Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-08-03
The Tornado at harrington, Ill.

The Tornado at harrington, Ill.
II is not exactly clear whether yester.
days tornado, which swept through a
part of this town, was an off.hoot of the
destructive storms which are said to have
taken place in Wisconsin or not, but it is
clear that, so far as this storm is con-
oerned, it had its beginning near Elgin.
The testimony on this point is that Har.
vsy Seymour, living mile and half
northeast of Elgin, saw the clouds
, form themselves in huge black mass in
the air and move of in a northerly direc-
ton. At first they were high in air, but,
after travelling about five miles from the
starting point, the pillar swept down and
took up barn and orchard. Bearing
always towards this town, the pillar OF
smoke, as it might have been called, rose
again, and went over about five miles dis
lance without touching the ground, then
1t dropped down upon the farm of Alon-
10 Workman, and, being by this time in
good working order, it wiped out his
barn and destroyed his orchard off the
face of the earth. Ore of the things
found after the catastrophe was a heavy
pair of sleds, and they were found mile
away. Confusing OH its straight course
to the northeast the tornado passed near
by but did not touch several houses until
it reached the place owned and occupied
By Henry Minuecke, well-to do Ger.
man farmer, living about five miles from
here. The first object to neet its force
was grsnary about fifteen to twenty
I've feet ON the ground. In this were
stored about 200 bushels of grain and
good deal of corn. The force of the wind
raised this building with its load up, and
carried it about 100 feet, when it was
dropped just against the owners house,
and no doubt protected it from total de-,
struction. 4. it was, the only damage
done to the house was q removal of a
part of the roof. 1t seemed impossible to
believe the lifting up Of the heavy gran.
ary, and 1t was reported that it had been
slid along the ground, until it was shown
that some small cherry trees which stood
between the old and new location had
hardly been disturbed. On the same
place was small blacksmith shop. This
was simply erased.
Bruins house. across the road from
Winnecke's, and perhaps ten rods away,
stood the house of William Bruins, in
which there were at the time of the ar.
rival of the tornado his wife and four
children. The husband and father was
away on business. This house, which
was twenty by thirty feet, was simply
annihilated. No other word can .ex press
1t. One moment it was residence; the
next, there remained not 90 much as one
stick of timber, not an article, not per-
eeptible trace of the fact that house had
over stood on that spot. Even the cellar
was forced in, as if to make the ruin more
complete. Strangely enough, no recog
nisable fragment Of the heaviest part Of
tho house has yet been seen. No part OF
the stove has been found, while one oil
the feaiher-beds was picked up not far
svsy.
The saddest part Of the tale, the loss oil
LIE, il soon told. After the catastrophe
The neighbors found Mrs. Bruos lying
where the door Of her house had been,
stose dead, with hardly Q bruise, and
esrtsisly no serious injuries visible shout
her. Not more than three feet ssay lay
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