Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-23

street east Of Baymiller, was found danger
ously-very likely hlally-hurt and five
Others were more or less wounded.
Mary Selfert was found lying under the
wreck of Miss Medkirks table Her body
had been protected by the table under which
she had crawled for safety, but the cap-stone
Of the building fell upon her legs and broke
them both of below her knees and mangled
her limbs sadly. She was carried home suf-
iering much agony. Last night she was
comfortable, but the physician in attendance
thought the shock to her system, together
with other injuries may prove fatal
The injuries received by Miss Rachel Med
kirk, the teacher who discharged her duty
so bravely, are serious. Her head and face
were so badly cut and bruised that DR.. Green
wald says she viii be confined to her room
for month Her fidelity TO her charge,
however, probably saved her life, The chair
upon which she sat when she sprang to the
door, and the table before her, were literally
shattered, and this a moment after, when lit
tie Mary Seifert had crawled there for pro
lection.
MOTHERS AND FATHERS TO THE RESCUE.
The above scenes happened in far briefer
time than it takes us 10 describe them, and,
before the storm had settled, the facts, mag
nifed a thousand fold, reached the ears Of
hundreds Of parents, who sped frantically to
the school house, expecting to find their of
spring buried in heap of ruins. The wild
frenzy Of mothers was described to US by
Mr.. Sands as something fearful. Some would
snatch up anybody's children, scan their fea-
lures as though they would devour the little
ones, drop them, if they did not recognize
their own, rush through the mass Of yearning
hearts, crying "my child, my child, or
calling it fondly by name. Throngs of them
thrust themselves up the school house stairs,
and would not hear Femonstranees or assur-
ances. One poor woman, Mrs. Brown,
dashed through the crowd shouting crafty
for her "Mikey.n Mr.. Sands assured her he
was safe. A little urchin, hard by interposed,
" No he amt, he's killed / saw him dead.
The poor woman gasped, and seemed turned
to stone. When she found her boy alive but
wounded, she almost fell in a swOon. Other
and similar incidents were narrated by eye
witnesses, but the reader can easily imagine
the terrible agony Of parents heart in such
trial The reader will agree with us that
it is wonderful that scores of children were
not killed. There were 700 children in the
building and 10 teachers.
The damage to Churches was heavy. The
steeple of the ST. Josephs Catholic Church
was blown off and fell through the roof dam
aged the building $4,000, as the walls were
thrown out of line The church was only
finished on Saturday The Trinity Catho-
lie Church had one of its pinnacles blown
off. A heavy stone on which it rested, fell
through the roof and completely demolished
the organ, which cost So, 600. The Taberna-
Gle Presbyterian Church was partly unroofed,
and otherwise damaged, to the extent of ST.
600. The roof of the First Presbyterian
Church was badly shattered st. Augustine
Catholic Church was also damaged. One OF
the towers was thrown into the street. St
Johns Church, EpiscOpalian, was partly un-
rooted A number of school houses, and many
dwelling houses business blocks, manuacto-
ries, depOts, etc, We're damaged from slOO to
81, 500 and s., 600 each. The Mechanic Insti-
tute $4,000; U. 8 Marine Hospital 81, 500
Gas Works $4,000.
Along the River the storm ragged with fear
ful violence. The feet of steamers moored
at the levee were not seriously injured
The steamer Virginia Home was cap
sized three miles from the city No
lives lost. The River was literally blocked
with Aat-boats, barges, SC, driven from theiI
moorings. sA
The storm on the Covington and Lexington
Railroad was severe The following fearful
adventure is rel ated:
! At 2.25 P. NJ. the train entered forest
sixteen miles south of Coyington, and the
/ hurricane struck Trees fell like reeds. II
seemed safer TO proceed than to stop and
either seemed destructive. When the train
was within fifty yards of a clearing, tlcetU'
trees fell within fifty feet Of the cars. One
Of them, soft poplar, three feet eight inehe'
| diameter fell lust in front ofthe engine, WAieh
iedped il, ledUiHg her trucks, and cylinders ana
steam chests behind The tree is under the
baggage car and the car on its side. The
train stopped within distance of forty feet
throwing passengers In heap at the iron'
end. When the train stopped limbs of tree:
were falling like fails, and two trees cams
crashing like a thunderbolt and filling the ail
with leaves and boughs. The tops ofseveral
trees fell within few feet of the ladies car
A scene of more utter terror could not be i'm
agined. Death seemed inevitable. The track
Of the tornado was about one hundred yards
wide and the train was in the very center o.
it. Tom Flood, the fireman, had both hand:
badly scalded, and was otherwiseinjured. Isaac
Barnet, Engineer, stood at his post like a man
and received only a small cut over one eye
He was covered with the branches of trees
and leaves. No passenger car was thrown
from the track. The screams of children, th'
shricks of terrified women, the pallOr Of stout
men was scene to move the soul. 1t wa
awful. All the employees of the train wert
more or less hurt, but the passengers escaped
without injury. The fireman was buried
under the wood in the tender, and woulC
have been scalded to death but for Franz
Lockwood, who worked like hero to save
the poor fellow. The storm lasted perhaps
ten minutes.
There was universal CONSERVATION through
| out the citv peonle lost faith in the roof