Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-06-02
SHEPHERDSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, VA, SATURDAY HORN


There was universal CONSERVATION
throughout the city. People lost faith in
the roofs over and the walls around them,
and ran into The streets, Notwithstanding
the rain, for safety. The sun sal in sky
of crimson and orange. The western sky
was illuminated as if by vast conhagra
ton. A heavy rain sci in early in the
evening and continued unli after midnight.
drenching the habitations made roofless
by the tornado. which is conceded 10 have
been the most disastrous known TO the
present generation.
AT Madison, Indiana, six or eight build
ings we're unrooled. No lives were lost.
Three or four pair ef coal boats were
sunk, and six men are missing.
The steamer Eunice was partly wreck
ed near Client, Kentucky. Her cabin
and chimneys were blown overheard, to-
gelher with quantity of freight. The
steamer Argyle also lost her chimneys.
The wharf boats at Patriot, Ghent and
Carrollton were torn from their mOorings
coming up the stream, and wrecked al
New Richmond, Ohio. Several buildings
were also unrooGed. A vast amount OF
damage was done to boats and RATS. Six
pair of coal boats were in sight when the
storm came on, but nothing has been seen
of ,hem since. All on board have proba-
oily been lost.
Singular Phenomena.
A SHOWER OF METoRIC STONES IN CENTRAL
ONO.
A correspondent in New Concord,
Musk ingum county, in letter published
in the Statesman on Thursday morning,
mentioned singular phenomena in thai
nerghborhood on Tuesday. 1t was an as
founding noise in the sky like the roar ol
a cannon, which was followed by the fall
of number of stones, weighing from two
to fifty pounds. Since the da;e Of our
CORES sp0ndenrs note we have received
other letters from the same region OF coun-
try. which not only corroboralo his state
meat, but add greatly 10 the singulari'y oI
the phenomena. 1t appears that the nois c
alluded to was heard through a wide range
of country, and lhat stones Of the kind de-
scribed were found freshly imbedded in
The earth in the same manner, miles apart,
In Morgan, Muskingum, Coshoclon,
Morrow and Tuscarawas county the eX
plOsion was distinctly heard. Near Con
nellsylle several boys observed huge
stone descend TO the earth, which they
ayerred looked like red ball, leaving a
line of smoke in lis wake.
A gentleman walking iii his field, near
New Concord, heard terrific crash like
thunder, which lasted half minute, and
Ihen plainly saw large body descending
through the air in an angling direction,
with velocity apparently much greater
than il could have attained by lis own
momentum. Going 10 the spot where it
touched the ground, he found rock
weighing over fifty pounds. embedded in
the earth depth Of two feet.
The phenomena seems TO be unprece-
dented. These stones were found nearly
fifty miles apart, although the explosion
was heard at all places mentioned from the
direction of New Concord. Houses
were shaken by the shock, and in one or
two instances the doors bursted open. Ii
occasioned great deal If CONSERVATION
IN that section Of the country, as well il
might.-Ohio Statesman.
Praying with Little Children.
father said that he remembered his
father taking him into room alone, and
kueeling down and praying with him.
Farther back than that, lie could remem-