Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-22
PIE TENNESSEE TORNADO.

From the Nashville Republican, Juno OIL
To the Editor of the Nashville Republican,
SusLBvvLIE june 3 1890
Dear Sir. AS il may not be uninte resting TO your
readers know something about the particulars of
most awful visitation of providence that befsl our
town ard lis inhabitants Monday night last, it is
deenei advisable 20 furnish you with such statement
= are able to make .
storm, or rather Tornado, the like Of which
few people nov living Witnessed before, visited
US abou, midnight. and has, literally, left once
pleasant snd comfortable village an indiscriminste
heap of ruins. The cloud winch was preguan, with
destruction 20 our devoted town, arose about 10
O'clock in the west, and at first seemed portend
little than ordinary shower Of rain with n
gust of wind.-Thcsc appearances to peoDle who
were accustomed TO storms this season Of the year
produced no approximations IF danger, and our c,.
gcus retired usual 10 their wonted repose-In
short time all had resigned themse yes into the arn.
of sleep Alas how little did some Of them suppose
tina, The sleep which they then invited would be e,er
nal-or that ere they awoke they would be landed ON
tina, ursee country, 'irom whose bourne no TRAVELLERS
ever returns:
About midnight, many ore awakened by the unu
sal violence of the wind and the ceaseless voice Of
the thunder which begun 10 come peal after peal, in
such rapid succession to inspire fearful apprehen
sops in the breast OF tho the sumbers of MANY
who slept in close rooms, were still undisturbrd,-
but il was only for a moment The already agtated
elements, were now worked up TO the highest pitch
of FURY, until it seeued that the very spirit OF the
wari~ia had been let loose to scatter desolaon, and
Death far anil wide with unrelentn. and an unre-
strained hand. All were now awakened to q sense of
their real dagger rather CONSERVATION and DESPAIR
had SO completely tahcn posse of them that Re
could tel! where they how they ere situated
Many who had gwen Themselves sleep in calm secu-
ri,y only an hour two fore, found themselves be-
fore they e,ef', aware, biovn into the sirees and
nobI;o souarear q considerable distance from their
iud9ings, where they say that they we're surroun-
dcd by many stirling indications Of destruction
81 that they almost fancied themselves suddenly
,or,ed 10 another world.-Ths Transition from the
cn;ovment of sleep, in close and quiet rooms to the
urbu,en fury of cori'endipg elements, sudden
that none could :ell for the mt where they were
or whence they had come All was horror and Wild
alright.
doors heard long, lnud rambling noise without. Ey
come il was mstaked for thunder, and by Others for
the falling of the adjscen, timber. But the melan-
cboiv evidence of their soon i:ased upon them
Thunder it W as notfaliing timber it II vas
the nufui crush IF "a hundred diminished buildings,
nore than half of them private dwellings, Offices,
work sbops and houses of business, including, with
one or two epons every valuable building in the
place. But this was not ai''
For the angel Of death spread his wings 90 the hast
And the eve. OF tie seepers waved deadly and chill
AID hearts but heaved and for were sim
Five Of our young men fell victims o the Jury OF
the storm. Their names wore Mr.. James r N, w.
ton editor Of the Western 1nteiLpepcet NJ, Arnold
a Young gent euian dong business as cIerk m III.
store of Mr. James Reed, ond MIR. Wb;,son M
nideou, and Mr.. Caldwell, young men working at
the saddling business. They w.ye all n.,snnS -,
most aimable characters, unblcmlsbed in ,no,, r,
and remarkable for industry and attention to bus,
pess
The three last were taken out Of heaps Of rubbish
OF fallen Duldngs' under which they were literally
buried. Their tea ures much dis orted with fractures
and bruises. Mr. Newton who had been blown nm
wards of hundred yards from his Office when he
was sleeping; his bed and bedstead along with him
was found IN ihe morning amidst masses of broken
fragments OF timer, a monglcd mutilsted lump of
mortality. MIR Arnold who did not die until a,me
tune after dark of the ensuing day. had large nosh
cut in his left side by the tenoD of door, that bew
against him while be was attempting TO escape from
ms lodgugs with so much force as to tear out
siderable portion Of his liver Their remains were
oil dres-edand lam side by side IN the same house
until the rexi morning, when three of them were
buried IN one ave, the other wo bayinc boen taken
to the country Ivy their friends
in town sIna Us OURS you need not he inf,rno
ed that the rghi OF five young men no had no lon
ger than the morning bcire enjoyed all the yioor of
health and boom If youth, side by side deched ent
IN the sad hsblIEncnis OF deafh,and The appearance
ol three collins moving slowly along our streets fol
lowed by vast crowd Of astonshed q nd m.lancLolc
inhabitants Of town and country, was solemn and
Impressive IN the extreme and powerfully calcla, ed
Harepy TO impress rejecting nina with sense of
tho uncertainty of human life The vani,v of earth
ly pursuits and the deusye nature Of e.S,blv hes
ana earthly prospects Bu such 10 the fate IF man
gn, .. ten other ctnsns were badly wounded and MANY
,bs say Injured AMER oil, we reflect moment upon
49,. ~ ." n,s devastation that has been wrought the NOM
Der o houses that u the eanh beo,s nol on
,,o" ''nNe' ntH an opportunity escape and the m rae
mannrf ~ winch many pre- served who yer, biovn
mos ovt Of their beds Of Them fron the s, o,;n ri
we nudipgs N the place. instead u wondsr, :, a.
many 1871 Their lives j, rather matter of o,ofo"n%s n-
en tai tweny times the number did ao, .s, - s,tor.h
u mey hs Hsd the calanIious vista ,or esms ae IN
drso mus, have Sii. ~, s.."s ou women Our Oh l.
nv. % sns, any s'empt TO escape fron The dans w
,'6ysl fisaI us w",o have IN marty every pstanee
ION Of Tying ,bs ssd n. ssuD. sno the snos