Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-28
THE TORNADO AT BUFFALO.
Most Terrific storm Ever known in
that Yicinfty-L0ss of Life and Limb
-zDesIractlOn of Property Houses
UnrOOfed-Trees Upr0Oted, etc.
[From the puraIo E1pres., "a

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VnrOOfed-Trees Upr0Oted, etc.
II From the Buffalo Express, q.
A tornado ofthe widest sort burst upon
! this city yesterday afternoon about four
o'clock. Hitherto we have had little
knowledge Of that peculiar description of
: savage zephyr, except what we have de-
; rived from the thrilling stories in western
papers. Famous as the town We inhabit
Is ior its sometimes disreputsble, and now
and then riotous, lake breezes, it has been
siDgularly free, Notwithstanding, from ex-
perienees of the raging elemental fury
which constitutes q tornado. s.
Up 10 three o'clock the day had been
one of cloHdless sunshine and blazing
heat. A little after that hour the sky be-
gan to Sarken, the atmosphere to cool
and storm blackness gathering in The
western horizan began rapidly TO over
spread the heavens. About four o'clock,
the burst of the storm came, not precip-
itately, but after a premOnitOry light
shower, which drove most people within
doors before the rushing deluge and roar
ing hurricane overlook them. AT the end
of five minutes. however, from the first
Drop the clouds were emptying themselves
not in globules of water but in cataracts,
with masses of ice in their currents, while
the wind was twisting tree tops from their
trunks, and trunks from their roots, and
roofs from houses, and houses from their
foundations, and the air was filed with
flying fragments of wreck and havoc
which an instant had sufheed TO make all
over the city. .r-t4-sF
The saddest part of the story is the fact
| that at least one human life has been de-
stroyed, and thattwo, perhaps three others
are more than likely to be added TO the |
victims of the raging storm 1FH.-. z---
- AT THE FOUNDLINa HOSPITAL.
What might have been the worstcatas- |
| trophe of the stOrm-what would have |
been but for an almost miraculous Provi !
dence-occurred at the Sisters of Charity |
lying-in and Founding Hospital, on Ed |
ward street Almost with the first swOop |
of the storm, the roof of the wing on the
west side of the building was crushed in.
In the room Immediately under the roof,
which was one of the nurse rooms of the
Hospital, there were forty children play
ing at the time, of ages from one year to
seven. Marvellous to say, only three
were caught under the ruins which piled
the floor at least three feet deep over half
its space. Sc deeply were two Of them
buried, that it required much effort 10 ex-
tricats them; but all three were at length
rescued, and all found living, though
sadly injured.
LOSS OF LIFE.
The canal boat Buffaio was lying near
the foot of Main street, and alonside of the
canal boat Monitor. The gale struck the
latter with terrific violence, driving her
stern into that of the Buffalo, smashing
the ends of both boats. Mrs. Sarah Jane
Mallery, of Kirkville, n. Y. employed as
cook on the Buffalo, was at the time lying
on the bed in the cabin, having with her
her little boy, aged two years and half
The unfortunate woman was caught be-
tween the stern of the Monitor and cabin
deck of the Buffalo, and instantly killed.
The child was slightly injured.
THE U. $. EXPRESS cos STABLES.
The front section of the stables of the
United States Express Company was
prostrated in utter ruin by almost the
first stroke of the terrific blast, and buried
in its wreck MIR. Thomas 7. Gould, one of
the best known and most popular en-
ployees of the company. At our latest
accounts he was insensible and his eondi-
tion very precarious, but with some hope
that his injuries may not be fatal. ..--
PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 10. --
The southwest corner of the =oof of
Public School House No 10, was raised
six inches from the walls, where it re-
mained, loosening the masonry, some of
which fell into the recitation room be-
meath. One chimney, on the south side,
was blown over upon the roof; the scut-
tie was carried to parts unknown the
flagstaff was broken and flung into the
east yard; and one tree in front was torn
up by the roots.
HOW TO UNLOAD A BOAT.
In the Erie Basin canal boat was
being loaded with white wood boards,
the storm struck her, carried her into the
basin, and the work of unloading COM
menced. Buffalo brags sometimes Of her
elevators and their ability to clear yes
sci of her cargo but elevators must here
after yield the palm. The boards started
like SO many feathers in all directions and
soon some fifteen hundred were floating
hither and thither in the water, most, Of
course, beyond recovery.
CHIMNEYs
suffered frightfully, but fortunately, though
great was the fall thereof, nobody was
hurt, despite the fact that many passed
through the roofs of the buildings on
which they stood. hH
GLASS NOWHERE.
OF course amid the cloud of bricks, tin,
shingles and planks flying around, glass
suffered severely. Some of the losses in
this line viii be very heavy. II, ...4
-.. ars TREES e. .i srHt IN
The shade trees suffered sadly in the
pitiless hurricane, which wrung and
wrenched and twisted them in its titanic
grasp, and our city has lost hundreds OF
the very finest of which it boasted.
Every street is strewn with mangled
limbs or blOekaded with fallen trunks,
bearing dreary testimony to the furious
violence of the tornado that ragged
through them. -assll
From the Buffalo Courier, 27th.l
The second fatal casualty was that of
man who was killed near the Rolling
Mills at Black Rock. He was standing
on the track, when a car was blown
against him and he was instantly killed.
A CIRCULATION OF BILLS. -..
One of the first feats of the storm was
the blowing in of one of the windows of
Burtis & Co.'s banking Office in the
Mansion House block, and the re-
lease of United tates bonds and
State currency to the amount of six
hundred dollars, which were swept away
on the wings of the eddying blast. The
lost bills consisted of two $l00 7-3O bonds; /
two $50, 80 bonds, and $500 in State
Currency. OF this amount Mr.. Cock, n
barber in the same building, recovered
Sl35, and press boy attached to the
Courier Office SO.
Judge SpaIdIns's Vote ON Executive
Power.
tFrom the Summit Journal
The removals from Office of thorough
going Republicans on account Of their
nonapreement with the Presidents policv