The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-06-13

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a few feet, was leveled TO its foundation
by the court house, from which a por
ton of the roof was taken and all tn,
chimneys cleaned, the towering belfr,
being left intact Again, by the entire
escape of the fine two story residence
north of the post-ofiice, which escaped
almost without injury, either TO itself OF
the beautiful ground in which it is To-
Gated, aud lastly, beyond the " old Gem.
etery," where it crossed the road anc
went around Roterside's place, and
4 again returned to the road a few yards
/ beyond. II followed the line of shops
and the slope of the hill that runs
towards the valley east of Thornton Az
enue, only crossing that street with its
jagged edges; and in no instance going
/ fiitY yards beyond TO work excessive
damage, and the citizens believe it was
attracted along that line by the electric
elements, which were there contained
in larger quantities than in any other
part of the city. Every one of these es-
tabIishmentsT were leveled with
the ground. In support OF this
+ Emcrnc THEoRY 9 r1rE
is the fact that ont of the wreck of the
wagon shops and from the ruins Of
many carriages and buggies throughout
the city, the country is strewn with
fragments Of vehicles, and parts of them
are found miles away. In most in
stances the iron work is broken or
twisted, the spokes have been stripped
from the wheels and the tires bursted
asunder. Sewing machines were in
yariably broken into frsglRents,1 and
agricultural implements appeared to
have had special attractions for cyclonic
fellowship. A gentleman who was
picked Up and whirled in the cyclone,
says he was at work in the yard, and
that his attention was first attracted by
the noise made by the approaching
cloud. He looked toward it and saw it
coming with a roaring noise that was
almost deafening. He had time to run
from before it, but could not; he stood
petrifed and in speeches. astonish~
ment. 1t lifted building after building
into the air, and appeared to throw the
fragments aside in a sportive, playful
manner, but with an awful grandeur
that appalled, Einl-tO the heart Soon
he was caught in its grasp, raised from
the ground and 2 Or-
WHIRLED AROUND LIKE A SPINDLE
in the loom, and finally dropped or
hurled against a tree, over a hundred
yards distant, to which he clung with a
tenacity Of despair until several minutes
after the danger had passed He was
bruised all over, and cov erred from head
to foot with q coating of drab-colored
mud, the same asthat 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. He opened the
door and called her TO come away.
90 Not until I've shut the parlor win
dows. Tom, come aud help me-" 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 |
attn, was shot dead at his post in the
bank at that place when it was raided |
1y robbers, and now his wife dies by ac.
,ident, and Tom Casey stands alone.
Truly his is
SAD AND FATAL CHAPTER.
There were times IN which the mon
tier WAS as gentle as lamb. In one of |
he streets it picked up little colored |
Joy 8 or years old and carried him
hundred or more yards, and then gently |
deposited him in the midst OF mud
puddle, aud the surprised youth was ex-
ricated finally without q scratch. II |
carried every article Of furniture out OF |
/ room in the Shaw House after taking |
IF the roof, and left hanging on the
walls q lady's g shutdown" We have
already written that it swept away
dwellings, and left the shrubs and flowers
u the doorSides to bloom as before. 1t
vsls-a fear and wonder moving over the
ace of the earth, and man can test
lis own weakness by its strength. G.
u HH IN MINOR INCIDENTS
he passage of the cyclone was rich.
ma tree near the old cemetery piece
# glass was driven nearly four inches.
twas an by 10 sheet, and had struck
It the corner. The bell. of the Presby-
erian church, nearly a ton in weight,
Vas whirled so feet from the church
Oundation and cast unbroken into the
treet, and portion of an arched altar
" window ornament that had graced |
he inside of the edifce, and ON which
he name Of the Lord was painted in
tilt letters, was laid down beyond the
shaw House. Arabbit was driven head
irst into an old stump and so tightly |
Vedged 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
# the forest with down, after stripping |
hem of leaves.