Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-06-21
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Remarkable Experience of Mile Milton
VI ~ mt Denlson, Texas.

Remarkable Experience of Mile Milton
e MT Denlson, Texas. 4
During tornado that recently passed
over Denton. Tex. MilIie Milton had
q wonderful experience, says the New
York journal. About her locomotives
were lifted from their tracks and hurled
aside like playthipgs; beams of iron
thnt would seem warranted to with
stand the wear Of ages were twisted
out OF any recognizable shape; the
stones of brick buildings were scattered
Ike so many bits Of paper; huge
powders were tossed about like balls
Of rubber; heavy timbers were driven
into the ground like stakes; granite
masonry was ripred apart as II it were
Fasteboard. In one instance hoavy
zinc tub was twisted and wrapped
about fence post, the only one left
standing in certain field.
Mile Milton Vas carried one-quarter
Of a mile in the tornado. She was
lifted from one section Of the town of
Denton, In Denton county, Tex, and
gently set downain another.
The word gently is used with dis
elimination, for Mile Milton was set
down quarter of a mile from where
she had heen picked up without bruise
or scratch. This is the remarkable
part OF her experience.
Mile tells this story.
Together my mother and sister and
| | tried to recall the things we should
do In such Il storm. We had heard We
should make fer the cellar, but we
| hadn't the courage. We had heard we
| should open all the doors and windows,
but we felt safer with them closed. We
| lit the lights, and l climbed upon the
bed.
remained there, guided by an
instinct for which l have not since
been able to account. except that it
was a position had always sought in
| the midst Of terrific thunderstorms.
| Nearer and nearer, roaring more
and more loudly, tho storm swept on.
! We realized that 1T was upon u.s.
| IAN about me | heard buzzipg like
the inimitable sound OF some lightning
\ bit of machinery. Suddenly the buzzing
| was drowned in terrible crash. 1t
filled my ears and deafened them.
When it had grown so loud that it
seemed as though my head would burst
it became once more roar. tried to
| put my hands to my ears to shut it out,
but could not move.
| "And yet seemed to be moving with
a rapidity such as never before had I
experienced. wondered If was flying.
| My heart seemed still. | was unable to
draw breath. On and on l went--on
and On
II wanted to cry out, but my tongue
refused to obey my will. Suddenly,
without warning, the noises seemed to
recede. Fainter and fainter they be-
came, till they were like the distant
wall of an infant. l tried to realize
wnat l was doing. seemed neither to
be sitting nor standing. was con-
scious that something was impelling
me onward some hidden force.
II did not suffer / felt no pain, nc
discomfort. / believe 1 should have
had no terror, had it not bnen for thai
frightful buzzing--that frightful roar.
ing TINT was now dying dying.
"Dimly / saw houses pass me.
wondered that l had never observed
before how swiftly houses could travel.
/ saw trees that few by me like flashes
of lightning that blind the eyes. They
were travelling faster than the birds
faster than any express train however
great its roar; faster than the leaves
had seen hurled by me in the gathering
storm. AS their speed increased the
buzaing In my ears grew ever fainter
fainter. ~
II had moment of intense comfort
seemed to be cradled in arms thai
we're gentle and ample. l had no care
in the world till / nwoke When
opened my eyes l was lying in George
Bakers orchard"