North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-05-13

| looking in grain and grass, but rather dull
in cash acct. Place, Of Elkader, crossed
20 fat hogs and 20 fat cattle toward Chi
cago, on Tuesday Lord Brougham il
dead. ....S. Mcconnell, of Chicago, is in
the city looking as well as a successful
business man can do. He reports trade
quiet but safe; every branch Of commerce
is going slow about now.
Tornadoes.
Our exchanges are filled with accounts
of tornadoes. As the devil is the "Prince
of the power Of the air." we charge all
this mischief to him instead of ca AIN.
| them visitations Of God. In another col
umn will he read brief account Of the
dreadful earthquakes of the Sandwich
Islands. Below we give condensed &C.
count Of the destruction o. the village OF
Shanghai, Ills. The names Of the killed
and wounded we omit, because they arc
not familiar to our readers. All over the
southern part Of Iowa and Illinois
! dreadful whirlwinds have been busy in
/, destruction. Wehave no space or time, and
but slight ability, to moralize on the SUBJ
ject: if we had all these it is not probable
that storms would cease at our bidding
Living at McGregor gives us an immunity
from fear, not on account of excessive
morality, but because we are so packed in
among the grand old bluffs of the Missis-
sippi, that the winds of a No. cinss can't
find us. Read this fright(ul sketch:
from the Galesburg, tIil) Free Press, May
One of the most appalling storms Of
wind, hail, aud rain ever known in this
country, visited Shanghai, in the northeast
corner OF Warren county, on Sunday even
ing last, by which many homes have been
total y destroyed, and many others made
desol te, carrying with it death and des
pair.
The FIRST that was observed by the peo-
pie who were watching the clouds, was
what looked to them to be Il circular cloud,
or volume of wind and rain, about two and
a half miles due west Of the village of
Shanghai, which seemed to rise and sink
in the air. In the language of Mr.. Love-
ridge, gentleman with whom we convers-
ed, ut seemed to let itself down to the
ground 1t was an immense whir!.wind
in the shape of AN inverted cone. about n
quarter Of mile in diameter ut the
ground.
Its power was first displayed in pond,
near Mr.. John Daggot's house, two miles
and half west of town. 1t literally suck.
ed large quantities Of water out Of the
pond. and carried it up into the air. almost
making the pond entirely dry. 1t came
on, gathering new strength, straight east,
leveling to the ground fences, gates, and
everything that came in its way, to John
Calder's farm, where several window
lights where knocked out, and large
cherry tree, eight inches through at the
butt, was twisted round and torn up by
the roots. A remarkable incident ut Mr..
Calder was that tub full ofwater stand
ing in the yard, which was not moved from
its position. had every drop of water suck
ed on it, and carried up into the air.
Calder's grove, ear his house, had many
large trees twisted round and torn up by
the roots, and person standing in the
village can distinctly sec the track of the
whirl-wind by the opening through the
groove. 1t then came laundering and bell
lowing along up the main road. running
west IRON the village of Shanghai, until it
reached the outskirts Of the village, when
it commenced to veer toward the notheast,
taking all the northeast part OF Shanghai
in its way, leveling almost everything.
l.se DWELLING HOUSES DESTROYED.
There were sixteen dwelling houses to-
tally destroyed. Many Of them were pick
ed up nv the whirl-wind, lifted into the
air, and carried quite distance. and then
with demoniac fury dashed to the ground
and shivered into mil ion fragments.
Besides these dwellings that were destroy
ei. seven were blown of If their founda.
tons, and more or less injured.
SCHOOL HOUSES DESTROYED.
A school house "a by SO was lifted of
from its foundation and dashed in pieces.
This school house was la<ilt only short
tim ago, at considerable expense, and.
were not the other losses SO much greater
this would be severly felt.
TWO CHURCHES BLOWN DOWN.
1t will seem incredible to our readers
that two good sized, well-built churches,
the only ones in the place, both new, one
completed year ago, and the other less
than six month, were both. scattered in
fragments over the prairie for nearly half
u mile.
The directors of the Clayton Co. Ag'l
Society will meet at the Fair Grounds, in
Farmersbury. on SATURDAY.. the 10th inst.