Daily Davenport Democrat

About two o'clock yesterday afternoon a storm of
severity ever witnessed by one of
the storms we ever wit.

It headed to the west; or rather a
little south of west, and burst with unex-
ampled power, flooding the streets and ren-

dering many of them impassible in a very
short space of time.
For an hour the rain
fell literally in torrents.
The sky seemed
livid with rage and from the blackest
clouds big discharges dashed blindingly
through, while the loud thunder rolled and
reverberated, like the boom of a thou-
sand batteries of the heaviest artillery.
Oh, it was a frightful storm! The clouds
hung over the city like a pall, and apparently so close that they seemed to rest
upon the housetops. Great sheets of flame,
thrust forth from the Memphian gloom
that overshadowed the city, passed over it,
back and forth, forming long, equinoctial zig-

zag lines around the whole horizon. Peal
after peal of thunder, sometimes muttering
in the distance, and gradually growing
louder, till it burst in a mighty crash, and
at others giving no warning of its approach,
but falling loud and heavy upon the ears
of startled sleepers, formed a terrible bass
for a splendid harmony, of which the rain
drops made a most melodious treble. Na-
ture seemed at war, and yet all the while
rendered a magnificent anthem, terrible in
its power, but sublime in its beauty.

THE STORM CLOSES WITH A TORNADO.

Two hours later a violent tornado, about
five hundred feet in width, arose in Mill
Creek Valley, about a mile from the city
limits, and for about a quarter of a mile
prostrated everything in its pathway. It
appears as if the storm had been gathered
for one mighty effort, and hurled against
the earth with the utmost fury. Its first
rage was vented on bottom land west of the
Spring Grove Avenue, belonging to Joseph
Gelser, a gardener. His hot-beds were
raised high in the air and scattered over
the adjoining fields. But gathering pow-
er as it went, the tornado unroofed the
house of Henry Melcher, and treated his
beds in the same manner. His fences and
trees were prostrated, and the fragments
of each were carried hundreds of yards, and
tossed about with the most magnificent
recklessness.

MAD-CAP PRANK WITH A MARKETMAN.

A man named Matthew Eberhart, in com-
pany with his wife, on his way to market,
having a wagon filled with vegetables, met
the tornado just at the moment it crossed
the avenue. Seizing the horses and vehi-
cle it carried them across the road and
turned them topsy-turvy in a fence corner
injuring the former and completely demol-
ishing the latter. Mr. E. was somewhat in-
jured but not seriously. Some cans of
milk were carried fifty feet and emptied
of their contents, while bushels of toma-
toes were blown high in the air and finally
made a part of the crop of neighboring
gardens, in such a manner as to cause them
to believe that nature was favoring them
with a liberal shower of this favorite veg-
etable.

INJURY TO THE PREMISES OF DR. RICHARD-
SON.

When the tornado reached the premises
of Dr. Richardson, on the west side of the
Cumminsville turnpike, a short distance
beyond the tollgate, it seemed to have
reached its utmost force. It took up an
outhouse and distributed it in atoms all
over the premises, carrying the door across
the road and piling it up neatly against
the fence. His orchard was totally wrecked,
almost every apple tree being utterly
destroyed or seriously injured. An im-
mense locust tree, that had withstood the
storms of fifty years, was uprooted and
dashed against his milk house; a small
patch of corn was leveled as if with a huge
roller, and large shade trees were blown
down and twisted off as if they were the
merest saplings. The roof of an old log house,
used recently as a smoke house, was lifted
up high enough to permit some logs to fall
off, and then deposited in its original place.
All the fences about the premises were de-
Molished, one of them carried off beyond
the possibility of recovery, leaving the
posts, like a row of teeth, grinning derisively at their owner. A large poplar tree
was riven from the branches to the ground,
a distance of twenty five feet, as if some
giant had split it with a colossal ax. Fortunately the house and barn were uninjured; but the grounds were denuded of the
beautifying labor of years, and left a total
wreck. Many of the trees which were not
uprooted or broken down, were so injured,
that it will, we judge, be impossible to save
them.

A BARN BLOWN DOWN.

A barn, opposite the residence of Dr.
Richardson, and belonging to a man named
Koup, was blown down, but some horses
stabled in it were uninjured. Here again
the tornado played havoc with the hot beds,
and on which it seemed to expend its force,
for beyond this there was no damage. Col.
Young lost a few shade trees, but the dam-
age to him was immaterial, compared with
his more unfortunate neighbor.

THE LOSS

The loss caused by this terrible storm
cannot be estimated in dollars and cents.
The repair of Mr. Melcher's house and hot
beds, will cost at least 1,000, while it will
cost a similar sum to repair the fences
about the premises of Dr. Richardson. But
the greatest loss is that which even time,
we fear, will not be able to replace. The
grand old trees that lifted their arms like
benediction-breathing priests, and cast
their grateful shade indifferently alike for
both the just and unjust, are gone forever.
Perhaps 5,000 will pay for all that can
be paid for; but there is no compensation
for the loss to which we have alluded. The
old willow, that has been the special ad-
miration of all who passed along this part
of the turnpike, was deprived of every
branch, and its naked trunk stands there
with but a few leaves trembling in the
evening breeze and weeping, like Wolsey
over its fallen greatness.

THE TORNADO.

The tornado of yesterday morning seemed
to have some of the peculiarities of a
whirlwind, while it still preserved those
peculiar to itself. Its dimensions were not
greater than those we have named, but its
force was immense. Its general direction
seemed to be due East, and its fury was all
expended within the space of a few mo-
ments. Dr. Richardson heard the storm
but was not aware of the damage that had
been done until daylight revealed it to his
somewhat astonished eyes.

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