Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-08-13
The Track of the Tornado.

TERRORS OF THE CONNECTICUT CYCLONE.
correspondent of the New York Times,
writing from the scene of the ruin wrought by
the terrible storm in Connecticut, says:
My informant said he saw the crash of the
mill belonging to the Wallingford Community.
Its fragments were whirled alOft and engulfed
in the mass of clouds Then the waters of the
lake were seized by the tornado, and they
seemed to be pumped up and carried along
hanging clouds as they rushed along. Seen
from the hill on which Main street runs the
storm was terrible now. From the moment il
reached ca. the Iwohey cabin the air was thick
vegetables that were uproOted, grass, and
even sand and gravel. The noise made by
this whirling mass was peculiar, but the in
cessant crashing of thunder made it in-
diStinguiShable to those persons who were
more concerned for the safety of their lives
and their homes than they were about
One OF the most curious features presented to
the spectators who examined the field of ruin
yesterday, was the distinct line of limit within
which the storm was confined. Houses that
S,Ood on the edge of its course had their gables
torn and their chimneyS Scraped off close to
the roof. In the gardens near by not a tree
the site of one of the cabins in Colony street a
mass of hay was piled high, and on the ground
behind the hay We're fragments of barn. The
house which stood here had been sprinkled
over plain and hill for mile, and barn had
been deposited in somewhat JOSt'ed cOndi-
ton I'M place. In the groves east of Main
street, where the wind struck after its force
was somewhat spent, chairs, organ pipes from
the Catholic church, shingles. lathS, clothing
dead fowls, and other rubbish, carried by the
wind nearly half mile, were found. On Colony
black, and beaten with-furrows by the rains of
a century. Its windows are glazed with small
panes of glass, and it has quaint little over
hanging pOrcheS, and capacious but worn
out kitchen extension, which is on the west
side. The wind fell upon this building as il
weight had been dropped from the sky. The
extension wall was pushed out and crumbled
on on, the ground and a great hole was broken in
the roof of the house itself An old Irish
woman, whose only companion was little
girl, occupied one side of the house, and
frightened, but no one was hurt. L. was in
this house that the baby of Mrs. John NJ JOney,
who, with several of her children, We're killed,
house, which had resisted the storm very WELL
a huge elm was snapped Off as cleanly as if it
had been chopped with sharp axe. This fact
as9osaea many OF fae Old men who saw the
tenacity of the elm could have been SO com
pletely overcome. ] should have men
o. R fsdsa IN that Mbtb the old house
formed formed by tie 4. old Irish woman who oc
when the storm set in. he and his vii wife van and
four children were about to sit down to sup
per when the first puff of wind blew in at the
dows. The blast. came: lie could not move
the window an inch, but in moment was
dragged out and hurled away 50 feet. His
house was demolished, and his wife was found
long distance from the ruin with her spine
injured, while the four childre., were collect.
ed from different parts of the neighboring lot
The damage to tombstOnes in the cemetery
able. Several of the plots were marked with
large monumental tOmbStones, most of them
of The same pattern-a broad pedestal sur.
mounted by an obelisk. Not one of these
Obelisks were fastened stoutly to the bases.
They were wrenched off and hurled against
graveStOnes, which were broken and over
turned upon graves, and in several instances
graveStones were driven violently across the
mounds, blowing deep ridges through them.
THIRTY PEOPLE KILLED.
Dispatches last night say that the total
deaths resulting from this awful tornado have
been increased to thirty by the in ures re
ceived terminating in death.