The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-06
DESTRUCTIVE GALE In ILLINOIS.
A Village Entirely Dcstroyed-Immenss Los
OF Life.
OUR ILLINOIS CORRESPONDENCE
Mosuouru. WARREN Co.. Ill.,. June !.

a Village Entirely Dcstroyed--Immense Loss
or Life.
OUR ILLINOIS CORRESPONDENCE
MONMOUTH, WARREN Co., H., June 1, 1858.
sinco yesterday have visited the Of devastation
and death No conceive without seeiugn The
village OF Ellison Is more where once II stood the
ground remaDs-thars ALL fragments Of houses scat
tered for miles, trees uprooted and carried away-somo
OF sixty feet in height broken off, and the trunks stripped
entirely Of the bark Some locust trees three feet n cir
cufercnce twisted of feet from the ground and the
stump stripped of the bark to the ground the shrub
berry rooted up and stripped Of every twig No sign
OF any remains but the foundations OF Of the
houses the stone door stops have been carried
fun thirty reds One family who saved from death
werc taken with the house quarter OF . mile the
fields sailing In the air when the house struck and part
cd and they escaped The dent Methodist preacher
WA four miles home; his vile and infant child ut
bome sloce; his house and goods we're carried away.
He found his wife nearly dead some thirty rods from
where his house stood and his child quarter OF mile
when the wind struck the town. taken with the child
10 high that he saw The timbers flying below him He
He law ali right unable 10 walk holding the child 10 keep
II from drowning for the rain poured In torrents Every
Ieos OF furniture clothing, bedding and farming utensils
baby scattered the country Horses, cows and
swine were killed ard wagons and carriages are all in
snoxss IN another place an sxs twisted OF, sc, So
Those that survived have lost thor AL Tue nhAoitans
n y,
are taking the wounded avg vim them a. fast a. they
can Tho roads all very ~ end the streams are high
below give you the namcsof all could got, ~ many
had been carried away before got there;-
DEAD.
Martin wenworth. Mrs. =, (did not learn the
Lacy .cy s Mcw william thompson.
Mrs Thompson and child Ar. johnson.
Mn Brszieton and child Misses Johnson two sisters.
Mrs. Hand and child. g. johnson, and nine others.
Master Hand, Ia years OF age.
DANGEROUSLY wouSpED-vor EXPECTED RrcovEs.
O. Mowillans. jacob Smith, arm broken,
j. Mccarthy, compound head fractured
fracture Of leg and thigh. Mrs. wood, compound
ssmue, Mccarthy. fracture Of thigh.
Ma Beck and child W. T. Thompson.
j. Warner, RIBS broken and Mrs Handy and two csil-
leg broken, dreu.
Elizabeth KslshAw. I. Rspelyea and mother.
Ana Kelshsw. Mr.. Hughs.
III, Kelshaw. George Mccartney.
Mrs. Boyd. Mr.. salisbury, fractured
Mrs. smith and child Mr. CLARK.
Waiter Fcvgison Jacob Brazle,on.
Horace Sagyer Mrs. Brsyleson
Mrs Mcwlliams. Mr. Hurd and
Dr. Yoke. j MoWilIams, since dead.
.Joshua sheets. Thomas Mcwiisms
George Charles.
saw sixty eighty moro ess injured, but who viii
and ook sfer the dead and dying and their css Aasl
they havs none. The wounded enumerated above
under the OF twenty physicians who hsve very
generously volunteered their services
our PEORIA CORRESPONDENCE
UNoS Orrcs, PEORIA, June 2, 1853
Another great storm has visited this section OF Illinois,
of which you have probably been advised by telegraph
ynesn persons killed and nearly I'VE hundred we're
wounded The railroad leading the point 10 npsssable
Che telegraph between here and there down. and the
highways cannot be got At shall despatch q full ans
reliable by the earliest possible mail written
N about nfty mites distant from this city 70 a. dele
gate by proxy 70 tho statc Convention next week. and
shall send you letters