Describes a tornado in New York City. Transcription: of the day, which heat presently culminated in a really terrific tornado. We three [Gunn, John A. Wood, and Mr. Rosenberg] had spent fifteen minutes over claret-juleps at Delmonico's, when the bursting of the storm necessitated our taking refuge at the Star in Lispenard street. After a preliminary and most picturesque whirlwind of dust, obscuring everything in a grand smother, down came the fierce rain like streams from a cataract, the lightning was incessant, and the thunder bellowed and roared as if earth and heaven were going to wrack. (
Describes a tornado in New York City. Transcription: of the day, which heat presently culminated in a really terrific tornado. We three [Gunn, John A. Wood, and Mr. Rosenberg] had spent fifteen minutes over claret-juleps at Delmonico's, when the bursting of the storm necessitated our taking refuge at the Star in Lispenard street. After a preliminary and most picturesque whirlwind of dust, obscuring everything in a grand smother, down came the fierce rain like streams from a cataract, the lightning was incessant, and the thunder bellowed and roared as if earth and heaven were going to wrack. (Trees were uprooted, houses overturned, people killed, and a good deal of mischief done generally, as we learnt afterwards.) Meantime we sucked at our juleps. Wood added a fresh [Fitz James] O ?Brienism. Dr Palmer (of the Tribune and 'Up and Down the Ira-waddy') has just returned from Boston (probably from concluding arrangements pertinent to his becoming additional editor to the Atlantic) and reports O'B confined to his bed from a severe licking received at the hands of a bar-tender, I think of the Tremont House. The Baron of Inchiquin ?s patrician eyes were blacked, his aristocratic nose maltreated, etc. By the way, I don't remember putting down another anecdote, derived from [Jesse] Haney; relating how a shabby and unfortunate boarding-house landlady had appeared at Phillips and Sampson's (the publishers of the Atlantic) to solicit the firm ?s interference in her favor, with Mr O'Brien. To complete the sub- Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 55, July 13, 1859 . 13 July 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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