Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-12


damaged was DIR. Henning's, as described
killed on his place. Next his brothers
and mothers farms were swept over by the
invisible and gathering furies, and their
property all wrecked or destroyed. Stock
was killed, fine carriages and buggies shiv-
cred TO fragments, grain scattered to the
winds, furniture broken and carried away,
orchards ruined, and devastation complete.
Next in the line the places Of Mr.. VIM.
Turner, and his son Hardin, were visited
in like manner.
Mr. VIM. Capel's place, near Hatchie
river, was entirely destroyed. He had the
finest house in Haywood county, built in
tasteful, elegant style, and filled with fine
furniture. Ii was a charming country
place. The outhouses Of every description
were lifted from their foundations and de-
molished Some Of the timbers were
carried five or six miles and dropped in
the devastated track. Two or three ne
groes were killed on the place, but none of
the white family as far as learned.
Mrs. Hannah Goss and son shared a sim
liar fate, and all of Mr.. VIM. McCormico's
houses and outhouses, except one, were de-
molished, with other damages in proper
ton. The male academy south Of Dur
hamville was demolished and blown away.
The foregoing places are all within a space
OF four or five miles, and were owned by
prosperous people, well of, and some of
them atiluent. Thus far we have not left
Lauderdale county. Crossing the Hay
wood line, we come upon the sad wreck of
MIR. VIM. Capel's magnificent place. His
fine house scattered for miles, his carriages
broken to pieces, stock carried away, and
ruin spread on every hand. One negro
child was killed at this place The next
sufferer 10 a great extent was MIR. Thomas
Scott. lie had a nice place, aud il Jared
like the rest.
The next place visited was that of Mrs
Holloway, and the destruction of her
premises was as complete as if thousand
bummers had exercised their utmost in
gelr1ity a nth in the work ofdestruction.
Her house was handsome two-storv
framed building, surrounded by cultivated
mounds and tasteful improvements. She
and two grown daughters and daughter
in-law with young child, we're at home
and in the house. ae storm came with
ont moments warning, except a sicken-
ing giddy sensation, which every one de-
scribes in the same manner. The day was
cloudy, bat no one dreamed Of storm.
First came the fainting sensation, and in
less than a moment the house was lifted
from its foundations rs suddenly as a giant
could brush away an icicle. The house
was inverted on the very spot where it
stood.
The escape Of the family, IS we'll as the
phenomenon Of the storm, seems miracu-
lous. Mrs. Holloway was bruised, but not
seriously injured; although covered by the
debris of falling timbers she soon extri-
Gated herself. Her sons wife found her.
self ON the opposite side Of the house from
where she was standing, and literally I'M
der the ruins, but the pillars of the bal
cony formed a little recess or niche where
she fell, and was unhurt. Her child, which
was in her arms at the instant the storm
came, was found in the top of a cedar
tree, which, in the falling Of the house,
went through the stairway without being
broken down, and the top was thrust up
the inverted stairway into what had been
r lower room; the child, though stunned,
was not hurt. Miss Helen Holloway was
seriously injured, and is confined TO her
bed. The sister escaped more lightly.
The gate-posls in the yard were wrenched
off at the ground as if they had been rotton
stalks Of corn. Large fruit trees in the
ward and vicinity were likewise snapped
of like stems Of grass. All the out-houses
and improvements Of whatever character
were likewise completely destroyed A
severe hail attended the hurricane, but
lasted only n few moments. 1t passed
over the country as fleet as an angry cloud.
Il was a remarkable fact that there was
peculiar halo about the clouds at the time.
The sun seemed almost ready to shine out.
Half a mile southwest of Mrs. Hollo-
ways, saw mill on her place was entirely
demolished. The engineer, Mr.. James
Langley, was in a house near by at the
time, and the building was crushed and
actually covered by falling timber. He
was badly hurt, and may die, but his family
escaped almost unframed.
Five or six negroes in all, south Of Mrs.
Holloway's, principally children, were
killed A few miles north of Mrs. Hollo-
ways The cyclone, which had only been
three hundred yards wide veered to the
east. and spread Ont over a breadth Of four
or i've hundred yards. Il seemed TO rise
and fall like waves; az some points the
trees were broken OF high among the
branches and again snapped at the very
ground
Crossing Forked Deer river the rotary
storm struck the Memphis and Ohio rail
road Just above Bel's Station, seventy miles
from Memphis, and thirteen miles above
Brownsville lts force was not SO great
a. l...fl LII h -, - tab
blown or twisted down, fences were blown
away and such small domestic game as
chickens, ducks and geese disappeared mar
velously and have not been heard from
since
Mr.. Robert Cousins, living just below
Bells Station, on the place OF Mr.. Glen.
CLAY, of Memphis, lost over seveniy-hge
fruit trees and all his fencing.
A man at Bells was blown over a wood
pile and took a stump during the rest ofthe
storm for anchor and safety.
-Four miles east Of Bells, Mr.. Casey lost
all his stock and fencing. 4 yearling was
found. nj distance from his usual stamp
ing ground, lodged in a tree top, and taken
down in good order.
Mat Boykin, still further east, had fine
two story house destroyed; nothing Ia LETT
bat the sills A negro man on the place
was killed by piece Of timber, and two
others were Killed in the neighborh0od.
Logan Williams in the same neighbor-
hood. had 4 nice farm and handsome am
movements all destroyed, and his farm
covered with the fallen timber. Mrs. Mil
chelPs out-houscs were destroyed, and other
damages sustained. Those places men
toned south Of the Memphis and OHIO
railroad are in Gibson county.
The storm crossed the Mobile and ONO
railroad, about three miles south of Hum
! hOldt, and the track was SO damaged that
/ when the mp train came along soon after
wards the engine and express car were
thrown from the track, and The treslle-work
damaged over hundred yards Express