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}s'ew harmony, Indiana. — March 20. — Distant thunder storm at G. m.; ther- 

 mometer at 9 p.m., 67°. 



Vevay, Indiana. — From 11.30 p. m., March 20, to 2 a. m. 21st, a terrific 

 thunder-storm passed over this place. Its direction was from the southwest to 

 the northeast. It was preceded by a violent gale with rain, which continued 

 during the entire storm. The lightning was forked and intensely brilliant, fol- 

 lowed in rapid succession by loud peals of thunder, dying out with a low rever- 

 berating sound. At 11.45 p. m., a severe hail-storm came from the southwest, 

 and continued twenty minutes. The quantity of hail which fell was not large ; 

 the size varied from one-half to three-quarters of an inch. Very little damage 

 was done to trees and plants, and only a few windows were Iroken. At 11 p. 

 m., the thermometer was 69° ; at 2 a. m., 55°. 



Conncrsville, Fayette county, Indiana. — The most destructive wind-storm 

 experienced in this section of Indiana within the memory of the oldest citizen 

 visited Connersville on Tuesday night, the 20th March, about 10 o'clock. The 

 power of the storm seems to have been almost unlimited. Desolation and ruin 

 mark its track. The first notice we had of the tornado is that it crossed the 

 Connersville and Rushville turnpike road, two miles west of Vienna. From 

 thence it proceeded southeasterly, crossing the county-line road nearly one mile 

 south of Vienna ; thence to the Justice farm, where it took a northeast course 

 until it reached the farm of Thomas C. Marks. From Marks's farm its course 

 was almost due east until it reached the hills west of Connersville, which the 

 tornado rolled over and came down like an avalanche upon our devoted little 

 town, hurling fragments of trees and buildings in every direction. Beginning at 

 south end of the town, which is enclosed within an -acute angle wedged in be- 

 tween the hills and the river, the storm seems to have divided, part of it taking 

 a northeasterly course until it passed beyond the town, while the right wing 

 crossed the river, bearing about due east. Every inhabitant of that part of the 

 town lying south of the public square and cast of Monroe, up to Harrison street, 

 has some memento of the tornado in or about his premises. Such a scene of 

 ruin we never before witnessed as met our eye on Wednesday morning. Had 

 the entire force of the storm passed through the town, we have no doubt that its 

 site would now be marked only by ruins. — Connersville Times, March 22 and 29. 



Lehanon, Boone county, Indiana. — March 21. — Our place was visited last 

 evening with one of the most severe hail-storms ever known in this part of the 

 country, accompanied by heavy winds from the west, uprooting many of the 

 forest trees and displacing fences in this vicinity generally. In the town one- 

 half of all the windows fronting west were broken by the hailstones. — Corre- 

 spondent Cincinnati Commercial. 



Montgomery coiaity, Indiana. — A disastrous tornado passed over a portion 

 of Montgomery county, Indiana, on Tuesday night, the 20th of March. The 

 Crawfordsville Journal says it struck the county west of Parkersburg, passing 

 just north of that place, taking a northeasterly course, and crossing the Louis- 

 ville, New Albany and Chicago railroad about a mile and a half north of La- 

 doga. It is supposed to have been the most destructive storm that ever passed 

 through the county. — Xcicspaper. 



Sullivan, Moidtrie county, Illinois. — On the 20th of March, the vicinity of 

 Sullivan, Moultrie county, Illinois, was visited by a terrific tornado. Its width 

 was not more than three hundred yards, and it seemed to be a gigantic whirl- 

 wind. It struck Moultrie country on the west line near t!ie southwest corner, 

 and passed through its whole width in a northeasterly direction towards Areola, 

 in Douglas county, scattering terror, confusion, destruction, and death along its 

 course. Great old trees were uprooted and carried to an immense distance. 

 Houses, barns, fences, &c., were lifted from the ground and scattered in the 

 wildest confusion. Cattle, sheep, hogs, horses, and fowls were killed or carried 

 away. Wagons, hay stacks and corn cribs were swept before the tempest like 



