THE OHIO TORNADO.

LATER DETAILS OF THE WHIRLWIND -- TWO VILLAGES CUT THROUGH AND FIFTY PERSONS INJURED -- TWO CHILDREN KILLED.

Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11. -- Later particulars from the scene of the tornado which visited Quincy and De Graff, in Logan County, on Saturday evening, show that it was more terrible and destructive than the first reports indicated. A sultry day was followed by the appearance of a cloud in the West at 5 o'clock in the evening, which gathered blackness and size with fearful rapidity. A heavy wind set in, and at 5 1/2 o'clock the whirlwind struck the earth five miles from Quincy, moving north-westwardly. The destroyer was hardly more than five minutes in reaching Quincy, through which it passed, making a clean sweep of houses, trees and fences along a path which fortunately was comparatively narrow. In this village fifty or sixty dwellings and stores, and two churches, and as many more shops, stables, and out buildings were unroofed, rocked upon their foundations or demolished. The air was literally filled with flying weather-boards, furniture, laths, and plaster. A parlor stove was caught up by the wind and hurled through the air, and falling upon a woman crushed her so that she died.
The Baptist and Methodist Episcopal churches were completely destroyed. The tornado on the way to De Graff struck BOGGS' flouring mill, five stories high, containing 3,000 bushels of grain, moving the building nine inches upon its foundation and carrying away the roof and a portion of the fifth story. It plowed its way through De Graff, scattering destruction in its path, but hurting fewer persons and injuring a less number of buildings. After leaving De Graff it passed several settlements, and finally rose from the earth and was seen for miles, carrying in its funnel-shaped form timber, rails and debris which it had gathered in its destructive march.
The papers this morning give the names of thirty-nine injured in Quincy, and eleven in De Graff, the list not comprising all the injured in the former village. MRS. RALL, reported to have been killed in De Graff is yet living. Two of her children were killed. MRS. GLICK, in Quincy, has since died from injuries received.

The New York Times New York 1872-06-12
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