Connecticut western news., 1884-04-02
TRACK OF TIE CYCLONE.
APPALLING DESTRUCTION OF PROP ERTH IN THE BLUE GRASS REGION,
Church Disappears In the AIr--BnbIcz Torn trom Their Mothers Arms-EmtIrc Villages DesolnIed.

It will be days before the extent of !he desolation caused by the cyclone ill | Kentucky can be ascertained. The loss Of life as we'll as the damage to property is incalculable. At Colemansville, not one of the 300 inhabitants escaped in- Iury, and seventy-five buildings were de. molished. The little towns of Mount Nebo, Conroy and Antioch were swept away.
 Throughout the country nothing was left standing in the track of the tornado. Stock, barns, dwellings, fences and for ests were carried off Two boys who were fishing ill Licking River took ref uge at the mouth of the railway tunnel, and were blown through to its other opening, distance of 300 yards. A negro discovered his trunk in tree top several hundred yards distant. Babes were blown from their mothers arms and killed. Many who went to their work in the morning have not yet re- turned to their families. Two children, supposed to have been lost, were found in & cellar and rescued.
 Bodies of dead persons were found strewn along the roads. Immense num- bers of cattle and other stock were also slaughtered. At one place man flying | through the air was seen, but he cannot be found. A church was lifted from sight and has not yet been heard of. The organ was found about five miles distant. Rocks weighing three tons were borne quite distance, and the ground was much torn up. Vast quantities of water were blown from the river. 4 man sought refuge behind freight car. Flying debris was seen to encom- pass him and he cannot now be found. The chimneys and foundations of build jugs were carried away. Dead chickens and sheep were picked up in an adjoin- 1 joining county, which were blown from points several miles distant The roads and other lines of communication were so disabled that it is impossible to gather any further details of the storm. When the cyclone first appeared it looked like an immense circus tent filled with air and carried by the wind. After the tornado had finished it's work heavy hail storm prevailed. Ten minutes later the sun shone brilliantly on 8 scene of devastation which scores of people visited. The villages destroyed are in the middle of the Blue Grass region of Kentucky, and the community is made up of well-to-do people.
 Further reports of the disastrous cy- clone show that the storm travelled in a northeasterly cour6e. Its path covered a belt of country about one-fourth of a mile in width, in which almost every thing had been completly levelled. Giant oaks and great forest pines were swept into piles, and the whole forest in the path of the tornado was an almost impenetrable mass.
 By dwellers on the Paris mountain side, the storm was seen by them as il crossed the summit of the mountain be- tween ' and o'clock. A dense round cloud, perfectly red and ablaze with electricity, descended the mountain. Ii sped with fearful velocity, spreading de- struction alike on the hills and in the ra- vines of the slope. Scores of dwellings were unroofed or demolished; and some of the wrecks were burned by over. turned stoves. Dozens of people were more or less injured, thre or four fa- tally