Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-12-11

modified its first comment to the
statement that 1T certainly begins tC
look as though there was a vein Of
truth after all in the wild west story
of the American Flying Man" One
French paper remarked in parenthesis
that Should America announce fly
ing submarine, France shouldNnot be
| surprised to see the announcement
| fulfilled, as one must be prepared to
expect anything from America" From
Latin Europe came the hope that
their first comment was correct, while
the stole German said I'VE are still
unconvinced. The whole thing Is
absolutely unscientific." But mean
while throughout the civilized world
there ran an undercurrent of horror
and sympathy resulting from the trag-
edy which was alleged to have taken
place upon the great western plateau.
AS for the father of the missing child,
sion that she would be dropped
through the roof as the stone had
been, while the bereft mother wan
dered about speechless and dumb and
to all intents practically thoughtless.
But that an uncanny menace hung
heavily over their heads those-at
least those who abode near the scene
of the tragedy no longer doubted
Their normal reasoning faculties once
more controlled them and man to
man, family to family and concourse
to concourse they talked the matter
over gravely. The probity of the eye
witnesses of the first appearance of
the apparition was not to be ques-
toned nor their saneness disputed
Also, Farmer Jones was an intelligent,
truthful man, his wife a Christian
woman and the disappearance Of their
daughter inexplicable except one be-
lieved the story Of the now practically
insane father. The mayor and city
council deemed it a matter of suffi-
Gent importance to summon all wit
nesses into their chamber, and before
them there appeared in answer to the
summons the persons who had seen
him with their own eyes. One by one
they corroborated each other with an
and fidelity of detail that
convinced all hearers that no halluci-
nation-the only possible explanation
of their story heretofore If one did not
believe it--lay behind their steady
eyes and voices. Cross-questioned by |
skilled lawyers both separately and in
each others presence, their answers |
were invariably the same. The Fly |
Ing Mans wings had spread Of from
to thirty-five feet, the best |
Judges of distance among the wit |
nesses agreeing on about thirty feet |
They were dark colored, filmy, bat
ike and folded up somewhat similar |
70 fan. The man himself was slen-
Ter of body and sinewy of limbs rath-
sr than muscular. He was from six
o eight feet tall-probably about
'even-at any rate much taller than
my OF those who had fought him on
he lawn. His eyes were twice the
;ize of humans and protruding,
sometimes glowing like dim carriage
lights in a mist and more or less
hangeful In hue. He was of brown
,r reddish color, his features half
nanlike, but his lips and canine teeth
we're more those OF a gorilla. And
hen when they were through with
heir questions, on top of all this
1ass of corroborative evidence Des-
1ond quietly laid the blood analysis
f the two experts who had made it
efore others Of their profession. They
mistaken in their conviction
t its accuracy. i
Beyond all question, not only WAS
ne particular community over which
he Flying Man now lowered menaced {
s no city ever had been before, but
lie state itself, in fact the whole ma
on was threatened. since he could {
xtend his operations as far as he {
hose in any direction. Nor could the
ztent of his capabilities to infiict
amage be easily calculated, inasmuch
; they did not know the power of his
entality beyond the fact that he GER {
Iinly possessed an intelligence equal (
least to the lower order of human {
dropping the stone proved t
lat. Not only could he steal children. 7
urder men and women and destroy {
'operty and life by bombardment S
ON above, but far greater possibili- c
es for destruction were within his a
'wer. should he avail himself of a
EN-. Scattered all over the land In U
lining camps, upon railroad construc- 9
On, upon canal work, upon sewer h
ork-in fact, in a thousand places q
roughout the country where exca- s
ting and blasting we're going on.
ere great quantities of dynamite and s
her high xplosives-enough to u
ow cities from the face of the earth r
Id warships to the bottom Of the Y
a. All he had to do was to soar d
'out until he came upon such a scene v
operations, watch his chance to v
unce down upon a quantity of some h
plosive and then from on high be- b
n his work OF death and destruction. 8
arships would be futile against him, n
ice he could either keep away, from |
EN- or attack them in the darkness t,
midnight. Armies would be of no Il
all, for he could be here today and e
ndreds OF miles away tomorrow. r,
d inasmuch as he had the whole Il