Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — RIDE ON A CYCLONE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RIDE ON A CYCLONE.

Queer Experience of Baby Alvin Gilbert In the Pomeroy Disaster. Cyclones are always doing queer things, but never was a twister more eccentric than that which struck the village of Pomeroy, lowa, last July. One of the things it did, as related at the time, was to carry little Alvin Gilbert for three-quarters of a mile and deposit him safe and sound on the prairie. Harper's Young People

publishes a picture of him taken after his extraordinary ride through the air. The distance between the place where he was picked up and the locality where the cyclone caught him in its arms is fully three-quar-ters of a mile. He is as hearty and happy to-day as he ever was, and doubtless has forgotten the wonder which possessed his baby brain at the time as to what it was all about. Another odd experience in the cyclone was that of a rooster who was found in the debris of a barn that had been torn to pieces. He was as lively as ever, without a feather to his back. But, then, this rooster story has become a sort of classic iD “.yclone literature.

MASTER ALVIN GILBERT.