The Newtown bee., 1878-08-15
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Thursday, August i5tf, is7s.
A Terrible Tornado in Walling fera,
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number uf at lc,tst thirty, and womdlug fifty mora scvern houses were torn to atoms, large trees were torn up ly the roots or twisted oif and seunc of woe and dcsoldtIon left which bcggars de ,- crlption. From the Nrp Hurip Ptti,adigm of Saturloy, August 10th, wo clip the following; ...
 "Whlc the people Of this city were watching with quiet Interest the gath- cring of the clouds late yesterday after noon and wondering whether the storm would come us far as hero, n great tor nndo was doing work of death in Wall lingforI. News of what hud happened ,Gnc here in ruuOrs which but laiulht tur'shaduwcd lle horrible reality. Soon. however it wus known that 5uno had been killed In ihr rJi of drmol .he-l houses. Latch the "vculng more details reached lls. \ full account of one of the most terrible accidents wli.l hns ever lcralIcn a quiet Cumuc,t ut village, k given below, a5 gathered hy a reporter for the PIitruiipm on tilo spOt.
 The tornado struck Nuliagford uhout six o'clock. lt devastated the Plains. cutting swiuh about oEr-har q mile MIdc. Over forty dwellings, We're d"s- truyed, in some places a mass of broken l,uards und SplintrrS only marking their sites. TWrhty-onc l'udiri had been rr. covered up to midnight, ant ii i, bclicv- "d there are E3pfr ia the ruins. Tine humber of wounded cauuut bccSlimutcI hut will probably reach fifty. The fol- lowing abatement of Eugene H. Trait, an "y" witness tells much of tEo story.
 "At halr-paN four oclurk l left the Simpson NirliIc Plating compauy's shop where l am cmp!O"pd, for home just south of the track. There wae very heavy thunder thrH between the MrIidrn mountains through which thrstorm wa, coming. This was to thc northwest. The storm was q IuHg while coming up The wind was from the southwest when it startcl up, although there was very little when the stoHa Was approaching The clouds increased in thickness and the lightning was very Shmp. but this did no harm. The Wind vrercd from southwest and shifted to west. Uiha: storms had gone to thn north, and il was expected this would, About 5.3u o'clock the clouds fairly few Thcnthrrr were small showers of rain and tue wind in creased to Il gale, This cut a swHth aIf q mile widc reaching as farus ore r}.u Il see. There seemed tu be two storms one from the northwest and the other from the southwest, They met over the Community laiie 0ud the gale started to the southWe,t. At thA lair q large vol umc of water was r&iSr,.-SOmr e;iv q watclHpOut NnS formrd-rtarhing 25D feet in height. did not see this The gale did not last more than ten minutes some say only five, After it had pas scd it rainod quito hard, but there was no hail"
 A gentleman who was standing at the Galcsvillc station saw the storms meet. He said the roofs of houses went off as leaves arG blown off by the wind
 Only ono small factory of all the fac tories in the place. was destroyed. The others Wclo out of the line of the totma- do. Tho first building struck was Geo. ------~.-r-----'- gr'-t.' '-:t- --1->--- .Ar,-l., valued ut between S3.Uu0 and &4,UOl. This was utterly demolished Then be- gan the work of death. John ToOhcv's house on Cherry street Was destroyed and Mrs. Touhey killed. Then the Willow Margaret Moneys house, on an alley near Colony street wcnt-entirely demoliShcd-and several of the family were killed.
 Michael Kelley was driving through q street and had his buggy blown to atoms 1t was said that not ;f piece could he found. He and his horse were severely handled but escaped serious injury Df l. r. from their foundations and put one side in a very rickety condition. Wi h cther5 the work was complete. Only lath and clustering and broken bits of boards not too large for good kindling wood could he found. Bed furniture of all descriptions Was strcwed about. Iii one house bedstoad was shown under which man was taken out alive but severely injured. The building had one side gone and was very rickety. In orc family three persons were severely injured. One little boy of eight years lay on sofa with his jaw broken moaning Pite- ouSly. An infant was in it's mothers arms with d broken arm and gasping for breath. The mothers arm was Lad ly scalded. This was the Mathews fam fly. One poor woman had one hand nearly torn from the wrist.
 The scenes in and about the Plains school-house, where nineteen bodies of the unfortunate beings were placed, w s Il horrible one, The stcpfather of John Cassin, J ohn Boyle, stood over the pros trate bodies of his wife and son, mourn ing their loss, and saying between his sobs, ''Iheres my poor Johnny"
 In one of the plain pine boxes into which the bodies were placed, lay the remains of Mrs. Joseph Huldie. Her head was a terrible sight to behold. The scalp was torn completely off. At her feet lay her infant child, only six months old, crushed and manglcd corpse.
 John Hayden, boy nine years of age, one of the killed, was in the house of the Boyle family in Colony street The storm came on and he entered the house for protection from it. He was dashed to pieces by the fury of the tornado and the demolition of the house over his head.
 The body of Mrs. Toohey was picked up half mile from her house, from which she had been hurled. She lived in Colony street and her mutilated re- mains were found near Main street Her face was terribly mangled Her right foot had been torn from the leg at the ankle, and her left ankle was mangled, the foot hanging by the outside skin.
 Last night at twelve o'clock all the dead bodies were removed from the town hall to the Plains school-house. which was made receptacle for the dead. At that hour there was only one of the in jured remaining in the hall that one be- ing the young man Michael Corcoran, who lay stretched out on a mattrass suf- fering from his severe wounds. II was thought by Dr. McGaughey, of Walling-