Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1860-06-16
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THE TORNADO,

Further AccountS-Houses Swept Atcdy, ana
Forests Uprooted.
We continue to receive the most painful
accounts Of the terrible tornado iu Western
Illinois and Eastern Iowa. When the facts
are all gathered up, and full statement oI
them made, it will appear that no similar
calamity ever has began to equal this one ia
actual destruction of life and property, and
in all the attendant frightfu circumstances
Severe as the storm was, and great as was
the damage done, on the Illinois side of the
Mississippi river, the storm visited with far
greater violence the section of Iowa lying
between Cedar Rapids and the river. An
extra sheet received from the press of the
Mount Vernon Ne,ue, Mount Vernon, Linn
county, Iowa, contains the following thrilling
account of the tornado and its disastrous
effects in that quarter This extra sheet is
dated Monday, June 4th.
About six o'clock last night terrific
whirlwind, or tornado, passed, a mile South
ofour town, from west to east. When within
two miles of US, while people were seeking
safety in cellars, or, as in some cases, running
wildly about the streets, it veered on its
course, and swept by in full sight-sublime
but fearful. At little village or hamlet one
and q half miles west, known as St. Marys,
the scene Of desolation beggars description.
At that point the house and shop of Mr..
Cunningham were entirely destroyed; him.
self aud family much injured. A few steps
farther on, scarcely vestige remained of the
house and two large barns Of Mr.. james
Burge. Two of his children, grown up sou
and u small daughter fatally hurt, have since
died. Mr.. William VAIN, brother of Il. ID.
VAIN, Of this place, and young man, by the
name Of Columbus Sparks, were found dead.
AS the blast approached, Stephen Smith,
son of Josephus Smith, was seen to ride up,
and spring from his horse; was afterward
picked up mortally injured. A little east.
ward the house and baru of Mr. Clark
Thompson were utterly demolished. His
family, by running down IN the cellar, es-
capped for some reason he did not 60 with
them, and so lost bis life. Close by, Mr..
Josephus Smith and family were much hurt,
but not dangerously. His house was torn
down; bis large barn turned partly around
and carried fifty feet. The power and force
of this demon of the elements" must have
been immense. We reached the path of its
fury less than on hour after it went bowling
on. We found hundred men standing
around mute and aghast. The sufferers had
been borne away, but there were other evi-
deuces OF its fearful mission. Houses gone,
utterly gone and nothing but blackened and
smeared foundations told where they had
been; trees, one and two feet in diameter,
and even larger, uprooted and hurled many
rods, robbed of branches and foliage car
cusses Of horses, cattle and swine strewed
the former barnyard. One man found the
blade OF a shovel pow so firmly driven into
tree that he could not pull it out.
East Of Lisbon, a Mr.. Piper injured, two
children killed. Mr. LatiHer and family in
iured. Mr.. William Andre and wife missing,
probably killed; five killed in one family,
named Allen.
West of the Cedar, five persons are re.
ported killed.
1t is also reported that several houses were
blown down, and several persons Killed North
Of Cedar Rapids.
At Mechanicsve are ten bodies brought
in from the country, North. In the vicinity
Of De Witt, fifteen or twenty are killed
Thirtyseven lives lost at Camancbe, and
many injured aud missing.
Speaking of the town OF Camnncbe, the
editor of the Chicago Press says:
Horses and cattle are lying in every direc.
ton, killed from the effects of the storm
The buildings oil look as though they had
been torn in small fragments scattered over
the whole country, and feathers from the bed
clothes line the ground, and then oil had been
oyerswept with rushing waters.
We went into one building where were
fifteen bodies, some maugled in the most
frightful manner, and only wrapped up in
sheet, and put into rough boz, ready Tor
burial DR.. Howell informed us that, from
Sunday evening to Monday noon, he had vis-
ted uinety.oue wounded and set twenty.three
broken limbs. We saw twenty.eight dead
bodies, and there were eighty.two that re.
-,,;o "a latt
more that are mora or less hurt, yet are able
TO be around In addition TO this number,
twenty.eight we're swept from raft in the
river that was passing OF the time, and ten
are yet missing from the town, that are sup
uosed to be buried in the ruius, or are blown
into the river and drowned.
With the exception of half dozen houses
on the north side of the town, eUery sngte
building is either torn down, unrooied, OF
otherwise damaged. In one family all that
was lett were three little girls, the father and
mother and two children having been instant
ly killed. We saw where fence board bao
been forced clear through the side OF house
endwavs, and hundreds Of shingles had forced
themselves clear through the clap-boards o
house. We visited the graveyard, ant
saw twenty-eight graves, side and SIDE, al
dug, waiting to receive the rough boxes con
taning the remains of the slaughtered people
THE PEQuEA SILVER MINEs.-Some OF tn
New York papers recently reported the dis
covery, in Pennsylvania, OF a rich silver ore
which, after various assays by Prof. Forney
of the United States Assay Ofice, was pro
nounced to be richer than the famous ores o
Washoe and Arizona. The Lancaster Dad
Erpress says that the ore referred to is nom
other than that of the Pequea mines 10 tina
county, aud describes the mines as follows
ave visited them yesterday. The mine'
or rather the quarries, include two large an
splendid farms Although there are man
subterraneau workings, (some Of them begu
by English miners in the year 1866 the or
is now obtained entirely in open quarries.-
There is large hill of the most splendi
limestone in which the ore is ditlused wit
singular regularity. The limestone is burr
up Tor lime, and sold out at the actual cost
production. The labor of the quarries is thu
paid by the lime, leaving the ore, whatever
NAV be, as clear profit. The ore is wort
from $500 to 500 per ton, and it appeal
that every man engaged in quarrying lint