St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-06-14

containing "a men and two wome
, was broken up on the Mississippi riy
er, and 81 men and two women wer
drowned Three churches and tn
Willard House are amongst the ruins
Not far from Lisbon, Iowa, Their
were 16 persons killed, and near Oniol
Grove, Iowa, it killed Is persons.
At Lisbon, the large brick an,
frame grain warehouses belonging t
merchants of that town, and the frcigh
depot of the Chicago, Iowa & Nebras
:, ka Railroad were utterly demolishc
= and their contents scattered to tn
four winds of heaven. Ten freigh
cars were hurled from the track an
broken up. One of them heavil
loaded with lumber was lifted int
the air and turned over twice, FINAL,
descending with such force as to com
pletely shiver the car and it's contents
into indistinguishable fra gmcnts ant
splinters.
The crops in the path of the whirl-
wind were beaten down; barns were
destroyed and stock in large numbers,
inflicting an almost irreparablc loss
upon the farmers. Trees were twist
ed off and one immense oak, mcasur-
ing nearly three feet in diameter at
the base, was torn up by the roots,
lifted into the air and dashed down
again, burying it three or four feet il
the ground.
j Cattle, horses and sheep were tax
en- up in the airy melstrum, whirle,
tcrrilically about, and dashed to thu
earth again with force which rcdu
ced them to a mere pulpy mass. The
prairies between Cedar Rapids and
De Witt were literally strown with
the carcasses of cattle and other ami.
mails. One man found the blade of a
shovel so firmly driven into q tree
that he could not pull it out. Frag
ments of clapboards, siding &c, wcr,
found at Fulton, believed to have
been carried from Albany, a distance
of eight miles. The surface of the
ground was rent and torn as if by
plowshares along the course of the
destroyer. One man at Camanchc, Oh
the prairie, was blown from his bed a
distance of many rods.
Near Cedar Rapids, man obscrv-
ed the tornado approaching and in
stantly threw himself among some
halle bushes with his face to tho
ground, and chung to the branches fol
protection. 1t passed over him, hurl
ing him distance of several rods,
and stripping every vestigc of cloth
ing from his body Another man was
surprised in a similar manner, and
threw his arms around tree The
whirlwind in an instant wrenched him
from the tree, hurled him into the air,
then dashed him to the ground, and
repeating this two or three times left
him corpse.
Rails from the fences were caught
as darts by the mighty storm king,
and thrown hundreds of feet, plung-
ing them many feet into the earth.
One Of these mighty missiles was
plunged entirely through the body of
of luckless COW that was trying to
escape the violence of the storm. A
horseman was leisurely vending his
way along when the storm commen-
ced Telling the timber all about him.
He put spurs to his horse, but in an
instant horse and rider were taken up
and carried over high fence, into a
large meadow.
A teamster, seeing the storm APP
preaching, unhitched and put his team
in stable. After stepping out he
heard u crash, and on looking round,
he beheld the stable on the opposite
side Of a creek, while the team re-
manned as he had left them-minus
the stable.
At Alton, Illinois, more than one
hundred houses were destroyed, and
three church ediiices nearly ruined
In Whiteside twenty or more persons
were killed and a large number woun-
ded. The storm struck the town of
Albany, ILL.,, two miles north of Ca.
manche, with full force, destroying
every building in town. But five
lives were lost, though many persons
were seriously wounded
In Hardin county, Iowa, another or
perhaps the same tornado did much
damage. The Quaker village of New
Providence was nearly destroyed-so
were other smaller towns. Many