Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-05-17
TORNADOES.
Ohio and Pennsylvania Towns Visited by
Wind-Storms-Loss of Life and Destruc-
ton of pronerty


Wind-Storms-Loss of Life and Destruc-
ton of Property.
AKRON, o., May 12.-Akron expert
enced reign of darkness, rain and ter
ror Saturday night, and it was not until
yesterday broke clear and pleasant that
the bad effects of the nights tornado
could be learned. Daylight showed that
one hundred buildings were wrecked by
the tornado. Strange to say, no fataliy
tiles have thus far resulted from the ter
rible catastrophe, although many are
severely injured and several may
not recover. The list of the wound
ed is quite long, but those whose in
jnries are severe number twenty.
The tornado first struck on Thornton
street. in the southwestern portion of
the city, and passed along the southern
outskirts. Its path extends for nearly
two miles through the city limits, and
shows that the whirling funnel of tho
cloud at the several points rose high
enough in the air to pass comparatively
harmless over buildings directly in its
course. Chickens, rats and cats lie dead
along the tornado's path, and two horses
were killed outright. People al
most universally sought refuge in tho
cellars, and in many instances the
houses above them were blown cleanly
from their foundations, leaving the
people unframed. Prof II. V. Egbert,
OF Buchtel College, Professor of Astron.
omy and Meteorology. who is the local
representative of the Signal Service al
Washington, was an eyewitness of the
tornado's work. He says the tornado
was of the shape Of an incomplete in.
verted cone, with mass of ugly black
clouds above it, whirling very rapidly.
He computes that the cone was travel.
ing at the rate of mile in fifteen sec
onds, and says that the entire work was
accomplished in thirty seconds.
FRANKLIN, Pa, May IA terrible
cyclone passed over the southern part
of this county Saturday evening about
o'clock. Two people, Noah jackson and
wife, were killed outright, and large
number of persons dangerously injured.
The storm was general throughout the
county, but the deadly cyclone only
about three hundred feet wide, extend
ed about twenty-five miles. Almost
every thing in its path was demol-
ished, and trees were uprooted and
houses and barns completely demol-
ished In one instance q house con.
tanning an invalid was struck, and
the bed containing the sick man was
lifted up bodily and carried out into tho
yard, where it fetched up against tree
The sick man was badly injured. A
large number of cattle were killed. The
path of the cyclone extended from near
the county line to tho Allegheny river.
No trains have arrived on the Allegheny
Valley railroad since Saturday evening
on account of slides and bad wreck
about five miles south of this city, where
the cyclone struck the river
ST. LOUIS, May 12.-Several violent
storms in the form of tornadoes' have
occurred in different parts of North
Missouri with in the past two days, and
large amount of property has been de-
stroyed and several persons killed. In
Harrison County number of houses
and barns were demolished and large
amount of farm property destroyed.
Wm. Wilson and his two spall children
were blown away with his house and
killed and several persons injured. In
Gentry County more than twenty build
ings were destroyed, and Mrs. Nathan
Green was killed. Cattle and hogs were
killed, and a good deal of farm property,
as well as crops greatly injured, Five
or six dwellings and several outbuild-
ings were blown away south of Mem
phis, Mo-; fences carried away and or
2hards swept down, but nobody killed.
Near BlytheSdale Mrs. Jane Moore and
Mrs. Horny Young were fatally injured,
and number of other persons more or
less seriously hurt. More than dozen
houses were wrecked and other proper
ty destroyed.