The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-05-31
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xE TRk1owA,T TORNADO. -
lEA1tx1ous ACCOUNT or IT'S lSvAeEa
Ths oorrespopaant Of IL Clic.-1
% Tribune Of 1fonsays.ye ! |
This morning I had . protracted
co0vsrAtion with Horace 8. ]. Able,
Who has lived in Iowa Is thirty
ysara BE knows everybody, and
his occupation pr6prietor a
stage line, brings him n contact
with people from al .ipe<ts Of the
Stata He j. loquacious and we'll
informed, and probably knows a.
much about the ravages Of the
whirlwind - ten or twenty oedinA-
y people. From him I obtained
the following account q t.: I was
n the barn gstting ready 70 go
down 20 the 4 O'Clock train when /
first heard the roaring Of the storm.
Il came from to northeast We
waited half n hour to 80 what it
Voald amount n md than hitched
mp When returning The wind
commenced TO blow, and :. gale
stxuck TIN, wagon when We were On
the north side Of town A lady
passenger got ont there, and she
wAs hurried around % that we
could hardly get her in the house.
The gust lasted only . minute or
two. The sum was shining bright
Il at the time, and tho roaring pass
"a 70 the north In the course OF
On hour reports came in from that
direction that fearful damage had
bean done. When I went to the 6
o'clock train I met people from Sig
Quincy, who bad hAilstones which
they had. picked up there at Z.
o'clock I measured one, and it
Was 6 inches in circumference -
That was three hours after it. had
ALLEN Reports continue to come
in later from the north, and there
was much excitement among the
people. Oliver Broom was the first
IN, and every vehicle that could be
secured WAS engaged, and hundreds
Of people, went out to see what
damage was done and attend to the
wants Of those who were said to be
wounded AL; the horses in town
were engaged for to-day also, and
nearly everybody in town has gone
out in carriages or on foot. I
could not find ont where the storm
started. The first No heard Of it
yAs eight miles west from here -
Absorbing toall accounts, its course
waa little north Of. east for about
eight miles, when it took north
west course towards West Liberty,
! where it ended. Yesterday morn
ing reports came in from Lancaster,
30 miles from here, in the forks OF
the Skunk river, that that town had
been destroyed. all the buildings
being swept away. After the storm
left the vicinity of Washington I
next heard Of it at Muscatine, where
. great deal Of rain fell, and the
streets and cellars were flooded.
Passengers who had BEEN to Des
MONIES and Davenport say tho
horse-cars could not be run, the
animals becoming ungovernable on
account of the storm, and had to
be tied up. That is a. far east -
the storm seems to have gone, al
though the latest eastern travellers
tall me that Prairie City. in Illinois
was touohed violently. Northeast
Of Washington adozen farms were
leveled Of everything above the
/ ground A cook stove belonging
10 Mr.. Babcock was carried half q
mile, and was not very badly dam
aged Trees were torn out Of the
ground and reduced to kidding
wood; horses and COWS were knock:
cd down and killed, and pieces Of
flying boards were driven through
the bodies Of some Of them, fasten
! ing them to the earth. Carriages
md wagons were demolished, and
no remains Of them can be found
anywhere on the farms OF tho own
ara Most Of Gibson's stock wal
killed He had six ut steers, which
wore sold TO be delivered. ON Fri
day, and the butchers went out yes
,terday and brought their carcasse,
TO town. Ten or . Dozen peopl,
we're killed and about twenty wound
ed I have not seen. any. 81 them
and therefore ON not tell you sbou
; them. Forty hogs wore killed OF
Cunningham farm, and al tn
'. cattle on his place. His house wal
blown of the foundation, and tn
grain in his granary into the cellar
Il would be . good place 10 start
mill now, One building in tina
neighborhood was turned arount
} 90 that it faced contrary to what i
did originally. It now stands O,
. only . few feet Of the cellar walls
; A young man named Laughead
: who was planting corn ON his faith
: er's farm, heard the storm coming
and started for the house, leaving
the planter in the field When nea
the building the hurricane overtool
him, and he dropped fat in tn
: road The cloud jumped over him
but caught up the planter and cal
. ! ried IL 4 GREAT diatancA.
1 The storm cloud did not cove
. space Of more than thirty or fort
! rods in width. A Lady who cam
in from Keota told me that sh
. watched the storm with a 0res