Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1912 — N. Littlefield Races With Cyclone. [ARTICLE]

N. Littlefield Races With Cyclone.

Democratic County Chairman X. Littlefield and family nearly got caught in the cyclone that passed through the Schultz neighborhood Sunday evening. They had been up to Mr. Littlefield’s farm in Union and also visited Mrs. Littlefield's brother, F. R| Erwin and family at Fair Oaks. They were a little late In leaving the latter place, and with Mr. Erwin’s little daughter, who came home with them, and Neen’s family, they had the auto pretty well loaded. The angry, fast rolling clouds didn’t look good to Mr. Littlefield, and making the best time he could over the four miles of dirt road east until he struck the gravel road coming south past the German Lutheran church, he opened the throttle and came spinning in at about a 30-m.ile-an-hour clip after reaching the gravel. It was not long after he passed the church until the cyclone demolished it and filled the roadway with broken trees and their branches.