The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-29


az te~legraaaic Communicable WIb
tbat par5sgt he s;afe is Nn.ulg
MADISON, Wis, M8 2i-1Ae
JgEna0 which pas5ed over Ibis
place iAst nigh seems t4bAse bsea
8ieIe widespread AID aes:ruc I'VE
than Bas thought last Llg5t Tue
storm came from the direction # ,he
southwest passing through . sScllu
Of the State where no telegraph com
m~unicaious are established. Hence
delsils Vi the great des.rHci ion and
loss II lie are meagre ElGngh has
bsen received, however, 10 suov that
Itbe devastation and sacrfiea u pr5p-
cry aud llfe have been apg1ilsg. Ia
the vlciliiy Of Primrose. tgealy I've
mics southeast of tbis c from aud
through NJ. Yerl0n g Psoli, Inc
; rm Gems q hayedoae widespread
dsaac From twenty-five q, diy
5e--a a-1 i4im houses Wtra 5iswa.
dowa, soGo Of them utterly desirog-
ed, AID The debris carried Of oelo.e
he Sind, some Of il falling ten and
6i,lsa miles away, one shutter Of 8
house falliag Gu Lake Mendoza, zeal
has city. Some twelve or eighteen
persons are known to have b4sa kill
Ell ald large aumbsFs seriously ipjlr.
ed. Teams aad wagons aFs report
ed taken from the roads and carried
10 the air and dashed 10 tha grcuad
At DE-. George Fox'5, near Oregon,
tw0 valuable aorsss IL ne pasture
- ere taken up a hundred feet in toe
air, carried afsy yards, aud dashed
to the earth, billing them Instantly
The sfurm came from the direction
e MileJal Point, where il wr0ught
such terrible damage, raised from the
ground seven or eight mileI south
west Of Madison, and again striking
the earth near Fl. Atkins, northeast
of here. Near Primrose and Paoli
the storm seemed from q half to D.
mite 10 width, and swept e%veFytUieg
bsf.re il. m9wiag DIVA trees, ~iesres.
barns, houses and shrubbery as if.
aita = scythe.
Among those reported billed and
~iojgred are the following:
Ait. Yernon-Wm. Osborne, wife
and daughter, seriously iajursd; Pa
oil, family of A. F. Clarke. slightly
injured; Oregon, wife and children
of NJ. Mccarthy, badly injured, Mr..
and Mrs Pierce seriously, cannot re-
ever; M0ntro;e, wife of John Gale
IA killed and others badly Injured.
d DUBUQUE, Iowa, MAY 24-The
Herald has he following special con
corning the tornado at Mineral Point,
Wis: a terrible tornado struck
Mineral Point on Thursday evening.
IL entered from TIE southwest dirtc
tioa. Il first struck the lead smelling
furnace of jos. Spencer, teariog il al.
most to ruins. Ii mex etrfied ef
the house Of John Coleman, hgdl IL
ariag Mr. Colepsp. h.5 tTc
dsugagefs aud Mr. Alien, gno @eFe
II the house at the tine. Il LGe1
SH1rA 'he ies'uence douh oPeus-
ley, carrying the house from is fan
.daiio8s, and 10 another instant shat
eflbe 10 u Spilutsls' Mr' oPsA,' ;
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