The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-06-09

[From the Davsnpost Gaasats Extsal
GREAT TORNADO.
CAnANCHE IN RuINs AND Slx1r Propfx KrlaRp.
~ VIA n Rains ard 100 Rsporled Killed asd
Wowsaed
/! ALBANY, liz, IN Ruins na
Davenport, June 4, r n
The news reached this city this evening Of I
dreadful tornado which passed through Clintoa
county last evening, deserOying The greater mart
Illinois. s. z sSs7 s -
Bslcw We give the particular from the Ix-
Claire Register Extra. Wehave convcrsed With
. gentleman who was 1t Camanche yesterday
he says there is scarcely house left standing -
I. D. Eagal, from Iowa City, gave ~ the follow
| ing particulars this evening:
A terrible tornado visited the Northcrn mart
OF johnson county, on Sunday afternoon, the Sd
inst. An eyewitness Of the passage OF the
! storm across the Cedar Rapids road, represents
! that the whirlwind was about 200 yards in width.
and swept everything before it--houscs, barns,
trees and tences--and scooping Oft the plowed
ground Of whole fields, carrying it high in the
air. sssa5 IS
The Postmaster ct Solon states that the storm
passed about four miles north Of that place, nm
rooted q church and injured q number Of other
buildings Three lives are reported lost, and
several persons missing.
We learn from Mr.. D. c. Alirich Of Jones
county, and Others, who came down on the Mar
tin Wait this morning, the particulars of ter
nnc and fearfnlly destructive tornado which
passed over Clinton comfy last evening" about
. O'Clock. a. IS %
: The city Of Camanche was completely DESTROY.
ed, hardly building being uniniured, and most
OF them completely demolished! The Millard
Hotel Is mass of ruins, and the wife and two
children Of Mr.. Sessions, the proprietor. are
among the killed. The Mudgctt House was also
destroyed. The store and dwelling house of Mr..
Westphal was demolished and he and his whole
family were buried When our informant left.
Mr.. WIS four children had been dug ont, and
they were searching for his body. At one house, |
woman had gone out to milk her cew, leaving |
her two children, when the tornado struck the |
house, and carried il with its inmates bodily into
the river
When the news reached Clinton, the ferry boat |
at once got up steam, and conveyed several hum |
dred people to the scene of ruin, and the Martin
Wait brought number more, who all went to |
work to extricate the victims, and relieve the |
A ~ 51f a
The hurricane also destroyed the town of AL |
bany, ILL.,, and extended its ravages into Illinois |
some six or seven miles. Only two houses were
eft standing in Albany, and they were badly
7-'fs -
The ferry boat at Camanche was blown to pie
,es, as were also some RATS that were lying there
From one of the rafts fourteen persons are miss
ng. and aboat half dozen from the others
The storm appears to have made clean swath
through Clinton county, carrying with it church,
8, hotels, mills, farm-houses, &c. Whole families
ire missing through the county. The house of
lir. Hatfield, some seven miles from Camanche.
'ontaining himself and family, was carried away,
md not vistige can be found of the house or its
inmates!
When the Martin Wait left Camanche, forty.
wo bodies had been recovered. Countless manp-
cd and halfdying people were lying around the
uins
Mr.. Warren Lawton, Of Princeton, has Just ar
ived in town, and says that fifty farmers were
illed