Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-06-05

were sticking out of the fields, some of
them imbedded in the ground two feet,
and S 0 tightly that they could not be
pulled out. Dead stock was visible
everywhere, horses, COWS, pigs, and
chickens having been hustled about so
lively as to be deprived of the breath of
life. Here and there were pigs impaled
to the ground, while frequently chickens
were encountered without a feather on
them. The latter statement may seem
absurd, but it is a fact. Three hundred
head of stock werekilled outright. Mr..
Cunningham's family took refuge in the
cellar on the approach of the storm, and
escaped with a few bruises.
The house and barn of Nh. Davidson
we're destroyed, and he himself killed.
A gentleman named Houssal, who was
stopping with Mr.. Davidson, was also
killed, his clothing being literally strip
ped from his body by the force of the
wind.
The residence, barn and g~ranaries of
John Babcock were demolished, and his
apple orchard, the largest and finest in
that section, swept away. A grove of
honey locusts was also carried away
Trees eighteen inches thick were snapped
as clay pipes can be. Some of the
stumps remaining look as if a saw had
been used, SO smooth and clean was the
break.
Everything on the farm Of David
Cancer was destroyed, even the wire
fences having been swept away. Pieces
of imbedded timber were so thick in the
fields that they had the appearance of
having been devoted to the raising of
beans and hops.
Near the Cancer farm stood a frame
school-house made OF square timbers.
School was in session, twenty scholars
being In attendance. When the rum
bling of the hurricane struck upon THEN
afrighted ears they crowded around the
teacher, Miss Smith, for protection.
The building shared the same fate as
others which came within the grasp Of
the tornado, and teacher and scholars
cannot imagine how they got into the
roadway. The building was torn tc
atoms, pieces of it being found half 6
mile away. One of the scholars was
killed outright, and two fatally injured
The body of Mary Rarnthel, aged IL
was found half an hour afterward in the
mud a quarter of a mile down the road
She must have been raised by the vino
and carried along. She had very little
clothing when found, and her remains
were covered with mud. One verv sin
, gular thing is, that the mud was blown
so hard into the faces of many of the
children hat it cannot be washed off
Some of their faces look as if they hat
been tattooed with India ink or powder
A man named Baker was driving alons
the road, and, observing the cloud com
ing, jumped from his wagon and tool
shelter alongside of a hedge-fence. TIL
: wind struck both him and the team will
: full force, and carried the man, mule
and wagon into the adjacent fields
Baker says he went through the air lik
, lightning for about a quarter Of a mile
| On the farm of Mr.. Gibson a hog wa
, observed through whose body a larg
piece of scantling had been driven. O.
| this farm, the heifer mentioned wa
, buried in the mud head first. All til
spokes of a new wagon were torn froI
the hub, and the iron cylinder of a corr
: shelter was blown away, as if it were a
| a fall leaf. An appletree was torn fror
? the ground and forced into one side c
the granary, and looked as if it had bee
: planted there. The corn in the crib
was scattered. Over $50 trees wer
. uprooted to appease the appetite of th
storm, but the more it took the more
required, until it became so full tina
like the glutton, it was obliged t
8 cease.
5 In Keokuk county, the wife of NJ
' Engledingle was killed, being LITERAL
t torn to pieces. She was cut in two j
the middle, and one of her limbs We
! cut off and carried away by the wind.