The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-06

of ruin, and ~zealously cleared away the
rubbish and the timbers from the dead
and the4wounded.
The Rev. Mr.. Morrison was officiating
in the church at the time of the catas-
trophc. The church was to have de-
dicated ncxtsSabbath.
MeIDENTs.
It is not In the power of pen4or han
guage to decribe the varied scenes and
incidents Of yesterday. Mothers in
frantic agony seeking their children,
wives their husbands, children their
parents, as they wandered through the
assembled crowd, filling the air with
cries of mourning, causing all to drop
the sympathetic tear, and desire to in
woke the same vast Power to raise the
fallen structures, and restore the dear
ones sought. But alas! each piercing
shrek reveals the fact that some new
dead form has been brought to Light
Here M a father b~orDe-Gf0ng BY
friends who have ken him from his bed
OF death,-next the mother, then the
-1.dghter and two sons-all crushed
mutilated-dead Truly this is a house
of mourning. 5
Next comes a faxen haired girl,
scarce four years of age, borne in the
arms of a sturdy man, streaming with
perspiration, begrimmed with dirt, who
has discovered her under a huge pile of
timbers, which falling across a beam
protected her little form from death
As she was brought forth before the peo-
pie, she looked about with a face full OF
wonder, which was heightened by the
shouts of gratitude that went up from
the assembled multituderin praise to her
noble %deliVerer, and thanksgiving that
one father and mothers heart was not
made desolate by the untimely death OF
their little one.
We noticed a young wife hurrying
with distracted steps through the crowd,
rending the air with her agonizing
shrieks, seeking her husband, who she
thought was buried in the ruins. The
husband was also seeking his wife. Hear
ing her cries, he made his way to her
side, and with a shrill cry of joy she
rushed into his arms exclaiming, "thank
God you are safe! All responded a
hearty amen, in thanksgiving to God that
He had restored them to each others
arms. Pages would not serve to give all
the incidents of this melancholy scene,
with SO few en%livening features to relieve
its t%errors, and we can only supplicate
that Almighty Power which directs all
His visitations in unerring wisdom, to
support and comfort the bereaved in their
great affection.
Mr.. Browning, a prominent and &C
tive member of the church, who was in
attendance with his two daughters escap-
ed with a broken leg. His daughters
were but slightly bruised.
DIR. Robinson, who was in his buggy
riding into the city, at the lower end of
Market street, at the time of the storm,
narrowly escaped death from a falling
tree. The tree, as it fell across the road
with a tremendous, crash, just grazed the
curtain at the back of the buggy. His
horse was so frightened that it stopped
as if paralized, and made No effort to
avoid the danger.
We heard that a small child in the
lower part of the city was caught in the
storm, and blown away, bat whether it
was subsequently found or not, we did
not learn,
While the worshipers at the Cathe-
dral, on Fifth street, were at their dovo-
lions, the edge of the storm swept by
the front door and main aisle, and the
people we're blown about, and actually
from their feet in the utmost con
The building of the Walnut street
Raptist G4rureh deeidadly shuken,
and some fifteen minutes afterwards
several panes of glass in one of the north
windows cracked evidently caused by
the settling of the walls.
From the Louisville Democrat.l
Twelve o'clock, August 81, 1854, wi |
long be remembered as a terrible epoch
in the history of Louisville.
With that hour came death to many
persons assembled in the house of God,
engaged in worship, and destruction to
a vast amount of property in the city.
One of the most violent storms which
has eyer swept over this section of Ken
lucky left its dreadful footprints in the
city yesterday. After a severe drouth
Of many weeks duration, the sky, early
in the day, indicated rain. The clouds
gathered, and we had what persons not
the reach Of the tornado accom-
panying it would call a thunder shower.
But within the reach of its sweeping
was the Third Presbyterian
Church, corner of Eleventh and Wal
nut streets, which it completely wrecked
from a westwardly direction,
the entire building fell in, roof, %rafters,
brick walls and all, crushing some TWEEN
of the congregation to instant death,
md wounding seriously, perhaps NOR
some ten or twelve others.
The scene is described as most heart
ending. Soon a large crowd assembled,
md began their search for the victims.
\ mother and her three children were
in death; another presented a
mother and babe, the father dead,
he mother mortally wounded, while the
title child, placed beneaty them, escap-
d unhurt, protected by the forms of
is pareats. In other instances some of
he victims were found terribly bruised
nd MANNED. The catastrophe has
CONSERVATION into the very
cart of the city, and its people are ap-
allied beyond belief. la
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