The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-03
CAPERS OF A GEORGIA STORM.
A Sort Of Kindly Carefulness Character
lied All Its Franks.

Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston,
the writer of Southern plantation
sketches, tells some wonderful stories
about Georgia weather. He admits
that he would not believe them himself
were it not for the unbounded faith in
everything Georgian in general, and his
personal knowledge and unlimited con
fidence in the veracity of the men who
told him the stories in particular.
81 heard them," he said, "while on
visit to my old home in Hancock
county, Georgia, some years ago, and
| know that they are true. We bad
big storm down there about ten years
ago-the folks called it hurricane
the weather men said it was tornado.
But, hurricane or tornado, it cut some
queer old capers. Colonel Humber,
over in Putnam county, saw the storm
coming up and knew ii was going to be
big one. There were number of
ladies at his house and, of course, his
first thought was for them, SO he got
them all safely in their rooms and went
down into the large hall which ran
through his house and shut the door.
Now, Colonel Humber is big man
weighs about 200 pounds. When he
got down stairs he found the storm was
blowing through his ha lway, and before
he knew what had happened it had
picked him up, carried hin out on HIS
avn and laid him down-nOt roughly,
but gently At the same time 1t took
heavy stone and brick chimney off
the house and laid it on top Of him to
keep him in place. 1t didn't throw the
chimney on him, but laid it down with
SO little force that only his leg was
broken In a moment or two another
gust came along, picked up the chimney
and carried it off, and Colonel Hum
Der crawled back into the house.
THAT same storm went lit e
further on TIL it came to a barn In
which were two horses, two mules and
1.-TWO COWS. These were in separate
compartments. With a whr the root
of the barn was taken off as clean as a
whistle and carried away and while the
stock was wondering what had hap
pened, section of the storm went II
the top Of that barn, lifted those h, rse,
and mules and COWS high up in the ell
and set them down again without hurt
ing one of them. But the queer par
of the proceeding was that when it hac
those animals in the air the tornado
changed their position SO that when i
set them on their feet the mules wert
where the cows had been, the COWS wert
in the horses apartments, and thu
horses were occupying the mules stalls
"But that storm hadn't finished cut
Ting up its capers. 1t struck hous'
in the same county and made its wa.
into lady's chamber A bureau wa
standing against the wall, having on i
a lot of such traps and trinkets as ladie
usually have-cosmetics, bottles and 81
on. A handbook with few laces in
lside was standing by its side. Tit
wind took that bureau, moved it to an
other part Of the room, but did no
disturb the handbook. 1t went into an
other lady's room, picked up trunl
filled with clothing, carried it out of ;
window, and waited it over into Han
cock county-my own county-and de
Iposited it in field forty miles ava,
from the house from which it had beer
taken. 1t was found there unbroker
the next day and returned to the owner
whose initials were stencilled on it
end | am glad, however, remarked
the genial Colonel, as he wiped hi
forehead, "that the storm did not carry
that trunk more than forty miles.
couldn't have believed another mile.
Georgia is great State" he con
tinued, "but even such storms as tina
do not occur often To prove tina
such queer things do happen, there i
a section of telegraph pole in tn,
museum of the State Unvers ty Thi
pole has light cypress single stickin!
through it, about half of it pr, jectin,
from each side. That shingle wa
licked up in storm and blown clea
through the telegraph pole and lief
sticking there.-BdltimOye SnR.