The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-01-30
DREADFUL TORNADO !-HoUsEs Blown DOWN
BRANDON HALF DEMOLISHED MANY

PEOPLE INJURED.
Wade's line brings an account of dread
full tornado which occurred Friday P. M.
(20th inst. in the neighborhood of Mt. Ver-
non, in this state. 1t says
Yesterday p. M. our section Of country
was visited by one of the heaviest storms of
wind, thunder and lightning that we have
had since 1928. The tornado was the hea-
West about six miles south of us.
The town of Brandon was almost entirely
Idestroyed-hardlv house is left to mark the
site Of the place.
DR.. Wheaton, of Brandon, was severely
Iif not fatally injured Our first report was
that he was killed by the falling of house.
A Mrs. Smith, living about four miles from
Mt. Vernon, had her arm broken and her
head severely cut by the falling of her house,
She is so severely injured that her life is de
SPARED of.
The tornado was about half mile wide,
tearing up everything in its track
At Brandon, large two-story houses were
moved from their foundation some ten or
twelve feet.
The full extent of the damage done has not
yet been ascertained.
The streams soon overnowed their banks.
and In attempting to cross Armstrong Run.
in buggy, Mr.. Ebenezer Jenkins was
thrown from the buggy and drowned
The stable of Buckingham & Co., of Mt.
Vernon, was struck by lightning.
The violence Of the tornado was little less
than that known there as the Burlington tor
nado, in 1928.
The lower parts Of Mt. Vernon were al
most inundated by the tremendous quantity
OF rain which fell, and the streets looked
more like rivers than common thoroughfares.
OCrWe were an eyewitness to the "t tor
naelo of 1925" as well as subsequent one,
almost as powerful, which occurred we think
in May, 1884 or IS, and followed very nearly
in the track of the former. They were both
tremendous whirlwinds, twisting off the lar
gest trees as though they were but straw, and
lifting up the heaviest timbers and even re-
moving rocks in some places. Houses were
torn and shattered, and few persons were
either killed or injured in each case, but "a
great many very narrowly escaped. The
track of the first one was about half mile
in width, in which nearly every tree or 9th
er prominent object was swept to the earth,
for length Of about thirty miles, though it
was marked By occasional intervals, where
the fury Of the winds appeared to be lifted
up momentarily into mid-air, but to descend
again with redoubled violence. The country
passed over was generally level, being the
western and northern part of Licking coun-
ty, Ohio; but when the hil'y region of Co.
shocton county was reached, the force of the
winds was broken and abated. The rate at
which this terrible whirlwind moved was not
less than Is miles an hour The appearance
Of the clouds was singular. The weather
had been rainy for several days, but the clouds
had become light, broken and drifting. A
dark cloud, with perfectly level horizontal
base, the upper part rounded and irregular
towards the center, came from the west; the
wind blew briskly and the cloud moved rap
idly, and all the small light clouds in the hori-
zon seemed to be drawn irresistibly towards
tile rushing wh, lpool and disappeared in it.
| was about a mile from the track it traverS-
ed. All the air below the dark cloud was
filled with leaves, limbs of trees, &c. Those
over whom the tornado passed, said that the
air seemed to them to be full of fire, electri-