Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-11-22
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"A Strange Story from Claiborne
County. Tennessee.
"A Mig Green Cloud Passcs Over tho Lick
Skillet Country nnd Petr!oes Hogs as
Well rs n FIcid or Corn Tho
l. Yarn OF tho Season.

Tho people in tho eastern portion OF
CRiborno County. Tenn, arc excited
over remarkable occurrence which
took place thcro not long ago. 1t is enc
of tho r;ost marvellous occurrences over
heard Of and IT. will provo to bc q prob
lcm over which scientific minds may
wrestlo for somc timo to como.
Edgar Ramsey is q farmer who lives
1ivc miles from Lick Skillet. Ilo ar
rived in Middlcsboro recently. Tho story
no told would not flnd believers ut Il rst,
but since then it has been proven that
hc has told nothing but tho truth. His
abatement Is thus reported by corrc-
apondcn+ OF tho st. Louis Globc- Demo
crat:
Last Sunday afternoon I noticed
what appeared to lie largo green look
ing cloud coming from a westerly direc-
I IN toward my house. It was long
distance OF and tho rain was falling
heavily Shortly aftcrward it became
worry cold. in fact SO cold that I went in
doors, lit q big fro and put on big
heavy coat. When camo out again tho
big groom cloud was almost over tho
house, and tho air was as cold as on a
winter dav. Tho wind howlcd and tho
hail foil in stones as big as eggs. All
this lasted twenty minutes. and then tho
SKY cleared up and folt moro like ny
self again.
AN hou- after was sitting with my
vito near tho Gro when heard horse
galloping at full speed. and when went
out to SEQ who 1t was there stood jake
Warren: nciGhbcr farmer who lives
about 4 mile and quarter from mo. Hc
was as palo "a ghost and was trembling
nil over. It took him over ten minutes
to commence to tell mo what ho had to
say. and as he was talking thought he
vas crazy.
"uc Stated that big green cloud had
como over his place. and that Something
which looked like balls Of fro had fallen
all around his house. lie had five
acres Of corn growing in i)ell next to
tho house. After tho Storm bad cleared
AWAY no went to SEQ what damage had
bccn donc. Ito saw that somc corn had
Eeen blown down. and. entering tho
field. no found every stalk turned TO
stono. Thcro wcro two Emo hogs in the
field. and they. too. wcro pctriflcd and
standing there as If cut out Of solid rock
Myself and vito thought tho man was
"vor till morning. when wc promised TO
visit his place with him. That we did,
ard what wo saw will be- rcmcm-
Jared so Tong as both 1.-Two. Thcro was
tho corn blown down, but every stalk of
g. was pctriflcd. II was not az hard as
granite. but it appeared to be- moro like
soft etono. took my knife and cut 1t, and
" became powder. Tho cars woro very
hard. and they could not be broken With
The hand. The leaves werc brittle. and
mud IL you struck them they would break
'iko glass. Tho hogs wore there. TOO
looking natural enough. hut they wore
nc had "a stonc."
George L Henry. OF this city. John
Rogers Captain John D. Hull. cx-dcp.
utv marshal, and several others rodc
oyer tho mountains into Tennessee ia
see for themselves IL tho things wcrc
really tboro rs represented. CAPTAIN
iul'. OK United States deputy marshal,
makes tho following statement:
"No went over this morning. ]
DOUBTED tho story on starting. but
thought I'd try 1t. anyhow Wo found
Warrcns farm about seven miles from
tho Cap. and thcro, suro enough, was
mo corn-uciu completely pctriflcd. The
stalks wcro somewhat blown down. but
thcv seemed completely turned to stono
Tho two hogs wcro thoro also, and thoy
looked liEo they wcro carved out of
rock. IT was tho strongest sight over
saw and / cant begin TO describe tho
thing. There wcro q number of mon
guarding tho field with Winchester
rifles and they wouldn't let US no into
II. They only Let us go to tho fenco.
we could touch somo Of tho corn stalks
and could 500 tho hogs. but tho men ro.
Iuaca positively TO lot us go any further
than tho fonco., Tho women wou1dn.L
say why they would not lot pcoplo RIO
into tho field. but presume thew wepo
afraid people would break tho corn
stalks to piocos There was quito n
crowd thoro looking Mt tho thing and
every ono VIVA thOrtnrblv 0np,,>,.o Il