The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-21
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO
MARYLAND, VIRGINIA AND ILLINOIS.
MARYLAND
PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY.

.. MARYLAND.
PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY.
a.; violent tornado passed over the lower part
.nis county on Saturday evening last, and extended
through portion of Charles county Its line a
destruction began, we believe in the neiehborhood
OF Woodvie, at which place chimneys and fences
Pere Pt thrown down in profusion. The steamer
pianter, Capt. Weems, encountered the gale al
Trueman,s Point, on the Patuxent, and Suffered
considerable damage, with loss of life The Can
tam OF the Planter describes the scene at this point
as the most terrific he ever witnessed. The thick
ropes fastening the steamer to the wharf were brok
en- as If but threads-the boat driven with fearful
rapldity from the shore-the furniture in the cabins
tossed to and fro, and the officers and crew COM
PEELED to seek shelter below deck, from the violent
nan which fell in great profusion.
number of passengers, ladies and gentlemen.
mad not left the boat five minutes before the gale
broke upon them. Some of the carriages were
smashed to pieces, and the inmates narrowly es-
| capped with their lives. Some idea may be formed
OF the powers of the wind from the fact that an OK
team and four oxen, with the driver, were raised
from the ground and carried half way across the
river. The driver was drowned; the oxen were ex-
tricated after considerable time. One of the men
| belonging to the 5Oat-a colored man-was at the
same moment was seen to fall overheard to rise no
more; and after the steamer was righted and the
He was also drowned. The Captain says, that at
one glance he saw four large tobacco houses fall,
| crushed to atoms. We learn that on the farm of
MIR. Geo. w. Morton, near Aquasco, every out
house on the place was demolished, and we fear that
great damage has been done to property in the
ghborhood.-Warlborough Gazette.
We regret exceedingly to learn that portion of
| the lower part of this county, and the adjoining
region OF Charles, were visited on Saturday even
ing last by the most terrible and destructive storm
OF wind and hail known in this section produ-
cling some loss of life and great destruction of
property. The storm commenced in Charles coun-
ty, near the farm of the late S. C. Moran, des-
troying the entire crop of grain and two barns
1t thence passed over to the neighborhood of
Woodville, uprooting and devastating every thing
In its course. George W. Morton, Esq.,. lost every
building on his farm, all his wheat crop destroyed
as though cut with a scythe, and had two servants
very much injured by falling timbers. A barn on
the farm of Peter Wood, Jr., and the chimney of
his dwelling were blown down, two barns and a
meat house on the farm of John B. Adams, Esq.,,
were also blown down, and all the window lights in
his house broken On the place of James F. Waters,
Esq, two barns, filled with tobacco, were blown
down, and their contents much injured, and all his
wheat crop destroyed
barn of Mr.. Samuel l.. Selby was also blown
down. In the village of Woodville Mrs. Alice E.
| Halls stable and courthouse, Mr.. George Morton s
| cow-house and carriage-house the chimneys and
balustrade of the handsome residence of Judge Bar
ker, and the chmneys of the residences of DR.. John
| Dare and John |. Wilson, were all blown down, be-
sides fencing uproong of trees destruction of veg
| citation and other damage. The storm extended
about mile in width and swept everything before
| it. 1t is said that its path is complete wreck,
scarcely tree panel of fence sign of crop left!
| We also hear that two or three men were blown
from the steamer Planter and were lost re-
| spected correspondent sends us the following:
WooDvILLE May II, 1858.
| To the Editor of the Planters Advocate:
One of the most appalling, and, at the same time,
disastrous hail-storms, occurred here on Saturday
evening last. The steamer Planter got to her wharf
at Trueman's Point about halfpast four o. oclock =.
| NJ. having on board several passengers from the
| neighbOrho0d, returning from Baltimore among
| them several ladies. As she approached the wharf
an awful cloud in the direction of south west,
the threatening attitute of which gave unmstakea-
| BILE evidence of a coming Storm
All was hurry to give the passengers time to es-
| cape. One carriage, occupied by ladies, gentle
man accompanying on horse back, proceeded one mile
| before the storm reached them; the gentleman and
| horse were thrown violently to the ground, the
horses attached to the carriage took fright and
| some distance, but no serious injury done on
account of protection afforded by deep cut in the
| road. Another carriage, in which was gentleman
and driver, shared different fate, it turned up
sidedOwn about sixty yards from the river and was
broken to pieces; the horses broke loose and were
| driven a long distance into the river, but finally
saved. Both the gentleman and driver were much
| lnJured-the latter very seriously.
