Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-02-01
oApeRs oF A STORM.


Animals ana Property Tossed About
with Care by cyclone.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnson,
The writer of Southern plantation
eketche- tells some wonderful stories
about Georgia weather. He admits
that he would not believe them him.
self were it not for his unboundod
faith in everything Georgian in gen.
eral and his per~ nal knowledge and
unlimited confidence in the veracity
of the men who told him the storie.
in particular.
al heard them, - he said to Balti
more sun reporter, while on a visit
to my old home in Hancock county,
Georgia, some years ago, and l know !
that they are true. We had big
storm down there about ten years
ago. The folks called it hurricane. |
the Weather man said it was tor.
nado. But hurricane or tornado, il |.
Humber, over in Putnam county, saw
the storm coming up and knew il
was going to be a 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 into their rooms and
went down into the large hall which
ran through his house, to shut the
door Now, Colonel Humbe is
| big man weighs 2)0 pounds, When
he got downstairs he found the
storm was blowing through his hall.
way, and before he knew what had
hapFeped it had picked him up and
carried him out ON his lawn and laid
him down, not roughly, but gently.
Eat the same time it 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 n moment or two
another gust came along, picked up
the chimney and carried it Off, and
Colonel Humber crawled back into
the house.
THAT same storm went little
further on, till it came to barn in
which were two horses. two mules
and two COWS These were in sep
arate compartments. With q whirl
the roof of the barn was taken of as
clean as Il whistle and carried away,
and while the stock was wondering
what had happened, section of the
storm went in the top Of that barn,
lifted those horses and mules and
COWS high up in the air and set them
down again, without hurting one of
them.
But the queer part of the pro-
ceeding was that when it had those
animals in the air, that tornado
changed their positions so that when
it set them on their feet the mules
were where the COWS had been, the
COWS in the horses apartments and
the horses were occupying the mules
stalls.
"But the storm hadn't finished cut
ting up its capers. 1t struck a house
in the same county and made its way
into lady's chamber. A bureau was
standing against the wall, having on
it lot of such traps and trinkets as
ladies usually have-cosmetics. bot.
ties and so on. A bandbox with q
few laces inside was standing by it,
side.
1.-The wine took that bureau
moved it 10 another part of the room
= but didn't disturb the bandbox. l.
Went INTO another lady's room, picked
up trunk filled with clothing, car
ried it out of window and waited II
over into Hancock county-my own
county-aSd deposited it in Il field
forty miles away from the housC
from which it had been taken
at was found there unbroken the
next day end returned to the owner
whose initials were stenciled on it.
end am glad, however, remarked
the genial colonel, as he wiped his
forehead, chat the storm didn't
carry that trunk further than forty
miles. | couldn't have believed
another mile"
Georgia is great state" he
4 continued, "but even such storms as
that do not occur often. To prove
that such queer things do happen,
there is a section of telegraph
\ pole in the museum of the State
\ university. This pole has light
express shingle sticking through it,
aboAlt half of 1T projecting from each
! side, That shingle was picked up
: in Il storm and blown clear through
the telegraph pole and left sticking
there.n
a Dangerous Boarder
The Widow Flapjack got a new