Show ind lar vree TERRIBLE te TORNADO irs JOHN 1 I r SON CO coi ILLINOIS we were wone yesterday visited by mr willaim Wi inam brill an nix old and respected farmer of JohnY johnsoni John soni sori county Il illinois linol who furnishes its with a succinct and detailed description of a tornado that passe doyer dover yer xer that n neighborhood march oth oth mr ur brills watis farmhouse farm house rests upon an eminence sufficiently high to give him a view of the section r through which the destruction passed and on anthe the he and nihls his family had a perfect view of the sublime icene scene which the an angry ry elements ware were enacting in avalle a valley y only half a mile south of his house hoube he describes the appearance of the st ormas the in a ever witnessed or that the mind can cad conceive A dense blackness black nesi enveloped the valley below while it was quite light on the hills around and this added to the distinct vergess of the whole the most terri terni terrific nio fia r roar do kr rumbling and moaning filled the air and the smell of sulphur was very strong Arong the unearthly noise nobe seemed to drown the voice of speakers glose close to ta each other As it advanced apparently with the tha moderate speed of a locomotive mr brill observed high in the alt suit the most extraordinary spectacle of trees crushed houses wood W dod rails ralls and objects that eliat seemed f fo 6 him to be horses and cattle borne on by the storm in dense volumes of df dirt and dust all in the most inextricable confusion the verliea very heavens wera wefa filled with tha the contents of farms aery every object seemed torn from the earth arid folded upward houses were taker up bodily and dashed overhead and perfect deso dego desolation lation spread over the vill valley vailey ey the portion bf b f th the e valley vailey where hero this tornado passed was in the neighborhood of tobacco post boffl office ico ice and within a few miles if we understand him rightly of Gol goi golconda bonda eonda the tornado moved from west to east last bifid and appeared to keep in a chosen path the country is ig very broken but those living in the small valleys seemed to suffer most As the tornado advanced the tho indications eions of kofl its course were very deceptive appearing to point in all directions directions this effect probably came from the re lulion ro lution going on in the dust and sul churia smoke that enveloped everything in the valley and which at times seemed to roll and spread in all ill directions the whole country was inundated and the soil in many places washed down to the substratum sub stratum of clay as ast though the clouds had burst and flooded the earth with oceans oceana of water at once the A is the list of lives lost and tofal destruction as far as named joseph harper was vas mortally injured three of his daughters were killed outright and five others of his family of wounded his home homo and every object of his place was entirely carried away aay any and nothing has since been found of any tiling A wagon load of flour and meal in sacks was taken up by the tornado and no trace of it afterward found thirteen thousand dollars in money was also blown away with the house M alb B maynos house was vas also taken up and blown to atoms his stock of boots bloes shoes and dry goods vele were vere aa carried aried I 1 inor tron or miles and scattered over the country everything totally lost 1 esquiro esquire worley had bad nine in family one killed billed and edghr eight supposed to be mortally injured houses and eve everything ry on the place swept away john jones lost a child everything totally lost jost jonathan waters farm was literally torn up and carried off there is not an object left louis mcgowans mcg farm was also totally destroyed houses barns and everything gone woodson wess farm was wa entirely e everything on it swept off orchards were pulled au aled lied up by thel the roots and carried five alleg E every very one w who ho escaped destruction I 1 in n thaline of the tornado awell lwell well veli as those who were 1 killed were blackened aa though by soot uio wio 1 mr brill was one of the fortunate lived off from the route of the tornado and thus thua escaped osca esca jed with a slight loss 1 1 1 he tells telis us that the scene after the tornado passed ased over ote i r was one of the most heartrending heart rending it hda hka had been his misfortune every farmer who vb a lived in the path of the angry elements is homeless and totally broken up destruction is to bo be seen everywhere e very vers wh ere he Is of opinion that the hurricane ab at natchez many years ears ag ago 0 9 was no forse forso orso orse in its ef Ibets the t tree ree daughters of mr joseph harper aftena afterwards rde found dead were locked in each others arms cows cower hogs and farming implements in some cases eases were found at a great distance of course nearly nearis all the live stock in the line of the storm was war destroyed st royed this torn tornado ado im in less force visited sited many parts of the country being f what is known as the equinoctial stormy butt its violence in johnson county is without a parallel were such h a torna da to pass over overa a city bulit built like evansville there would be cause of mourning indeed A disastrous tornado passed over a portion of montgomery county indiana on tuesday night march 1 20 10 the wife of mr henry A foster faster who resides near Parkersburg two of his chil chii dren the third sleeping and miss james daughter of Alaf matthow matthew iliew james visiting at mr fosters were instantly killed filled the residence of lym myers one mile west of ladoga cadoga was unroofed his iris barn badly injured and about I 1 aeres acres of fine timber totally destroyed the thip brick house of william frame north of ladoga cadoga was wash badly injured anif and the barn totally destroyed |