The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-30

and In many instances kcouId not beswashed
or scraped on. IL was - though the victim
had been mashed into an ash-plt and rolled
about under tremendous pressure. can think
Of no other simile that viii convey my idea Of
how they Looked.
few cases, but only few. The shreds that
were left clinging to the forms had to be cut
away, however. That was the only way 1t
could be- done. Every single person brought
To the mOrgue was mutilated In shocking
manner. Forms wero sometimes hammered
and beaten into shapeless masses. Spines
were driven into the skull protruding through
the top OF the head backs were broken, or
.e'escoped skulls crushed like egg-shells; eyes
hanging down the cheeks arms and legs
torn from the bodies and hanging, disjointed,
by shreds OF flesh entralls protruding from
frightful gaps and vitals scooped out and do
tached entirely from the bodies. The picture
was sickening. 1t took me two hours to lay out
the mutilated remains of what had once been
beautiful young girl. Her head had been
crushed down into her trunk and could only he
extricated by cutting away the flesh in man.
ner that seemed almost barbarous. There was
only one way of doing it, however. pray God
may never be called upon to see another such
sight"
Astonishing stories Of the freaks Of
the tempest are told, and I am IN .
fit frame Of mind to believe almost anything
after having gone over the track Of the cyclone
for dozen or more miles, and seen with my
own eyes the havoc wrought Who has not
heard OF the wind blowing hard enough to take
the hair from a dogs back? That is one OF
the things never believed Neither could quite
swallow the statement that ont In Nebraska the
inhabitants have to wall up their wells To keep
the hurricanes from blowing out the holes The
story about chickens having been denuded OF
feathers il scarcely less difficult TO believe than
the dog story yet to-day there is an OLE uen
and brood OF chickens i'll Grnnell literally
slipped by the wind Of every feather, and as
clean as the day they broke through the shell
Of the egg that gave them life, and L am told
that focks Of prairie chickens have been seen
plucked In similar way.
In Malcolm a stable belonging 20 BradbrooK,
a noted sportsman, was lifted from the ground,
transported over the tops OF grove of trees,
and landed at the foot OF bill al eighth OF
mile away, and none of the three horses N the
barn were killed. or even seriously injured.
One OF the animals was thrown through all
open door, alghting fright side up, with care"
in the mud.
On three OF the four corners of the two main
streets in Malcolm are tiimsy frame buildings,
and Oh the remaining corner stood strong
two-story brick block. The cyclone spared the
wooden buildings, and knocked the BRICK struct-
ure into flinders. Up the street, half block,
was located three-s oIy iron and brick build
ing owned by j. III. Duifus. 1t was crushed like
smell, ana pieces Ol Tue corrugated HOu
veneering blown 10 the outskirts OF the town.
A farmer living seven miles away brought III
piece OF Duffus iron, weighing several pounds,
it having been dropped in a field near hls farm
house.
one-armed student jumped from the third
story OF the brick dormitory and was carried o
considerable way before no struck the ground,
without scratch. The student Immediately
ran down town and ranr the alarm bell.
Mud and dirt were blown into the sides OF
buildings still standing with such force that
the dlshgur,ng botches cannot be removed.
Gravel not spiaShed 10 against the build
ings, but driven in, as though discharged from
u mortar.
saw a delicate nantel ornament taken I'M
injured from mass of mortar and other rub
bish in Grlnnell, and within twenty feet OF the
place was dark spot showing where young
child had been driven into the earth and
crushed out of shape
\ large house, owned by Lucius Sanders, in
Grinnell. was lifted clear of the cellar, in which
were concealed ten persons, and hurled upon
the ground $50 feet distant while barn Al the
rear OF the same lot was pitched the same dis
lance in an exactly opposi Q direction.
young woman living less than block from
the Sanders residence was drawn through her
bedroom window on the second floor, and
gently waited sixty yards away and deposited
softly on the ground unpurt. Other members
OF the same household were treated with
equally dol.cat" consideration. having been
blown to the same place without the indlctiop
OF serious injury.