The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-10
Terrible Hurricane. Kentucky Com

Terrible Hurricane.--The Kentucky Com n1entator, contains letter from d gentleman in Falmouth PendietOn County, which states that on the 26th of May, late in the afternoon fearfuy threatning cloud arose in the West, surcharged with hail, and electricity and as it rolled on in it's majestic approach, accom- panied by incessant rumbling, loud peals of thunder, and ceasless flashes of lightning. gave to all within it's bounds terrific forebordipgs of destruction. The spread of its ruins have not yet fully been learned but as far as has been heard, from the direction the storm came it carried destruction before it. Its width at this place was perhaps not less than six miles, and throughout that extent, in most places. it literally prostrated the forests. houses, fen cing, and every thing within its reach. As the storm passed over town, it did some iniu- ry, by blowing in some windows, taking off. in part roofs, and in prostrating some stables, trees, &c.; but this when compared to the destruction and ruin sustained in the imme- diate neighborhood, particularly to the farms of Messrs. Frazer, Monroe, Levingood, aud Mrs. Turner and others, diminishes to noth- ing. So complete was the ruin upon the farm of Mrs. Turner, that every pannel of her fencing, together with her dwelling house. WuD o"VRt uOWn tHC sutiCt lO lIlp very foundation walls, and every out-house, stable, Gc. literally torn to pieces and their contents either carried away or scattered up- on the earth. When the wind struck the dwelling house, she and her four children were Tn it: in an instant the body of the house, furniture. the beds and bed -steads, the chairs, and the tables. were whrled in the air in cOmingIed ruin, and finally spread over a distance from quarter to half a mile from the foundation; not one piece of furniture was left entire. And strange to relate, while | it left Mrs. Turner senseless for short peri od, upon that part of the shattered and re- moved floor, not one of the five were mortal ly wounded--although it cast some of the joists and timbers of the house, from above their heads over the space of half mile.- Part of the tables, knives and forks were fouud upwards of one hundred yards from the house part of the clock case, and oth- CT articles of furniture and cloathng. nearly half mIle and what of the house and con tents was not scattered in the direction of the storm, was left in chaotic ruin, scarcely ever witnessed. immediately adjacent the foundation. Not one out-bulding of any kind, even down to a stone spring house, did it leave, either with roof, or that was not wholly or partially prostrated, upon the whole of that farm. In fact so complete was the destruction there, and immediately adia- cent thereto, that at this time six farms, and some of them extensive ones; lying immedi- ately on the river above this, are connected by one entire exterior fence, replaced on the succeeding day by the neighbors collected for that purpose in order to give temporary protection to growing crops upon them. We have heard of one other similar destruction of dweng-house only; of many farms torn to pieces; but of two lives only being lost within this County, and these were by the falling of timbels or houses but the loss and injury to the growing and valuable tim Der. to Out-houses, to fencing to dwelling. houses, and every description of live proper y, in every quarter. are incalculahle.
 Singular Propidence. Dyer. a cooper, hearing the cry of child, about eight years old. which had fallen OserbOard at Eastport, Jumped into the water and was bringing it to shore, when boat from the English brig
 Nimrod came to him when he was nearly ex. hausted, and relieved him of his burden. He returned to his work, and when the lad was
 brought to life, soon afler, he was informed
 that it was hts Ocn SoR.
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