The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-15

Mrs. Dorr, one boy drowned, George Ro-
worth, one child OF Mr.. Barnum. A list OF
eighteen or twenty houses destroyed, and q
large amount of stock killed, is given.
Duration of tornado not over ten minutes.
No information of it after it crossed Rock
river, below Sterling. o
A doctor has just returned from the scene
of suffering, and says that eight or ten killed,
and about fifty seriously injured. One wo>
man was taken from her bed and carried
twenty or twenty-five rods. A number of
houses were destroyed, and large number
of horses and cattle were killed.
FULTON, Ill, June 4-4,3O P. NJ.
The names of those killed by the tornado
at Albany, ILL.,, on the evening of the third,
are as follows D. Buck, E. Elmer, Mr..
Sweet, Miss Reyden, missing, and two
children of MIR. Riley. Those fatally
wounded are, Mr.. Riley, Miss Mary Stage,
Mrs. Slocum. Badly hurt are, Mr.. Perkins,
Mrs. Sweet, Mrs. Cipen and child, Mrs.
McMann, Mrs. Cole, Moses Bishop, wife and
child, Mrs. Whitcomb, leg broken, Mrs.
Elmer, Frederick Miller and Mr.. Ostrander.
Several Others are more or less injured. A
public meeting of the citizens of Fulton was
held to-day, which resolved to furnish homes
and every assistance necessary to the COM
fort of the sufferers.
ADDITION FROM THE SCENE OF DISASTER.
FULTON, ILL.,, May 4.
The following are the names of some of
the killed by storm last night at Camanch :
Il. D. Biglow, JAS Stahlenbury, Theodore
Arp, 81. McKendrick, Jacob Meyle, wife
and child, Mrs. Amelia Davis and child, G.
o. Westhalt, wife and child, A. Hooft, Ma
ry Greenleaf, Elizabeth Rathborne, D. Wag-
goner, Margaret and Mary Foss, Philip
Pepper, Mr.. Barnham. There are Others
who have not yet been Unidentified. The
number of killed in Camanche will probably
reach fifty.
In Camanche, thirty-two dead bodies have
been found in the ruins, and there are more
that cannot be got at. The citizens of both
places are left without shelter while their
household furniture is destroyed.
STERLING, Ill.,. June 4.
A terrible tornado passed about three
miles south of this city last night, unroo6ng
some houses and entirely demolishing others,
killing several persons and breaking the
limbs, and otherwise manning great many
more.
We also learn that at Lynden, IL miles
south of here, the tornado was even more
destructive. The physicians, and people
generally from this city, have turned out to
aid the sufferers.
Another despatch states that at Lynden,
five persons were killed, and fifteen woun>
ded.
A despatch from Sterling states that on
the whole line of the tornado, scarcely an
article of furniture can be found. Cattle
were carried by its force great distance,
and the feathers blosOn from chickens and tur-
keys.
The tornado was in the form of a whirl-
wind, funnel>shaped, and carried pieces of
furniture, &C., upwards of two miles.
A despatch from Ambey, ILL.,, gives an
account of the destruction in that vicinity.
Several persons werc killed, mainly women
and children, but houses, barns, fences,
stacks, in the way of the tornado, we're
swept away as if they were the merest
trihes.
ST.. LOUIS, June 4.
The storm. Saturday evening, was very
severe at Alton, ILL.,; total loss probably ex.
ceeds 100000. German Catholic church
almost complete wreck Episcopal church
lost its steeple, and said to be almost total
loss on account of the walls being cracked !;
its organ was ruined. Steeple of Methodist
church fell through the roof, damaging the
building $4,000; about the heaviest loss on
Fetch's Democrat Office, $4,000; damage
by hail considerable in all parts of the city;
many narrow escapes, but no lives lost ::
Northern Mission also suffered extensively.