Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-06-05
CYCLONES AS is CYCLONES.
ANDY Bridger Gives Some Pointers in Re-
gard to Cyclones.
Correspondence of the Louisville Times.

correspondence OF Ine LOUISVILLE Times.
CRoPsvILLE, ALA, May IS.
Me and my old lady has been reading
in the Curier -Jurnal about the way the
Ciclones has been tearing up the coun-
try and a killing men women and chill
dren up in your country and telling
what different people sed about as to
how they done and me and my wife
don't think they was Ciclones or if
they wus the fellows want there or did
not know what Clclone wus. They
must have bin just sorter storms and es
my old lady sed we owed it to the peo-
pie to tell what we have seed and herd
SO if they saw one OF um coming they
mought know what it wus and what to
do most generally. We thought we
orter write yu and ef yu want TO put it
in your paper excusin OF mistakes yu
can do it.
Now down in our country ciclones is
ciclones and how they looked and what
they did kin be proved if yu don't be-
heve it. The furst thing they do is to
tear down the niger churches if there
are any in the deestrict. The nigers
says they don't SHOW cum the lord
has more spite agin the cullud people
than the white and ses why don't they
tare down sum of the white churches
too but the white people tells them to
prey less and brace up more which in
general makes them mad. one ciclone
TUX the shingles often a House & druv
one of them by the sharp Immediately
through a big cedar telegram pole so
one end of the shingle wus on one side
OF the pole and the other end on the
other side and it want much ciclone
either least wise it wus down be-
low thar. Ii yu don't believe it you go
to the Smithvil institution at Washing.
ton, they has the pole and the shingle.
The Same ciclone cum down in ant
Melviny's back yard and got inside her
big wash pot and turned that pot bod
asinely inside out & it looked like the
same pot only the legs wus in the in the
inside. If yu don't believe it go down
thar and see the pot ornless somebody
hes tuck 1t to the same place al Wash
ington. The same cielone cum down
in old man Jones back yard and go
right down in his we'll and if it didn t
twist the inside up the well ontil yu
could not let the bucket down and it
look like big augur. Ii yu don't be-
lieye it go down thar and Sc the well
onless it has caved in. The same ci-
clone TUX big blazed old mule out OF
the stable without teching the door &
lef him in the top Of big oak tree
where he war found eating up the
leaves. If yu don't believe it AK the
mule if he are alive. Some OF the pa
pers tells about Fishes and birds falling
from the clouds & | can't understand
it. This is how it cum about. A ci-
clone ketched up all the water out OF
one of our Ponds & TUX the fish and
when it got tired Of them draped them
to the yerth. The Cincinnaty papers
sed the birds which were drapped thar
was killed by the lectric lights, but my
old lady think a ciclone had them and
when it cum over cincinaty the smell
from below was so bad it killed the ci-
clone and birds too which prove that
woman has reeson fur everything. es
fur as the looks of ciclones they is differ
ent but they tare up all the same. sum
looks like wheel and sum is bigger al
one end than the other. Ef me and
my old lady heres of another one cum
ing our way we will telegram for yu &
eff yu hav got any one yu are tired o
you can send him down & we will give
you squar chance at the ciclone.
yr til deth
Nrrx-