The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-07-25
PORTAGE SENTINEL.


TIME TABLE
CoHxRNciNo MONDAY, APEL %, ls6o.
Tratas leave Ravenna as follows
GOING NORTH.
Express 0'iS Sad1se SOUTH" sos M
Mall, S;isAH. Arrive at PIts:CTrgh' 2.+S P: NJ
E1PF'''' TsSTTsS MSsSiins SO sSs 4. 4. n A.
RETURNING,
Trains leave Cleveland, 80 A. NJ. and 5.s5 M
:. +" Pi!tseurgh, I.GO lS4s /"
in. MCCULLOUGH, PreI't.
F. z. MYERS, General Ticket Agent.
DESTRUCTIVE ToRNADo.-About two o.
clock on Saturday afternoon last, destruc-
tive tornado visited the neighborhood OF
Bracevile. in Trumbull county. The facts
are es follows: The storm commenced in
the neighborbood of the Phalanx, about
three.f .fourths OF a mile north west Of Brace
VILE Station, on the Cleveland and Mahon.
ing Railroad, and the first damage done by
it was the demolishing OF the dwelling Of
Mr.. MASON. The house was blown down,
and the wife Of Mr.. NJ, go badly injured that
it is feared she cannot live. The house of
Mr.. GRIFFIN, in the tsme neighborhood, to-
cether with two other houses and two barns
were also completely destroyed. The en-.
tire fsmiIy OF Mr.. Griffin were buried In the
ruins of his house, but they were dug out
with more or less injuries-none Of which,
however, will prove fatal.
The storm then passed in southeast di.
rection, taking in its course body Of woods
on both sides OF the railroad track. Here
the line OF march Of the devourng monster
is made apparent by the trees falling bodily,
torn up by the roots and twisted off, as if
by lightning. The railroad track was GOV.
cred with trees and trunks, and the trains
which passed in the afternoon were delayed
several hours in clearing the track.
The next object of attack was the Depot
building at the station. The building was
ripped from the foundation in short time,
the timbers scattered far and wide. A
frame house, two groceries, and the dwelling
house OF Mr.. JEREMIAH CALVIN, shared the
same fate. Before the house OF Mr.. Calvin
had been destroyed, one Of his children, who
had been out berrying, was discovered by its
mother approaching the house. She went
out to meet it, with an umbrella, and they
had almost reached the house when the tor
uado came up, and either a rail or large
limb borne Iuriously along by the gale,
struck Mrs. Calvin on the right side OF the
head, crushing out one OF her eyes and in
stuntly killing her.
Some idea of the force OF the wind may be
gathered from the fact that the Depot and
the grocery OF Mr.. WOOD, the Station Ogent,
were taken from the foundation, as describ
ed by an eye witness, up some 500 feet into
the oir, and rolled Ground together for mo
ment, then driven before the blast like
feathers, the thousands of fragments falling
like hail. Such wus the force of the wind
that fragments were carried three miles-a
two pound weight near half mile. quar-
ter of O dollar and fragment of iron from
a sewing machine weighing two or three
pounds was picked up over half mile from
the Depot whence it cume handsaw was
carried over one mile. A box OF hardware,
consisting Of bolts, buckles, ETC., was strew.
ed over the ground for half q mile. Two
freight cars were thrown from the track, and
completely demolished-one loaded thrown
60 feet. and the other blown 500 feet. An
express package, containing $500, belong
Ing to AID. K1BBER, Of Pennington, was
carried away by the wind and has not yet
been heard from. A box, which contained
5000, belonging to the R. R. Company, was
found in Liberty, the next day, IA miles dis
tant, in which portion of the money was
still remaining.
After leaving the Station, the dwelling OF
Esq. BENEDICT was completely riddled, and
the roof blown eff. A feather bed in this
house wus blown eeven miles. The dwell
ing of Mr.. PARKER, formerly editor of the
Warren Chronicle, and house and barn
belonging to the Benefits estate, were all
unroofed.
Near the "Centre of the World" the
storm passed over the Mphoning River.
striking, in all its fury, the house belonging
10 ELLEN BENNETT, of Warren, at the time
occupied by tenant or this house, barn
and two out buildings, nothing remains.-
Three persons were in the house at the time,
and man named JOHN CARPENTER was so
greatly injured that at the time our inform
ant left; be was not expected to survive. In
the same neighborhood, large brick house
was nearly unroofed.
The storm passed on to Lordstown, where
the destruction is said to be very great
From Lordstown, it passed in the vicinity oI
Niles and Youngstown, to the State line.-
Its force was probably spent at BraceviIle'
The track of the storm was about guar.
ter of mile in width, and presented the ap.
pearance OF a straight and clear road.
POPULATION OF PALMYRA.-We give be
low the population, etc., of Palmyra, al
furnished us by Deputy Marshal REED:
Number of inhabitants, l,040; number o
farms, 14S; number Of dwelling houses
227; number of families, $50; number o
deaths the past year, 10.
In 1850, the population of Palmyra wal
l,o73-the decrease in ten years being SO.