Carroll County, Illinois Tornado
May
12, 1886
May 12, 1886—A
tornado struck at 6:00 P.M. preceded by heavy
rainfall. It came from west of north and all
afternoon it had been oppressive. The first
building struck was J. H. Busby’s dry goods
store, tearing off the roof, then
Mrs. Miller’s
building, embedding timbers from
Busby’s roof
and breaking windows at the corner of Market and
Carroll. It made a hole in
Smith’s saloon, the
residence of George Winter breaking a hole in
the roof, and another piece struck the front of
Mr. Nelson’s store, breaking the window. The
bank block occupied by the First National Bank,
the Postoffice, Lichty and Stakemiller, grocers,
Leo Phillips meat market met the same fate as
Busby’s store. The tin roof was carried to the
courthouse square.
The sheds at
Hall’s brick
yard were blown down, also the sheds at his
residence in West Carroll. The wind then took a
more southerly course to the fairgrounds
damaging buildings. Fences, windmills, barns and
dwelling houses blew down including
Will Mackay’s new house and
Robert Moore’s barn and
outbuildings. The only life lost was
William Hixon of Lanark, about 10 miles southeast. He
ran into a barn to escape and got into it just
in time for it to be torn to pieces.
Carroll County: a
goodly heritage, Mt. Morris, IL.: Kable Print.
Co., 1968, Page 298
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