Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1859 — A Ferryman Carried Away by a Whirlwind. [ARTICLE]

A Ferryman Carried Away by a Whirlwind.

Tiie Norfolk Day Book, in speaking of the late whirlwind in Gloucester, Va., says: “Old Oliver, the ferryman, was not drowned, hut persons at York saw faim taken up by the wind and carried off. ATwo negroes who were in a ehed ;it the time, the entire roof of which was blown off, heard the wailing of old Oliver as he was born through the air. His cries and groans, says our informants, as he was dashing through the air, were truly distressing. His appeals for assistance were without avail, for no human power could rescue him from death, and in a few moments was i eyond hearing, nor has his body been seen since that terrible evening. In the course of the tornado more than twenty houses were either destroyed or materially damaged, seventeen of which wer : dwellings.