The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-19
The Tornado at the eWest--Immense
Destruetion or Property, sc.


The telegraph has mentioned the occurrence a,
violent tornado in Illinois. IL seem. TO hays
crossed the Mississippi, near oauawka. and "a
have extended Eastward at least a. far a. McI.ans
county, where we hear OF some of its disastrous
effects. In the West. there was much hail accom-
panying tie wind, and everywhere a great fall oi
rain. letter, dated Lexington, Ill. the 18th
Inst. says;
Ihis evening, about o'clock, we were visited BIZ
severe storm. accompanied by the most fearful
~ .aaader and lightning ever experienced here
me storm lasted about twenty minutes, and after
u had; 10 all appearance cleared up, 1t was sue
eeeaed by the most terrific wind ever known In
this section OF the State The rain fell in torrents
ana nearly every house in Lexington was unroofed,
aud number of them blown down.
The passenger train from st. Louis. by which /
sehd this was blown from the track and cars tip
peu over, but, With the exception of few slight
tesh wouuds, the passengers were uninjured Be-
fore the train capsized, all the car windows ON the
wlndward side were blown out, the engineer and
nremau were both blown from the engine, and q
brakeman was also blown off one Of the cars The
storm struck the train short distance north from
here
At Peoria, ILL.,, the storm frightful in it's eff.
feets. letter thus describes it:
The hurricane struck the city at about FIVE
o'clock in the evening. In the twinkling of an
eye fifteen or twenty houses were unroofed, every
canal
boats loaded with lumber sunk, and the steamer
oiin, with twenty-one passengers on board made
complete wreck. her cabin being blown entirely
away. Aud what seems really miraculous, is the
act that but one life was lost 10 all this furious
dlsorganiZation OF matter and utter demolition of
structures 1t is said that little child was lost
fr' nj OF the wrecked steamer. The lumber in
the yards was blown all over the city, the gas
Tampa were all blown down, and the signs were
sent flying ia every direction, windows and gable
in W trai of
blown oil the track, and the beautiful College
building upon the bluff utterly demolished.
AT Galesburg il was terrible. The engine house
of the Railroad Company and two churches Just
completed were blown down. and number OF
dwelling bouses were unroofed. Three cars stand
lngon the track were blown off and turred upside
down. The amount Of the damages at Gslesburg
is estimated at $40. 900. No lives lost
At Galva, nearly all the out-houses in the village
were upset. The wind carried large boxes, lumber,
barrels, &c. into the air as If they paper A
large church was moved from it's foundation about
Il foot. The storm ragged hardest between and 7
O'clock.
THE FnLIBUsTERs IN MExIco.-The Mexican Boe-
tin Official of Monterey, of the 18th and 10th ult.,
states that there has been sort of disagree
ment between Col. Lock ridge and GEN Henningsen.
Both these officers rendered their services to vi.
dsurri-but Lockridge's offer was coupled with
such conditions and based on such intentions that
it was rejected.
1t appears that Lockrdge wrote last month from
Brownsville to Vidaurri, offering him men aud
arms In aid OF the Liberal cause, condition that
the termination of the war. a Mexican port
should bB placed at his disposal. to be used as a
point dapput for operations against Cuba. He
acknowledged his Connection with the Nicaragua
expeditions but said he was deceived and insisted
oa his plan of operations against Cuba. 40 u con
dition of rendering his aid TO the Liberal party.
Nidaurri replied, courteously refusing 10 admit
foreign troops, on the ground that he had no need
for them, and that it would not be proper to per-
nit them to interfere in the affairs in Mexico, say.
ing that men without flag would inspire distrusr,
whatever might be their antecedents.
Lockridge replied has been before stated,
denouDcing Henningsen as an agent of Walker.
To this, Fidaurri returned au answer rather sum
narily dismssDg Lockridge aud his pretensiGns
The Boletiu then goes on to denounce alb
surdty the idea entertained in the United States,
that tho people of Northern Mexico desire to es-
tabish an independent republic, and declares that
even if they entertained such desire, they would
u thousand times repudiate it rather than seek
foreign aid for its contamination.
The Bo.etin of the 18th contains a letter from
Gen. Henpingsen, in reply to the charges OF Lock-
ridge, in which he denies that his presence in
Mexico 10 in auy way connected with Walker or
the Mexican difficulties.
DlsAGgEEAnLE SIruArroN-A New York letter
says:
A thrilling affair occurred in the Ninth avenue
on last Friday owing to the fact that a mau
had been eutombed in the Croton water mains,
which we're being laid down in that avenue. The
pipes when laid. have tie be cauked on the inside
as we'll rs the outside, before they are cemented,
10 order to make them perfectly tight. Tho two
feet mains in the Ninth avenue were laid from
both directions, and upon the connecting pipe be-
ing put down. it was necessary for a man to enter
in order to caulk them, the intention being to ex-
tricate him through the stop-cock. The work was
completed, and the pipes soldered on the outside;
after which. the workmen proceeded to unscreW
the stop-cock bat to their dismay discovered that
they had no wrench sufficiently large to accom-
plsh the work, and also that there was not a
wrench in New York that would answer the pur-
pose. In the meantime, the poor man was shut
out from the verld in his narrow iron tomb, com.
PEELED to lie down. and with fair prospect of su
location. The laborers finally procured sedge
hammers, aud by repeated battering, succeeded in
breaking hole through the thick iron pipe, and
the eutombed man once more joyfully behed the
light of day.
GREAT EXPOSURE IN WIsCoSsIN.-Of Cor
r,fpti01 We find in the Milwaukee News a synop
sis of the report of the committee of the Wiscon-
sin Senate upon the question of the amounts ex
De pded during the session of the Legislature Of
1856 to secure the passage OF the bill apportionng
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