The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-20

drawn up off the ground by some inYis- ible force l didn't lose consciousness.
 1t was so dark l couldn't tell how high
 l went, but I was high enough to es-
 cape the monuments in the cemetery, and also the tree tops, perhaps forty feet from the ground. As l went along in the air I tried to keep an up- right position, but couldn't, Some
 thing kept turning me over and over in one somersault after another, l passed almost over the cemetery before l struck the ground. I came down 2as- fly at an incline, just as if being low
 cred in the tail of the storm, But I was still moving along, and when l hit
 the ground l went over and over for at least thirty feet. The lessening force would raise me little and then let me | back, until at last dropped into hole just inside the north fence of the ceme- | tery.
 T was conscious all of the time until
 l stopped rolling and settled into that hole. After that 1 knew nothing more
 until people from town were about me,
 It must have been ten minutes at least
 that I lay in the hole until discovered. Il VIII ilCctNA " lOQl W NpNClC VI NitAA
 mud. My hair was plastered down with it.
 Don't you know me?" I asked of
 men whom I had met daily for years.
 "They could identify me only by my voice. I was able to walk. At first it didn't seem to me that I was much hurt, but after while I discovered hat I was bruised from head to foot. When I was up in the air it seemed as if some things were pecking me all of the time. They must have been the boards and other flying WreCkage, Before the ball
 reached me l could see on the outer edge of it objects whirling with it. But when l was in the cloud I could see | nothing. I had passed from bright light to complete darkness"
 Some who saw the cloud from dis
 tance say that they saw flashes of light
 in the midst of it. Dr. Michael says that this inky darkness was lighted up a little at short intervals, but rot enough to make it possible for him to see any distance. The light was like that which one secs when he opens his | eyes in water. It seems to pr. Michael that the cloud was charged with elec- l tricity, and that it was attracted by | the usual conductors. The doctor had a hypodermic metallic case in his nip pocket, The hip underneath is raw as | if the skin had been scorched off by electricity. On the back fence of the doctors residence hang the black Prince Albert coat and the rest of the suit he wore into the cyclone. The | most needy tramp would turn away | from those clothes Numerous rents supplement the muds work of destruc- | ton. When the ball of vapor rolled upon him Dr. Michael threw up the long skirts of his coat over his head and held them there with his hands
 while he was traversing space. Not
 withstanding this precaution, there are bumps and scratches on his head, but his hands and arms are covered with wounds. He had several dollars of sit- yer in his trousers pockets when he
 met the cyclone. He had neither pock- cts nor silver when found. The day af- ter some one brought to the doctor the rim of a wheel, with tire attached | That is all he has to show for his new | buggy The horse was found haf Q mile from where the doctor turned him
 loose. He was stripped of harness and | was bruised.
 'I made mistake in calculating the course of the cloud said Dr. Michael. If I had kept on going west, as start ed, I would have escaped. I hear that l some describe the cloud as moving slowly, not faster than an easy gallop | of horse Put a horse on the dead run, and you have nearer the speed of it. It was from half to quarters of a mile away when I jumped from my buggy. It must have reached me in a minute or less. If ever hear another | I will know it. The noise is the most peculiarly terrifying I have ever heard If I ever hear another coming I shall
 guage it's course as we'll as l can and
 run at right angles with it, never stop | ping"