Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — BIRTH OF A CYCLONE. [ARTICLE]

BIRTH OF A CYCLONE.

An Ohio Farmer lieUolds a Strange Spectacle. iWheeling (W. Va.) telegram | The origin of the whirlwind which devastated a large section of Belmont County, Ohio, a few days ago, has been definitely fixed. A fanner living just north of

Lloydsville, a village sixteen mile* west of this city, saw the column of dust and leaves rise where two depressons in the rolling ground formed and allowed two currents of wind to cross at right angles. A little eddy started, socking np leaves and dirt, and momentarily increasing in size until it formed a column from the earth, apparently to the sky which advanced with fearful velocity, through an erratic coarse, in a general easterly direction, the large and upper end keeping a course more nearly straight and the lower end, referred to by eye-witnesses as the tail, lashing about, striking a house now aud demolishing it, and then not touching the earth for perhaps hundreds of