The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-05-15
TORNADOns.

Ohio ana Pennsylvania Towns Visited BY
nd.storms-Loss Of Life and Destruc.
tion OF Property.
AKRON, o., May 12.-Akron expert
encod o reign Of darkness, rain and ter
ror Saturday night, and 1t 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 fatali-
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
juries 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 the
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 the
cellars, and In many instances the
houses above them were blown cleanly
from their foundations, leaving the
people unharmod. Prof. II. v. Egbert,
Of Buchtel College, Professor Of Astron-
omy and Meteorology, who is the local
representative Of the Signal Service at
Washington, was an eyewitness Of tho
tornado's work. He says the tornado
was of the shape OF an incomplete in
verted cone, with a mass Of ugly black
clouds above it, whirling very rapidly.
lie computes that the cone was travel.
ing at the rate Of q 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 8
o'clock. Two people, Noah jackson and
wife, were killed outright, and o 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 house con
tanning an invalid was struck, and
the bed containing the sick man was
lifted up bodily and carried out into the
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 neal
the county line to the 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 violen
storms in the form OF tornadoes have
occurred in different parts OF Norti
Missouri with in the past two days, an(
q large amount Of property has been de-
stroyed and several persons killed. II
Harrison County number of house!
and barns were demolished and large
amount Of farm property destroyed
VIM. Wilson and his two small children
were blown away with his house ant
killed and several persons injured. II
Gentry County more than twenty build
ings were destroyed, and Mrs Nathal
Green was killed Cattle and hogs wer,
killed, and u 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
chards swept down, but nobody killed
Near Blythesdale Mrs. Jane Moore an
Mrs. Henry Young wore fatally injured
and q number of other persons more o
less seriously hurt. More than doze
houses were wrecked and other proper
ty destroyed.