Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-29
How the Eclipse Was Seen In
Ransemond's Capital.
Mon and Women Rush From Thor Work
to View Old Sol Under Cover--Suit For
Ten Thousand DoIlars--Rev. Sam Jones
Describes the Eclipse.
Especial to the virginlan- Pilot.)

side of bank vault the eclipse was
seen here with all it's sombre grandeur.
Business suspended, and hundreds of
persons. with low-grade telescopes and
smoked window panes. stood on places
or prominence and viewed the phenome-
non with a Solemnity akin to reverence.
Some got on housetops, and others saw
Just as well from the lowly street sur
face.
During the period of totality there
was hush, which was broken only by
the dazed fluttering of small birds
against telegraph wires and the sub
dued sobS of women who were over
come by the scenes wierdness.
LABORERS LEAVE FIELDS.
Reports from parts of the country
districts where they had not heard OF
the eclipse say many laborers threw
away their tools and left the fields
shouting and praying. At one point a
man got up and sang Nearer My God
to Thee
a COW lost its head and ran on the
railroad tracks. 1t was killed.
After short season OF confusion and
terror and are OF solar light sped
around the lunar sphere and the earth
was bright again. There were shouts of
gladness and JOY. The eclipse was pass
ing.
Several photographs were made.
HOW SAM JONES SAW IT.
Rev. Sam p. Jones, the noted evan
gelist and lecturer of Gainesville. Ga.
arrived in Suffolk at 4:45 p. m. He was
Just from home. and had travelled
through the belt OF totality.- Mr.. Jones
was seen in his room al the Commercial
hotel and asked to write briefly his i'm
nr1SSiOnQ hn y1ha
agreed and after O while handed me the
following:
A cloudlcss morning dawned upon u.s.
AT o'clock passengers on the train
from Atlanta to Portsmouth were on
the lookout We were in the track Of
totality.
our train breakfasted at Hamlet, N.
C., and while there we saw that the
eclipse was coming in on time. The
inky hue, the strange appearance Of
Things. The crowds with smoked glasses
all told us the event of the day was
on deck.
During the total eclipse our train
was running at full speed. and all the
passengers We're enjoying the sight
from the windows.
1t was an inspiring sight-the inhab-
ltants along the way gazing up into the
heavens, the dark heavy look of the at
near, looking merily on the mild face of
the sun.
SIXTY YEARS AGO.
When we remembered that astrono-
mers and mathamatbcians had calculat-
ed sixty years ago the very moment and
the very belt of the total eclipse we
We're constrained to say the Heavens
declare the glory of God. and the frma-
ment showeth his handlwork." Surely
this is science.
THE OTHER SIDE.
THE crowds which say the total
eclipse to-day will look from the other
side of Jrdan at the next sight like this
one Tho scenes and impressions will
abide with us. No event OF the decade
VIII carry with 1t more vivid memo
RES. L am glad l saw THE sight; 1 am
glad will never forget it,"
SUIT FOR TEN THOUSAND.
State Senator Hal ID. Flood. of Appo-
mattoX. to-day entered suit in the Cir
cult Court here to recover $40, 600 from
the Norfolk and Western. He wants
that much for Elizabeth r. Clayton, adj
ministratriX, because of the death of
Walter a. Clayton. who was killed at
Lake Kilby last June. Clayton was en-
gineer of the train which ran down an
embankment during n storm and was
wrecked. Three lives were lost. 4
Nansemond county jury gave The adj
mlniStrator of Fireman William Pool
$4,000. but the case was appealed.
A BIG BUNCH
Nearly n million voung chad fr,, r,oro
planted in hcadwatnrs Of tho Sons.-
mond river last sunday No hn 80,
exact, there were inst ssh GOO nccord;n :,
To the Government estimate INC shtS
were turned loose some d,s,,a nrn ohova
Suffolk in Cohoon and smith crcalss TT
was the most successful nlant the Gov
ernmcnt has vet made mere
The job was under the direction Of
Superintendent of Car and messenger
Service ]. Frank Ellis. who was met
here and assisted by Mr.. ]. p. Cow
ling.
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