Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-09
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MANY rods, $50 ttl IIrsS ~ Dfoliage
ed drcsssese horses, tic mud EwiuH HstrpWUdi
Nile tonnMK BARN ttRdSaqO EolTAoiFAN Al
j IAnd yet the track ofthe whirlipg demon
AFhs not more thdh'I4l tktg f6db' IN width
Fb speak Of the central force which worked
Die ttibs 81 blFb id6 bf chat khera ygfls ~
al shtya I, Eind%bTGt ,1 4 tF9qI i'S SPgRNrass
On eastward, litS Il S6aatIIpgaei atIIat ItMSytId M w9Tk,z
As it passed south Of hG, 6noGhbsA bhe " 4ess
power, seemed 10 form just n9Eth tqf itYWP,.
and bear off towards Lisbon. Between ahenos
and there It was met by fragment whieA
had broken away from the main storm, when
with increased fury il swept north OF that
village, Overthrowing two houses, fortunate
ly vacant, the depot building and eating
house, and then passed on to join tho main
current farther east.
We are told by DR.. Hammer, this morn
ing, that when he observed it,it would some
times spring up and for space dOno damage
then in an instant il would sweep down, de-
stroying everything before it. Here we no
ticed nothing of the kind, it always hugged
the earth with the embrace of tiend.
of its course east of Lisbon we have not
the particulars. Il is certain, however, that
between there and the Pioneer Grove eight
or ten lives were lost, and many others hor-
ribly injured, while the destruction OF prop
erty is even greater than here, nor had its
fury, when last heard from, in the least aba
ted
The town is shrouded in gloon. Stores
and all places Of business are closed. Men
are going 10 and coming from the scene OF
disaster, or stand in knots upon the streets
talkingin subdued tones. Various unauthen-
ticated rumors pass from mouth to mouth
| Some assert that as the storm passed they
distinctly saw human bodies whirling in.the
air. -
Others recount evidences of the hurri-
| canes force. One man found the blade Of
| a shovel plow so firmly driven into a tree
that he could not pull it out.
The News gives list of fifteen persons
killed in the vicinity of Mount Vernon. AT
Mechaniesville, ten bodies were brought in
from the country north, and in the village of
Dewitt ten or twelve more were killed. We
add few Of the sad incidents:
| AT Camanche, a mother was discovered ly-
| ing dead with her little infant in her arms
upon whom ne visible injury could be found
the breath of life having departed from
| both.
Another mother was found lying dead with
her two little ones by her side--all three cold
and stiff.
The war and force of the tornado are thus
described;
Mr.. Brooks, one Of the few survivors says
he can liken the sound of the tornado as il
approached, only to that Of an earthquake,the
| whole earth trembling terribly.
The wind appeared to have had pretty
much the same effect as would Plow, Dig
| ring deep burrows and trenches in the earth,
and tearing to pieces everything that came IN
its way.
Many of the incidents connected with the
tornado at Carnanche almost surpass human
belief and will be hardly credited by
those who have not seen the ruins. A chin
ney upon Mr.. Anthony's house, weighing
about two tons, was broken off at its junction
| with the roof lifted into the air and hurled
down into the front yard, burying itself II
the ground a depth of three feet withou
| breaking or cracking single brick. We no
ticed an oak tree, on the river bank, by meas
urement. twenty-eight inches in diameter
the base, which was torn out Of the grounC
and stripped of all its branches, leaving onlJ
the bare trunk. from which the bark wa
nearly all peeled off A light pine shingl'
was driven from the outside through the clap
boards, lath and plaster, and projects tw'
inches from the inside wall Of a dwelling
house. No other known force could haY
accomplished this.
Mr.. Butcher, Of Camanche, told US, an'
the fact was testified to by others, that he saw
the storm coming, and closed his doors AM
windows. He then braced himself agalns
the back door, but the tornado wrenched /
from its hinges like a plaything, and carr:el
1 L 41r-nrrorh fhn bOT19n and on
into the garden. He escaped with onl.
slight injuries. A piano was taken out OF
house in the center of the town and carrie
some distance to the river bank, withou
breaking it.
The effects upon some of the houses nea
Camanche, which were in the outer edge
the tornado, were very curious. Upon som
roofs, the shingles were stripped off in fanci
ful shapes, bare spot upon one roof ez'1ti
resembling the figure 8. Some roofs wer
entirely unshingled, and in some cases ever
clapboard was torn of.
= A common trowel, such as is used by mi
sons, was driven through pine knot IN II
: middle of a barn, projecting full two lnche
In one spot was found large pile OF boo
z covers, every leaf from which was gone, an
{ the covers wrinkled and twisted into thou
y | and shapes. Leaves were stripped Of the
! tissue, leaving the fbres clean and bare,
{ if botanist had neatly picked it off. TT
trunks were twisted several times round III
i til they were broken of. The Miliiard Hous
a a three-story structure fronting north, WI
: lifted up from its foundation, and turned con
pletely round, so that the front door iae'
the south. It then collapsed, and seemed
d fall outwardIy, as ifin a vacuum, and stranl
n to relate, out of seventeen persons IN t
house, only two were killed. One house u
u on the bank was lifted from its toundah'
: and whirled in the river, crushing as 1t Il
and drowning three persons, the inmates.
The sides of some houses were literal
: perforated with boards, splintered tmbe
= and sharp stakes. In some parts OF Z
manche, where houses stood thickly clu
tered together, there is not a vestige OF O
J left. Another tract of about forty acres
I covered with splinters of about two feet
y length. The lower stories Of some hous
: were blown out entirely leaving the upp
e story upon the ground. Other buildings 81
y from their foundation and were carried alol
for several feet Chickens, hens and turk
= were stripped OF their feathers and LETT
bare as if ready for market and on the pra
= les, prallle CHICKENS anu sLudll DlAuS VIC
= found in the same condition, and IN sol
Il cases, nothing but the bones left, the ne
being stripped from them.
= The ferry boat which piled between Z
y manche and Albany, was completely Wrec
y ed. Her engines looked as if some giant b
y seized them at top and bottom and fold
= them intoa a hard knot, so twisted and tang
Is were they. Two Germaus, who were ridi
Z Z in buggy, just out of Camanche, were blo'
n into the city, and their team carried in q
u other direction. They were picked up de-
~ Another man, an entire stranger inCamancl
= was picked up in the street with food IN
u mouth, showing that he was eating supper
r ~ the time of the occurrence. His pock
oI were filled with sand and leaves. His whe
" ! abouts could not be ascertained. A child
u years old, was carried through the air so
y = distance and deposited in slough uninjur
II. CRops IN TUscARAwAs.-The Tuscara7
n valley is one of the gardens Of Ohio, VIII