Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-07-12
TRENTON, KY.

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wheat shocks scattered all over the
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TRENTON, KY.
The following special to the Courier
Journal tells of the damage done at
Trenton:
TRENTON, KY, July Ga cyclone
passed over this place about five
o'clock yesterday evening, and contin-
ued to blow a hurricane for seventeen
minutes, demolishing business houses,
unroofing residences. and doing great
damage to corn and wheat The
wind came from northwest, clouds
were dark green, and the air was
black with flying timbers. All the
large timber was blown down in Tren-
ton. The storm struck the dry goods
store of McElwane Bros, and left
nothing but a pile of brick. Part of
the building fell on j. ID. Glasscock's
house and crushed it to the earth,
burying large stock OF saddlery,
harness, etc. Another part fell on ].
9. Depen's restaurant and fancy green
grocery, and J. w. TUFTS saloon and
pool-room, injuring building and
stock greatly. Every one escaped
from the building, and no one Was
hurt.
On the farm OF Col. w. P. Cannon,
four miles northwest, a cabin was
blown down, killing negro woman
and three children aged fourteen,
twelve and one years. No further
loss of life is reported up to this time.
Reports are slowly coming in of dam
aged and downtown barns, cabins
aud fences. The damage can not be
The loss here is: McElwane & Bros,
5000; ]. G.. Dycus, $4,000; Bed Spring
Company, $500; ]. w. Tut, 5000; J.
L. Glasscock, 800; P. ii. Smith, $500;
J. L. Cross, damage to farm property,
800.
Number of barns blown down,
about one hundred.
Th3 following was telegraphed to
the Nashville American from
GUTHRIE.
GUTHRIE, KY, July Ga terrific
wind and rain storm passed through
this section of the country yesterday,
carrying death and destruction within
its reach. At West Fork, Il water
station west of this place, a double log
house was blown down and the in
mates, a woman and three children,
were instantly killed. 1t also blew
down another house near this place,
injuring man and his wife, but not
fatally. At the present writing it is
to give the names of the
parties killed and injured; all were
colored.
At Petersburg trees were blown
down and carried forty to fifty yards
in the air. Large hail fell, damaging
crops greatly.
The house that was demolished ut
West Fork was owned by a colOred
man named Tobey Coleman. His
aged mother and three children, the
were buried to-day. Cole
mans wife was also badly injured, sup
posed to be fatally.
ELSEWHERE.
Severe storms are reported the same
day in Illinois. The Methodist church
was blown down and a woman and
two children killed at Columbus, Ky.
The cotton factory at Gallatin, Tenn,
was unroofed.
The South Kentuckian tell the fol-
lowing of what occurred in
HOPKINSVILLE AND VICINITY.
At precisely 5 o'clock strong wind
set in and dark clouds overshadowed
the sky and the lurid glare of light
ming lit up the heavens. The thunder
reared and crashed and then the rain
fell in binding sheets and the streets
ran in perfect deluge. Here and
there a shade tree would be twisted
from its stem and n shed blown down
but no serious damage was done in
the city. In the eastern suburbs
Eugene Wood & Cos, scale house was
blown down and John Bame had
three horses killed by the lightning.
North, west and south Of the city the
damage was to fences and
wheat, which were badly blown down.
AT Wash Quisenberry's on the Prince
ton road, the lightning struck a shock
Of wheat and burned it up before the
rain could put it out All over the
county the wind tore down fences, ETC.,
but the actual destruction of property
sincOnsequential excepting in the cas-
fern portion.
FROM FAIRvIEW To PEMBROKE
suffered heavily and the property
destroyed will amount to thousands OF
dollars, to say nothing of the loss of
life. In the devastated strip of cOun-
Try from Fairview to Pembroke and
the following is a list of the
losses ascertained so far,
though the list is by no means COM
Dlete:
Ben Layne, two barns; Ben Lackey,
Darn; G. II. Harrison, barn; Jno n.
Mills, large tract of valuable timber
Utterly ruined; J. w. Griffin, two
larns Sam Daniel, barn; Jno. Lackey,
BARN; Frank Chiffon, barn; Robt. |
Chiffon, barn; Jno. Finch, two barns;
Jordan Moore, place, barn; TIL. Shaw,
BARN; Ben Bradshaw, barn; NJ. Lackey,
barn; X. III. Holland, barn and clover |
muller destroyed and thresher badly |
w. ID. Garnett, barn |
blown down and one mule killed; l.. |
D. CARROT, barn; Il. c. jameson, barn |
B. ). Leavell, two barns. In the town |
If Pembroke the depot was unroofed |
md shed or two blown down |
put no very serious damage was done. |
At Mr.. b. 5. Leavcll's place the cyclone |
lid some OF its most terrific work. |
Beside destroying his barns cabin |
vas blown down and the track of the |