visited by a cyclone of intense velocity, states this morning’s Wilmington Star. No persons were killed, but it is officially reported by D.S. Hayes, chief of police of Whiteville, that a number of persons were more or less injured and several are without homes. Rain and hail did considerable damage as far west along the W.C. and A. branch of the Atlantic Coast Line as Fair Bluff and eastward along the same railroad as far as Delco.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., May 12, 1924
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