The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-07
Storm and Flood.

nado struck at Colona, Henry county. de-
stroying large quantities Of corn and other
crops. A large barn belonging to
Henry Otto, about mile from Colona,
was blown down, (Mr, Otto is in bad luck
In the great Camanche tornado, Sunday
evening June 3, 1861 he lost ali his prop
erty.)
The..same storm (of Thursday evening"
unroofed the brick house of Norman Sharp
Esq. at Colona, and did good deal Of
damage in its track east. Where the
whirlwind spent itself has not yet been re-
ported here. 1t probably started south
of the Moline bluffs, in the Rock river val
ley, perhaps not far from the Case place.
Mr.. Samuel Bowles informs US that it
passed his house. some 40 rods south of
his buildings, going straight east, and in
the narrow strip it occupied it took every
thing nearly clean. The air was full of
fence stuff, crops, broken trees etc., which
were being whirled round and round with
fearful rapidity and falling to the ground
along each side of the whirl. At the Frs |
kline Wilson place 1t passed along one side |
of the orchard taking up by the roots or
breaking off and carrying away in its
course some so apple trees and whirling
them towards Colona, 1t passed Mr..
Bowles's place, he thinks. little before 6
o'clock in the evening.
% Sunday evening May 20, 1860, they
had similar tornado at Colona and vicin-
ity, partly destroying Baum's mill, j. A.
Sawyer's store, T. F. Dayenport's store,
and other buildings 1t was in that storm
that the c. R. I&P. R. R. bridge was
blown down. A large number of buildings
in Geneseo were badly damaged at the
same time.
Between 5 and clock the same even
ing similar whirlwind made its appear
anee in Princeton. Iowa, about 80 miles
above US, on the river. 1t seemed to drop
from black cloud about mile west of
the Mississippi, and move to the south
east with immense force and velocity. 1t
was not more than 100 feet wide. but
everything In its track was literally de-
stroyed. The house and barn of Thomas
Hartley was completely destroyed. The
family were at work in the wheat field and
outside the track of the whirlwind, and
thus escaped. Another house and barn
belonging to man named Fassnacht, near
the river, was also destroyed. and this FAM
lily escaped by being in the field at work.
Everything in its track, crop, fences,
trees, etc., were whirled into the air.
When the wind struck the Mississippi it
scooped the water up for width of fifty
feet clean to the bottom, and drove it be-
, fore it to the shore on the opposite side
In Illinois the awful tempest went its way
? to the southeast, leveling everything before
it, as far as the spectators could see.
+ Thursday night the 5th, there W as very
= heavy rain, thunder and lightning along
the Western Union road from Shannon t.
Beloit, and in that region. At Florence
So miles from this city, station on tina
. road. and between Shannon and Freeport
there was whirlwind which carried ava.
the large grain warehouse of Bailey Steyel
Is overturned three freight cars, and tn
: wreck of the warehouse smashed two NOR
: freight cars Telegraph wires were strun
: with shocks of grain, and great damage t
, crops occurred all along the road.
,. Between and o'clock on the eyenin
of the 9Th inst severe thunder storr
:. struck at Sandwich, in De Kalb county
. accompanied by tornado which quite d
" molished four barns and dwelling hous
besides completely destroying the vim
mill and tower which raised water into tt
d. reservoir belonging to the city.
or In the afternoon of the same day, 1
n Ashton, Lee county, q terrible rain an
he hail storm occurred.
lie The same Thursday evening a simils
ba storm is reported near Monmouth movin
f. towards the southwest.
N. At and near Wataga, Knox county. Il
m previous night, they had furious win
70 storm. Houses and barns were demolish,
and trees uprooted No lives are report,
ITO lost, but Mrs. Wiles was badly injure
Inf having been blown distance of about q
nd feet. The people of the village are reio
,ft ling over their narrow escape from deaf
The loss cannot yet be estimated.
These storms have prevailed all ov
lii the west to an alarming extent this yea
he And also in Canada. A Quebec telegra
o Of the 9th says: Intelligence receiv
ST. from St. Malachie county, under date
July 80. says the greatest tornado ev
known in this part of the country pass
-, over there yesterday Hail stones larg
~ than eggs fell, covering the ground e
w. miles square to depth of four inches. L
government asks help for the sufferers,
g they are left destitute u
The food from along the Wabash. t.
- Ohio, the Mississippi and the Misso,
~ ~ rivers, is being heard from below, as "
~ be seen by the following telegram:
w MEMPHIS, Tenn, August 6.-The riy
ner here is rising steadily at the rate of t
'ed inches in twenty four hours. The weatf
ing is cloudy and threatening: The levees
ber low here, as far down as Friar's Point, 6
;, - still reported good. the only break being
lie cut in the Old Town levee, through viii
as the water is pouring, threatening the pls
ort tations below from the rear.
The The st. Francis, at Madison, Ark
GRO risen four feet at midnight last night, al
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