Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — BIRTH OF A CYCLONE. [ARTICLE]

BIRTH OF A CYCLONE.

An Ohio Farmer Beholds a Strange Spectacle. [Wheeling (W, Va.t telegram J The origin of the whirlwind which devastated a large section of Belmont County, Ohio, a few days ago, has been definitely fixed. A farmer living just north of Lloydsville, a village sixteen miles west of this city, saw the eolnmn of dust and leaves rise where two depressons in the ground—formed and allowed two currents of wind to cross at right angles. A little eddj’started, sucking up leaves and dirt, and momentarily increasing in size until it formed a column from the earth, apparently to the sky which advanced with fearful velocity, through an erratic course, in a general easterly direction, the large aud upper end keeping a course more nearly straight and , the lower end, referred to by eye-witnesses as the tail, lashing about, striking a ho«e~ now and demolishing it, and then not

touching the earth for perhaps hundreds of yards. . j. ■