Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-06-16
Especial Correspondence ofthe Press Tribnne.]
THE GREAT TORNADO HORRIBLE DE
TAILS AT CAMANCHE.

SlEhlsl4Nbs Ai-s juno " tSSV.
We returned yesterday from the late city
of Camanche. While there the sight that
met the eye was perfectly horrible to look
upon, and no pen is adequate to the task Of
conveying the most faint idea Of the disas-
irons effects of the tornado, as it passed oy-
Ell that place.
Horses and cattle are lying in every di-
rection, killed from the effects Of the storm.
The buildings look as though they had all
been torn in small fragments, scattered oy-
er the whole country, and feathers from
the bed clothes, line the ground and then
all had been oyer-swept with rushing wa
tiers.
We went into one building where were
fifteen bodies, some mangled in the most
frightful manner, and only wrapped up IN
a sheet, and put into a rough box, ready
for burial.
Dir. Howell, Of Fulton, informed us that
from Sunday evening to Monday noon he
had visited ninety-one wounded, and sci
t,centy-ttree broken limbs.
We saw tgentg-eight dead bodies, and
there was eighty-two that require strict med
zeal attendance, and as many more that are
more or less hurt, yet areable to be around,
In addition to this number twenty-eight
were swept from raft in the river that
was passing at the time, and ten are yet
missing from the town, that are supposed
to be buried in the ruins, or are blown in
to the river and drowned.
With the exception Of. half a dozer
houses on the north side Of the town, ere
~ single building is either torn down, un-
rooted, or otherwise damaged.
"A worse sight no human eye ever beheld
and the heart grows sick IN seeing such &
destruction Of life and property. The town
lis entirely ruined, and we do not see how
it can ever be rebuilt. There are whole
blocks Of lots that are vacant, entirely, with
nothing but the cellar to indicate that q
house ever stood there.
We saw a part of a wagon consisting Of
the forward axetree aud one hub, and nc
more Of it could be found.
Out of the contents of three dry goods
Istoses not one cents worth of the goods
have ever been found.
The tornado struck the town alittlspast
Iseven o'clock, and in less than ten minutes
1.-The whole was in ruins. After it had pass
led the town was all afoat with water; al
that could, h gan to run from place toplact
Screaming at the top of their voices, calling
lfor friends and for children. In every pill,
Iof rubbish, and from every demolished
lhouse, the groans Of the dying and wound
led we're heard, and as the sound came from
levery part Of the town, no one knew wher'
Ito 90 frs. The darkness occasioned BY
the black clouds, III air being filed witt
rubbish of every conceivable character, anS
1.-THE near approach Of night, rendered tn
lscene still more appalling, and such wal
lof lamentation, sorrow and woe never wen
Iup from any place in the history Of lorna
.ldoes, as did from this ruined and destroyed
lefty. Nothing could be found to bind "
1.-THE wounds Of the suffering, no medicine
were 70 be got, and the walls Of the mothe
over her dead children, the anguish of
wife over the lifeless remains of husband
1.-THE father over his slaughtered children
,lhunGng in vain for his wife--all these ar
rlscenes that connot Be possibly described.