Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-06-04

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carried along. She had very little cloi
, ing when found, and her remains wei
, covered with mud. Miss Smith, Il
: the teacher, and six Of the scholars wei
: injured. three or four of them dangerou
! ". One rery singular thing is. that n
mud was blown $. hard into the faces
some Of the children that it could not
washed of. Some of their faces look :
If they bad been tattooed withIindia in
4 or powder. Miss Smith says the FIRST thin
she realized was tha, she was standing !
the road. surrounded by the boys and glrl,
She does not know how they got there, be
ing unconcious Ofhaying made an asceu
into the air.
Near the school-house Mrs. Walters wa
instantly killed. When found, she ha,
one of pair Of twins in her arms. Th
little fellow was bruised and cut. aud die,
the following morning. Phe other on,
escaped, though no one can tell how
About quarter Of mile south Of th,
school-housc is the farm Of Alexander Glib
son. None of the buildings are standing
All his orchards are valuoless. His farrl.
ing implements are gone, and his stock
dead. A Miss Gardner, Mrs. Gibson and
three children we're in the house, aud were
prccipitated into the cellar, the building
flying away like bird. The frst-named
was badly injured, but the others only
slightly. Sixty fat steers we're carried of
BY the wind, some of them weighing l4OO
pounds, and landed into slough 20 rods
off. They were covered with mud, and
few looked as if they had been rolled
over and over for long distance. A hog
was observed, through whose body a
large piece of scautIing had been driven.
On this farm, hefer was buriedi in the
myd, 6ead-frst. All the spokes of a new
wagon were torn from the hub, the iron
bKiRaGF bKe Rfts &ts Rb tori from the ground and
forced into the side Of the graanry, and
looks as if it had been planted there, The
apple orchard, one Of THE largest in the
county, is now without trees. They were
torn up by the roots and hurried along. A
grove of honeySlocutts 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 smoth and clean was the
break. A man named Baker was driving
along the road. and, observing cloud
coming, jumped from his wagon and took
shelter alongside of a hedge fence. The
wind struck both him and the team with
full force, and carried the man, mules
and wagon into the adjacent fields. Baker
says he went through The air like lightning
for about a quarter of mile.
Mr.. James Craig, an old citizen Of
Lancaster, where the storm started, states
that two clouds seemed to come together,
unite, and mcve rapidly in northeast
erly direction, The first obstacle it en-
countered was the Jones school house,
school was in session. The teacher and
scholars barely noticed the darkening sky,
whom hail began to fall, and suddenly the
building was lifted from the ground
turned around, and carried twenty feet
away, where it was laid down right side
up with care, as if the storm king felt
there we're within precious lives that
should. not be sacrificed. The inhabitants
of the building hardly knew what hap
81 pff9ff66 9of6er hefGFs Victims thS The children
bruised and cut by the falling desks and
seats, bnt none were seriously injured.
Near Skunk river woods flock of 1000
sheep were quietly grazing when the
storm arose. With an instictlve dread
they gathered in a circle, directly in line
Of the storm, and when 1t came 1t elevated
them until, as an eyewitness expressed 1t,
..they looked like flock Of birds" They
circled round and round, the velocity OF
thoir inner current overcoming the at
traction of gravitation, until the ccntritn-
cal motion moved them to the edge Of the
cyclonc, where, the velocity being dimln-
ished, they fell to the earth, Of the looV
only 40 were found alive, and it is be-
lieycd that the remainder were killed
Their remains are found hanging on the
trees and bushes, and strewipg the ground
The Doggett graveyard, not far from
Lancaster, was swept as if with a besom
The tombstones were thrown down, and
according to some. several were carriac
away. 1t came down on the house Of Mr.
Nicholas Engledingle, whose wife was "
| ing sick, her husband being absent. Sh
was alone with her child. The house wa
carried away and torn to atoms, apd tb
unfor ortunata woman and child went witt
4 ta .iestrnctian. Her fate is very sad. Ih