Morning Star

Destructive Tornado.

The Nashua Telegraph gives a detailed account of the destructive effects of a tornado and hail storm in that place and vicinity on Friday afternoon 14th inst. Many thousand panes of window glass were destroyed—buildings were unroofed—trees uprooted—and fences and sheds prostrated. The Telegraph says:

"Out of the village to the northwest, the wind seems to have been more violent than here. The gable end of Mr. Abel Blood's brick house, on the Amherst road, was blown in, and the roof scattered in fragments all around for a great distance. A barn also owned by Mr. Blood and occupied by Mr. Robbins, a short distance this side, was stripped of its roof and boards, and a large quantity of rye left exposed to the weather, The new house, not yet finished, built by Mr. Preston Robbins last year, was levelled to the ground. It was not occupied. The cider mill at Mrs. Leach's, and the apple and other trees in that neighborhood, were blown down, A barn near Pennychuck brook, on the Concord road was blown down The wind was so heavy as to bend the spire of Rev. Mr. Richards' church and tear the lead from the ridgepole of the town house and the Nashua Co's mills. Many hailstones were seen as large as a hen's egg. Those of the size of a robin's egg rolled across our office floor merrily. The rain and hail fell in such torrents as to render it impossible to see across the streets. It came down almost in a perfect sheet. Take it all together it was a storm of awful sublimity, which beggars all attempts at description."

Mr. Timothy D. Vickery, of Litchfield, was drowned in the Merrimack during the storm. He was picked up after the storm by the crew of another boat which was going up. He was on his way down with a boat loaded with wood. Mr. Vickery was about forty years old, and has left a wife and five children.

The Lowell Courier says that the storm raged with much violence in that city, and caused considerable damage. A correspondent of the Lowell Courier writing from Pelham, N. H., says:

"The corn in every field which I have seen, is blown to the ground, or nearly so, and almost every kind of vegetation is injured by the hail and wind. The shower seems to have been more violent at the center of the town than at the South part. How it was at the north part I could not say. At the centre, many hundred panes of glass, in fact, nearly every pane on the side beaten by the wind in houses not protected with blinds, were broken. The hail stones were very large, many being an inch in diameter."