Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1891 — She Is a Milleress. [ARTICLE]

She Is a Milleress.

Freedman’s Town, a suburb Qi Houston, Texas, boasts of a femala miller, who has repeatedly proved herself a match for any three men that have pitted their united strength against hers, and who successfully routed Officer John Baxter and three of his assistants, all men of fine physique. The woman is a negress as black as night, and of a stature’slightly above the average, but magnificently built and extraordinarily active. Her grip is such that she can easily stop any piece of machinery in the mill. Recently she broke a drive chain and thus saved the life of an old„farmer whose long coat tails had become entangled in the gears. She works in all parts of the mill, and when firing she frequently breaks coal with her fist, if the hammer is not near. Elevators are of no use in that mill, for she carries grain to the top of the mill faster than any machine that has been made. She can carry four two-bushel sacks filled with wheat to the top of the mill and bedown stairs again before most millers could walk to the top of the mill. She just takes a sack under each arm and one in each hand and up she runs, seemingly without effort. When the police attempted to arrest her, she not only was able to prevent them from putting the handcuffs on her, but taking the officer and his posse, one by one, flung them out of the house and closed and locked the door. Baxter, in particular, is accounted a man of unusual strength, and is of large build; but he says his muscles were as a child’s when compared with those of the colored woman. The woman, whose name is Caroline Jenkins, is about 30 years old, and is the mother of seven children. She has been seen to pick up a barrel of flour and carry it a distance without appearing to overexert herself, and when tested was found to be able to break with ease a new grass rope an inch in diameter. When she runs out of coal she should utilize her great strength to operate the mill.— American Miller.