Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-05-13
10 1HE hDITORS or TIE ENoIyJRER
DREADFUL ilURRJrANE

One of the most violent storms of ,yird v. ;,. 4,
ia' evening" tat has ever in hi. borooI
us IN This county appears TO have a
Dr. Morris's, who sustained some injury As IL eon,nu
ed It's violence seemed 10 ncress tearing down trees
anu every ming before II. large Meeting house (Con
CORD surrounded 10y trees has been taken from lie oil
uon ana Carried some feet, and Injured anil
altogether deprived OF lis surrounding shade copforta
Gie dwelling house with two brick chmues las haa 80,
TO pieces; also, three Tour other houses entirely
swept away paris OF The houses have been found half
nile oil III The woods; the house not inhabited this
year Many houses have been blown down i'm the neigh
pofhood; fences and trees laid 10 the grouhd One family
below has heen dangerously injured; The old gentleman If
ne mouse NJ over' has been lying speecbIess ever
since How Var II has gone below, am not ntorned ne
distance IN width was moi more than halt mile Several
birds have been found lying e4d and nearly picked
."eed~ood' Caroline County, .ndy 6. 1881.
ne following striking description Of il is from the last
Petersburg lnteigehcer. 1t shows The effects ot 'I
Tornado in other directions: 80
" The most terrific tornado Witnessed in this part
oil Virginia, occurred Monday last The drs,ruciion
OF hnnan lie and % property OF every kind /. tulv an
Pslng Ii would be impossible to give more Than aio
outline oil ITS desolans fury. The Is represented
by those who bad opportunity Witnessing H. "a ono
Of surprising and inexPfcssible grsndeur and ssbnily
Every thing within range laid PROSTATE: The aIoe,
ees were torn up by lie roots and carried considerable
disaoce; dwelling sud out houses evelled with the
earth and their fragments scattered i'm every direction
The day had been cloudy with onal showers About
three o'clock the clouds assumed Lgck and lowering as
Pect' IN lew minutes alter, the wliilwnd commenced
its ravsges correspondent who Witnessed liz
says sit was ia The form Of inverted cone and svsr
seemed 10 rush The Aet
ed, you agh the limbs Of the careenr fhroneb
TIE darkeLsi air It's duration any point was no, ,or
man or minutes" general course was from West
TO East: lie width varied rom two hundred v.,d. 10 Iii
mie; and, om what we have sieady heard of ts de.
sTnciivc march, s extent could not have been less IN
seventy miles The following details will we fear ore.
sent but very imperfect sketch of lie devastation:
"A gentlemen writes us that tie tornado appears to
nave commenced ~ The county Of Lunenburg near Hun
cry Io"n' where almost ell tie heavy timber was torn up
by the roots, and where proved very fatal Nearb{
place, ~ seems mat tie in
we're tie principal sufferers several negroes and chlren
eeing Killed. Hence II passed by Nouowsy Court.
mouse, where the storm nst ad OF abaiing
public road being rendered Utterly npsssable Fenu
NolloWey CouFthouse, or near that place e wind nass
ing w Nor'h-ea' direction, reached the plantation Of
Mr u fitzgerald, where great injury as done bat no
lives las' Near bis residence was That Of Mir Tobn Fi,
who suffered Immensely having negro killed ano,bets
sfn broke, snd various OILERS injured Hence pursued
the 20 the honse of Mr. Justice where reat
injury was likewise sustained, several persons severely
inquired, and tio lie Of despared o. The nextJeoh
was 'ns' OF Mr. Joshua Hawks, honest, upright cii-
zen who was literally crushed, bis wife lie same time
receiving injury severe to leave but little hopes Of
recovery. -
"The next place from whence we have anv a,,he,sc
particulars, Is Curtis Formerly Reese's) on Cox Road
where the storm appears have been equally distinctive
MI. Curtis whites Ne, 'thst every house Mr. Herbert
Reese splaniaon except lis dwelling house l. blown 10
atoms MIR Frank Reese, The Overeer and negroes lost
their hyes several other egroes badly crippled his wagon
which was nearly new, hurled to atoms The wheels
broken ~ fragments and the hubs blown two or three
hundred yards Miss Jnney Cfowdef had very house on
her iarm dwelling house aud a torn pieces Old fer.
mer Reams lost every house except his dwelling house
NO ves lost Al either Of The two last named places un
dcrsland from gentleman traveller that passed on 10 The
peighboufhood 81 Col letters Several lives lost in that
neighbofhood ai,o hear that IL has done considerable
damage IN the neghboufhood Of Thos Jordsn with the
loss OF lives, &c tappeers that Il passed from west 10
east near on the north side and nearly parallel with Cox
Road
I'VE have no certain accounts Of the ravares Of the
tornado alter passed The neghborhoot Of Curtis Unit, ia
reached ne plantation Q. Mr. Wm f. Boisseau, about
four miles fFom town The scene Of THE place battles