New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-11
The e4Eeat Tornado Ii, the Norsnwes..

| Houaded, esc.-A reporter Of the Chicago JoarnsE
mas visited the districts III iowa and Illinois which
we're VISITED by the tornado, or rather tornadoes.
N sunday evening. II seems that there were two
lo'aanoes, which swept along In nearly parallel
lines ~ hoftheasteriy direction unt they reached
oamahshe, on tae Iowa side Of the Mississippi.
Ihe da1 haa peen bot and suisry, bnt about
O'CLOCK tee ssy was clear and gave evidence of q
beautiful sunset. At this hour tie tsrnadaea sxe
seen coming with almost lightning rapiditv Thev
at first resemslsd balloons OF abons she
Of q barrel, but gradually expanded Atcae tine
they rose and again fell to the eaFsh, tkeis black
folds undulating aad whirng with swapping, crack
ling reports like Yoiley of mRskeuys whieh were
distinctly audible at b great distance.
The interior of the airy tunnels were Glled nith
heterogeneous mass of leaves, branches of trees,
timbers and stones, which seemed TO impart q
yeewsh tinge inside the black oasef folds. Theirs
was but little time for gazing, however, for In Sn
instant, and with force 51eonceyabIe, the doomed
town was struck full in the center, and the arr
choked with fragments of tirnbers, bricks stoHesy
| furniture, and in many pixsss with human beings,
who hurled about like ssFaws. The afffighted
horses and cattle filed the air with theiT terrible
and shrili screams; but above all was heard the
swapping and cracking Of these fearful besoms Of
| destruction.
The scene well nigh beggars description; and
one, after gazing upon it, only wonders how A.
single person left to tell The tale There are
but one two buildings in this town Of 1000 souIs
which were untouched aii the others are a shape
. iess mass q ruin. In many places, for several
i acres, every remnant Of heuss Id gone and only
lew scattered sliyers mark the spot where they
stood. singular feature Of The scene is the fact
that from one end Of the town TO the other not 4
i vestige of the furniture can be found. Here ard
| there few shreds of clothing, or MISTRESS torn
into ribbons, tell that tile town waa once inhab-
| ited
i At this place, 20 persons were killed. 81 wound
ed, many of them seriously, and Is are reported
into the river. The writer, in the Journal, says
Many Of the Incidents connected with the tornado
at Camanche almost surpass human belief and
will hardly be credited by those who have not seen
| the ruins. chimney upon Mr.. Anthony's house,
weighing about two tons, waa broken OF at its
| juncture with the roef, lifted into the ais, and
hurled down into the front yard, ,burying itself in
the ground depth of three feet, without breaking
| a single brick. We noticed oak tree, on the
river bank, by measurement twenty eight inches in
| diameter at the base, which was torn out Of the
| ground and stripped of all its branches, leaving
| only the bare trunk, from which the bark was
| nearly all peeled Of. q light pine shingle was
| driven from the outside through the ciapboards.
laths and plaster, and projects two inches from the
inside wall of dwelling house. No other known
force could have accomplished this. common
4 trewel, such as is used by masons, was driven
through pine knot in the side oil barn. project
| ing fGl two inches In one lot was found Q large
| gone, and the covers wrinkled and twisted into
| thousand shapes. Leaves were stripped of their
4 tissue leaving the ibres Az clean and bare as if
botanist had neatly picked itoH. Tree trunks were
twisted several times round until they were broken
of. The Millard House, three story brick struc-
ture, fronting north. was lifted up from its founda
ton and turned completely round SO that the Trent
door faced the south. Itthen collapsed and seemed
to fall outwardly as II In vacuum and strange to
relate, out Of seventeen persons in the house. only
em H. Uns poR s eas
river, crushing as fell, and drowning three psx
i sons, the inmates.
Mr.. Butcher, Of Camanche, t1ld us, and the fact
was testified to by Others, that he saw the storm
coming and closed his doors and windows. He
then braced himself against the back door, but the
tornado wrenched It from its hinges like play
thing, and carried him upon the door through the
house and out into the garden. He escaped with
only slight injuries. A piano was taken out Oh .
house in the center of the town and carried some
distance to the river bank without breaking It.
The effects upon some Of the houses near Ca
manche, which were in the outer edge Of the tor
nado, were very curious. Upon some roofs the
shingles were stripped Of in fancul shapes. hare
spot upon one roof exactly resembling the figure g.
| Some roofs were entirely unshingled and in some
cases every clapboard was torn of, The sides of
some houses were literally perforated with boards,
parts Of Camanche, where houses stood thickly
clustered together, there is not vestige Of one
left Another tract Of about forty acres y covered
with splinters of about two feet In length. N
The lower stories Of some houses were blown
out entirety leaving the upper story on the ground.
Other buildings slid from their foundations, and
| were carried along Tor several Ieet. GniGhtbd
. hens and turkies were stripped of their feathers
and left as bare as if ready for Market and on the
prairies, prairie chickens and small birds were
i found in the same condition; and in some cases,
nothing but the bones left, the flesh being stripped
+ from them.
The ferryboat which plies between Camanehe
and Albany was completely wrecked. Her engines
looked as il some giant had seized them at top and
bottom and folded them into hard knot, 50 twist
ed and tangled were they. Two Germans who
were riding in buggy just out of Oamanche, were
blown completely into the city and their team
carried in another direcnon. They were picked
up dead. Another man, an entire stranger in Ca.
!, nance, was picked up in the street with food In
Ms , - s9wSng tS aI ne was sag sapper
| filled with sand and leaves His whereabouts
could not be ascertained. 4 child four years old
was carried through the air some distance and de.
posted in slough nninjnred
Mr.. CHARLES SuMNER's VIEWS OF SOUTHERN So
CIETY AS EXPRESSED IN HIS LATE HARAHGuE.---li
institutions generous and just ripen souls also gen
erous and just, then other institutions must exhibit
their influence also. Violence, brutality injustice
: barbarism, must be reproduced in the lives OF oil
y who live within that fatal sphere. The meat tha
is eaten by man enters into and becomes part o
B. his body; the madder which Is eaten BY dol
changes his bones to red and the slavery whiel
men live, in all its fvefold foulness, must hecom
part of themselves, discoloring their very souls
+ blotting their characters and breaking forth b
) moral leprosy. This language is strong; but th
: evidence is even stronger Some there may be o
happy natures-like honorable Senaters-who ca
thus feed and not be harmed. Mithridates fed d
poison and lived ; and it may be that there ia
le moral Mithridates, who can swallow without ban
in the poison of slavery. Instead Of " ennobling
'. the master, nothing c,H be clearer than that th
rs slave drags his master down, and the process b
Is gins in childhood and is continued through lifi
Living much n association with his slave, the ma
ter finds nothing to remind him of his own deticie
eies to prompt his ambition or excite his sham
e Without these provocaions to virtue, and withot
g an elevafing example, he naturally shares the ba
t barism of the society which he keeps thus tn
very inferiority which the slave master attribute
to the African race explains the melancholy col
10 dition of the communities in which his degradatio
is declared by law.
y. Ifpeople become like whatthey feed on, whf
have you been eating during your European ton
III Charley-cabbage-he or garlic
ie MOONLIGHT IN PANAMA BAY.-fn his last leta.
in the Boston Transcript. Rev. T. 8. King gros
enthusiastic over the attractions Of the bay Of Ha
anna, and the mountains that shut it in on almo
ds every side. But though by day ita scenery SEEM
to him more beautiful than TINT of any region