Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1858 — Stand from Under. [ARTICLE]

Stand from Under.

A “statement’'’ is published in the papericoncerning the fall ol Thurston the a‘roinrut. 'The elevation was thoui>lit to be three miles when he was last seen: ami, assuming this to be the distance he fell, it would on ly requite tbirtv-one and a hall secoiuls for him t«> reach the mirthr a mean veli.icitv of four hundred ttnd ninetv five feet per second. Assuming his weight to be one hundred and sixty pounds, he would strike the earth with a momentum equal to one hundred and sixty thousand and eight hundred pounds, or a little more than eighty tons, a power sufficient to scatter his body, bone and muscle, into atoms so minute as scarcely to be perceptible, if not to bury him deep into the earth.