New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-16
4 TERRIBLE TORNADO IN INDIANA.

From The Lafayette (lnd-) Courier Aug. s.
terrible tori passed over pr ion OF S1efse'd
Township il this equity, Oh Wednesday last, Pfosua
ng bouses barns, uees aud sweeping of feacoe. hay
ard wbeat-ste che, ike feathers b-fJre be wind. A
large amount Of property was oe.toyef, out fortu'
n9,y no lives were lost, nor @as any one seriously IN
iufed. Mr o. Bull, who reeoes short olst.uce
Eom Dayton, ~itbin quarter OF mile OF the track VI
tie tOrpasO eye~iiBess TO its devastation sod
dc sorb.s it AZ the most terrible ~hiriEud ne ever
xi,rtssed. His stettiOn first directed to eingu
lar connection among the clouds, which, mov'og IRON
the forth and south, met and conmisy'ed noOo. the
middle Of the Wild Tat rrsire, ana seemed drifting
scarce one buDdred feet from be erount.
The conclusion sounded like the roar OF artillery in
the distance and the clouds, in dark, heavy masses,
were piled and uoder each o'ber, and, after
spiral movement which brought the clouds still bearer
to the earth, the tornado descenfed lts spProach
sounded like the clatteDg Cf "a lwsy train In less
thai tWo MINUTES it bad passed TO the eastward ieav
ug ruin devs. alton in its course. TIE largest
forest twisted TO spinters, AID every nova
BILE thing bore evidence Of it, fuzzy. dselioghouse
occupied by James Foreman, aid Owned, We believe,
by Thomas Royal, as caught up bf the wnir Ein1,
lifted from its fOuLdati q, AID completely demolished
The furniture beds carpets and cooking utensils were
literally altered to the winds All the out houses,
hay and wheat stacks we're caught up acc swept OF.
Not the most remote suspicion OF afepce remained
upon the Premises. Happily, Mr.. Fo'esmsn and his
family were sbseIt FROM Had they been 10 the
house, they must inevitably have been crushed to
death.
Next in the direct course of the furious ~bihwiDd
vac the house 1f Mir Ky ecrsft, sel koown farmer.
n, ally every member of bis fsmiy aas sick 10 bed,
but as by pfovidentia inerpositlon, the tornado
swerved from direct line, AID passed within twen,
feet of the rear door-y.Td smoke house wa de.
nolshed, ali the fences Frustrated, ato every
article carried off II s singular !.ct, that ae lar
dam in wiiScst Creek, uear the residenoe Of Mr. Rye
CT, and directly in he course Of the tornado, was
baied almost dry. Mr. Bull youches hat large turtle
was found the evening nearly mile from the
creek. The next house encountered was that OF W4
Rizer, on the east bshk Of Wild Cat. 1t was asub
stantsl frame structure, but the fury Of the storm
sbvered it to fragments in the txiuklog of az eye
Warned by the rubbing nose which preceded the
whiriw,pd the entire family by common impulse
sought refuge in the cellar, and escaped UNI ed
MIR Rizers oss will Lot fall short OF 5OO. His hne
orchard vas almost entirely destroyed.
Fruit trees, twelve to sixteen inches in diameter
were tax. up ~ the roots and carried over two hun
cred ards. The Browning heirs, Vincent D{ Chas
S,eIrit,. Wm SDocdy, Mrs. BRAID, aud j. II. Peters
sustait ed more or less dsuafe. The ~hulwind cut
clean swaih through beautiful grove Of timber be-
longing to Mrs. Sooddy. The strip OF count'y laid
ste Is about two baLdred yards In width .od three
miles in length The tornado bad spent Its force be-
fore re aching the county hoe of Gin on, aud did no
fur her damage. Mrs. Peters and MrS. Brand were
the only persons Injured, aid they bot slightly This
country within the memory of the oldest inhahltant
and considering is extent and duration, was perhaps
destructive to property than any on record III the
West.
From TIE IndiandpOi' Journal
The approach Of the tornado was marked by Elm
guar appe of the clouds. gentleman running
the Lafayette Railroad told me that they appeared
to be almost red. Up the Peru road, Mr. Engineer
Davis Informs us the destruction Of timber surpassed
anything he ever SAW Twenty four trees we're blown
across the track in dstaLce OF halt nile or so, ana
t.usanos were PROSTATE beth sides as far as the
eve could reach In many the tops of the trees
at abeut twenty feet from the und were twisted of
and blown through the air for Considerable distances
The opy bousc il sight of the road, log one, was
blown all to pieces. The country passed over was
luckily low aud swsmpy, Win few inhabitanc or the
piury might have been terrible to persons as well as
timber.