Great Tornado at the West (5/23/1860)

New York Times archives - Times Machine ^ | 5/23/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

CINCINNATI, Tuesday, May 22. The most destructive tornado every known visited this city yesterday afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock. The storm came from the northwest, and appeared to be a cloud densely black, some two miles in breadth, rushing forward with fearful rapidily, accompanied with thunder and lightning, and torrents of rain.

The damage done in this city by the blowing down and unroofing of houses is immense, and will probably approximate $500,000. A large number of persons were injured, but as far as ascertained, but six persons were killed.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
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[libertylover]

Realize that all of that was typeset by hand! And no spell checker!

[Carriage Hill]

And $500,000 was a LOT of money back in 1860.

[ConservaTeen]

Did the Times blame 1)Climate Change, 2)Tax cuts or 3) Evil Republicans for the tornado?

I guess they weren't that bad back then...

[eyedigress]

I would like to add this class.

I have 4 of those papers including classifieds from 1861-1864.

I will post them when I get them pictured and uploaded.

Thanks

[eyedigress]

You will be amazed at real journalism.

[HarleyD]

Very interesting. Thanks for the post.

[Gay State Conservative]

Let's see now...brush fires and earthquakes in California;tornadoes in the Midwest;hurricanes in the Southeast;or blizzards in the Northeast.

I think I'll settle for the blizzards.

[eyedigress]

That last line on the left........

"A train on the Covington and Lexington railroad was thrown from the tracks" Yikes!

The rest is gone but it sounds like the locomotive might not have faired well either.

[fireman15]

Obviously this was caused by manmade global warming from all the careless people using firewood to stay warm.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

You are added to the class roster. Welcome aboard. We look forward to your contributions.

[Fiji Hill]

Let's see now...brush fires and earthquakes in California;tornadoes in the Midwest;hurricanes in the Southeast;or blizzards in the Northeast. I think I'll settle for the blizzards.

The Northeast occasionally gets hurricanes such as the 1938 hurricane, which was probably a category 5, Hurricane Edna in 1954 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yes,we do...but they're rare and are seldom as bad as the ones they get in the Caribbean,Florida,Louisiana, or the Carolinas