Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-25
The Phenom mon at Utica.

We have published full account Of the sins ular
phenomenon near Utci, n Y. 1t seems that it
was no tornado or whirlwind. A correspondent of
the New York Tribune says:
have no theory to offer as to the character OF
| the phenomenon Scientific in this region
! puzzled beyond parallel by the occurrence. Many
saw it in this city, yet no one remembers having
seen or heard of its like before. There was no wind
whatever accompanying it; it was not whirlwind
And there signs of heat in the path OF its de-
struction, al would seam to have been necessarily
the case had electricity been the agent
gentleman who cav it here, describes it as re-
sem5ling a monster elephants trunk, swinging lsz
but powerfully about crushing all in its way, and
hurting boards and trees into the air ike ayGhDgs
The 0swego Times gives sn account Of terrible
whirlwind, which, On the same day, destroyed a
great amount OF property near that place. The
people believed that the comet had really struck
the earth, as was predicted by German sdvaa.
The 18th seems to have been sgnalized in all sec
tons Of the country by stormy weather. The Chi
cago Tribune publishes the following account of q
hail storm in Illinois:
PANA, Christian Co., H., June Il, 1857.
EDIToRs TRIBUEE;-0ur town was visited yes
terday afternoon by the most terrible AMI destruct.
i've hail storm ever known in Christian county. IL
has destroyed almost every thing 10 It's course. IL
has leveled twenty-five houses in our village and
done serious damage to fifty Others, niue among
them. Many OF the houses left standing are render
ed worthless, being riVen and shattered Some Of
the houses have been taken up so clean and precip-
itsted from their foundations that you could hardly
tell where they had stood. Roofs we're carried
through the air as If they were str4ws. number
Of new stores just completed were torn into irag-
ments, and the wreck scattered about. The new
Presbyterian church moved some distance, aud
partially destroyed. The roof Of the Illinois Gen.
trail freight depot taken of, large number of
cars were buried by the fury OF the wind from the
track. Quite q number of persons we're wounded
by timbers and pieces of buildings thrown through
the air by the tornado, and have Just heard re-
| port that woman and three children we're killed
10y falling building. Others may not recover from
their injuries.
The storm was accompanied with q deluge Of
rain and a heavy shower OF hsilstones. The air
vas dark when the awful tornado broke upon Us /;
il terrific scene while t lasted. The elements
hOWled and roared, buildings we're dashed in the
path OF the storm; timbers rails boards roof add
every movable '-ticle hurled through the ar.
Strong men ,>>od aghast; women and children
screamed with terror. Many we're hurled headlong
90 the gro1nd, aud rolled forward By the meFciless
element Some OF the more ignorant people sup
posed the comet vas about striking the earth, and
vas causing ell lhe uprosr and devastation. They
SIRE asfUly irightenzd. believing az they firmly
did, that the last day bad come.
Our pleasant teSn Is In sad pEght-shattsred,
torn, aud destroyed. Many of our people are I.ii
~holly destitute, escaping IRON their dwellings,
~iIh nothing Dol the fes clothes upon their bodies.
AL their household furniture and other personal
| property having been sSePt auay or dsstrOyed By
toe stmospheFic delugc. These poor people ace
IN In very suffering condition, and are proper
objects for public beheE oleGee.
The value Of properly destroyed Is variOusly ss-
tmated Al hfsy TO one hundred thousand dolIAra