New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-13
THE FREIKS or 4 CYCLONE.
UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF FARMER MEAD.
MS WIFE SAVED FROM HE RrlNS OF Ills HOUSE
Ms NIGnBORs BURIED ~ his RARN-A TER
RIBTF wiND.

Ms NfIGnBORs - .EiED ~ HIS BARN-A TER
RIBfF VIVID.
RCnBrRG, y, July H. When the cyclone
that passed over this portioh Acgany County few
days ago struck the farm Of Aloulo Mead, on the west
Notch road in the town Of Wrt. Mrs Mead prcpir
| ing Goldfish for cooking. tin dppcr stood on
the table AMI nail In the wall hung "a
par Of o,crdls nlr Mead VIA standing
m his bari.iolr TALKING with Farmer Wlghtman
nolshhpt vino hsd driven into the barn with his Vile to
We until the shower they supposed wus coming up had
passed over suddenly lhr.r cin.a loud waning from
tncdncclion of outhwcsI lln. and Farmer Mead saw
inst "a et,tt Of largo naples coming toward thr barn
and house, earned along by what seemed to
be funnel shaped cloud ~ black
nmnlo half ar,nud htor nearly all
tho tcc4 In Neada orchard bad mingled win tho nylng
maple grove sn1 All wete rushing along AT higbtfpl
ysiocitY
Farmer Mead a,,tod &, ,in 10 tho hoiao 10 warn bla
vile Ito wa caught up hy tho whltIms ui7a and
tiod with II hundred yards aud doppslio1 IN rye n,ii
simultaneously tho house ana barn Wrtn huad
~ nnd rutiad along Ia crushing haHmoAtA
with tho WhlrNnd, Tho passing NJ Tho oyol0no waa
moineutiiy mol moro than n,o aouonds clapsod from
the tins u wa, nr-t sweeping down ffoln south
west il by Farmer Mead uuu II had disappeared IA tho
northeast. Mrad unlnJursd, hnd ~ soon
liz could recover himself no toward the
,nns of his house expecting had bis wife crushed 10
Lcau borne away. Only small portion oi the hotso
Mis- Mead was in the cellar where she had hurried at
the agprOach OF the hrrcans aud was unlnurcd Mead
found Farmer Wlshtman and his Wlfe imprisoned hy
heavy tmbrrs III The barn. 4 pile OF hay had caught
the timbers al end, aud prevented them falling with
full weight the farmer and his vile. Iboy we're both
held nrmy beneath The lnbcrs, however and Mrs Wight
man badly hut. To lin one end OF the timbrrs To-
day Farmer Mead says lac would require the ana oi at
least two men, bat that day he raised them
alone, and threw the ends mp on a beam four
iect hgh 1nd Rescued his ughbors from their perous
situation How he managed 10 handle tnC heavy lnDsrs
he A. uuab to explain
ENef! nth hhd piece OF furniture carried out OF
Farmer Me~ls house. Fragments OF them have been
lOunu Aopg t course Of tn cyclone far four miles
away On wednesday parties searching Ia tie
woods iOi missing cattle, three miles from Meals farm.
found h"hE!u~ IL Tree goldfish and pair Oyer4ll5,
and lying on Ile ground beneath the Tree WAS tin Gp
per Ihesc nave been Undermined ihc fish Mr-. Mead
rparng when the Cyc came along the dlpper
that stood Oh te tno aud the .armcnt that hung on The
wall They are the Only articles that Farmer Mead has
recovered intact
The three children Of stewart Shncbarger were payng
In The yard when The cyclone appeared After The Storm
had passed search made Tor them. .eti
carried hundred feet aad thrown Against .rn.J
wire fence where they found entanged win mir
-Clotiu. uoar, ala torn iruu chem aud th1r Il ,L b.dy
llcerdtrd b. The sharp bdrb- ~ the iunce.