Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-06-28

Between S and 9 o'clock, yestsrdsy
morning. some men on the trsek farml
on the South side Of the Christiana
near the mouth of that river. heard &
singular roaring and rushing noise, ant
shortly afterwards saw that a whirlwini
was passing across their place. 1t eross
ed tomato patch, wrenching and twist
ing the vines, passed thence into Henry
l.. Townsend's wheat fields, and appeared
to gather strength as it went, for as j
passed the wheat field, it snapped Of
three pannels of fence and tl,en struck a
large brick barn. and passed around il
to large hay barn, building l0l fee
long. Here it commenced the work O
destruction in earnest. 1t tore the build
ing to pieces, and leveled the very foun
dation walls on which it was built.
1t next struck a wheat barn about
sixty feet long by twenty wide, and
completely demolished it. Thence il
passed to a wheat barrack, no portion of
which. except the uprooted posts, has
since been seen. ea ~
1t next struck granary solidly bull,
of heavy white oak. The building was
too stout to be torn to pieces, but it lift
ed it off its foundations, moving it several
feet, and then upset corn crib adjoining
it, smasing beneath it grain drill and a
sleigh.
1t also destroyed one or two other
small buildings, and tore up several
large trees by the roots, and split in two
a large locust tree standing near the
house. F V .1rs
One of the most singular and fortunate
things about the whole affair is that it
passed completely around the house,
without doing it the slightest damsge, or
anything within the home en-
closure except the locust tree just men,
toned. rl
Some of the performances seem almost
like the fantastic freaks of sportive
genii. The back barn, first struck, was
not injured otherwise than by tearing off
all OF its door.. but one of these doors. a
large one, which it would require four
men to carry, was carried up iuto the air,
whirled about like sheet of paper.
One of the grain fans standing in the
granary moved by the wind, was upset
and its hopper was taken off and carried
quite distance and dropped in front of
the house.
A sixteen foot board was deposited in
the top of cherry tree. The rake of a
revolving horse rake was picked up, car
ried some distance, broken in two in the
middle, and the two halves hung on two
pins on the granary.
1t snapped the iron axle of new
style horse rake off at the hub.
But the most remarkable feature of the
whole affair was that, though twenty cat
lie were buried beneath the ruins of the
arge hay barn first demolished. they all
escaped without any serious injury. In
many cases they were pinned closely to
he ground by the debris, but as fast as
he wreck was lifted from them they got
,ut of the wilderness of confusion around
hem with whole skins and sound limbs.
The property was owned by Zadoc
Townsend and occupied by his son. III.
.. Townsend. The latter with remar-
table good fortune, escapes all loss but
,ut shat of the sleigh. Had the cattle
10: escaped his loss would have been
'ery heavy. His father is the principal
oser, but says that as most of the build
ngs were quite old. and all would have
lad to be moved before long to make
way for the extension Of city improve
nents in that direction. he only estimates
lis loss at $1,000.
In company with Mr.. Townsend, sr.,
We rode over the track of the tempest
his morning. Wenever saw more com.
'lete Or thorough wreck. The buildings
we're so completely torn up that it SEEM
d that there was scarcely one piece of
imber left fastened to another. The
spent its fury there, and seems
D have divided up into several smaller
mes, which damaged tree here and
here, and then subsided.
ANOTHER HURRICANE
On the north side of the Cbristiana
hortly after the ravages of. the hurricane
n the south side, whlrlwind suddenly
eized two large willows trees near the
ght-house, tore them up by the roots, |
nd hurled them against the light house.
ompletely demolishing its porch. We
elieve it did no further damage W1L-
lington Commercial, jane 10.
A Horrible Case.
From the Hartford Times, 2lnd inst.1
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