Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-16


 pie Injured.
 A violent tornado or cyclone. accompanied by torrents of rain, passed over Gays Grove in the southern hill portion of Winsted, in northeasterly direction, at s:3O o'clock Thursday night, leveling every thing in its course. Nine houses and numerous barns and other buildings were utterly demolished, and many others more or less damaged, but, strange to say, there was no loss of life. Several persons sustained serious injuries, which may terminate fatally, and scarcely anyone in the ruined buildings escap ed en- tirely unhurt. It is possible that there may have been loss of life in neighboring locali- ties not yet heard from.
 THE MOST SERIOUSLY INJTRED.
 Miss Mary OCounell, Brdsal1 street, serious inter nal injuries unconscious and not expected to live.
 Miss Harrison, Pratt street. arm broken badly l
 Mrs Daniel Maxwell, Pratt street, serious cuts and bruises on the face an head.
 Mrs Thomas Ash, Orchard street, badly bruised
 Mrs James Dunn and one child, Orchard street, bruised: jured.
 Mrs. Samuel Beach. East Lake street, badly in- jured.
 The cyclone formed iz the little pond, so w sted, and tore it's way along in a southeaster- ly direction, uprooting all the trees in it's track, and striking first the house once known as the Judah Roberts place, now ocou- pied by Lewis Humphrey. But little damage was done to the house, but the horse barn WAS entirely blown down. No one was hurt here. The next building struck was the barn of 4. T. Case, which had a small part of the roof torn off. The slaughter house occupied by l., Blackman was next struck, the barn entirely demolished and the ice house and slaughter house proper so mach damaged that they cannot be used. Passing along across Long lake trees were uprooted and fences prostrated. Truman w. Hydes house was slightly damaged, and at Samuel G. Beach's on East Lake street, the first dwell ing house was utterly prostrated, as we'll as the barn. MT. Beach had just retired for the night. The blow came in txinkling and the house and it's inmates were scattered over the door yard. A lady up stairs in J. B. Godsoe's family injured. Jacob Erisman's barn was demolished. Michael l McMann had his chimney blown off, windows broken and small barn blown down. John Dunn's family had their house on Archer street totally demolished.
 number of childr sn were somewhat in- l jured, but Mary Enright, Mrs. Dunn's sister, was badly burned This house struck the it, and it was also totally demolished, as were Timothy Falvey's and Mrs. Maria Councils which were in line the same street. Mrs ! Ash was badly burned and the children were | some of them slightly bruised Mrs. Falvey was badly bruised, her daughter had three l ribs broken and her sons were slightly \ bruised. Mrs. Councils daughter Mary was badly injured. One gentleman boarder was also badly injured.
 Passing across Birdsall street Mrs. Daniel Maxwell's was next entirely demolished. Mrs. M. and her boy were badly hurt, the former having bad cut on the head and two around the eye. Her daughter was hurt 8 little. Lewis Peck's house, Pratt street, 1 next went down, but here no was hurt, I as the inmates were out. Next Clifford l Barnes house was struck and totally demol- 1 lshed Miss Harrison, the sister of Mrs. Barnes, had her arm broken. The last house struck WAS that of Gilbert l.. Hart, which was thrown from it's foundations and made | one was hurt. Besides these William Humiston had his barn entirely blown 1 down and two chimneys blown from his 1 house. William McGrane had both his | chimneys blown off and his house was other I wise damaged some. Henry Shepard's barn
 
 house windows were broken in and part of the house blown off. One chestnut tree thirty inches in diameter, was broken off at l the stump and carried forty feet. The l the cyclone were all demolished, the trees being prostrate or broken off at various heights. They lie in every direction showing 1 that the course of the cyclone was circular In Barkhamstead, on the New Hartford road, two miles away, dozen trees were de- A obQr of >1o l by and quantities of clothing, doubtless from 1 Winsted, scattered along the vicinity, but no | damage to buildings. Persons from below speak of trees thrown down, but no special damage below Mir. Blackman's. There was a 1 powerful fall of rain for few minutes at the moment of the blow. The neighbors turned | out at once and helped to the best of their | ability. The injured found ready shelter | near by, and are being kindly cared for. l Many instances of narrow personal escapes l are related prominent among which is that ! of the Beach family, the first to suffer within 1 the village proper. The sky had presented l threatening appearance all the evening, the l inky blackness of the night being constantly ] illuminated with lightning and Mr. Beach with the members of his household had re. tired to an inner room when the crash came. l Their next conscious sensation was that of l trying to make out their situation in the l midst of a ruin of broken tinbers by the aid I of binding flashes of lightning Mr. Beach's ] live stock, horses, cattle, etc, were shortly afterwards found wandering about loose, and scarcely vestige of the barn lefe on the premises.
 George Burke an employe of Mr. Beach, had retired for the night and awakened un- der very peculiar circumstances He says ! he was lifted from his bed and carried over the tops of high trees fully 250 feet and land l ed in a hog pen, some of the occupants of
 which were killed. He was seriously but not l fatally injured
 Mrs. Daniel Maxwell and children were covering in fright at the front door of their
 home, while Mr. Maxwell was at his store on Main street. The two children found them ! selves at liberty after the shock but Mrs
 Maxwell vas penned beneath the ruins, and
 was only rescued, badly injured, after her l husband arrived.
 MT. G. l.. Hart also at his store down
 town, but, as his house only lifted from the foundation and tilted over at steep an gle, his family escaped. great quantity of clustering fell within short distance of his sleeping child, but it fortunately escaped in- jury.
 The little son of James Dunn was found in l the ruins of their home in critical condi- ton, injured internally.
 MT. Clifford Barnes had just previously laid his pocketbook containing considerable l sum of money on the stand in his bedroom 1 and has not yet found it. Timothy Falvey l also lost sum of money which was in a l trunk for safe keeping, no vestige of trunk being recognizable. > Hundreds of people were focking in yes l terday from all directions to view the ruins. Business was generally suspended and feel l ing of gloom prevailed in the community
 The house and barn of Case Brothers, on
 ths Winchester road, are partially destroyed,
 and the buildings of Rev. Robert Cooling, on WaIlen's Hill, entirely destroyed
 Fragments Of wearing apparel, carpets and ! debris have been found at distance of three
 miles on the New Hartford road yesterday,
 and parties from the south and west report
 no sign of the storm beyond Little Pond in
 the direction of it's source.
 | The Selectmen and warden called citi-
 zens' meeting at the Opera House for last
 night, to consider the subject of relief for the l homeless and destitute.
 Upon Ridge street, which passes Beachs
 house, and upon the side hill below were
 trees two and three feet in diameter which
 had been uprooted from some point, prob
 ably across the lake mile away, and, stripped
 of foliage and small branches, piled indis
 criminately. The earth and cornfieId lying