Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-13
Destructive Tornado.

Destructive Tornado.
One OF the most destructive ant
desolating toraadoes that ever visited
this neighborhood, passed over tn,
southwestern part of the count,
about 81 O'Clock OH Friday evening
last, spreading ruin and wreck along
its path, which extended about sever
miles in length, and about quar-.
ter in breadth. Those who witnessed
the storm-cloud in its furious gran
deu1, give a fearful description of il
as it came tumblipg and rolling from
the heavens to the earth, blowing and
crashing through the timbers, and
steam Engines, resembling al immense
straw stack on fire. Houses and barns
were unroofed, and acres of timber
and fences swept away as though they
we're so much chaff. A visit to the
scene ofruin anddeVastation in Dixon
township, is the only manner in which
a person can have the romotest idea
of the havoc hat was made by this
bosom of destruction.
aSTheafirstzeffects;o ftlnstypheo were
felt by Messs's. Stanley and Druly on
the, Indiana line where it crossed the
Eke intoflis county and struck the
z farm Of Toney, injuring him only in
the loss oftimbcr. Joseph Flesh was.
the next in its track. A part of his
residence was unroofed and conside-
5fableamoHpt Of valuable timber blown
down. The house on the north farm
of Charles Collins was unroofed and
a eorn-crib with about 100 bushels of
corn scattered to the winds, and a
largo nun1ersQf fruit and forest trees
torn up by the roofs. 1t her struck
the housed of Cornelius McDevitt,
brushing away the chimneys and rails
ing the tinl.epf from half the building;
turned over his smoke house and up
rooted several large. fruit trees close
by his premises. Mex it struck the
ter of Mrs. Ellen Larsh's farm, where
it seems to have gained a double fury
for its work. In this body of forest
49, hEEFa-- NLHa-
there is scarcely a tree of choice tim
Der left sound. Her loss in this way
is very s~erious. 1t then passed over
the farm of Lewis Larsh, uprooting
trees and gathering the fences helter-
skelter; picking up a two horse pillow
in a field from which but a moment
before the horses had been detached,
hurled it fifty yards and lodged it in
Il tree. The timber of Mr.. Alexander
Rhea suffered considerable-the roof
was blown from the housc of his son.
his barn and other out buildings turn
ed over and a valuable cow and calf
killed by the falling timbers. The
farm of Mr.. Alexandria Huffman suf-
fered terribly The roof OF his barn
was blown in !; a portion of the roof
of his house; his fences levelled-his
orchard almost completely destroyed,
and about 20 acres of timber literally
.riddled-it raised a stable in which
two horses Were hifched on his adj
leaving the horses tied to their hitch
ing posts ,unharmed. The last place
it done much damage, was in the TIM
ber on the farm of Mr.. I'D. Hick-
mar. His loss is considerable
Here its fury abated, and where it
next exhibited its devastating power
to anyreKtent, we have not learned.
Tlleloss to those over whose farms this
tornado swept, cannot be estimated,
because not one of them can expect
ever to see their blighted and blasted
timber restored again to the healthy
and vigorous growth that it had
reached on the evening of that fatal
day. The most remarkable feature in
this singular freak of the elements, is,
that not a life was lost, although sew
eral narrow escapes were made.