Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-25
A GREAT STORM.
Dubuque Iowa. Delayed with Water-
Tornado In Jackson County, Iowa.
From the Dubuque Herald. June 20.

Dubuque Iowa. Delayed with Wafer
Tornado In Jackson County, iowa.
n From the Dubuque Herald. June 20.
After an unparalleled season of dry
weather, extending over period of some
seven hours, another storm, or the same
one, broke upon us with redoubled
fury. The city was once deluged with
water, blinded by lightning, and deafened
with thunder. Cellars were filled, side
walks were afoat, gardens locased on a
slant were Quilted beyond redemption.
Telegraphic communication was an
imposSibility. A number of telegraph
poles are down between Dubuque and
Cedar Falls, on the western road, and
Cedar Rapids, on the southwestern At
Lansing the Office was struck by light
ming, the wires melted, and the telegraph
operator, W. f. Purdy, knocked senSe>
less for ten minutes. Our dispatch from
MeGregor, relative to the Haggarty
murder case, failed to reach this Office
which, however, may have been OCCASION
ed by the fact that it never started. ...
Our Galena correspondent writes re-
garding that now aqueous "burg:" "The
rain has been pouring in torrents for the
last hour. The sidewalks on Spring
street are all afloat. A mango OF logs
above Meeker street bridge have be-
come loOsened, and are now floating down
stream, and a dozen or more pilots are
out in boats trying to secure them.
Wood and lumber covers the river, and
the water is still rising" -a
Dan Rice's circus perhaps had the
completes submersion. 1t was filled
with the supper ten" Of Dubuque. But
the deluge came down like wolf on the
fold, and the first anybody knew, the
water was half knee deep everywhere.
The sumersaulters found themselves
sitting down in exceedingly soft spots,
and even the clown couldn't see any fun
in the matter. The women climbed to
the highest seats, and either waded out,
or were carried out by their husbands,
or somebody else's husbands, "and no
questions asked" Livery stable men
and hack drivers were in good de-
mand, and had a soft thing
of it. Even the indefatigable Dan
Rice "gin out" and held no levee in the
evening In short, it rained considerable.
More then sufficient to suit anybody, ex-
eept Good Templars and ducks. If this
is the result of the recent Des Moines
temperance convention, with its attempt
| to run the State on a cold-water basis, we
think respectable contribution could be
raised to induce them to hold their next
| session on some foreign shore.
| A correspondent from Andrew, jack
son county, informs US that one of those
fearful scourges, a tornado, passed about
three miles south of that town on Thurs
| day last, between five and six clock
P. NJ, going in northeasterly direction
1t struck the house of Mr.. John Jones
Just as the family were about te SIT down
to supper, carrying away the roof and
upper portion of the building, taking
everything out Of the house, even TO the
carpet on the floor. The family gathered
together in corner and were not hurt,
excepSing one boy, and he not seri
ously. Mr.. Jones had about 400
feet of lumber piled up near his house
which was carried about three miles dis
tant, and broken into small pieces Hi
poultry were all killed, and his fence
thrown down. After leaving his prem
ises, the whirling cloud raised to tn
tree.t tops, and at point Eve miles on ha
not come down again, but was becoming
much smaller-nOt more than One-fourt
the size it was at frst What furthe
damage was done we have not learned