Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-03
IN A CYCLONE TRACK
A Lady's Graphic Account Of Her
Experiences.
A MARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
Tho Fierce Wind Tears Up Trees, De-
molishes Houses and Devastates
the Country.

MIS- a'eosoos 49,, IN. o,,y
lives III 'he oec""u ""'s
was, until two years ago, lres'ucn' "
Pleasant Hill, Jasper county, Missis'
.,n,, psulding. the county seat u
Pr ,s.... and
jasper, Ia the pos'onnce a'u,o'' "
Pleasant Hill, Just outside the 'o"n'
ia the name OF a plantation OF betwee n
,,.,.. .nd four buudreI acres
."'e 80 A., T,,L., Tbere
owned oy MATS i"Sse"
were on the place, when sue e"'si"'eu
TO Utah, nine houses, besises u large
h,,, co,.o, bouses. corn cribs, etc.
-, 49,. .,.,,,,,.. ,y.,a nj wood.
hho' 'ne'o euu''"e' ~,
the chief building material IN 'n"'
section OF country. In the yard OF the
family dw,lIins there were quite q
-. =, 80. "a. aud ,,sar treea
nu'no'' VI "uso o'H ""u 80.
that have stoou there more thhn ten'
Grafton. A short distance from the
h,,ss was m beautiful grove Of large
~ 49,, -, Nta,hoaist
"eos' Ne'. W ''o.' a,
ohurch. All arounu inc county
heavily timberet, M Is generally the
case tbrou,hout the Southern Statee.
This brief description OF the place will
enab,s IN, reader 10 obtain n better
eonception of III. occurrence narrated
An IN ia article.
For many yenrs past the home
Of Mrs. Tucker, even before
she rcoeiyed the GOSPEL, ni.
forded |. hospitable shelter 10 the
Elders travelling In that mart Of the
south. Hors was the last house the
late Alma i. Richards stoppcd ut DO.
fore ms left Tor Meridian, near which
ulace his was murdered, Mrs. Tucker
thou hi n u nsafe Tor him to start on
his Journey that day, ms there had been
"reunionU in that part, but he
believed there was no serious danger.
When bs was missed, her family
offered $500 reward for the discovery
ofhIs mu rderera and Il was 10 o le OF her
sons that tbo negro porter at a Nerd.
ian hotel said thai II he know who
Killed the Mormon he would not
Tell for a thousand dollar. At
the same tins tho negro had
on Elder Richards, shirt and had
posssssion Of his books. The people
there believed that, while the negro
may not hay. had hand in ths
murder. he knew nil about 1t and who
were the perpetrators,
The only ons OF Mts, Tucher,s family
now At pleasant HIN IL hor daughter
Fannie. who Ia widow. She IL not
member OF the Church, but IL kind aud
hospitable 10 the missionaries. The
suhjoIned letter was written by her
from Paulding, under date OF April 20.
Three weeks previous to that time her
brother, the last ono OF the family In
the Church remaining at Pleasant II III,
emigrated 10 Arizona. Three weeks
prior 10 his departure a terrific cy.
clone swept Though tho country i've
miles east Of Pauldiug, and like the
later one, It's fatal aud destructive el-
fects were noted In tho dispatches at
the time, A devastating storm OF like
character also swept through last fall,
near Meridian, between thirty anu
forty miles northeast OF Padding,
passing in Its track directly over thv
place where Elder Richards was muir.
dered and his body exhumed. and
laying everything waste.
The letter written by Mrs. Tuoksr,s
her experience IN the cyclone of tho
18TH uit.. IA ma follovs.
IL Ia with great main that I shall try
"A
Won nj t6e great desiuIctInn that came
iast night, We had the greatest
cyclone that has ever ttruck this
country, Everything on earth that /
hnye IN blown 10 atoms. Not n single
house stands on the place. aud every
tree in tbe ward ia torn 10 shr,ds Mi
n single trre of apy d.scriptIon stands
on the place. The m.re was kiIled.
and ope of the milch COWS wa, blown
into nm. of these largo yu,IIss b,hind
the gard.n and kilied. Nat u .Inyla
rail on tie plantation IIss IN its MACS.
There n moi n ire, standiuu belnw IN,
Kitchen in the grove tint was there.
nor anv WHARF nbnut Ths a weilin,
ho,,se 4. b,nw nil 10 n,ecss.
Tho storm cam. about sundown.
w. wars eatinv ,unnor. ms nsgro
Inv WIN lives with ma and soma nj
the children had COT through
and ind lsft ths tahIe.
was not looking for n storm
until heard the doors slamminp irom
the force OF the wind. / cauy6t ihe
two smalIer children. and told ths
others 10 nun with me ", mad In,
,ot into the b,V nom whom Tho litcne,,
was torn 10 atoms nv tbe wind Thcn
lie bic house started. 4 triad 10 ge,
into tbe bin room next 10 the well
when the wbole and Of n blow do,vn
NV arm wa. cauvnt in The door ana i
coulu moi moye a NEG.
The chiIdrsn wer. in thu big finn,
room I had inst mad. mn a 4, "a, tn.,.
'rhs ch,,nn.v ysas hiowp sown an.
tho f,,a sca,,,raa ali oy., ~. 80,