Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-28
More Of the Great Tornado an TFumbull
county, Ohfa.


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and then pursued q direct southwest course. A
who saw it when about mile north of the sta
zion, describes it as having the appearance Of two
clouds revolving toward each other like two i'm
mense Wheels accompanied by tremendous roar
ing and surging sound. The tornado first ran
through the timber for about quarter of mile
when it reached two frame dwellings, of which
was owned by Mr. Manly of Garrettsville and 0ccu-
pied by Mr., Gillett Griffin, who was himself away,
but whose wife and two children were at home.
The other house near by was occupied by Mr..
Chas.W. Mason and wife. Mr.. N. was at the station
at the tune, and bis wife, when she saw the storm
coming ran to Mr.. Grifhn's Two ordinary frame
barns were near by. The storm first struck Mr..
Grifins house, frame house some p BY % feet in
SIZE taking it up bodily and carrying it over wood
pile feet high. and landing 1t five rods
away At this time Mrs. Griffin, Mrs Mason, and
the two children were in the house. As the house
was lifted up, MIRA Griffin either jumped or fell out
in some way she does not know how, and in falling
broke her collar BONE and received some further
INJURIES As the mouse struck the ground 1t was |
smashed to pieces. and Mrs. Mason going down with
it. had her skull broken, and received other very |
serious injuries. She was living yesterday noon,
but there is no hope of her recovery. One of the I
children escaped uninjured the other (both being
glrls) was caught between the heavy hmbers and |
confined in a narrow space until help could be OBJ
tanned from the station to lift off the weight that was
pushing her down. The girls were from eight to
ten yesrs of age. Mrs. Griffin suffering great pain
from her injuries, ran TO the station for help i
Mr.. Mason's house WAS next struck and swept
away completely The heaviest portion CT the house
was scattered over space of about two acres, me
lighter portion being carried far and wide A tact
that shows the character Of the wind, IS that the
Mason mouse carried to the SOUTH and the Crit
fin house, twenty rods awaywas blown to the NORTH
| showing that it whirlwind. The barns were
| demolished 4
The storm then reached the railroad track, where
it passed through the woods. Here the scene, yes
terday. was wild and exciting. Huge trees were
torn up by the roots and splintePed TO pieces sap
lings were almost tied up in knots great piles OF
scattered trees lay about and trunks that had stood
| the gales of half century were bent and broken
like reeds. The track was covered with fallen
| trees.
The station house was apparently in the centre of
| the tornado. The owner of of the groceries
| which were destroyed saw it when struck He says
the depot "a frame building &c by 46 feetl and the
grocery adjoining. belonging to Lueius Wood, sta
tonmaster carried right up into the air above
the top of the highest trees, when they were evI-
| IDENTIFY wrenched and torn apart into a thousand
fragments and scattered over large space OF coun-
| try. The grocery opposite, belonging TO George
Smith, was torn to pieces and carried away some
rods No one happened to be in the building at the
time
One of the freight cars was torn from its trucks,
and lies overturned about 60 feet from the track,
| broken up. The other was thrown some 600 feet
without touching the intervening ground, and then
dashed to pieces. The first contained about five
tons of freight "a.
III.
away down the track. He had nearly reached home
on his return, when he saw the storm coming. He
ran home and his wife and son at dinner. He
told them to get out of the house for the storm
coming. Mrs. Smith ran into little shed IN the rear
| of the grocery, and was left unhurt The son. John
Smith, ran first toward the track and then to large
hollow stump, to which he chung as the storm came
down upon him. He says the wind was so strong
that it fairly lifted bis feet from under him. and he
held only by his hands with all his strength While
| 10 doing he was struck by rail or board, and his
head, hands and hip badly bruised. Mrs. Calvin
| came running up and lay down by the stump to
| which he was clingiug. He knew no more of her
| until he her lying dead about three rods
away, having been struck by rail and her skull
| crushed.
The storm next struck the house and barn belong
ing to Mr.. Woods. quarter of mile away, unroof-
| ing each.
