Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-03-29
WOODSTOCK, W., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1926

pies III neT MANU- lHc liI'Co iauiCo
were crushed to shapcless masses, and
the baby was beaten out beyond all
semblance of humanity.
Northeast of Mrs. Richards house
was a barn, and in the barnloft was
Mr.. Edwards, son Of Johnson Ed
wards. lie was instantly killed, while
Thomas Mayor, a young man who
was on the first floor IF the barn, was
terribly cut about the face, and while
not dangerously injured is disfigured
for life. The barn was cut up into
tooth picks, and fine horse instantly
killed.
Across the street from the Rich
ards house, the wooden building oc-
cuped by Levi Eastman was racked
and sh uttered as if under the fire of
an hundred gans, and the out-houses
on the premises totally demolished.
Mr.. Eastman was egnaged in perus-
ing newspaper when the whirlwind
struck his home, and was thrown vio'
lently from his chair and against 4
partition, while his wife was thrust
through hole in the west end and
upon the ground outside, though fort
unately escaping serious injuries MIR
Eastman had made all arrangements
for contemplated overland trip to
Iowa, and had intended to start on
Monday next. The disaster of last
evening has intertered with his plans,
however, and his entire outfit purchas
ed new fer the journey was
WRECKED BY THE wHIRLWIND.
Just above Mr.. Eastman's house was
that of John Looney, which was lifted
from its foundation, carried. 100 feet,
and dashed to pieces. Mrs. Looney,
who was washing dishes, was carried
with the house, and was subsequently
found in the debris, every bone in
her body broken, and almost mashed
flat.
On the eastern outskirts of the vii
lage, and in a path from thirty to for
ty feet wide, houses, barns, shops, out
buildings, trees, fences, etc, we're
scooped up and scattered into num-
berless places, leaving great swath
Of decentralization, involving loss of
thousands upon thousands of dollars,
and sorrow which cannot be comput-
ed.
The large and handsome
RESIDENCE OF EDWARD THOMPSON
is utterly ruined. The inmates were
all assembled in the sitting room at
the time, and without an instants S
warning the timber came crashing
through upon them from every side.
Mr.. Frank Thompson was in a room
in the second story, and was thrown
to the ground in the yard outside, sus-
tanning a bad cut on the head and Sc
rious bruises on the right arm. Miss
Dora Thompson, sister OF the last
named gentleman, was buried in the
ruins, from which she was extricated
by her brother, who, regardless Of his
own injuries, heroically saved the life
of the little girl. Shortly after she
was extricated the whole mass settled
and would have crashed her but for
the courage Of her brother.
j. Jackson's house was then dispos-
ed of and not Il plank or stone left to
tell where it stood. Mr.. Jackson's 5
son, aged IA years. was killed instant
ly. and Mrs. Jackson seriously injured
by falling timbers A pair of horses
in DR.. Kitloe's barn were
LIFTED 60 FEET INTO THE AIR
and then shot off in tangent 20 rods,
when they fell bleeding and dead.
They were standing side by side in
the barn, ana when the fell they were
only 10 feet apart and still occupying
the same relative positions, the nigh
horse Oh the nigh side, and the off
horse on the off side. As they spun
in the air, spectators forgot all fear OF
danger in watching the whirling hor.
ses, whose shrieks could be heard
above the yell and roar of the hurri
cane,
From DR.. Kitloe's, the whirlwind
travelled due east, passing over the
cemetery, damaging large number
of slabs and monuments, and covering
the mounds with boards, limbs, pieces
of furniture, and clothing. On it
went, bent upon its mission of death
and destruction, until reaching the
residence of Thomas Allen, which 1t
LIFTED AS If 1T WERE A FEATHER,
and, carr. ing 1t short distance, dash
ed it in pieces, killing Mr.. Allen and