, 1886-05-16
ANOTHER TORNADO.
Passengers on the Fort Wayne
Railroad
Experience a Rough and Ago
nizing Journey.
A Damaging Cyclone Passes
Through Ohio.
A Terrific Tornado.


PITTsBuRG, May 15-The Chicago
express on the Fort Wayne road had {
rough experience passing through tn,
tornado which struck Eastern Ohio last
night. Lightning flashed continuously
from the time the train left Fort Wayne
at S p. M, and rain descended almost
solidly until Lima. o., was passed. Such
a storm the passengers had never seen
before. and the ladies', of whom quite a
number we're on board. were greatly
frightened, and the gentlemen were too
scared themselves to be of much service
in a~llaying their fears. The wind steadily
increased in fury AMI the breaking of trees
and the rushing sibillation of telegraph
wires made Ii concord of wild sounds. The
train passed Forest. 229 miles west Of
Pittsburg, about 1875 p. III. The engi
neer was her sending the locomotive
along at about thirty miles an hour. The
engineer put on more steam, and when
about three miles from Kirby the storm
was at its height. Suddenly there was a
dull roar in the distance and then the
cyclone tore across the level PLAIN on the
south side Of the track and catching a big
tree tore it up by the roots and flung 1t
across the cars. One limb struck the To-
connective and cut the COW catcher in two;
another limb tell ON the platform and the
steps of the first car and demolished it.
Other branches smashed in the windows
along three ordinary cars and two Pull
man s~leepers. Telegraph poles came
dancing down at the same time and rocks
and bushes few through the air in a riot
Gus scurry. The car windows were
smashed to pieces, cracked and splintercd
glass few in every direction. The train
kept on the rails and the engineer apply
ing the air brake, brought it to u stand
still within 200 yards. Every passenger
was in a paroxysm of fear. The sleepers
were transformed into dens of wildly ex-
| cited men and women. The railway men
kept fairly cool and as soon as
they could, assisted in restoring confidence.
The storm continued and the air was still
filed with stones and branches of trees,
while the glare of electricity liberated from
the clouds intensified the horror of the
scene. Though every window in the sleep.
ers Baden and "SalamisDwcr frac-
tured, ard utmost every pane in other
cars smashed, it is remarkable that very
few passengers were hurt. Mr.. G. {.
Bow, a merchant of Canton, o. was in his
berth in the sleeper 'Salamis, when a
tree shivered the glass above him and
drove one piece under his eve with such
force hat the eye was literally cut out. a
lady in the same car, who refused to give
her name, was also cut, though not serl-
ously, about the flce. A few Others had
their hands cut. The storm did not abate
much, except that the tornado passed
away. An idea of its force may be con
ceived from the fact that rocks were blown
into the cars on the south side. and had a
sufficient impetus left to pierce the west
ern windows as clean as if they were bull
lets from a Calling gun. None OF the
roofs of the cars were much damaged, but
the locomotive boiler was aented in sew
eral places, and the smoke stack was
knocked out of a straight line. After
about an hours delay, the train started
again, and in due time reached Crestline
without further accident. There another
lo,.A..., ,.,a nr.n,r,1 and tha haffaraI
cars came on to P~ittsbuvg, reaching the
Union depot one hour and a half late, a
good deal of time being made up on the
run. When the train arrived here it
looked as iii had been riddled by sharp
shooters and a battery of heavy artillery.
CLEVELAND. May IA Kenton, o.,
special to the Lender says, One Of the
most terrible and damaging storms ever
known in this section of country passed
over the northern part Of this county last
night about IL o'clock, and its path is
marked with widespread destruction and
Death. The storm commenced on the
farm known as the Whiteside farm. about
clEnt Ullcs HpIlu VI tnt Ci'y VI hShAoHi
and on il stood Il new house which 0
lies in ruins, From this point the storm
moved eastward, destroying lie and prop
erty. A barn owned by Henry Gerla- h
was blown of its foundation; the orchard
Of Michael Zigler was totally destroyed
and the roof blown off his barn; houses
belonging to James Fisher aud NJ. Sur
plus were totally destroyed and the mem.
bers of the families badly hurt. VIM.
McElroy was struck by lightning aud in
stantly killed. 4 church known as llig
gins church was blown fiat to the ground
David Higgins house was shattered; tho
school house in the cen,er of Jackson
township was entirely destroyed, and
new barn belonging to W. IL. Fleming, o
this city, was blown into fragments. Thu
damage cannot be stated, but it will reacl
into the hundreds of thousands.
The Leader's special from Forest, o..
says The storm here last night was on
OF the most fearful ever visited this sec
+ ton of country. 1t came up SUDDEN
about 10 o'clock, inky black clouds bein
t lvid with brilliant light, which made tn
n atmosphere as bright as day. A roarin
! noise accompanied the storm. In thI
vicinity il swept clean a track of half
mile in width and nine miles in length, ne
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