Show A G 4 A journal Jo arnal correspondent Corresponds nt WIs tells of a diffee storm ia 13 three thousand square miles milea of vineyards orchards and grain fialli entire crop destroyed people billed ani and injured In jared EDITOR EM 09 JOURNAL JOUK VAI silica writing you last a few changes have taken place here one of which may be of interest to some of your readers the tele telegraphic 9 graphic reports sent to america from here as far as yve we have read have little of the hurricane like storm that occurred in this section of c country untra a verv very short time ago it was on the first day of this month between the hours of midnight and aar 2 a on n that the great storm came the fact that it happ rued suddenly and unexpectedly chows no one it and with all previous preparation pa ration what could man inan have done tow to ward ardoff off emaid I 1 nature tho the alarm came with and thundering thundering moved iver ver broad fields of grain i nod ind over the rolling ads and left destruction az ZI i hen the early day dawned and a ha 6 inhabitants became bf came aw aware r e d of tile damage done there indeed beeping and lamentations lamentation s heard Ki ltd ichael chael ci crins ring and could d hope tb I 1 ep at OM otibe t mini was about miles long and 30 miles wide the districts vi ite I 1 v afre c re in the lowlands of embracing P four judicial oi 01 political poh lical districts of abe ie tile the district of Oe ringen with her thirty villages was visited most i ee verely li brother rother J and myself after bavin having gread read thrilling reports of the catastrophe visited the damaged country partly out of roii dosity and partly to revisit persons persona N ho were reading our pamphlets arid and also to distribute arre sacred literature we were in stuttgart twenty miles from the hurricane when it came we were awakened by the listening lightning of win windows i and like rain but no damage was done the byorni was by the sudden budded fall of temperature for bevera several days previous to july ast 1st the atmosphere was warm day and night it was so 60 oppre oppressively warm that we could scarcely icely wall walk in the open cuu A few cases we eie reported of people falling fallin to the ground red with the excessive heat about 12 ii 0 on oil the sever never to bp be fai forgotten forgot ottea teu tho thermometer fell suddenly the wind za faed zed through the land of trees brero uprooted and millions of tiles were torn from leaving uncovered tho of honree ho iree a prey to the pouring waters I 1 counted more than fifty 7 window lights broken in ru rin one house hail stories fell in all al shapes and hae some as large a as a goose egg and most ol of them the size of duck eggs egge the grain fields were nere entirely bared we W e bould scarcely think of it being summer enin mer as we looked over the ladd nothing green not a 9 green leaf or bstanding a spear of grain it itwara was a december landscape lan depape in summer only short eterei of potato vines to be b seen vineyards in sections Bec tiona are laid waste for yea re to come appl trees that were not uprooted or twisted ts isted were stripped of foliage e and of innumerable limbs some of them larger than ones body the lee ice tones literally beat the bark from the ibe largest arees aces more successfully than one could jo do with a hammar ham trees two and three feet in diameter were unearthed the large roots measured twelve feet frona side to side we ve made a thorough h examination of the devastated region we walked and rode mules into the country A few weeks previously we saw sar the land teeming with richness 11 her er fields wei e of the finest and foremost the B bauer watched tile the apples and pears form and acid saw in pleasing imagination barrels of most he oled and trained the grape vine then thought of the I 1 gs landmarks and luarks Marks uey U ey would bring him the widow and child ren watched the berries ripen and tended well the kiauw Ki aut alit what a change can come in a few hours now the farmer ij i j grief entricken he works without a smile here he be is gathering ingathering the fallen fruit trees for fuel fullor or cuttino cutting the beaten down grain fields merely merecy for straw there lie is re boofing the old od house or putting pulling in new skylights sky lights the widow and her ch idren weep and cry thinking of the many hours hour of toil for nothing not a italic of salad and no hopes of krut kraut we saw hu hundreds i of men moving about but none nona of them except tile makers with pleasant pl faces face they were ivere crestfallen crest fallen in iii despair and humbled bumbled to the dust in sorrow luckily few lives were lost one family was as sleeping in a wagon and tile wind blew away away the cover achild A child was struck by the frozen stones anil and killed A few others were killed and a few injured by fallia chimneys A fe few v ho houses were burned down by tb the aig lightning nt cloudbursts and floods added to the discomfiture hail s were in three e PA r lenmana een ima ManA HEI nals o adf ad f it v alten f lk cows cons and the noie noi e of the chickens cats ats and dogs mingled with tile the shrieks of children and prayers of in mothers others make the night on oae s never to be forgotten by the schwab Sch men who had bad not prayed for years yearb prayed then it wa was believed that the end of all things had bad come I 1 do riot not wish to make of this a article before we re turned to stuttgart we left our tracts and they were received with less les 8 sorrow and less lees attention than the tracts left b by y the hurri cane during our first visits to this district when we spoke of judgments the people knew not what they meant now when plaques plagues are spoken of more attention is given to what is ia said eaid it can but be hoped that many nations and peopled may escape cape the wrath to come and no longer procrastinate crasti nate the day of penitence bu but t give heed to the voice calling them riot not to be partakers par takers 0 of f sin that plagues may not visit them come out of her my people yours truly W II 11 stuttgart july 30 1897 |