Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-06-15
Great Tornado in Western Pennsylvania
100000 Forth of Property Destroyed- -Four Persons
kiIJcd--40 Persons W09nded.
From the Clarion Co., Pa, Banner.

From the Clarion Co., Pa, Banner.
Wednesday last, the 30th inst, will long be
remembered in the annals of Clarion county,
as forming one Of its most remarkable epochs
About noon On that day, a heavy black cloud
was seen advancing about thirty rods south
of St. Charles Furnace. An awful roaring
sound accompanied it, and passing On to the
farm of Mr.. Shoemaker, it burst with terrible
fury, tearing his house and barn into frag-
ments and breaking one of the legs Of Mr.
Shoemaker; the dwelling of Mr.. Thomas
Dougherty was next struck, and which was
blown to pieces, the furniture broken to
atoms, and his daughter killed next the
house of O'Connel Henry was blown down,
and his wife seriously hurt. The barn of Jo-
seph Smith was completely wrecked.
The house Of Mr.. Charles Stewart. three
quarters Of mile north of New Bethlehem,
was blown down and his wife killed, and other
members of the family Injured. The storm
IN passing through Hessville, DESTROYED the
tavern Of Nathan Hane. and killed his dauob.
ter.
| In passing north of Melville, the storm de-
stroyed the barns of Jacob Hartzell. John
| and Samuel Shick; the houses of John Mob
ney was blown to pieces, and his wife car
rled away, and no traces of her had been
| found last night at II o'clock In its course,
the storm did not strike either Milville or
New Bethlehem, but beyond the former
| place 1t struck the village of Hessville.
| In this place we're a number of dwelling s,
| brick, frame and log, and also large grist
mill, and asubstantial bridge, spanning Red
bank; every house, barn, mill, bridge, and
| the store of Irwin Mcfarland, were DESTROY
| ed, and four lives lost. Among the killed
were the wives of Irwin Mcfarland and Mr.
| Hess.
| A terrible hail storm passed through por.
| ton of Porter and Redbank townships, which
| in its course did an immense amount of dam
age. Beside destroying every fence in its
track, fields Of grain were badly injured, and
as matter of course, being left open, the
cattle got in and committed still further raw
ages.
Taken altogether, the hailstorm and tor.
NADIA, an immense injury has been sustained
in the townships of Porter and Redbank.
1t is evident that Europe is On the eve
of great events. There are five or six powers
| which know not whether to act with a view tc
war or peace. 1t is true that the course Of
| GARlBALDI is ea9early watched by all Europe
at present. By the arrival of the 4fi'ico We
learn that he had approached near Palermo
ard Buntavilla. The latest accounts state
that Gen. LAESEA had demanded an arms
tice of GARIBALDI without effect.
There is no doubt that GARIBALDI's move
ments viii yet involve Hungary. The Croa
| tons are ready to rise and throw off the Aus
| trian rule,and the Cabinet of Vienna will
have enough to do at home without invading
Lombardy.-SentineJ-
| = On Tuesday afternoon seven Of the swans
| at the Central Park died very suddenly, under
circumstances which led to the belief that they
were poisoned Three of them dropped and
died early in the forenoon, and four more died
at dusk DR.. Buck, of the City Hospital is en-.
gagged to-day "wednesday in making a post
mortem examination of the dead swans. to see
if he can discover any traces of poison. The
birds we're fed so constantly by all the visitors.