The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-06-20
VOLUME 24-NUMBER 36
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storm Of wind and rain, lasting abou
twenty minutes, passed over Toledo
resulting in the loss Of life and grea
destruction of property.
The walls of Reno & Espy's dru,
store, which was partially destr0ye,
By fire few weeks since, were blown
down, burying three men-C. H. Ed
dy, William Steele and Joseph Mer
rell jim the ruins. Merrell was seri
Ously injured and may not recover
The others We're severely, but no
dangerously hurt. A frame buildinI
adjoining, occupied as canal collect
Or's Office, was crushed by the fall
ing walls, and young man nameC
Lewis Cooper, who was in the Offie,
at the time, was almost instantly
killed. He resided at Delphos, o. A
sail boat containing two young men
lrs Carter and James Williams, wa,
capsized on the river, and both were
drowned. They resided at Adrian
Michigan. Various small craft an
chOred in the stream abreast of the
city were capsized and more or less
damaged. Wabash Elevators, Nos. ]
and were partially unrOOfed. The
engine house connected with them
was demolished, and the engineer,
David K Stebbins, probably fatally
injured. Another engine house be-
longing to the Wabash Railway Co.
was unrOOfed aed otherwise badly in
jured- The roof of the Union Passen-
ger Depot was also considerably dam
aged. In removing the debris of a
fallen building the body of man was
discovered who had been crushed by
the falling timbers.
Reports of . heavy storm on Thurs
day night, in central Illinois show an
immense amount of damage done. In
Peoria, Fulton, Knox, and other cOun-
ties il that section of the State the
destruction Of the bridges on the cOun-
ty roads has been almost universal.
In Peoria fences and trees were blown
down and cellars filled with water.
Every railroad leading out of the city
suffered more or less, and no trains
left there on Friday.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad had about four miles Of
rack and many bridges swept away.
The Toledo, Peoria & Wabash road
also suffered severely, losing aOne hun
dred and fifty feet bridge, and the en-
tire road bed in a number Of places is
gone. A large force of men is at
work repairing the damages, and
there will be but little detention Of
trains.
In the town of Hilton the damages
are fearful. The town is almost en-
tirely flooded with water, and barns,
stock, etc, have been swept miles
away.
The most singular thing is the run
ming up stream of the Illinois River.
An immense volume of water poured
into the river below and has created a
back water, from which there is q
strong current running nOrthward.
The river Thursday night, was still rls-
ing very rapidly, and fears Of damage
from this source were entertained.
Last Saturday evening, the towns Of
Quincy and DeGraff in Logan eoun-
ty, o., were visited by a destructive
tornado which came so suddenly that
no one was prepared for the results.
A heavy. wind set i'm and at half
past five the whirlwit,d struck the
earth i've miles fr0la Quiiicy, niaving
The destroyer was
hardly more than five minutes in
Quincy, through which It
passed, making q clean sweep of hOus-
es, trees aud fences along tile path,
which fortunately was comparatively
narrow. In this village fifty or sixty
dwellings aud stores, anl two church,
es, and as many more shops, stables
and Out-buildings we're uurnlfed,
rocked on their foundations, or de-
mOlished.
The air was literally filed with
flying weather boards. furniture, laJh
and plaster. a parI0r stove was
taught up by the wind and hurled
through the air, falling upon a woman,
who was so crushed that she has since
lied. The Baptist and Methodist
Episcopal churches were completely
destroyed.
The tornado, on its way to DeGraff,
truck Bags Touring mill, five
tories high, containing three thous-
md bushels of grain, moving the
building nine inches upon its fOunda-
ion, and carrying away the roof and
)art OF the hfth story.
1t plOwsd its way through D-GraG,
gathering destruction GA It's pathi Dut
iurting fewer persons and damaging
|. less number OF buildings. After
eaving Degraf it passed several set
dement's, missing the houses aud
inally rose from the earth and was
een for miles carrying in its funnel
ihaped form carrying timber, rails
md debris which it had gathered in
t. destructive march.
The papers Monday morning gave the
names OF thirty persons injured in
Quincy and eleven in DeGraff, but
he list does not comprise all injured
he former village. Mrs Rail, re-
ported killed in DeGrah, Is yet living,
though two Of her children are killed.
Mrs. Click, in Quincy, has since died