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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for 19th or search for 19th in all documents.
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Fearful tornado in Illinois
--Lives Lost.--On the 19th instant a terrible tornado swept over Champaign county, Illinois.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says:
"After the wind had tested the moving capacity of everything portable, then came a shower of hail, which converted our immense shower of hail, which converted our immense crops of ripening wheat and waving corn into a barren waste.
There are many farms in the vicinity of Champaign City upon which there is not a green leaf or a blade of grass left.--Wheat, oats, barley and rye are entirely ruined.
I visited many fields to-day, and found the small grain mown to the ground as with a scythe; and the stalks were beaten and shivered, looking as though they had passed through a threshing machine.
Corn which was one and a half feet high, was cut off even with the ground, and the stalk beaten to a jelly an inch below the surface.
Up to this date we have heard of five persons who were killed, and quite a number who