Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-19
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Correspondent Memphis (Tenn.) Anna,

Correspondent Memphis (Tenn) Appeal
| have seen some notices or tbas..
that swept through Desoto Countv0
the I'm INST, but none of them A.
scribe 1t fully. About three O'Clock
the afternoon of the day mentioned =.
tention was attracted to the east bv t".
or three loud claps of thunder WIZ.
a cloud of peculiar blackness was seae
rapidly pushing above the horizon. anu
in few minutes appeared to be w,ar
ped in sheets of flame. 1t had the az
pearance of volcanic mountain nom
ing forth torrents of burning Iavo B
while from the open crater red 1ame5
shot high above the burning mas
Very soon heavy sound was heard as
of distant waterfall, and in twenty
minutes increased to the roar Of a hmm.
dred rairoad trains. Forked toppna,
of electric fire now leaped out from the
bosom of the cloud, cleaning like tbs
consuming flash of Omnipotence, and
the rapidlv-succeeding peals of thup.
der made 1t scene TO strike terror IN
the boldest heart. When it crossed tba
MISSISSIPPI river at Commerce and
struck the timber on the east side. i
was like the crash of falling NOM,
tain. The large storehouse of Mr. Fw
was unroofed in an instant and twenty.
two other houses dashed to the ground
and broked into fragments. Then #
rebounded from the earth, rising high
above the timber, and went on its way
with Its fires and thunders,s moking
roaring, boiling, and flashing, until Il
became the very Sublimity of terror
Suddenly it descended to the ground
again in the vicinity of fernando. and
begun anew the work of destruction.
tearing down houses, trees, and fences
IN Its destructive march. The large
Clubhouse of Mr. Reilly was nearly torn
to pieces. Mrs. Cores place was liter
ally cleared of fences and all out hous-
es, and IN attempting to close the door
of her dwelling she was driven some
distance from the house and the door
shlvered to pieces. Continuing east
ward 1t wrecked a number of houses
on Mr.. Newsom's place, killing negro
woman and two children. On Mr..
Banks place the chimney-stack to his
mill was thrown down, and buildings
crushed. At DR.. Undertakes, six
northeast from fernando, his store
house was blown down to the founda-
tons, and It's contents driven miles
away. The doctors dwelling and all
his other houses were hurled to de-
struction, and he was so much bruised
that his life was despaired for several
days. His wife had her thigh broken,
and, strange but true, his daughter, i
bed with an infant eight days old, was
rolled up in the bed and laid down
again without injury to either. An
eyewitness says he saw fence rail
driven through an oak tree twenty
inches in diameter, splitting the tree
open in its passage. A barrel of salt,
800 pounds in weight, was lifted up by
the wind and carried three miles. and
put down without bursting it. Beyond
Camp Creek the dwelling of Mr.. Ben.
Harwell was torn to pieces and he kill
ed. Trees were torn from the ground
or twisted Oft like corn-stocks and driv-
EN- away. Everything in its track is
wreck. Seven persons in all are said to
be killed, and the work Of destruction
was continued some distance into
Marshall county, but / cannot learn
particulars up there.
.
SPRING.-The melancholy days have
come, the saddest Of the year; the nus
band wears an injured look-house
cleaning time is here. The wife goes
madly tearing round with scrubbing
brush and broom-the dull and sombre
thud of rlops is heard in every room,
Now with a wild and frightened glare