The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1860-07-05
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One Ii, told US hrs frs, r,ai.s alton oi tbA
storm consisted in eing horse come
through air. about twenty feet trurn the
ground, followed ty cow at about the
same height. The COW most have been car-
r;ed son.c .wenty ro.ls frun where she waA,,
when the storm began. Mr.. Butter saw
his stable taken over the tops Of some cher-
r trees, leaving his horses o. the ground
(thee wa. no floor to the stable) attached
Cd the rack
Ar Albany, large warehouse about 80
ny 100 feet was moved from its founda-
tions and is now sfandiag ut the distance OF
a square from them; the building must
Fhave been moved some 300 feet. The
terrific momentum of the tornado Is per-
hals best illustrated by shingie now
sticking through the sides Of MIR. Wal.
DORIS store, in Csinaoche. The shinyle
IS OF cedar, and Of ordinary size and thick
ness. 1t struck on the butt end. in a di-i
rection directly opposite the general course
| Of the tornado and fsrced itself through
the ciaphcar,ls, lathe, and plas;eriny wills
out being braken at all. The incident
also shows the rotary morton of the tor
nado. The chimney of Nr. Aa,honya
house. weighing near n ton, WAS taken off
aud deposI ed in the garden ten iett iron,
l,,he bu.l ling, IN an upright position. with
nut "A single crack to show that il had been
disturbed
Mr.. Baston, living three miles wsst of
Camanche. saw the black column OF dc,
s.ruct,on directly advancing upon hishouse.
and sent his family TO small grove of
locust, With dne;tions to lie upon the
al nad oil a. IL.
lying there they. saw the house taken and
carried about twenty rods to the west, and
erturned TO within few feet of its orig
mai position. 1t was then as Mr.. II ex>
presses II, '' rubbed out" Not fragment
Remains. At Dewitt, where the course
was due east, building, with the whole
family in it, was carried from the east to
the west side Of the highway, aud depos-
tied without even breaking the croexerY.s
A singular instance OF the power of TIA
tornado has been furnished by .Mr Reed.
of the frm of Reed & Harper Of Bertram.
A large rock, weighing over twenty t,ns,
a1out twelve feet long, eight fee; wide, and
SIX feet thick, was embedded i'm the east
bank of the Cedar river Only about
eighteen inches Of this rock projected frsm
he bank'of the river, the rest was fir.n.y
planted inthe clay. The tornado striking
she rock, wreurhed it frunl itssbed and
turning it over, end for end until it sur
mounted the bank; carricd.t al out one
handr.d ysr,is.
In several Instances wagons were t..rn IN
pieces, and the res ot the wheels straight.
ened cut perfectly fat. A tort:on OF the
warehouse OF kab,,,au & fiautz ut Lisbon
was found sixteen miles away, north Of
)nirn Grove. Ii was recosl, sell Ly e
| ,'ecu.iar c,ior of the paint. There Is the
'est!mony of four eyewitness, living at
iiertran. who say that they distiac; saw
man ~ the ve:y vorie. of the torn do aa
| & led HeHtrun, high above TIE 70 ls Of
M sa'iest trees. They followed che track
osEsoanc d'stanoe hoping 10 fni the body,
busatid u t We have siaee heard tn a
haihin boiy, too much nlut;Iiat-d to per-
nni Il recognition. w..s found three and
hat niles rom Bertrain
The Cei,r x. !, ds n, also gives a
| great variety III inc. rents Closing lis uarra-
| tive as follows:
I'VE have merely mentioned the build
| Ings where accidents occurred Farms.
sheds and outhouses were deinolish ID. way-
| 1ns carried quarter OF mile and broke
| Ill To splinters, fences were str.wsd in
very CO ceivable manner, trees u .roo,ei
ant carried from ten feet and az many
To i, orchards are ruined, AMI in h ,rt
e'e' ytn'ns that c,.nie IA i,s ay, Was n,ore
or less Destroyed
! ! ne e."ud TO the sou;hward passed over
the town o. Shu eyvi!le, nis.e miits south of
'nis city, destroying two dv elsings, and
then passed Oh through banner Valley,
anroof'ng the Lutheran church. No lives
/ Werc los at either oil tho above places. IL
then tDol a sou heasterly direction to-
words Cedar r,vcr, passing throu. N Rogers
settlement seven miles. from Cedar r.
! p'ds, ON the west side OF the river, DESTROY
ing the dwellings, of Mr. Thompson. and
Mr. earns son was instantly killed. A
child seven years old was carried by the
storm distance of two miles over Cedar
river. he destroying fcnd then took
! jump, and the next we noticed of its work
was al 81. Mary 5, u small hamlet two miles
south of Mount Vernon.
Between DE Witt and Camanche tbere
's rot single building left stantiiur alony
the track OF the tornado. Scventy-six head
of cattle and horses were buried on Tues
| DAY, ani az many more were left dead on
the prairies. Trees are completely strit.
ted, aud lock lie peeled poles, the tops
beng entirely gone
We saw death aud dc clation on every
side nli the way do@l, aud believed ,l.at
we had seen things as bad as they could
! pnss'!"y be, bu. ahcn we arrived at Cam
anche We were completely dumb tor n,lea,
ucf pen utterly fails to give anything liko
description % the awful scene there pre-
saDted The streets look us il n heavy
tood1had swe over thea timbers, SHIN
J gies. boards, cord wood aud trees arc strewn
around and all over the entire town. Four
story buildings, brick churches, school
hoases, dwellings, and in short, everything
tBad been cruahed 10 the earth or carried
in fhe river