Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1879 — A Nevada Whirlwind. [ARTICLE]

A Nevada Whirlwind.

Jim Anderson is getting in his work on the Reno (Nev.) Gazette. A recent number of that paper contains the following report of a recent freak of a whirlwind: During the high wind which prevailed yesterday morning, J. Moorman Cutter started out with a half gallon of whisky to take to his sick mother, who lives out on Virginia street. He was found some four hours afterward lying behind a fence on the hill in an inarticulate condition. Later in the day he recovered sufficiently to explain the catastrophe which had overtaken him. He said that he stopped around a comer to fix the cork in the jug, and while he was taking the measure of the orifice of the jug a tremencums wind came down on him. It sucked the liquor clean out of the jug, blew it down his throat, and turned the jug inside out. He could remember nothing more of the occurrence,