The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-11-24
TURNED TO STONE.
\ Strange Story from Claiborne
County, Tennessee.
Mig Green Cloud Passes Over tho Lick
Sk.llrt Country and l'etr!0cs IIoxs se
Wei ~ Field OF Corn - The;
Yarn Of tho Season.

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Tho people in the eastern portion Of
Claiborne County, Tonn., arc excited
ovcr 4 remarkable occurrence which
took place thcro not long ago. It is ono
Of the most marvellous occurrences Gtcr
heard of, and it will prove 20 be prob
lem over which scientific minds may
wrcstlc for somo time to como.
Edgar Ramsey is q farmer who lives
livc miles from Lick Skillet. lie ar
rived in Middlcsboro recently. Tho story
no told would not Ind believers at first,
but since then it has been proven that
he has told nothing but the truth. His
statement is thus reported by Il corrc-
spondent of tho St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat:
Last Sunday afternoon noticed
what appeared to be large green-look-
ing cloud coming from westerly dircc-
ton toward my house. It was long
distance OF. and the rain was falling
heavily. Shortly aftcrward it became
:cry cold, in fact 50 cold that won't in
loors, lit q big fire and put on a big
,,cavy coat. When Icauac out again tho
zig green cloud was almost over tho
rouse, and tho air WAS as cold as OH a
.Sintcr lay. The winl how}ed and tho
: ,ail fell in stones as big as eggs All
Shis last twenty minutes. and then tho
ky cleared up and felt moro like my
self again.
".in hour after was sitting with my
wife near the aro when heard \ horse
Galloping at full speed. and when went
out to sec who it was there stood Ja1o
Warren, ncighbor farmer who lives
about c roilc and quarter from mo. lie
vas as palc rs ghost and was trembling
Ill over. 1t took him over ten minutes
10 commence to tell me what he had to
.;y, and as he was talking thought ho
las crazy.
lie stated that big green cloud had
ONO over his place, and that something
;hich looked like balls Of fire had fallen
III around his house. lie lad five
.cres of corn growing in q field next to
.ho house. Aftcr the storm had cleared
way ho went to SOC what damage had
oeon done. lie saw that some corn had
been blown down, and, entering the
deld, he found every stalk turned to
stone. There wero two tino hogs in the
.icld, and they, too, wcrc pct-i!icd and
standing thcrc as If cut out Of solid rock.
Mysclf and wife thought tho man was
:aving mad, but induced him to remain
over till morning, when we promised tc
visit his place with him. That we did,
and what we saw will be remem'
bcrcd SO long as both 1.-Two. There was
Tho corn blown down, but every stalk ot
it w. petri&led. It was not as hard as
:;:.anito, but it appeared to be moro like
uftstonc. took my knife and cut it,and
it became powder. The cars were very
hard, and they could not be broken with
the hand. The leaves were brittle. and
and il you struck them they would breal,
;iko glass. Tho hogs were there, too
looking natural enough, but thoy were
as hard a. stone."
George E. Henry, OF this city, Johr
Rogers, Captain John D. Hull, cx-dop
uty marshal, and several others rode
over the mountains into Tennessee *
see for themselves if tho things were
really there as represented. Captain
HUH, cx-Unttcd States deputy marshal
makes tho following statement:
I'VE went over this morning.
doubted tho story on starting, but
thought I'd try it, anyhow. Wo fount
Warren's farm about seven miles from
the Gap, and there, sure enough, wa.
Tho corn-field completely petrifed. Tht
! stalks were somewhat blown down, bu,
they seemed completely turned to stone
Tho two hogs were there also, and they
looked like they were carved out 0,
rock. 1t was the strangest sight evel
saw and can't begin to describe the
thing. There were a number of mer
guarding the field with Wincheste,
rifles and. they wouldn't lot US go int
it. They only let US go to tho fence
We could touch some of tho corn stalk.
and could see the hogs, but. the men re
fused positively to let US go any furthe,
than the fence. Tho women wouldn',
say why they would not let people q
into the field, but presume they wers
afraid people would break the corr
stalks to pieces. There was" quite,
crowd there looking at tho thing, ane
every one was thoroughly dumfoundet
with what they saw. ~: ~,-~-
This statement is >vouched for by
number of others, and naturally there
considerable excitement. -
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