Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1859 — Tornado Near Jacksonville, Ill.—Sixteen Reported Killed. [ARTICLE]

Tornado Near Jacksonville, Ill.—Sixteen Reported Killed.

Springfield, 111., May 27. The Jacksonville correspondent of the Stale Register says that a most terrific tornado occurred twelve miles south of that city on the 26th. The violence of the whirlwind is described as exceeding any thing of the kind ever witnessed, except in the West Indies. Sixteen persons were killed and many others seriously wounded—some fatally. Houses were demolished and blown to atoms. There is an incalculable amount of damage done to property of every kind. We have not as yet been able to learn the names of those killed and wounded. Southern Convention voted to to m.'et at Atlanta, Ga.,on the second Mun day in November, IB6o—a week alter »! Pre-ideriti: I elect ion. /J’he members e. - pect. the election ot a Republican Bret .dent I will give them afresh reason for war against the Union,