The gale then pursued its direct course about two
miles and half through the woods, but appeared
to have lost its whIrlwind character 1t rushed on
bearing down everything before it, and Overturnlng
an unoccuped log house. 1t next unrOofed barn
and large dwelling house belonging to Mr.. Jesse
Benedict and completely destroyed his fine orchard
fhe frame barn of VIM. Benedict next struck
and almost entirely demolished Two feather beds
from one of the chambers were blown away and
picked up afterwards in bordstown about six miles
away. as some Sheets etc. 1t then tore the
top off his large eheese-hOuse, tore down corn
house and unroofed his barn.
Continuing on, it then unrOOfed a large barn of
Mr.. Asa W, Parker, and tore on the upper part OF
his house. frame house, frame barn and large
cider mill, occupied by Mr.. Kramer, were next
torn down. Mr.. Kramer was slightly injured, his
wife's collar-bone broken, and girl Is years
old was considerably bruised. At the same house a
man named Carpenter, who lived there, was in one
of the chambers. He was thrown sixty or seventy
feet upon pile OF stones and very badly injured,
so that his recovery is considered doubtful.
The storm then passed from Bracevllle across the
corner of Warren township, in which it tore down
] hnrra lOPh W.
caught in the rubbish, but getting out with little in
jury.
Beyond this point we have no definite or detailed
account. The storm passed on, overturn.ng and un-
roofing houses and barns, and doing considerable
general damage, as far as Youngstown 20 miles be-
low.
There were some curious circumstances connected
with the progress of this gale. At the station, Hr.
Mason, whose wife was injured at Mr. Grifin's, saw
the storm coming, and crawled into a drain under
the depot. The next he knew of his whereabouts
he had been carried into field some forty fifty
rods across the track, and striking upon his head.
had cut it severely. In the depot nine larrels
Of -four and some bags o. rye. After the storm
had passed. nothing found of either, except one
bag of rye which in of the freight cars
which was overturned. No grain had been in 1t
before.
Many small articles were carried to great dis
tances An iron bolt four inches long and quar-
ter of inch square, found driven inch into
q tree half mile away. a quarter of a dollar and
| Il
found half a mile off, and pieces of stOvepipe
iron piece of sewing machine, weighing two pounds
and shovel. equally as far. A handsaw
| ried over mile, and two feather beds five or six
| miles. A box of hardware having been in the de-
pot, was evidently taken up into the air and wrench
ed apart its contents found in all the fields
and woods IN the track of the storm.
The 500 which were blown away were in
package of $500, and other smaller parcels One 81
bill of this found at Girard, l6 miles distant,
and Just as the train left Warren yesterday after
noOa, it was reported that the $500 package had
been found at Coltsville, about equal distance.
Two pages of Mr.. Woods ledger were found in Lib
erty 20 miles of, and tickets from the office were
found at all distances from five to twenty miles.
boy found some rein snaps. buckles, &C., half mile
off, the mass being snapped and buckled together by
| the wind in the air. They were from the box of
hardware, where of course they were separate. 1t
was reported that was left hanging in tree.
| but this without foundation. flock of geese
which were about the station were all killed. One
| house was completely riddled by the sticks, &c.
driven through the siding like spikes.
| No description can do justce to the appearance
of the scene yesterday after two days had been
| actively employed in clearing away the wreck. The
ground strewn thiekly with the evidences of de-
| structiOn. We asked Smith what the storm looked
like when he clinging to the stump. "Why," he
said, lit didn't look like anything. can't describe
it. 1t like thick fog, full of trees, logs, and
everything else. 1t was so dark couldn't see, and
| the wind Topped me around anywhere and
everywhere A lady who it a mile away says
| it looked like huge wheel rolling the earth.
The width of the track varied from a quarter to
| half mile
During all day Sunday the scene of the rnns was
visited by thousands of the curious from all the
country for twenty miles around. The roads SEEM
ed like a caravan and the place like Fair ground
| Most extravagant stories were told, but what
have given above may be relied upon We state
only what we have good reason to believe
Az OLDER MASON THAN Mr.. JoHNsoN-The Phila
| delphia Press says:
In reference to a paragraph published in the
| Press some days since which stated that Mr. John
Johnson of Cincinnati was the Oldest Mason in the
| United States, a correspondent writes to New
! York journal rs follows Geo. Campbell who now
resides in Fifty-frst street born st. Johns
| day I772 il a Royal Arch Mason, and is an older
Mason and man, both by two years, than Col
onel John johnson, of Cincinnati. He is an old