The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-03-06
Destructive Tornado.

''''i pCliCIICu oil awful SLOTln OF WlnO
and rain on Tuesday the l4th.
| Rain preceded the wind few minutes
when most desolating tornado broke upon
The town, levelIlng almost everything in its
track. The account says:
In one shop five men were at work, and
the building was entirely demolished. vet
they escaped by crawling from under the
building.
Rice & Thompson's carpenter shop was a
line two story building. 1T was apparently
Ia strong built shop, but the wind (strange
as 1t may appear) blew the lower story from
under the upper story-removing the former
some distance, and the latter falling nearly
ON thefoundation. The roof entirely blown
AWAY,
Abram L. Clocks fine brick residence is
entirely in ruins, the roof and second story
or and the balance cracked His family
was IN the lower story and unhurt.
The Presbyterian Church, a new building
Just finished and the finest ornament to the
town. The roof was torn off, and the gable
end blown down. The fine steeple stands
and is not much Injured Those who saw
the storm say that the roof rose perpendicu-
lar and passed off to the N. E. entirely over
the steeple and was scattered over the neigh
boring lots and houses
A pottery, ten or twelve barns, tavern
and a, number of houses We're DESTROYED or
seriously injured; at least fifty buildings in
all.
The course of the current of air was near
ly from southwest to northeast, and the
width of its track was about one hundred
yards.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
merclal writing the day after the storm,
says:
We have seen persons from the track of
the storm five miles west of Harrison. In
that direction the tornado was about as
wide as in Harrison, 300 to 500 feet. and
the same we learn was the width north
east as far as Venice. In Dearborn county.
Ind, four miles west of Harrison. Mr.. Ora.
hams house was entirely demolished. his
furniture, beds, &C.. blown away, his horses.
hogs and cows killed, and his wifes nose
cut off. Joseph Glarden close by, had his
house torn down and roof of. Widow
Owens house blown down, and most Of the
material of which it was made was blown
entirely away, and her household furniture
scattered for miles. Mr.. Grubb's heavy
frame barn 70 by 80 feet, filed with grain,
hay, corn. &c, was moved from its founda-
ton. Mr.. Monroe S. Cloud, who lives near
Logan Cross roads. lives in new hewed
log house. One side was raised up and one
log blown out, and blown entirely away so
that it could got be found. This last item
we do not vouch for, but Mr.. Briggs, of
Harrison, who is gentleman Of well bal
anCed mind, assured us that it is strictly
true.
East of Harrison the tornado was equally
destructive. In one place it blew down a
log cabin, and as there was a strong meat
barrel in the room where the family was, the
timber falling on that. saved them from be-
ing crushed to death We heard of other
houses and barns being blown down and de-
stroyed but it is useless to particularize.
1t is enough to say that it leveled everything
in its track.
JUDAH ToURo.-The New Orleans Delta
gives brief history of the life of the late
Judah Touro, who recently died in that city
1t is stated from the time Of the arrival of
Mr.. Touro in New Orleans in 1902, he had
never passed beyond the limits of the city
but once, and then it was 20 fight under
Jackson in the defence Of the city, where he
was severely wounded in the hip. We take
the following paragraphs from the Delta:
"Nir. Touro could never be persuaded toI
travel in any vehicle since the death of a
beloved brother, who was thrown out of a
carriage in Boston, and had his leg broken