Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-01-31
NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF.

NEWS OF THE DAY IN BRIEF.
The TORNADO IN Omo-The terrible tornado
at Mt Vernon, Ohio some account of which we
gave the other day, proves even more destructive
than at first believed. 1t commenced about three
o'clock on the afternoon of the Goth inst, some
eight miles south of west from Mount Vernon 1t
first passed over field or two, tearing up fences,
fnging the rails ike straws for hundreds Of yards,
and dashed against double log cabin occupied by
JOHN B. Turner.
1t next struck the house of WAINWRIGHT Bay
TER which it unroofed. An eye witness says the
roof went straight up in the air, whrlng about and
about, till he lost sight of il. No fragment of it
can now be found.
Two other dwellings and an old church were
next levelled with the ground, one of the houses
being shattered all to pieces Other items as
follows, as given by the Cleveland Herald
The school house near by was next attacked.
Thirty-nine children were in it at the time, bnt by
some strange coed luck only one was seriously in
jured.
A dozen other dwelling houses, two of them
brick, were then Frustrated, and several barns
shared the same fate. Two other pieces of woods
were entered by the storm, and Jared like the first
piece to which reference is made.
No language can do justice to the fearful mag
ni6cence of the tornado it stalked wrathfuly
over the land. 1t seems to have worn the appear
ance of a mighty black pillar, reaching from earth
to heaven, rradiated by binding flashes of light
ming, and accompanied in its devastating march by
the music of a hundred cannon.
The time occupied by the passage Of the tor
nado over any one spot is variously represented
at from two to five minutes.
II dreadful murder committed in Todd
county, Ky, on Saturday last, upon the person of
DIR. NEWTON Fox He was called up in the morn
ing about o'clock, on professional business, and
in five or six hours after that he was found within
three quarters of mile of his residence dead he
having been brutaly murdered-hls head being
crushed in by hammer or some other instrument
What was the motive which led to the commits
sion of the fendish act is unknown. 1t was not
money, as his pocket-book, containing five hundred
dollars was not taken.
- The cholera and yellow fever is said to pre-
vail at Cairo on the Mississippi, to dreadful ex-
tent. Fifteen large steamers had been compelled
to stop at that place, and had turned out over two
thousand deck passengers, who were suffering IN
tensely and diving in large numbers with cholera
and yellow fever. They were staying in the ad-
joining woods around large fires with little or no
food, and no possibility of getting away.
- The great tunnel on the mountain section of
the Pennsylvania Railroad has been completed and
the cars will commence running through next month.
This will obvate the necessity of passing the
inclined planes on the Portage river, and the dis
lance between Philadelphia and Pttsburg will be
accomplished in from II to IA hours.
- The small pox is said to be very fatal in Dup
lin county, n C. Among the victims are Mr. Jas.
Jarman late county court clerk, Mr.. Alex. Grady,
Sr. wife and two children. Fifteen members of
Mr. Jarmans white and colored family including
Mrs Jarman and two of the children, said to be
down with the same disease.
= We clip the following from the Hopklnsvile
Press of the oath inst, itsays: The Henderson and
Nashville road is progressing as finely as could be
expected under the circumstances. There are about
fifteen or twenty miles already graded, and about
six or eight hundred hands at work on it. and about
two hundred hands at work on the tunnel about
seven miles from Madisonville The tunnel will be
eleven hundred feet long The contractors on the
line are working men, and it is their determination
10 nave the entire road completed by 1856"
ACCIDENT TO HoN. THos CoRwIN-0n Tuesday |
nlght last the Hon. THos CoRw1N met with |
serious accident at Morrow, Ohio. He had come |
down from Lebanon and stopped at Morrow,
awaiting the mail train up from Cincinnati When
il arrived he went into the baggage car 70 attend
10 his baggage and attempting to get ont nv, tho
side door he fell to the ground with great violence
and was severely injured His face was npoI,
bruised and he received such other injuries as 70
prevent his removal for several days.
- John Avery Parker, who lately died in New |
Bedford, leaving fortune of over million of dol |
lars, was, when young man, warned out of the |
town ofWestport for fear he should become charge
able to the town.
In South Carolina, two white men named |
Thos Motley and VIM. Blackledge hunted down
runaway slave with bloodhounds, aud then put him |
to death by the most prolonged and cruel fortunes.
These iends were brought before the Court of APP
peals at Charleston, on Monday Of last week, and
after the motion for new trials had been dismissed
were sentenced by Judge ONeal to be hung on
the Sd day of March next