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laming i thought he was crazy.“He stated tbat a big green cloud had come over hia place, ami that something which looked like balls of fire had fallen all around his house. He had five acres of corn growing in a field next to the house.After the storm had cleared a war he wentto see what damage had been done. He saw that some corn had been blown down, and, entering the field, he found every stalk turned to stone. There were two fine hogs in the field, and they, too, were petrified and standing there as if cut of solid rock. Myself and wife thought the man was raving mad, but induced him to remain over until morniiitr, when we promised to visit his place with him. That we did, and what we saw will be remembered so long as we both live. There was the corn blown down, but every stock of it was petrified. It was not as ibartl a9 granite, but It appeared to be more like soft stone. I took my knife and cut it, and it became powder. The ears were very hard, and tbev could not be broken with the hand. The leaves were brittle, and if you struek them they would break like glass. The hogs were there, too, lookine natural enough, but they, too, were as hard as stone.”Yesterday afternoon George E. Henry, of this oitv, John Rogers, Captain John B. Hull, ex-Deputy Marshal, and several others rode over the mountains into Tennessee to see for themselves if the things were really there as represented. Captain Hull, ex-United States Deputy Marshal, makes the following statement:LL\\r« - _ A____il. ‘ ?__Y 1 t . 1
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Indianapolis News
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 04, 1890
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