The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-06-21
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A correspondent Of the Cincinnati 6a5ses;
Writing from near Richmond, Indiana, gives
q vivid ae6odht 81 an e2tfeordfnSfj thdhdef;
storm and tornado which pEsysd over that
place, on Tuesday afternoon, June (, and
scattered DESTRUCTION N itf pSsh. ThS
writer says;
Soon after the Hrst few peals Of thdi6ef!
which were not severe, the rain set In, 30.
eompanitd with perfect tornado Of wind,
In 0 few moments more the rain turned In.
TO hail. and fen IN the ,inost bewilderinE
masses aud With Irresistible fdfy: 30 much
90 was this that IL MAS iihposSibls to tell
IroM which direction II canie. II seemed
TO ooihe from All directions.
So sudden had been the accession OF ths
storm, that many farmers were unconscious
of it'd coming unfit they fpund il toe LATE ~
get shelter for their stock, and icGfs6ly for
| themselves. Horses that were hitehsd at
the roadside broke away and ran for dear
liio. One farmer, near here, Lost eighty
out or q hundred ohiokenSi and & feftker z
mile DOM the road, dozen IGinbs. The
proprietofs OF the Water Cure have q very
extensive Conservatory, besides numerous
hot.beds. The glass in them ives totally
demolished. OF course, the garden u =
total wreck Early tomatoes are HsSfS6s
stake, and peas, heans, 60, are broken end
spoiled Utterly. But the Wottt feature OF
the case is the wheat, This; In the, ,tfSSk
of tho storm, is totally ruined. Within
sight of where am writing are some sid
or eight fields Of wheat. some Of which
have to-day examined, The heads Of every
stock are either cut SR 81 80 Broken down
as to be beyond result The farmers
who are thus afflicted Are Utterly dis
heartened. For two years pSst ths crap
has been failure, aud thiS se6Son, until
yesterday, the wheat has been mag gnihcenti
so promising, indeed, thft tfiR3 .hG1S
borrowed money on tho strehgth OF il; sHd
are consequently bankrupt: Il was sup.
posed hero Last night that the fury Of the
storm had been spent in this ithtAediaas
vicinity, aud that the damage TO the Sbthtfy
at large had consequently been e6tkb9tG.
lively slight. The Gdxstte Of to-day 1b AXIS
of the violence Of the storm 40 Il ragged In
the city at Eve o'clock, and il must, therO-
fore, have travelled tho distance from here
to there in about two h0tr6 dnd 3 han :
hence, making about twenty fhilet Sn hour.
How much destruction ii has dealt IN ita
path it will be hard to determine, but MANY
q farmer who was we'll to do on yesterday
morn ia to-day penniless; with the hopee
and labor Of months past Shattered and
lost. Fortunately, the breadth Si the
storms track was not EreAt--HRri6GslJ S6tfI
mated at mile ahd ltiile Rhd 1 hslf1kt
that, although it moved clear awGth As ii
went, IL kindly left the aGrss on either side
untouched, The ttcIa suffetsd not le.a
than the grain and the gGtdshs. HsfS
abouts there was q fns prospect for fruii
of oil kinds, but the trees were either up.
rooted, OF stripped Of leavss or fr4it, q
both. Thete ID great ditStAily 10 the EP
pearance Of varisus tt6eh, % on some thi
fruit remains, while the leaves are stripped
and on others the reversS 10 the case. Tn.
| result will doubtless be thb saihe in boel
cases. Many trees were not only un
burdenod of their infant fruit, bit were
uprooted entirely. Mr.. James M. starr
who has fine residence in the suburbs o
Richmond, has thirty shade trees torn up
Taken all in all, it was the most fsPrltl Ant
. destructive storm that has prevailed hbrS
> abouts in the memory Of the Oldest ID
4 habitant." Heaven spare us from any
more of the same kind.
Accounts, also; fr5tH several ihtstiH
counties in Missouri make rfShti6n o
probably the same st0rh on The dGy pre-
vious, aud In tiany places did gtSat damagi
to the fruit and crops. In some place
hail stones fell as large as hens eggs, cSVet
ing the ground completely, and rSrrAinihl
A forty:eight hojirh