Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-04-18
More Of the Tornadoi

I'd than are presented The engine house
Of the 4. 4 c. Railroad is the widest mass
Of ruins we ever Witnessed. Pieces Of
rooing. Of lumber and of timber are scat
tered all over the prairie. One piece OF
the metal roofing was, we are told, carried /
to the gravel pit on the T. II. Il H. Rail
road, three miles from the place Of disas
ter.
In addition TO the list given yesterday
morning, we learn that McKeen's slaugh.
ter house IN the south part Of the city was
blown down. aud the house Of Mr.. VIM.
Ross was unroofed. A chimney on the
house Of w. II. McKcen. was blown down.
A great number OF trees in different parts
Of the city. were blown down. One large
crab tree was torn from small grove aud
borne bodily distance Of several rods
VIM. Paddock's house on the prairie had
the chimney dismantled aud the roof In
jured.
The house Of Jonas Perkins on the prai
rie was struck by lightning and much
shattered. The family fortunately csea
ped uniniured.
The candle factory Of u. NJ. Harrison In
The north par of The city, wearc told. was
demolished, aud The house IT Mr.. Muir
phey was much injured.
The machine shop Of the r. IT, a Il
Railroad was partly unroofed. aud chin
ncy on the engine house blown or.
John kirkman'- house, east Of the on
CINE house, was all blown TO pieces ADD Is
irreparable.
The houses Of Peter Phillips, William
woollcn, W y, Cooper aud James O'Con
nell, are sightlcss heaps Of broken timbors
aud rubbish.
A new building erected Ivy llaggerly 4
Maloony, attached to their candle factory
was blown almost entirely away
Haget'a lee house presented the appear
ance Of block house after a heavy eau.
nonade. pieces NJ limbera aud boards hay
ing been driven into the walls 10 the depth
II usHhy lwoirol, The nal WAS entirely
OF
A piece ~ plank penetrated the side NJ
A T. Voorhees, house, passed through
the panel side ~ a bureau aud lodged IN
the middle Of tho drawer A heavy piece
Of roof struck the side Of the house Ius
ander the cave aud knocked out weather
boards, aludding and all,
a carpenter shop near the Bloomington
lload bridge, was thoroughly destroyed
The amount of damage done 10 the 10
somotiyes of u a q, Railroad has not nj
yet been aseerlained. but II Is by far. lesl
than at first supposed
We are glad to learn that The person
mentioned AZ injured IN yesterdays paper
are not 50 seriously injured as 1T first 70
ported That but one was killed. an,
none seriously injured amid such wild do
vastaling ruin, is indeed Proyidental
Many narrow escapes occurred. amoni
which We learn tho following
Charley Oochrane, agent 1T the T.. a
Il. R.h had a heavy door pass within ioV
inches al his head,
Mrs. Philips had stepped into neigh
boris house 10 see sick child, but few
minutes before her house...was n heap O
rubbish.
Mr.. Griswold Of the Hardware store OF
Main street, had just passed the Belfry d
the Catholic Church when il came crush
ing to the earth.
But perhaps the most miraculous Of an
was the escape OF Mr.. Woollen's famil
who were carried with their house a dis
lance greater than the width of il, an
were piled together with the little girl
arm over her brothers head aud stove o
) her arm. Neither were perceptibly injuI
ed
Fortunately the tornado came on earl
in the evening before people had gone
bed otherwise the loss Of life aud Inanglin
of limbs must have been fearful indeed.
4 The course aud breadth of the tornad
: eau not be accurtely determined.
No description that we can give Of tn
wreck by any means equals the reality :
5 II must be seen to be appreciated.
4 The west widows Of the Female Colleg
j, were blown in.
4 Judge Deming's barn was nroofed. b,
{ sides many others suffered more or less il
:, jury.
y Curtis Gilbert lost many valuable appl
trees, aud others shared like fortune.
D The Il. II. d II. Railroad, aud the II. II
4. d St. Louis Railroad, with their PR
n verbal generosity, turned out their Who
e forces to render assistance TO the e. Il
e Railroad. besides furnishing them rollin
J. stock for their trains.
8 THE TORNADO IN THE CoUsTRY.-Nesr s
$ Mary's, we are informed, a house We
= blown down, and a woman killed. I'll
!. village OF Livingston, in CLARK CO., Ill o
J. the National road, near Marshall, was, "
o are told. literally demolished. No law,
Il were lost.
Besides the woman. Mrs. Ragan at s
u Mary's, who was instantly killed, her hu
}. band and six children were seriously il
It iured. The youngest. an infant mir
}, months old, escaped uniniured.
e We have heard nothing Of the effect
il the storm East, except ut Indianapolis,
4 car house that was being moved on rollel
was blown on the track Of the 7. II. d
9 r. r., impeding, TO some small extent III
: operations Of the road.
= The trains due Mt indianapolis yesterda
J. morning all made their usual connection
e on time. with the exception of the Jeffei
} sonyille, which il supposed 10 have su
2 fcrod.
The indianapolis papers contain IA
mention Of the storm.
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