The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-17
A CALAMITOUS HURRICANE.

At o'clock, on Friday afternoon the
Nth, the town of Nallingford, Connecticut
was visited by fearful hurricane, which
destroyed life and property. Never had
there been such i storm experienced in that
State before. Those who were watching
the storm soon saw that it formed a revolv-
ing column of white sand from the Wall
Ingtord plains, branches of trees and pieces
of board and whatever cpuld be drawn
within the influence of the whirlwiud.
Whiriing with awful velocity, and moving
/ along the earth with terrific force, this ire
sistible mass came i'll contact with n dwell
ing and iilttened il. There was no strur.
gle with the objects that were in its path
way; they were crushed as though the
whirlwind had presented an unyirldinq
front o! solid material. Black with the
ruins of shattered buildings. the whirI-
wind went sweeping up Colony street, up.
roofing trees and Gemolishiug houses The
I buildings were lcvcled to the ground as
though mountain rock had fallen upon
them. The Catholic church was 4 Hat heap
of boards and splintered timbers. From
this point the course of the whirlwiud was
up and over the hill toward the center of
the town, but 4 little Ia the uorthward
The storm reached the height of it's fury
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III, - -, 49,, -. ~, 10 o'u'S 80 up '"c
,he hnrs,iner or ~. So, =. I'M .r o1."ee',
its disappearance To the eastward of the
NIL was much less than the reader has
occupied IN reading these lines
When the terror stricken people partly
recovered their senses scene of awful
desOlation met their eyes, aud the shrieks
aud groans of their dying neighhors greet.
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the pen,,ln hogan IN In,l, FIR 1T. daaJ
and divine The door If ,bc hr;cl, .,I,noi
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dead
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killed save 6ims.lf n, i,J ,,,,,a 80 H..
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moapinr in The ruius and soon L,ca,bei
b.r last
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STREET and had his bpcrv Tor, IN ,f1n,s
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, baIr Nil. cror, Ler i,o,,so sr,r,, lit III,
L,d henn brrind III &c., - ,ar-iI,.