The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-02

Correspondence Of the Davenport Newg1
Iowa CRY. say 70, 1859
had the mournfu pleasure yesterday OF tracing out
the runols pathway Of the Tuesday, and language
utterly fails convey adequate conception Of evil
dences OF The power which il everywhere exhibits
We hrst stapped at Morgsns. and balf or three
miles from the city, where, after traversing the bottom
lanos stretching toward toe Iowa river, the wnirwud
struck the house with such fatal and ressess force
more complete ruin never Apioe avalanche
or mine OF powder could not done work SO ef
iectualy Nothing remains in its place but the lower
hoore else swept Clean and the fragments in
al directions over the prairie for circuit of half mile
or more. the ground being literally pasaded with SILVER
ed boards and tmbels and the Geld fur
rowed fat with the violence Of WHO'D rain The stand.
ing posts are soidiy pisstefed with thick of nay
and mortar. The persons killed here three in mum.
Der, were carried about 40 hundred yards Mr Morgan
having been whipped around fence post TIL every
in his BODY broken.
About mile from here a house belonging TO Mr. Carver
was twisted part round and moved several feet
s foundation Here overlook the funeral procession
conveying TO their last resting place the moral remains
OF the dead representing three generalions-g
son ana sraEdcDd-of the same lineage blood lite.
rally translated IN whrlwind to the unkn scenes Of
future existence
At Berry g. two miles beyond, the desoation is more
complete and terrioe good two story house, the
largest and best barns in the country corn crib
PROBABLY hundred feet long, scauered in an in scrim
nate wreck The bodies Of three dead COWS two horses
ana mule hogs and chickens, lay ehaty and distorted
among the writhed and dajonted cubers Southeast in
deld was one hind wheel Of wagon; another direc
ton the hab Of its mate, spokes ana feoes gone in stu
another direction the wfeDched and ruined forward
wheels. The crooked sud severed ghtning rod Law part
y with he immediate rum partly considerable dis
lance from IT, while in every direction the fences are ria
died posts lifted out of the ground, for great dis
lance the farm perfectly streWn With the broadcast spin
ters Of the ruin.
Mr. Berry was found ia the cellar OF the barn largo
stone upon his bead. Mccoy the other Ut this
point, was rransfxed with board.
Three Of mile ahead the brick house of
Graham lies of bats and mortar; the family con-
ssting OF SIX children, all wonderfully escapng with their
lives Beyond this is the wreck Of frame house occupied
6y Mr.. waltzhimsef, wife and child and named
fr,cEi being all dangerously Injured
me enid, a babe OF sixteen months, was found in a
songh, about three hundred yards from the house.
inns not forget to mention that Berrys found
.ue oroNen ~netrec Of wagon from the Morgan place
inc n.e son OF Mr. Berry is. at the present writing still
sve. iGe funeral OF Mr. Berry will probably not take
place until the arrival Of friends from abroad
The actual evidences OF the exteut of his b,rI
VIM STOW 70 nave neen about eight or nine miles from
lis hrst contact with the earth az the bouse az caI
Morris, to its fret apparent exhaustion bevond Crsham,
The amount Of loss hard to estimate Anart fron, ,he
destruction OF crops, trees and orchards bore.ar ~ ZIG
Aaot :all much short of $4,000. ~ Nah'