Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-02-25

Our District School House, not q YES
tlge remaining; but fortunately our
school was dismissed earlier than usual, ,
which no doubt saved many lives.
Presbyterian Church removed from
its foundation and badly shat, cred.
Our roads and fields are filed with
the fragments Of buildings, and parts Of
trees, rails, &c &c. Hogs, geese and
hens were seen flying in the air pnd
were carried quite a distance, some xii.
led, some manned, and some unhurt.
The Herald Of the l0tn gives the fol
lowing particulars in addition:
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO.
On Friday las', between the hours Of
3 q 4 O'Clock, P. NJ, a tremendous storm
of wind, accompanied with hail and rain,
passed over considerable portion OF
this county In the township Of Men.
tor, we are informed some IS houses
we're blown down, together with many
barns and various other buiIdings-lor-
tunately, however, no lives were lost
In some places, the timber was com
pIeteIy leveIed with the ground, and
even apple trees, some that had wealth
cred the storm Of many years, were
torn up by the roofs. Mary farmers
suffered considerably by the destruction
of their fences, in addition to their
losses otherwise.
A portion Of the storm passed over
this village, and some houses were left
as we are informed, without a pane o
lass in the side on which the storm ap
preached 1t passed off in an eOsrerIy
direction. accompanied with vivid flash
es Of lightning, and severe claPS Of thun'
der.
Additional Pnticpldrs--Since writ
ing the above, we learn that young
man in the employ OF Mr.. King, short
distance from this place, had his leg
broken, in consequence Of the falling ol
the roof OF barn in which he was en-
gagged at the time.-PaineSUiIle Tele
graph
The sweep of the tornado in MayfeI6
is described by an eye witness as fright.
fully terri6, Swift destruction marked
its path. 1t moved forward like black,
pitchy cloud hugging the earth, and
whirIing high in air every substance
drawn within its vortex. The largest
forest trees were upurned or twisted off
like fragile shoots, and in some places
even StumpS we're torn from the earth
/ Half embedded stones were lifted out,
and large logs were moved off by wind
power that would have required strong
OK power 10 have started. Log buildings
were torn up and whirled away TO the
very foundation legs, and our informant
mentioned an instance in which tEc
I men rushed from a barn and fell Ga'
before The blast, and were literally tom
bIed end over end some distance by Us
fury. As The tornado crossed Chugrin
river, the water was drawn from its bee
and dashed upon the frame dwelling o
Mr.. Dean, located on the bank, will
such resislless might as 10 sweep the
house against tree at some little dis
tance, when il broke into fragments
many Of which were borne away fol
miles. The bedding and many IIgh
articles in the houses cannot be found Al
all, and the escape Of Mrs. d. aud he1
children from instant death is a marVe
of marVels. The Church in KirtIant
was moved round from its foundation
some 40 feet.
The tornado varied in width from fifty
10 one hundred rods, and lasted but
moment or so The vivid recollection
Of its wrath will long remain with thos
who felt or witnessed it.
The occurrence Of such tornado ac
companied with thunder and Lightning
in this climate in mid winter, is sin
guarity worthy the attention and exO
minalion OF the curious observers Of al
mospheric phenomena.