Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1884 — A Massive Sheet of Flame. [ARTICLE]

A Massive Sheet of Flame.

Many singular incidents and accidents and miraculous escapes are reported in commotion with the recent cyclone, says a Columbia <B. C.) dispatch. A reliable gentleman of Aiken County, who suffered severe losses, says the roof of his barn was taken off and the dry fodder caught up in the whirlwind, and as it was being carried round and round a sheet of lightning passing through ignited the fodder, and for a distance of one mile the cloud appeared to be a massive sheet of flame. He describe* this scene as grand beyond conception. He narrowly escaped bein tr caught up in the fiery element, his fsce being bad’y burned. Martin Mingo, a colored man of Midway, weighing 200 pounds, was blown 200 yards. At the edge ot a swamp he caught a small bush and told on until the stormrwas over. His overcoat was blown four miles.