Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-09-02
Transmitted for the Baltimore american.
TERRIBLE TORNADO!
A Church Blown Down. twenty-five Persons
Killed and a large number Wounded.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 2S.

S'NeiNNaii aug 90.
We learn by u boat Just arrived from
Louisville that destructive tornado
swept over that city yesterday afternoon
accompanied by all awful destruction Of
life and an immense destruction Of prop.
erty. -.....
The congregation of the First Pres.
byterian Church we're at the time Of the
storm attending service. The wind lift
cd up the roof, and caused the walls to
tottle, and amid scene of fright and
confusion fell down into tho body Of the
church, carrying with it a portion of
the walls. The reports received here
state that twenty-five of tho congrega-
tion were instantly killed and a large
number seriously wounded, many of
them fatally. nv
The telegraph is not working, but as
soon as the mail boat arrives will send
full particulars.
A large number Of other buildings
were unroofed and blown down.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Cincinnati, Aug. 29.-Tho Louisville
papers of this morning contain full par
ticulars of yesterdays Tornado. The
Democrat describes it as one of the
most violent storms that ever swept over
that section Of the country.
The Third Presbyterian Church, on
the corner Of Eleventh and Walnut sts.,
was completely wrecked. and the entire
building fellin, including the roof, raft.
ers, and brick wall, crushing twenty Of
the congregation to instant death, and
wounding severely ten or twenty others.
The scene was truly heart,rending.-
Soon a large crowd assembled, and be-
gan their search for the victims. A mo-
Their and her three children were group
ed in death. Another scene presented
n father, mother and bube-the father
dead and the mother MORALLY wounded,
while the little child placed beneath
them remained unhurt, being protected
by the forms of its parents. In other
instances, some Of the victims were found
wounded and MANNED.
The catastrophe has stricken conster-
nation into the very heart of the city,
and its people are appalled, beyond be-,
yond belief.
The following is list of the killed:
Mrs. Vildabee and three children.
Mrs. Taylor and child. tsl a~
Mr.. Godfrey, Mrs. Salisbury,
Miss Headley, John MCGOWAN,
Mrs. Martin, wife Of John NJ. Martin,
sadler. @ 81, 3.
Mrs. Wicks, neice of Mrs. Martin,
Mr.. Sweeney, Mr.. Harbour, Mr.. Nc
ClelIand,
Mr.. R. Davis, resident Of New AL
bany, a
Mr.. Mcbride and child. ,,a J
Tit thought that one or two others
were killed, whose names have not been
learned. -rr l..
Fully one hundred buildings in the
city were unroofed and otherwise ill.,
jured.
The storm passed over that part of the
city lying between Fifth and Twenty
first streets. A splendid block of four
story houses recently erected on the
North side Of Main between Eighth
aud Ninth streets, was completely des-
troyed, and two or three men, it is sup
posed are in the ruins. These buildings
cost $4,000.
The upper story Of the rope and bag
ging factory of w. A, Richardson u
Co., on Magazine street, was blown
down, and the new city school.house on
the corner of Ninth and Magazine sts.,
was unroofed. The total loss is esti-
mated at 100000. @
The storm was also very severe in
Jacksonville, where four houses were
blown down.
THIRD DESPATCH.
Cincinnati, August 29.-It has now
been asccrtained that twenty-five per-
sons lost their lives by the falling Of the
church walls at Louisville, Oh Sunday
last. .
T1pwa,1s of sixty men women. and