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Show SELKCTKD. A liOOMJN'G TnilNADO. On Sun-! (lay lasst, about 5 p.m., a fearful torua- dn pa-cd over a strip of country lying about, a quarter ol'a milo northwest of the t.iwu of .Mavi-.sa, situated in the wutl'-castoi-n iart of thi.s (St. Clair) coun'y. A pleasant rain had been iltliifiC' all day, a.id al.out the tiuie naii'ed two snia'l cK-uds were rou to ai'pvoaeh and luet-t, whe'i immediately the fury and viol', nee of the tornado began, inodiicins Jc-mition to fences, wheat in shoek and staek, trees, bird. ie. Fortuuatcdy, its path was acre the fi jhls, and not through the uwell-ings uwell-ings of men, or v.e ,-liou'd have to chronicle, no doubt, a sad de.-tructiun of human life. Its track was about sis rods wide, and extended for about two i miles in length; its direction was from south-west to north-east, and its noL-e like that of the continued discharge of heavy artillery. The appearance of the storm was like that of a great dark, moving pillar or vast column, briuginnr swift destruction to whatever came in its way. After the passage of the tempest, birds were found mangled and torn, and a dove was picked up dead with scarce a feather remaining on it. Wheat-shocks were tore to pieces, and rail-fences lifted like feathers, four! laro wheat-stacks heleninir to .Mr. j llobert .'. Jl. Quilkin were hurled ! from their ibunaations, and some of1 the wheat left a heap of loosened ' sheaves, the rest scattered to the winds, j Two of the stacks were thrown at each other by the power of the hurricane. Tiie mil! known as Collin's Mill was the only building which was in the tornado's torna-do's track. It drew from the old chimin chim-in y a ereat volume of coal soot, so that the mill had the appearance of being ,-uddeuly set on tire, er of being fired up (or woik. Fourteen lar.ge app'e trees in the orchard of Mr. John llasker were lifted up by the roots aid made playthings play-things iur the t-torm. Many cf tlie.-e trees were mere than a fot in diameter, diame-ter, and when high up in the air l ad the appearance of jireat umbrellas. Large e-age hedg.-s Were torn a;:d t i-,, d N,i . .1 a .v Ol... J .i-g . h:nj ! ii ii . i:.s j .. r w... n : ia e- n ; , , ill' : , i, u n v. : ! I!!.. .J ;. .i I. i" - . 'i !. i w i o 'an ; I ill,,." 0' -!'.: e ii . -I I a i d i ' e i i e ti . I: on. c' ;!. : .. :.. i u i.i it- ia!.: (': v ! im i h ' - I., e a . ii, er n H i (-,!. 1 1 1 iii.' i . the e.i ; e. hi i 1 1 a 1 1 " : c ii. : - j p. s si -.. i . p M- t L - i - ; ( i" .iti t i i ' 1 1 i ill : A id I 'm ,. - , . ,7 li c -: |