Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-22

0oro Ro1urkAAle InOa1 dents ~
the Great Tornado. Il
{ Mrs. Detine, one Of the six persons who
oct thslr lives in house in Union town.
hip, Hardin county, had her head severed
tom ~ body, aud it had not been found
ap to last accounts.
A man NEAR Marion, Linn county, saw the
storm coming and ran into field and caught
hold ola sspling to keep from blowing
away. He kept his hold, bpt his boots
were taken off by the violence Of the wind
aud carried awsyi Thi, story is vouched
for by the Marion Register, which says
4 boot was seen flying over that town during
the storm.
The same paper says just before the storm
barst upon the premises of Mr.. W. Vaughn.
his old and favorite house cat, which had
been up stairs asleep, rushed down aud
went bowling from the premises in the d.
rection of the forest, and at last accounts
had not been heard from.
I A little girl. belonging to an emigrant
family encamped near White Oak Grove,
had been semitic neighboring farm house
for bucket Of water, and, on her return to
camp, was taken up and carried SIG miles by
the wind ! She was found unhurt, in the
ruins Of house that had been torn down,
killing several of the inmates, sitting on
feather bed just where the wind left her.
The Marion Register understands that
the boy who was found dead near ST.
Mary's he's been identified As the son OF q
Bohemian family residing west of Cedar
river. He was carried over the river more
than two miles. =. .,.=s BE-.
At White Oak Grove, a tbrashing ma
| chine belonging to VIM. Kohl was torn t,
pieces, and an iron cylinder, weighing 4Ot
pounds, carried half mile and buried Two
feet in the g. ound. ....-...-,--- ,.s.s 3
A correspondent of the Upton Democra
has been told (though he does not vouoh to-
it's tru,h) that at Loudon, two men and
colt were distinctly seen, BY several persons
flying through the Dir. 10 Walnut Grove
Will. the storm was passing, the wife ant
daughter Of Squire Somes twice distinoti,
heard some one screaming in the air. Tn
sound could not have proceeded IRON an.
other place, as none were near enough 7
have been heard during the roar OF tn
storm. .--..sF
At Walnut Grove, the sill Of house
thirty fee long, was carried three miles, an
then "run into the gronnd'' four feet
depth for twenty feet
| James Burye, of St. Mary's, had tittee
hundred dollars in paper money in his hou'
Wien i: was blown to atoms. Twelve hui
I,lred dollars OF the amount were afterward
fund scattered about-one thousand OF
10 q single package. IS.
/ Near Dewitt, as we learn from the Stant
, ard, a little daughter of Mr.. Myers, seve
months old, was carried some thirty rod
deposited in the mud. and remained wit
her head covered to the depth of some eigl
t inches, Ler body resting upon the ground :
In this condition the little sufferer reinall
, ed till discovered, fifteen hours after Il
storm. She was con. ide. ably bruised M
z mapeled and spin,ers Of wood have bee
taken from her body nearly every day, bu
strange to say, she is doing we'll and vi
probably recover. 81
Mrs Boyd, one of the wounded. living {
I Hs,field's farm, Clinton county, had thru
T pieces of wood taken from her 81 e, Two
which were some inches long by I of {
Inch in diameter, and one piece p inch
long by ! in diameter piece had era
n sticking to one end. She still lives with
t faint prospect o, recovery.
FL From Rogers Settlement, in Clinic
. county, q child four years old was carried
distance of two miles and killed.
OF MIR. Walrnd's family of six, in Il
same county, all were killed but one,
, tie girl, who was carried half a mile. ar
9 escaped with lie, but was b .dly j, jursd.
II A barn at Camanche contained 200 bus
t els of corn and $50 bushels Of oats. IT
] tornado struck the building, tore its upp'
part to pieces, scattering the timbers in
directions, and swept ont the aoor up
] which re ted the grain doing it SO sudde'
" as to let the grain drop into the celia
. where it was found afterwards unlnjure'
s and only about six bushels OF it missing
r Not remnant of the floor could be found
e A horse was taken up by the wind
+ Camanche aud after ards found ten mile
/ distant on the Opposite side If the Mi>sissiI
Iii! whether he was blown that far, {
, only into the river, from which he mao
it,e remainder of the distance himself, 10 NJ
certainly known. 40 s,....,....
We have compiled these incidents mostl
from our exchanges, and they are oil We
authenticated. Most of them have bee
corroborated to US by persons who hav
f been upon the ground. Many stories az
, told about tie s.urm which are no dout
sheer iabricat;ons, but we have not include
any such in the above without at the sam
time implying doubt OF their truthfune-'
y Those already narrated are Sufficient I
substantiate the old saying that ''Truth
Stranger than fiction" o s=.t .-L
! EBRATyx.-In an article on the first pag
of to.day's paper, headed, "The Homestea
Bill again Defeated" giving Mr.. Celfax'
analysis of the Senate bill, he is made to sa
lit would operate on no land except in Min
nesota, Oregon and Washington" The wor
Except is misprint. He stated that
would operate On no land in the States named
E..,t III
The LAST OF The HARPsR's Ferry RAlp
- The Senate special committee to,inyessi
gate the facts il the John Brown Harper
Ferry invasion c,ossd their labors an,
reported on Friday last, Messrs. Mason. o
Va, Davis, of Miss, and Fitch, Ct Ind
presenting majority report, and Messrs
Collamer, of Vt, and Doolittle, of Wis.
that of the minority. sr ...f s.,l
Both reports agree that there is no evi
deace Whatever, duplicating any person o
persons, at the North OF elsewhere, in til,
JOHN Brown raid, and that Brown and tn,
Ibard acc ,mpanying him alone were known.