The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-07-18

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topics be had broachsd md thsn coaeladsd
| by IN eloquent allusion 70 the providential
discovery Of America q the proper time,
the glory Of religious toleration and the
sublimity Of bang free from prisstly and
aristocratic tyranny. He was loudly cheer
Cd when he retired.
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On the 18th instant, . very angular and
entirely unparalleled phenomena took
place near the city Of Utica, n. Y. A tun-
mel shaped, black, moving body, Of nebu-
lous character, appeared in the sky, n .
point over the northern suburbs Of the city.
Thence it moved easssrly accompanied by .
busting, rumbling noise, and gradually
elongated its figure as it went, approaching
the earth nearer and nearer, until finally,
having taken . northsrly sweep, it struck
the ground near the dwelling Of Mr.. Root,
in Dserfeld, tearing down fence or two,
and passing on, gradually settling lower end
lower. At last, having reached point near
the dwelling Of Mr.. Nathan Badlons in
Schuyler, il made descent upon his barn,
ripped it, and scattered it to the four winds.
Then passing on, tearing up trees, fences
y struck the dwelling Of Mr.. John Warren,
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one utter wreck, literally smashed all TO
pieces" and destroyed. The dwelling was
not bl0scn ocer-such An idea IL NO, true
one Of the utter and total crash. The build
ing was lifted from its stone foundation,
carried q distance of some fifteen feet
through the sir, and dashed in splinters
upon the ground, leaving clean plat of
Of grass between the place where it stood
and the pile Of rubbish.
In the house were family Of six-pa-
rents and children. MIR. Warren, seeing
the terrible object rushing down upon him,
called upon his wife and children instantly
to accompany HIM to the cellar, and seized
two of the children and leaped down the
stairway. The wife essayed to follow, but
she was moment too late; the engine of
destruction tore the building up, carrying
herself and child. together with little son
who was behind her, with it. The husband
had but time to see her ascend with the
building that tore away above him, and then
he stood exposed to the day in his open Gel.
lar. He went to view the ruin of his home;
it was complete. Here lay the dead and
nude body Of his wife, the destroying pow
er having stripped her clothing from her
person; there lay his son, covered with
blood, and senseIess; and, just beyond, bis
dwelling lay one such mass of destruction
as probably never was beheld before. Bro
ken and splintered bedsteads, cradles, tables
pots, kettles, chairs, boxes, trunks, crocks-
ry, tin-ware, hats, clothes, stoves, bottles,
bricks, plaster, clocks, beams, stones,
shingles, and endless ct cetera, lay crushed
and crumbled in one heap before him.
And still on beyond, was the monster ne
bulosity which had caused all this ruin,
swaying, smashing on in its course of de-
struction.
After destroying the house, it passed out
into the road, rushed on few rods, turn
ed and swung about into the garden of the
next neighbor, Mr.. j. NJ. Budlong. A gen.
tleman who saw it there, describes It as
resembling monster elephants trunk,
swinging lazily but powerfully about, crush
ing all in its way and hurling boards and
trees into the air like playthings. Swing
ing about in Mr.. Budlong's garden, it
crashed over the fence, swept up to the
house,a large and beautiful mansion, and
swept so close by its front ~ to tear up one
or two shingles on the edge of the roof; but
it was merciful and took another circle and
swung of to the southward again, crossing
the road and striking Mr.. BIS barn, large,
nearly new and very substantial structure,
36x5U feet in its base. The moment it
struck, the barn was thrown into the air,
riddled, riddled, riddled to pieces, and hurl-
ed in all directions, as the agent Of destruc-
ton hurled on. For hundreds Of feet to
the South, East, and West of this barn, the
field was literally strewn with the broken
beams, shingles, etc., and the contents of
the barn-straw, manure, c0rncobs, hay,
etc. Unlike the case of the house, which
was dashed in one heap Of ruin on u single
spot. the barn was scattered over the entire
field. A COW without an apparent bruise
or wound on her body, was found dead
few feet from the site of the building
Some eighty feet to the south east, the body
Of large threshing machine, with cylinder
of massive iron had been lodged, while
other and lighter portions of the same had
been carried further on. A three yard wide
creek, some one hundred feet from the barn,
was SO filed with rubbish rs to be damned
up, and turned from its course. Near it,
another remarkable evidence of the sweep
ing, circling, elephant like motion Of
the destroying body was appa ent; for
large tree was torn from its roots and dash
ed over towards the barn, and on it's farther
side, also inclined toward the barn, lay u
large platform, piece Of the lighter por-
tion Of the threshing machine mentioned.
From here the agent Of destruction pass
ed on about half mile south easteriy,
leaving as evidence Of his passage, a track
Of uprooted trees, fences, &c. And then it
was seen to gradually draw itself up, sway
ing heavily to and fro, and disappear in the
clouds, from which it had all this time hung
suspended.
WHAT BAYARD TAYLOR THINKS OF
TRAVELLING IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS.
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