The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-05-06
WELLINGTON, o.. THURSDAY MAY g. $780,
Peculiarities Of the Recent Tornado.

Peculiarities Of the Recent Tornado.
Prof. Tice writes from Marshfield,
Mo-, to the st. Louis Republican:
Everywhere along the track of the
tornado there is evidence of wave of
water flowing in the rear of the cloud
spouts. At some places there are only
faint traces of such a wave; at others
the debris is carried up and over OBJ
structions from two to three feet high.
These waves or currents flowed in the
greatest volume up hills. There are
places where the entire top soil is
washed away by the currents. Fibrous
roots and tufts of grass show their di-
rection to have been up hill, and what
is significant, from all points of the
compass towards the top of the hill
where the tornado was raging at time
and expending its force. No trace at
any point can be found where they
flowed down hill. Many level places
are swept clean of soil. Leaves, grass
and debris of the wrecked buildings frag-
ments of plants carried along by the
current and left in its track and ar
ranged themselves longitudinally to the
current. The following interesting fact
is vouched for by Mr.. George Gilbert, of
this place: He and his wife and four
children were on visit eight miles in
the country, and the center of the tor
nado passed within five or six yards
from where they were. A wave of wa
ter, apparently fifteen feet high, rolled
in the rear of the point of contact of
the cloud-spout with the earth. 1t
rolled over them in second, and
seemed ice cold, drenching them thor
oughly. He tells me that in the vicinity
where they were Mrs. Kintzinger,
bedridden for years and entirely help
less, was carried on her bed northwest
and with the storm and let down unin-
jured. Her house was completely de-
molished, and her son Richard, of adult
age, had his thigh badly crushed.
Amputation, it is said, was found to be
necessary. and the report to-day is he
has died. -j T. 49, l-
There are many astonishing facts
connected with this tornado. About
two miles northwest from town stones
weighing from five to seven hundred
pounds were lifted out of the earth and
carried along some distance in the track
of the tornado. The Hon. j. H. Will
Jams, Presiding Justice of the County
SouTt, LII L dututE SIceh
valley. tells me that a stone fell in the
center of II. Roses field estimated to
weigh two tons. 1t is not known
whence it came. He says in the
tornado that passed through that
valley fifteen minutes later than the one
that passed through here and which
eight miles east, the following persons
xyaro Gi1loh. II ~ Rpco fxur, If h;o
children; his remaining three were all
badly wounded, and four visitors at the
house were also wounded. Reuben
Yates was killed. Squire Miles Bruton
and Mr.. Kelly were killed. He states
there are five reported killed. But he
does not know it of his own knowledge.
Fourteen miles southeast of here there
resided family by the name of Scott.
Their residence lay in the track of the
? Pleasant Valley tornado. They were
all adults. Three were killed and three
badly wounded. At that place an ap-
pie tree of the largest size was plucked
up by the roots into the clouds and car
ried over half mile before it was
dropped. 1t was reported that man
and a woman were seen borne along in
the clouds. The woman, some distance
in advance, seemed to be limp and ap-
parently dead or insensible. The man
was heard to call out aloud above the
the din of the storm. A highly respect
able citizen is given as authority for
this statement.
About nine miles southeast of here,
five miles outside of the tornado track,
two stones frolh five to six inches in
diameter fell in yard. A kitchen-safe,
supposed to come from some house,
was wrecked here and fell ON Smittler's
farm, unbroken, twenty miles from
here. Charlie Sanders trunk was
taken from his wrecked lodgings. 1t
contained his license to practice law,
which he had just obtained. The
license was found fifteen miles away,
snug and safe in its envelope. A sec
ton of the iron smoke-stack of the mill
was taken up into the clouds, carried
four miles and let down in a tree top.
1t was seen by many persons at a dis
tance varying from two TO six miles,
darting up the funnel, thrown out at
the top and sucked in again in its de-
scent.
Fourteen persons were killed by the
tornado in one settlement before it
reached here.
The tornado as far as known COM
menced in Arkansas, and was very
severe at Fayetteville. A gentleman
living in Stone County informs me that
the tornado was very severe in that
county. In the Crow Creek settlement
ten were killed; at. Flat Creek three
were killed; and a young couple of the
name of Simpson were both killed;
also Mr.. McCulloch. In its rampage
through Green County he knows of
widow, Mrs. Galloway, Mr.. Braseel
and a Mrs. Thompson who were
killed