The Dayton Tornado

Tho Dayton Journal of the lOtn comes with voUuniñous détails of the dtruc-tiv i at that place on Sunday aftdra i ,i, ..i.ily 9th. The Journal saya the storm gathored in the northwest. The ntmosphro was Tory sultry. the mercury rangmg at.9ö in the smvder tmt there wasa stifF refrashing breeze. In the nornor west, however, there was a sullen oloud, almost uubroken. The thundcr was terrifié, the lightning vivid, tho wind almost furious, and'the rain poured'down a& if tho flood-gates of heaveñ had opened fairly for a deluge. The lightning, rhunder, the streaming rain, the air filled with 'e-i ves and branches of trees, shingle?, slate, and tin roofing, were terrifio if not terrifying. Jfot a.streot:in the city escaped' the Blast. Whero no trees were torn up or flung down, limbs were torn. off or houses unroofed. Scarcely a garden in tiie city escaped, and there was not a street in the city - and oar reporters were traveling in buggies or on horsebaek fron three o'clook until pitch dark - that escaped tho storm. The fury of the wind was spent in fifteen ox twenty minutes, during which time the lghtning was sharp, the thunder grand, and the drenchiirg, the gutters overftowing. and. running upon the sidewalks iñ many places. Second street, where shade trees abound, was completely blocked by fallen trees from tha levol to the canal - especially below Perry street. The foregoing is a general review of the destructivo storm. The sad feature of the day was the loss of human life. At least six human beings were killed, and many more severely or seriously wounded. "Three were killed rn tho Germán Luthern Church, which, excepting the front, was destroyed, and a number wounded ; and two were killed and one dangerously, perhaps fatally, wounded by the total destruction of the bridge across Washington street. The damage at the Lunatic Asylum will be repaired at an expense of loss than 82,000. Two female patients in the convlescent department were buried in the falling ruins, bat were not dangerously hurt. THE OREAT CAiAJIITY- DEMOLITIOJÍ OF THE LUTHERAN CHUECH. The Washington bridge calamity had hardly been reported, when the destruc ti on of tho Germán (St. John's) Lutberan Church, on East Third Streot, was announced. Thig proved to be the great calamity of the day. The storm had struck the church when the Sunday school scholars and teachers wore assembliug. Between three and four hundred children and teachers had gathered when the storm burst in all its fury. The school room is on the ground floor. A teacher heard the crash of falling brick. Messrs. Degenhart, Tschuci and Frank, teachers, and Mr. Thomas, superintendent, went up stairs and di?covered the north gable falling inward, and that the wind was lifting the roof. The side walls had not yet begun falling in, but the danger being imminent, the teachers and superintendent hastened down stairs and gave the alarm. Eev. Mr. Fritze, pastor of the church, also warned the school of the impeuding danger, and urgod them to save theniselves by flying from the building. The panicstricken children and teachers crowded toward the front door, iilling up the aisles and falling over each other in their frantic flight. A. few had reached the sidewalk aud others were still inside the lecture room, when the roof and walls came crashing through, breaking down the rear end of the second floor, over the altar, about one-third of the extent ef the whole room, piling up a mass of brick and timbers on the floor of the lower room. Fortunately the larger portion of the assemblage had reached the front portion of the room and escaped crushing by the falling mass, which feil with such torce as to break down the floor partlv into the cellar. Others, less the timbers and mass of brick. Three of them were intantly crushed to death, and four others received serious injuries but were taken out alive. The frightened survivors, nearly all of whom were children, there being only fifteen or twenty teachers in attendance at the school, rushed en maëse from the falling building and sought shelter from the storm in the residences in the neighborhcod. While the storm was still raging at its height, the fire bells rang out the alarm, and before tho rain cea. od, hundreds of people had congregated at the ecene of the disaster.