The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-06-07
Yours &c. J. F. X

From the Davenport Gazette.

DAVENPORT, June !, p. NJ
The news reached this city this eve
ming Of dreadful tornado which passed
through Clinton County last evening des
troyins the greater part of De Witt, Ca
marche in Iowa, and Albany, Illinois.
Below We give the particulars from
the LeClaire Register Extra. We have
conversed with gentlen an who was a,
Camanche yesterday. He says there is
scarcely house left standing. I. d.
Eagal, from Iowa City, gave US the fol.
lowing particulars this evening:
\ terrible tornado visited the North.
ern part of thomson county on Sunday
afternoon, the I'd inst. An eyewitness
Of the passage of the storm across the &c.
dar Rapids road, represents that the
whlrlwind was about two hundred yard,
in width, and swept everything before il
houses, barns, trees aud fences-and
scooping off the plowed ground Of whole
fields carrying it high in the air.
The Postmaster at Scion, states that
the storm passed about four miles north
of that place, unroofed church and in
jured number of other buildings -
Three lives are reported lost, and several
pcrsoEs mis>in-.
We learn from 7. c. Allrich, of Jones
county, aud others, who came down on
the Martin Walt this morning, the par
ticulars Of a terrific and fearfully destruc-
tive tornado which passed over Clinton
lGSt Oh
The city Of CamaHchc was completely
destroyed, hardly Building being unin-
iured, and most of them completely de-
molishcd. The Willard Hotel is a mass
Of ruins, and the wife and two children
Of Mr.. Sessions, the proprietor, are am
ons the killed. The Mudyett House
was also destroyed. The store and dwell
ling house of Mr.. Westphal was demol,
ished, and he and his whole family were
buried. When our informant left, Mr..
VS. four children had been dug out, and
they were searching for his body. At
one house, a woman had gone out to
milk her COW, leaving her two children,
when the tornado struck the house, and
it with its inmates bodily into
the river.
When the news reached Clinton, the
ferry boat at once got up steam, and con-
vcyed several hundred people to the
scene Of ruin, and the Martin Walt
brought number more, who all went to
work to cxtrlcate the the victims, and
relieve the wounded.
The hurricane also destroyed the town
Of Albany, Ill.,, aud extended its ravaces
into Illinois some six or seven miles. -
Only two houses were left standing in
Albany, and they were badly shattered
The ferry boat at Camanchc was blown
to pieces, as were also some RATS tina
were lying there From Que of the RATS
fourteen persons are missing, and abou
half dozen from the others
The storm appears to have made
clean swath through Clinton county car
rying with it churches, hotels, mills farm
houses, Hc Whole families are missin.
through the county. The house of Mr.
Hatfield, some seven miles from Canaan
che, containing himself and family, wa
carried away, and net a vcstice can b
found OF the house or its inmates
When the Martin Walt left Camanche
forty-two bodies had been recovered. =
Countless mangled and half dying peopl
were lying around the ruins.
Mr.. Warren Lawton. of Princeton ha
just arrived in town. and says that tift
far ners were killed .