Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-02

mid way between two large barns. That
on the south WAS left standing, the one
on the north heap of ruins. OF the house,
not splinter Is left on the spot 1t once
occupied. Il is swept clean. and even .
part of the cellar wall 10 torn down.
Fragments of the house and furniture
are scattered over the country east for
miles. In the large fields near. pieces of
studding, jois.s, stills, weather boarding.
bits of broken dishes, fragments of fur
niture, crooks. kettles aud all the many
things that go to make up house and
/ furnish it are found. A bed tick was
| found five miles away, and . pillow
known to belong to this family was
| found at Lancaster, seven miles of. A
number of spple-trets were near the
house. These are pulled out by the roots,
not broken OF and the bark 10 peeled off
| as though they had been dragged on the
ground q great distance, but these trees
were not carried away. Many of them
were dropped down near where they
stood. In the garden the vegetables are
riddled, probably by hail. OF two long
fences on each side of lane, running up to
the house from the east, not one rail lays
on top Of another and nearly all were
carried away. Some of them are stand
ing upright in the fields, driven in like
stakes by the force of the wind. A num-
her of chickens had their heAds nearly
wrung off by the whirlwind. Otherwise
their bodies were not mangled. The
pump was taken out of the we'll and car
ried no one knows where. An Excelsior
reaper WAS carried about 800 feet and
dropped; picked up again and carried
about twenty feet further. 1t is very
much broken up. A wheel on the sew
ing machine was broken into and the
halves found one half mile apart. A
wagon was torn to pieces. About one
third of tire, more than one inch wide
and nearly. il not quite, quarter of An
inch thick, was picked up nearly . quar-
ly in two and twisted out of all resemb
lance to what it once wac.
FURTHER DAMAGE.
Directly east of the CrUft place the
timber is utterly destroyed-every tree 10
down. This is in low ground. The next
place the storm struck with full force
was the Mennonite church, about . half
mile northeast, which it utterly destroy
church was moved bodily about twelve
feet, and then crushed to pieces. There
is a cemetery here. Nearly all the tomb
stones arb broken off. Some of the
bases, two and three feet square, were
lifted out Of the ground.
All the way to Lancaster barns were
torn and houses unroofed. Lancaster
was terribly shaken up, but no one was
killed, strange as it may seem. Twenty
houses were more or less injured, and per-
hsps as many barns.
The storm extended into Owen county,
where it caused considerable loss
Clarkson Davis.
Newcastle Mercury: The funeral of
Clsrkson Davis was the most largely at
tended of any we ever witnessed at Spice |
land. The family aud immediate friends |
took leave Of the remains at the residence,
when the corpse was borne to the church |
whore, for an hour, it was viewed By |
many sorrowing friends, there being |
present several hundred more than could |
ind standing room within the buildingjl
1t one time. By request no formal SER
vices were had. At the grave Q few
Estes. and fsyorite poem, "He giveth
mis- loved ones rest" was read by Prof.
Newliu, when the body was lowered to
its last resting place and silently covered
over. After which most of the assembly |
returned to the church to witness or par
ticIpate Ia memorial exercises which had
been announced. j. p. Bogue presided
or directed the exercises. Prof. Estes
read the biographical sketch which sp-
pears elsew President Moore and
Allen Jay, of Esrlham, briefly and
poin.edly addressed the audience and
bore loving testimony to the worth of
heir friend, as did also Prof. Newlin.
Portions of appropriate poems were also
given by M. A. White. Lindlev Johnson,
]. p. Bogue and few other co lAborers
Jiarkson Davis success in teaching did
lot arise so much from his scholarly at
ailments as from natural aptness to
each. He begot in the
young minds around him
thirst for knowledge. 1t may, perhaps.
be said that he knew moro of men than
,t books. There was . practical turn
about him; in short, he was more q man
IF the world than was, perhaps, general
y known. He was one of the most sue
,essful governors and organizers in the
but he governed mainly through
he force of his moral character and
worth. He was Christian and . Friend,
put he was broad and liberal in his views
md cared mucn more, We tnlnk, 1Of IN
ward disposition of the heart and out
ward conduct of life than for theologi-
al notions or formulas. He had
breadth of thought which recognized in
Ill men brotherhood through
owe of the good and true,
.ather than an heirship in total depravi-
y. With more and warmer friends than
almost We have ever known, he vas not
without detrsctors. who long ago would
rave pulled him down because of some
cal or imaginary failure to appreciate
points Of faith too fine for human sight
md never understood in heavenly but
'or the Incompatible hold his noble lifA
nd example gave him over the minds
md hearts around him. He was tender,
gentle and unassuming; and yet clothed
With conscious rectitude of purpose that
mparts greater dignity of character than
lay amount of dependence upon another
AN. With feeble health he for yean had
% husband it with nicely and care that
would almost seem . burthen of itself,
md yet he chung to life - great and
high duty. This was doubtless an in
,finck "a we'll A the feanit of convictiona |