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other minor injuries have been sustained in broken 

 windows, to the li'ait trees, &c.. 

 . Tlie general size of the liail,jpxcept near the bor- 

 ders ot the cloud is described to hav^e bcea so large 

 as hen eggs — many ot them much larger— isome 

 measuring S and 9 inches in circumference." 



Similar disasters are stated in the following ex- 

 tract li-om the Sentinel of the Valley, to ha^■e vi- 

 sited Shenandoah, another '.county west of the 

 Blue Ridge, and of which the nearest part is more 

 than fiily miles distant from Rockbridge. 



"This place [Woodstock] and neighborhodd were 

 visited by a h;iil storm, on Wednesday atternoon, 

 which has letl melancholy traces of its ravages in 

 the prostration of trees and iences, the destruction 

 ol'rye and other growing crops, and the breaking of 

 thousands of panes of glass. In many places 

 whole fields of rye have been literally cut to pieces, 

 or so much injured as not to be worth the trouble of 

 cutting. Most of the hail was as large as a hulled 

 walnut, and niany were picked up which measured 

 fi'om five to six inches in circumference. The storm 

 n|iproached from the north west, and almost every 

 .window facing iii that direction, which Was unpro- 

 tected- by shutters, was more or less damaged. The 

 destruction of window glass, indeed, has been im-' 

 mense; so much so, that there is not enough to be 

 had in the county, by onc-lburth, to replace what 

 has been broken." 



The effects of the storm in Prince Edward, are 

 thus described in the Faral^illG Chronicle of" June 

 7th. 



"The general direction appears to have been 

 from west to east, south east; but it evidently per- 

 formed, in many mstances, a very whimsical and 

 whiding journey. Even in tliis village, it wound 

 and twisted very much in the character of the 

 whirlwind, bearing, with great force and violence, 

 on buildings, so as to carry off' those of feeble con- 

 si ruction,, and materitdly injuring some even of 

 brick, of the best construction; then apparently 

 wheeling nearly at right angles, leaving trail buil- . 

 dings, and otlier'light objects near i'ts tract, unaf- 

 fected. 



The width of its tract is probably not less than 

 two or three miles, and it would seem,' that along 

 this tract, there passed several dillerent and sepa- 

 rate whirlwinds, always .very narrow in their re- 

 spective tracts, in which alone, docs there appear 

 to have been any great danger. 



The period of time wliich the alarming and 

 dangerous operations of these whirludnds con- 

 tinued, was very short, scarcely more than . one or 

 two minutes; very possibly, not near so much, but 

 the storm blew hard lor 8 or 10 minutes, possibly 

 more." 



By the time the hurricane reached Nottoway 

 and Mecklenburg, it exiiibited its greatest violence, 

 as is inferred from the following extracts from the 

 Petersburg. Intelligencer. 



"We briefly mentioned in our last the eflects of 

 a tornado which pa.ssed through .the county of 

 Chesterfield on Wednesday, the 4th instant. We 

 have since received intormat ion of anolherdestruc- 

 tive storm which occurred, at the same time, in 

 the counties of Nottoway, Dinwiddle, Sussex, and. 

 Southampton. These storms rival, in the extent 

 of damage done to ])roperty, the memorable tor- 

 nado of the 5th of .ftlay last. Dwellmg and out 



houses, tind)er, fences, in iiict every thing which 

 came withiu the reach of their desolatmg liiry, 

 were swept away; but we are haj)py to say, that 

 the los-s of lilc has, as tar as our inlonijation enables 

 us to speak, been umch less. 



Wtf havenot heard of thp. effects of the storm on 

 the north side of the A]:)pomattox, higher up than 

 Chesterfied Court House. From thence it pursued 

 a direction inclining to the south of east, crossmg 

 the river into Prince George near Broadway, about 

 nine miles below this tov/n. Its width, in some 

 places was fully three miles. The plantations 

 through which it passed, suffered severely — on 

 several scarcely an out house has been left stand- 

 ing, the dwelling houses. more or less injured,. and 

 the roads reridered impassable by the lidlen tim- 

 ber. 



The tornado on the south side of the Appo- 

 mattox, commenced in the upper part of JNot- 

 to.way, and taking a direction to the north-west, 

 passed through, the counties of Dinwiddle, Sussex 

 and Southampton. The devastation is represented 

 as appalling. • 



We annex a list of the sufierers as far as ascer- 

 tained. 



In Chesterfield — Captain John W. Gill, Thoraa?) 

 Shell, John Walthall, Walthall Pvlarshall, Wm. 

 €orLing, Mrs. Archer, Mrs. Lynch, Wm. R Hill, 

 the estate of the late Arraistead Hill, O. P. Hare, 

 and T.-. P. Hare. At Mrs. Archers the overseer 

 and one servant were injured — her loss in out- 

 houses, timber, crop, &c. is very great. 



In Nottoway and Dinwiddle — Rev. T. Pryor, 

 Dr. H. C. Worsham, James Jackson, estate of' 

 Peter B. Jones, Wm. B. Wilson, E. G. Booth, 

 jMrs., Bland, Mrs. Verser, JNIrs. Morgan, Mrs. 

 Branch. Jones, JNIrs. F. Epes, Thos. Goode, Gen. 

 Wm. H. Brodnax, Dr. Wm. Cutler, Mrs. Rose, 

 John G. Williams, (one negro killed) J. Foulkes, 

 ftwo negroes killedj I\lr. Edward Royal, fone 

 negro killed.^ Mr. Greenway, flost his mill and 

 all the tiirm houses.) We learn that at Kmgston, 

 the residence ot' Gen. Brodnax, the family umn- 

 sion is the only building letl standing, and even 

 that bears marks of the tijry of the storm. In Not- 

 toway several plantations which Buffered from the 

 devastations of the tornado in INI ay, experienced 

 severe injury on the present occasion. 



In Sussex— Wm. Wintleld, Mr. Thos. Wills, J. 

 Lee, and Capt. N. Heath, Vv'ho lost every house on 

 his farm — himselt^ his wife, sister, and all his ne- 

 groes more or less injured, but none very daiiger- 

 ously. 



\Ve have no certain accounts of the destruction 

 in Southampton county except in the vicinity of 

 the Barn Tavern, belonging to Mr. D. Simmons; 

 there we. understand, several houses were blown 

 dowii, and one person killed. The " plantations of 

 C. Urquhart, Z. Simmons, and Jesse Little, suffer- 

 ed considerable injury." 



"The only plantation [in Mecldenburg] fi-om 

 which we have any particulars are those belong- 

 ing to Major Thomas M. Nelson and Mark Alex- 

 ander, Esq. The former lost every house except 

 his dwelling;; a saw mill and -a large three stoiy 

 grist mill were likewise entirely demolished. At 

 Mr. Alexander's the mansion house is the only 

 building which escaped destruction; and fifteen of 

 his negroes.werc wounded, some of them seriously. 



These tempests Avere accomjjanied or preceded 

 by hail." 



