, 1860-06-07
1HG GREAT TORNADO.
Latest News from the Scene Of tht
Disaster.


Horrible Details at Can1anche.
Especial Correspondence Of the Press and Trihuup1
! s1kHIshd. ILL.,. JuceG leGo
We returned yesterday from the late city
Camanche. While there the hight TINT met thu
eye Was perfectly horrible to LOOK upon, and nj
pen is adequnte to the task of conveying tlt
mos. faint idea Of the disastrous ELECTS Of the
tornado, as it passed over that place.
Horses and cattle are lying III every direc.
ton, killed from the effects Of the storm. The
buildings look Us though tLey had all been tern
N small fragments, scattered over the whole
country, and feathers from the bed clothes linz
the ground, and then I'LL had been orer.syen,
With rushing wa!ers-
We went iato one building where we're fifteen
bodies, some mangled in The most frisllttr]
manner, and only wrapped up in sheet, and put
into rough bog, ready for butial.
DR.. Howell, Of Fulton, informed US .hat frcn,
sunday evening to Monday noon he had visited
nanety-ont wounded, and set tsoeaty.fhyee broken
limbs.
We Saw t'o<nty.tiyAt dead bodies, and there
WIS e1ght5-two that require strict medical at-
tendascc, and as many n,orc that are more or
less hurt, yet are able to be around. In uddi.
ton to this number twenty eight we're swept
from Tait IN The river that was passing at the
time. and tf1s are yet missing from the town,
tbat are supposed to be buried in the ruins, or
are blown into the river and drowned.
With the exception Of hal; dozen houses On
tue north side Of the town, trery single building
il either torn down, unroofed, or otherwise
damaged.
worse sightno human eye ever beheld, ard
the heart grows sick in seeing Euch destruc
ton Of life and property. The town is entirely
ruined, aad NC do not sec ho.v it can ever be re.
built. There are whole blocks Of l,ts that ars
vacant, entirely, with nothing but The cellar to
Indicate Tint q House ever stood there,
We saw part Of wagon consisting Of the
forward axletrce und one hub, and no more of
it could be found.
Out Of the contents Of three dry goods stores
not one cents worth Of tue goods hare ever
been fou1d.
The tornado struck the town little past
seven O'Clock, and in less thau ten minutes the
whole Was in ruins. After it had passed, the
town w4s all adoa: with water; all that could.
began to run from place to place ccrean,iuq at
TIC top Of their rolces, calling for friends and
tor children. In every plle Of rubbish, and
from every demolished house, tic groans Of the
dying and wounded vera heard, and as the
sound calne from every part of the town, no one
knew where to SO first. The darkness occa.
stoned By the black clouds, the air being filed
with rubb'sl Of every conceivable character
and the near approach of night, rendered the
scene still more appalling, and such vail Of
lameata:ion, sorrow and woe never went up
from cny place in the history Of tornadocs. a
did from this ruined and destroyed city. Sotl.
ing could be- found to bind up the wcuads Of
the suffering, no medicines were to be rot. and
the walls Of tic III ,:ler oye. ler dead children
the anguish Of a wife over the Efcless remains
Of husband, the father oyer lis slaughtered
children, hunting in vain for his wiee-a:l these
a'e scenes that c1anot be possibly described.
In one family all that was left we're three little
girls, the father and mother ana two children
having been instantly killed. We saw where Il
Jtnce 1oasd had been forced clear through ihc
side OF house, end ways, and hundreds Of
shingles haa forced themselves clear through
the clapboards ofa house.
We visited the grave yard, aad saw tpenty-
eight graves side and side ali dus, waiting to
receive the rough boxes continuing the remains
Of the slaughtered people.
The whole atmosphere arounl tho town is
slckcning, and 4 atcnch is peryalns the whole
f.f In eli IT.