The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-06-14
Fearful TOrnndO--OVcr 100 Lives
LOst--AppalinE Devastation in H.
IInOiS and Kowa--Th0 Storm i'm
Ohio and Kentucky.

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, OF las
week, various points in Iowa, Illinois, Indians
Ohio and Kentucky were visited by a tempest
or o series OF tempests, which in some place
ragged with terrible violence; resulting 10 a grea
loss Of life aud wholesale destruction OF prop
erty. Our exchanges come to US overHowing
with details.
The total amc unit of damage is estimated a
5000, 0a0. One hundred houses were injured
and three churches almost ruined. There wa,
no loss OF life, though some persons were burieC
beneath the falen buildings and slightly in
jured. The most fearful effects OF the hurricane
were experienced in
IOWA AND NORTHERN ILLs.
II traveresed distance of about one hundred
miles, starting from Linn county, Iowa, ane
10 generally north east direction, crossing the
track of the c. l. q n. K. K. at Lisbon, taking
the station house, eating house aud all the ware
houses at teat station, missing the princi al part
Of the village aEd killing none there, but before
reaching there, we learn OF six teen deaths. One
vein OF the storm pussed north OF Mechanics
vile, demoishing everything IN its course and
killing sixteen persons.
The rest took in It's course thro' Onion Grove
and killed two persons, and near Onion Grow.
il killed fifteen persons Ii passed south of the
Railroad near Dewitt, killing twenty seven per.
sous, sixteen or the farm OF Thomas Hatfield
aud demolished the residence OF G.. w. Ames
II then passed south of Romessu and Low Moor,
taking in its course the house Of OF David Mill
nd killing him and portion OF his family; al
so the house cf Thorburs Mckinney and Raj
stons and several Others. II then struck Cam.
anrhe on the Iowa and Albany on the Illinois
bank. Then it moved across Whitesde into
Lee county. whence the latest accounts OF its
ravages come. We condense from the Chicago
Press and Journal the facts which follow, Al
Lisbon, Iowa. the Rolrosd depot was destroy-
ed. aud one train of ten freight cara was lifted
bodily from the track end dashed to pieces. At
Dewitt, Clinton county, Iowa, twenty miles
east OF the river, sixteen TO eighteen persons
were killed. At last accounts eleven corpses
had been recovered.
Csmanche, the scene of the most fearful des-
iruction, is town OF about ID, 900 inha bitsnis,
eight miles south OF Clinton. IL occupies
level plain or plateau. elevated about fifteen feet
above the river. The town Was built along and
Immediately upon the brink of the Mississippi
and somewhat compsctly for Western town,
this being comparatively one Of The older points
aud founded in 1887. 1t had numerous subStan-
tial buildings and Others in eIe;lion, aud three
churches
The tornado came upon Camsuche about Z
o'clock P. M. An eyewitness describes il in
appearance as resembling ali inverted hay-cock,
lis broad point sweeping The earth as IL march
ed As il came, peculiar moaning sr1ck the
ear. heard al some distance on either side the
track. All was over in about three minutes
A, the expiration OF that brief interval not a
hrsle Busiasss bulldog in the village Fsnslnsi