Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-06-17
Terrible TOrnadOeS.

A STORM AT WYOMING ILL!-Wc
learn from our correspondent at Wyo-
ming, under date of } une 2, 1853, that
Il heavy storm visited that town Il day or
two previous. He says: L am sorry to
inform you o fanother terrible tornado
which pass:l through this village at IL
bout half past seven o'clock Oh Sunday
evening last, which for the short time 1t
lasted, battles description. The same
appearance of cloud of that preceded
other storms came with this. viz: a lurid
green hue. The wind blew a perfect
wh!rlwind. Everything small and NOV
able were blown to atoms, and might be
seen flying in all directions. The Meth
odist Episcopal church. erected last
summer, had its stccplc blown down,
and the building itself badly racked.-
y new house lately put up, one and u
half stories high, belonging to Mr..
Hawks, was blown down over he heads
OF the family, consisting of four grown
persons and u little child-a most mir
:, u.ous escape, none being injured ex-
ccl,t by slight bruises. The house Il per-
feet wreck. \ small frame house bcluug-
ny to the Rev. Philahdcr Chase WAS
blown from its foundation, and after
performing three or four revolutions, at
Least, landed five rods from its fuunda-
ton, carrying The eccnPants-Mr. and
Mrs. L. X. Neutrality-suspicious. until,
by an extra rack, it went to pieces, lcav-
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Il. to the mercy Of the
storm. They managed to crawl to- the
store j. Hopkins, where they We're prep
erly taken care of. Amos: every house
in the town is more or less rackcd; two
~. Lrnn h,rnS T. nnrtuI,t1
STILL .ANorHER.-TLe abs " and the
following arc from the Chicago Times:
H~ALDANE, Ill, June g., 1858.
The following is an extra +; from Il let
ter TO n mercantile house in Chicago:
in my reaching here Il most distress
sing picture presented itself to me-
1t seems that on Thursd " tv.n;n.,
June ), at forty minutes past i've o'clock
= most fearful storm of wind and rain
took place. My warehouse was blown
down ON the track; my stable WAS pros
trated and thrown IN every dircctiUu; Il
very fine horse MAS tied up i'll one of the
stalls, but bysame means or other cs-
caped from the wreck unhurt; my
dwelling house narrowly escapeda like
fatc--thc brick chimeys were all blown
away. y Mr.. "IIuntly warehouse, with
about one hundred and eighty bushels
of wheat aud Il lot Of potatoes, was tom-
plctely demolished, not Il stick left on
the top of another; part Of the roof has
been found more than one mile east of
us. \ new dwelling one and u ha'f
stories high, was blown helter-skcltcr,
and what WAS worse han all the poor
wife that owned it was sitting
with her back reclining against the back
wall, when, in a moment, she was car
up with the wall to Il hight ofthir-
ty or thirty-fve feet; on its descent, and
ten or twelve feet of the ground,
she fell md was soon taken up for dead;
but she still lives. y heavy railroad
car was tossed, like a feather, IA distance
of nearly one hundred yards from the
track. The lumber lying at the sta
ton was sent flying in every direction.
Almost every building has received
more or less injury. Fences have bcep
damaged. 1t must have been u
storm, and came from the south
west, then west, and not one hundred
a d fifty yards wide. y pair of horses
with ii wagon, were tied to q post at y
store door; the post was drawn out of
he ground, and horses.an| HTagon were
.ossel about until the horses got clear
md the running GEAR was driven faster
han ever it had b en- before, for Il con-
distance.