Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-23
THE STORM OF MONDAY.
Effects and Results Of ID in Ten
neSsee and Kentucky.

| From the Nashville Banner Of Nor
/ day we learn that the storm which swept
over Memphis prevailed simultaneously
thr0ughOuG the State, and up aa far as
| Bowling Green, in Kentucky. Il was
very destructive in its effects around
| Nashville. It was, says the Banner,
| frat felt southeast Of that city at Mrs. Z.
! L .sley g place, where it blew down near
ly all the fences. Then gathering ali its
| strength it passed IN suli fury across the
Noiensvile Pike 1t the Tennessee Oil
Refinery, whore GA tle southwest bill IL
played The wild with trees and fences,
and passing on il took fl ChiltOn's or
chsgd at the toll-g ate; also q good deal
! OF the orchard at the DR.. Roscoe place,
now OWnsd by Msj. A. E. Got. Thence
10 the homestead oi f. r Raine, ESD,
where il completely laveled large barn
by hurting giant tree through its CEN
ter, beside blowing down nearly every
fence on the place. Coming back sgain
70 the Oil Refinery it hoisted high ia the
air the roofing OF the Office and dashed
it in fragments to the ground. 1t did
not forget in its travels the fence of the
toll-gste keeper, bat carried it also by
storm. Thence it passed to the Nash
vile ard Chattanooga Railroad at Rains
Cut, acrcss whose track q huge tree was
Frustrated. Before day the regular train
came dashing along breasting the storm,
but the darkness OF the night made the
glsriug headlights OF the locomotive in
effeclual, and before the engineer was
aware, he had run into the Tree and
slight sm8sh-Up eRsued, but fortunately
nothing more serious occurred than the
tearing away Of the smoke stack AID
other projecting pieces.
Many other places than those above
mentioned were injured by the wind
which prevailed in the neighbOrhood Of
Nashville with terrific force. Fences
and houses were blown down and trees,
ia some cases whole orchards. Among
the sufferers we find the names or Mr..
Joseph Horton, Judge Humphreys,
Gen. w. G. Harding, John Williams,
Mrs. Paine, J. w. Hamilton, John
e. +. Campbell, Ed. Hicks and Mai.
Dick McCann.
EDGEFIELD.
Here was absolutely demolished q
newly erected frame building, two stories
high, at the corner of Woodland and
Mlnnick streets, the property OF w. s.
Whiteman. Also frame building be-
longing to w. o. Driver, located on
Woodland street. Here the p0rtent0us
visitor left this vicinity and on it rushed
in its frightful velocity toward tae north.
AT BOWLING GREEN.
The telegraph wires we're struck by
lightning some tWent-fve yards from the
telegraph office, and the Il ash rapidly
communicated to two foe batteries,
which il burned almost entirely uD. A
brakeman on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, standing nesr at the time,
was struck back Of the ear snd rendered
iasensible for short time. At Memphis
Junction, four miles south Of Bowling
Greer, a telegcaphic battery was also de-
strOyed.
THE CHATTANCOGA ROAD
AT Chattanooga, about two O'Clock,
terrific hail, wind and thunder storm pre-
vailed, but thus far We are unable to de-
termine the damages done. Al Chris
tianB, IL Rutherford county, a teiegraphic
battery was destroyed.
PUL ASK, COLUMBIA AND FRANKLIN.
AT Pulaski the storm was light, but
about one mile south Of Columbia while
the Northern bound passenger train was
nearing Columbia and running twenty
miles per hour, very large poplar tree
ieIl directly across the engine, smashing
it badly, breaking the eoT-catcher off, |
etc. The train was thrown from the |
track, but luckily stuck ia a mad bank |
twenty feet distant, and thereby proba-
bly, saved the loss Of life. Matt Conner, |
the engineer, was slightly bruised.