About fifteen persons were caught in the steam
er's warehouse, and among them the writer of this
| at a distance of more than eighty yards from the
! shore. The scene here was truly awful; every one
| expecting watery grave. We could neither get
| on shore nor on board the boat. When the storm
subsidized, all made for the shore, and then found to
our utter astonshment, the river filled with hor-
ses, oxen, CARTS articles blown from the shore, and
chairs, settees, and various other articles blown
| from the deck of the steamer. Capt Weems-with
generous feeling, and always prompt to do his duty
lowered his boats and struggled nobly to rescue
| all he could.
From Trueman's Point up to the village almost
| total destruction was made. Barns blown in ev-
cry direction; not single timber tree standing
fencing all gone, drifts of hail four feet high in the
village; chimneys blown off, and the entire enclo
su-es of part of the village torn to pieces. The
| principal sufferers were George W. Morton, John
| B. Adams, Peter Wood, Jr., and James F. Waters
Mr. George W. Morton had every house ON his farm
| blown to pieces. The tobacco houses, and all he
had therein, fell at one time; every clubhouse gone
| In one of the barns were Mr.. Morton and all his
servants, and, strange to say, they all escaped
without serious injury. grown servant at quar-,
| ter had her arm broken. Not a particle of wheat,
clover or anything like vegetation is left. The
beautiful wood adjoining the village, and belonging
to Mr.. G. Morton, is nearly all gone. Chimney:
and baiustrade to the house of Mr.. Barker and 9th
ers are off. Trees, fencing and gardens ruined
smaller matters being all verlooked.-PIonter's Ad
| vocate.
| VIOLENT AND DESTRUCTIVE SToRM.-ORANGE COUN
TY.-FREDERICKsBURG.-S .-STAFFoRD.-SPoTTsYLvA
MA, &c.
| From the fredericksburg Herald
| SEVERE STORM.
| Fredericksburg was visited with another severe
hail storm Saturday afternoon last, but not 81
terrible in its character here that of the 1st o
July, 1857.
| A little after o'clock, Saturday, a threatening
cloud was seen to rise in the southwest, which wa
borne along with great speed until within few
! miles of town. when it burst forth with all it
fury, destroying and damaging growing crops
and doing incalculable injury in both town ant
country.
So sudden was its approach that many of ou
citizens "taken by surprise" and larg
amount of glass broken which might otherws
have been saved We suppose the glass broker
be much
or $500.
Among the largest sufferers in this respect ma
be named the Corporation, which loses 45O panes i
the Courthouse, and 200 in the Old Town Hail.
The Presbyterian Church supplied with shut
ters, but they had been left open, and most of tn
glass the western side destroyed; $50. The glas
| in the window in front of the Baptist Church wer
all broken about $50. The Episcopal Church es
capped with less loss. John F. Scott lost about 80
in the Foundery, C. c. Wexford about 450 in hi
dwelling, green house, &c. Almost every wester
exposure suffered more less, and most of our cit
zens with dwellings thus situated have lost from
dozen to hundred panes of glass each.
The gardens were a good deal injured, but not
| any comparable degree with that of July of las
, year. The hail on Saturday was generally of tn
size of partridge eggs; saw one large as guine
fowls egg, and others assure they saw hailstone
full as large as hens eggs. We hear of one ma
who had two pigs in a pen at the upper end of th
town, one of which was killed and the other had a
/ eye knocked out by the hail.
Among the sufferers along the Plank Road,
Spsttsylvania, next Fredericksburg may be name
. George Guest, VIM. S. Williams, Moses Morrison
j. M. Luck, A. p. Rowe DIR. VIM. M. Smith, j.
Stansbary, w. p. Bowen, j. P. Hepburn, Dr. j. /
Taylor, Jna L. Marye, Sen., and farther up, on IL
Eappahanheck, Dan'l Duerson, John Decker, &c.
The growing wheat crops on the farms of SON
of the gentlemen named are totally destroyed, an
in other cases, vastly injured. Above the Old Flu
ma e, (Welford's) the hail did little damag
, but we hear that perfect tornado swept the cou
try. running the crops of widow Rowe, VIM. Levi
and others in the same line.
, Mr.. Guests loss is ent at $4,000 Like MAI
Others named, his whole wheat crop has been tots
iy destroyed not enough left standing from whit
= peck of grain ightbe gathered. The fine crC
Of Mr.. Bowen is said to lock as though a reap
had passed over it followed by rakes, nothing stan
, ing but the stubble. Mr.. Luck who would ha
made 80 bushels to the acre, has had his beautif
crop utterly destroyed. The loss, as far as we a
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