New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-09
THE STORM AT ST. MARY's, IOWA.

We have to record this morning one Of the most
terrible ysialons that desolaed country inhab-
lied BY About O'Clock last night terrihc
wi irwid tornado passed mile south of our town,
| from VT 81 10 east.
When first feen, probably six or seven miles away,
il lad tie apy earaDcc of large black shaft or column,
sbap like upright honrglass extending from tire,
mel threatening cloud, which for some time had
leen banging tue west, 10 the ground Hundreds
arcbeo il as swept ts course, seemingly bearing
| directly toward Mount Vernon. II was attended with
heavy roar as Of hundred trains Of cara. branches
of trees could be seen in The air while its changing
FORM and the fakes OF clouds thrown from its SIDES,
| show, d its whjrling motion.
| When within two miles Of us, while people were
seeking safety in cellars ;3 IN some cases, running
idly about the streets, It yeered on its course, and
swept by in full sight-ubime, but fearful. Hardly
Lsd it passed balf-dressed man. bleeding from
| WOUNDS upon his head, and reeDg upon his horse,
rode iuriousy into town calling for help. Talking in
cobe,enty he reported persons killed and others in
jued al little village or hamlet u miles west, known
| IA -. Mays.
In few minutes, hundreds were on their way there,
Including DIS. Carhart, Belden, Gordon and Carson.
lie lid of de salion they found beggars des-
c,piion We lad imagined The horrors ola battle field,
but had pictured anything so awful az The sight
ofthefe DOR viims, disabled dying and dead. These
hay ing been quickly carried Ia the house and store OF
Mr. Harvey Gllet near al hand soon III the care
of the ply scans and other Samaritan men and women
At bai point The house and shop OF Mr.. Cuaniog-
ham entirely destroyed; himself ard family much
| -
remained of the house and two large barns OF Mr.. JAS
| Barge. Two Of his children, grown up con and a
| small daughter fatally hurt, have since died. Mr.
| William VAIN, brother Of +. ID. Vain OF this place,
| and young man by the name of Columbus Sparks,
bar pehng to DC in The honse a. the time, were
aifeI aid found dead. As the blast approached, Ste
Ihen Spring, of Joephus Smith, was seen TO ride
mp ard spring tIom his hore aad was afterward picked
up mortaly Injured. Several persons were saved by
creeping into root-ht partly under ground others
| by lying down fiat upon the earth.
A little eastward the house and barn Of Mr.. Clark
| Thompson utterly demolished. His family, by
rm ming down the cellar escaped for some reason
be did go with them and soloS his life. Close by
Mr.. Josephrs Smith and family We're much hurt, but
not Dan geousy. His hous- WAS torn down, his large
| barn turned partly round and carried fifty feet.
| The power and force OF this demon of the ele
| mens' must have been immense. We reached the
path Of It's fury lcss than an h0nr after II went bowling
| OIL. We found hundrd men standing around mute
and aghast. The sufferers had been borne away, but
| II eIe other evidences Of ia fearful mission.
Hous-s gone utterly gone and nothing bat backened
| and sm aIed foundations told where they had been
uees and two feet in diameter and even larger,
uprott.d and hmled many rode, robbed of branches
and foiage carcasses Of horses, cittle and swine,
| sireved The 4 rner barn-y srd.
OF ts east If Lisbon, wehave not the parcu-
lara. II is CERTAIN however, that between here and
Pioneer Grove eight lives We're lost, and many
others horribly j red while the destruction of prop
eIy is greater than here has ia fury, when
lasi heard from, in the least abated.
App Dded Is list OF the killed and injured so far az
| we have learned:
| KWed,-Wm. VAIN, Patrick Lynch, Columbus
| 81 AXE, Carkson Thompson, son of james Barge,
boy not get dent, d. found in the woods, evidently
bought aerofs The Cedar, in the storm.
| Iypred.-1he family OF Mr.. Cunningham, little
! girl MORALLY Stephen Smith, MORALLY, family OF
james Burge, Josephus Smith and family, Henry II.
Fuller
IAsr OF LISBON.
Mr.. Piper injured, two children killed, Mr.. Lat
liner and family injured, Mr.. VIM. Andre and wife
missing, probably killed, tive killed in one family by
| name of Allen.
| WEST OF TIE CEDAR.
| Five persons are reported killed Particulars not
| yet known.
1t il also reported that several houses were blown
down, and several persons killed north Of Ceder Rap
| ids.
Later-l o'clock p. NAT II o'clock we took the
train East, and went far Mechaniesye and came
| lack on the return train.
The desirucon on the line Of the road IL, II possible,
greater than here. At Mechancsvile are ten bodies
brought in from the country north. In the vicinity
Of Dewitt, Is 10 20 are killed; 81 lives lost at Ca
. panche, and many Injured and missing.