The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-06-21

twisted, the spokes have been stripped
from the wheels and the tires bursfcd
asundcr. Sewing machines were in.
yariably broken into fragments, and
agricultural implements appeared 10
have had special attractions for cyclonic
fellowship A gentleman who was
picked up and whirled in the cyclone.
says he was az work in the yard, and
that his attention was first attracted by
the noise made by the approaching
cloud. He looked toward il and saw il
coming with roaring noise that was
almost deafening. lie had time TO run
from before IL, but could not; he stood
petriiied and in speechless astonish-
ment. II lifted building after building
into the air, and appeared to throw the
fragments aside IN sportive, playful
manner, but with an awful grandeur
that appalled, him to the heart. Soon
he was caught in its grasp, raised from
the ground and
WHITFIELD AROUND LIKE A SPINDLE
in the loom, and finally dropped or
hurled against tree, over hundred
yards distant, 10 which he clung with
tenacity Of despair until several minutes
after the danger had passed. lie was
bruised all over, and covered from head
70 foot with coating of drab-colored
mud, the same as that which has paint
ed every object in its track. Mr. Thorn
as Casey, City Marshal of Richmond,
saw the danger approaching and ran
home to warn his wife. lie opened the
door and called her 10 come away.
{" Not until I've shut the parlor win
dows. Tom, come and help me.r At
that instant the house was carried away,
Mr.. Casey fell into the street, tainted
away, and a few minutes
later his wife was taken from the ruins
dead. A strange fatality appears To
have followed Mr.. Casey and his wife's
families through life. His father-in-law
died from the effects of having his feet
frozen off; his father and brother were
shot to death during the war; the
brother Of his wife, Mr.. Sheets, Of Gal
latin, was shot dead at his post in The
bank at that place when it was raided
by robbers,a and now his wife dies By &C
cident, and Tom Casey stands alone.
Truly his is
SAD AND FATAL CHAPTER.
There were times in which the mon
ster was rs gentle as a lamb. In one of
the streets il picked up little c0lored
boy s or 6 years old and carried him =
hundred or more yards, and then gently
deposited him in the midst of mud
puddle, and the surprised youth was ex-
treated finally without scratch. II
carried every article Of furniture out of
q room in the Shaw House after taking
off the roof, and left hanging on the
walls lady's sundown.- We have
already written that it swept away
dwellings, and left the shrubs and flowers
It the doorsides to bloom as before. II
was fear and wonder moving over the
lace Of the earth, and man can test
ais own weakness by its strength.
IN MINOR INCIDENTS
he passage of the cyclone was rich.
IN tree near the old cemetery piece
# glass was driven nearly four inches.
{ was an 8 by 10 sheet, and had struck
i the corner. The bell of the Presby-
erian church, nearly ton in weight,
vas whirled 80 feet from the church
and cast unbroken into the
treet, and portion of an arched altar
II window ornament that had graced
he inside Of the ediiice, and on which
he name Of the Lord was painted in
.ilt letters, was laid down beyond the
shaw House. A rabbit was driven head
irst into an old stump and so tightly
gedged that it could not be pulled out.
md feathers out of innumerable feather
'eds had been driven quill first into the
ark Of the trees, clothing the monarchs
4 the forest with down, after stripping
hem Of leaves.