Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-10-23

! iOoh ds luOuBu IUeTS was VEIN "
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 should not 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,
he raved night and day in the obses-
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
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 1t a matter of suffi-
cient 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
earnestness and fidelity of detail that
convinced all hearers that no halluci-
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 a spread of from
twenty-five to thirty-five feet, the best
judges of distance among the wit
nesses agreeing on about thirty feet
like and folded up somewhat similar
to fan. The man himself was slen-
der of body and sinewy of limbs rath-
er than muscular. He was from six
to eight feet tall-probably about
seven--at any rate much taller than
any of those who had fought him on
The lawn. His eyes were twice the
size of humans and protruding |
sometimes glowing like dim carriage |
lights in a mist and more or less |
,hangeful in hue. He was of brown |
DR. reddish color, his features half |
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
mass of corroborative evidence Des-
nond quietly laid the blood analysis
# the two experts who had made it
'efore others of their profession. They
emained mistaken in their conviction
# its accuracy.
Beyond all question, not only was
he particular community over which
he Flying Man now lowered menaced
s no city ever had been before, but
he state itself, in fact the whole ma
ion was threatened, since he could
xtend his operations as far as he
hose in any direction. Nor could the
xtent of his capabilities to inflict
amage be easily calculated, inasmuch
S they did not know the power of his
lentality beyond the fact that ne GER
ainly possessed an intelligence equal
t least to the lower order Of human
eings-his dropping the stone proved
hat. Not only could he steal children.
murder men and women and destroy
roperty and life by bombardment
rom above, but far greater possibili-
es for destruction were within his
over, should he avail himself of
hem. Scattered all over the land in
inning camps, upon railroad construc-
on, upon canal work, upon sewer
fact, in thousand places
throughout the country where exca-
ating and blasting were going on.
ere great quantities of dynamite and
Their high xplosives-enough to
low cities from the face of the earth
nd warships to the bottom of the
ga. All he had to do was to soar
bout until he came upon such a scene
operations, watch his chance to ,
ounce down upon a quantity of some |
xplosive and then from on high be- |
in his work of death and destruction. 5
would be futile against him, l
nee he could either keep away from |
lem or attack them in the darkness I
midnight. Armies would be of no t
rail, for he could be here today and 3
lndreds of miles away tomorrow, T
Id inasmuch as he had the whole [