The south-western., 1861-04-10
Heavy Storm in the West.

/ On the 2Sth uLInO, CINCINNATI and its surrounding
was visited by heavy cqnoctial storm of wind am
rain that bid fair time to rival the terrible tor
nado Of last year the fearful reality of which is NJ
doubt still fresh i'll the minds of many of our readers
But still the damage considerable and in one O
Two instances quite heavy From the Enquirer's ac
] count we extract the following:
/ The extensive planing-niH of Wesley NJ. Cameron
Sixth street, just cast Of the Cincinnati Hamilton an,
Dayton railroad depot wdS partially unrooied Viii
the roof about eight feet Of the upper part of thu
west wall gave way falling 10 the ground with a tre
mendous crash At the time a lady was proSrated t
the ground nscnsiblc her skull was found to be frac
tured. The physicians gave ii their opinion that she
could not survive her injuries The damage to Mr.
CameronS establishment not be less than 5000 OF
$500.
barge moorcd near tllcmouth of Mil creek oadeC
with ice, was swept from its astenings and, after
swinging around from the Shore parted and sunk des
1 troylng the cargo, which was valued AZ $1,000
An outhouse attached to the factory of Rover & 81
monon, Third street, between Mill and Palk, was de
molshed, involving loss of $500
The north tower of the new masonic temple, ,Walna
/ street, above Third, was unroofed
The second intermediate school house ON Clinton st.
between BaymiIerand Freeman, WAS partially unroofed
1t was lucky circumstance tha the children had been
dismissed before the storm began Frightened by the
appalling circumstances that occurred in the same house
last year. it would have been impossible have con
trOllcd their impetuosity.
A building on Baymillcr street between Court and
! Clark, teuantcd ropewalk, blown down. One
Of the hands employed about the premises was hurried
beneath of falling tnJbers and extrcated with
much difficulty lie very severely injured about
the head and shoulders, but it is thought hew survive
The church of the Immaculate Conception standing
on an extremely exposed cninence of mount Adams,
uurOoEed Several frame houses in the vicinity OF
the church, occupied by parties whose names we were
unable TO ascertain, were damaged but not to any very
great extent.
The huge doors Of the railroad stable at the corner
OF Baymiler and Ninth streets rpped from their
hinges and carried some distance into the street
The rear part Of brick house on Freeman street,
between Eighth and Ninth, was forced out
An unoccupied saw-m near the mouth of AIillcreek,
was blown down. causing loss of one thousand dollars
A lumber yard, at the western terminus of Third
street. furnished excellent food for the maddened ec-
ment Boards were caught up and sent sailing through
the air for half square and when the proprieto
the Storm came to overlook their stock they found that
nearly hundred dollars worth of the raw material had
contributed to the confusion
The Spring Grove and Cumminsyilc cemeteries have
undoubtedly come in for share of the destruction.
The trong park and other places cnYironnr the city
could not well have escaped
STORM At &EwPoRT.-0f the effects of the storm at
Newport, KY, Immediately opposite Cincinnati, the
Enquirer says:
The wind tornado, which came up last evening about
hapast six o'clock, struck the printing office which
surmoEns the ARTS palace at the ferry landing and
sent it whrling to the ground. In its descent, we un-
derstand, it aighted on the head of man named Sam
Barbour, crushing Kim to death Fences were blown
down in various parts of the city and signs met the
same fate.
The presbyterian church, on Madison street, near
FORK was considerably damaged its walls being crushed
in 1t is, i'll fact, almost a wreck
The gable end of the new building of Col Smalley,
on York street. was blown ill., also the gable end
Of DR.. Tyers drug store, the corner of York and
Bellevue streets.
ghecatholc church on the Licking, We believe, was
also good deal damaged
Captain Robert Air, while walking down to the land
ing was struck with some of the flying tmbers of the
Arts palace and severely bruised
The ferry-bcat Cincinnati Belle had some of her
stanclons blown III, and otherwise seriously dam
aged.
We have no doubt that much other damage was done
that did not reach us last evening
At Covington, Ky. also, opposite Cincinnati the roof
of large rolling mill was lifted from its fastcnings and
carried more than square. Fortunately no one was
injured in its fall