Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — A Novel Storm Pit. [ARTICLE]

A Novel Storm Pit.

H. J. Pettus has built a novel and unique storm* pit at Healing Springs. He informed us that he had been troubled a great deal by nervous guests who came from cyclone districts, and built the storm pit to relieve their anxieties. The pit is built under the hill in such a manner that it would be impossible for the severest storm to reach it, and is so arranged that should all the cottages at the Springs be blown thereon and burned it would not affect the refugees in side. Ample provisions have lieen made for ventilation, and it can be truthfully said Healing Springs has “a refuge in time of storm.”—Washington (Ala.) News.