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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:42:48 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:01:29 -0400
Subject: 'Whirlwind' in Georgia

Thanks to Michael Hitt, a Georgia police
officer and historical writer, for this item.

This may be more Fortean than ufological.

Marietta (Georgia) JOURNAL, 28 July 1881.

YOUNG WOMEN IN A WHIRL-WIND

Americus, Georgia Republican

  Mr. Z. T. Baisden gives us the following story of a whirlwind
that visited his place about 12 o'clock on Monday, scaring all
his hands and some visitors very badly.  A whirlwind occurred
in a twelve acre cornfield that was about four feet in diameter
and sometimes a hundred feet high.  The body of it was perfectly
black, with fire in the centre and emitted a stong sulphurous
vapor that could be smelt three hundred yards form it.  The
whirlwind would divide into three and move rapidly over the
field, twisting up the corn stalks by the roots and carrying
them up.  These three minor whirlwinds would then come together
with a loud crash, cracking and burning and shoot high up into
the heavens.  Three young ladies who were visiting Mrs. Baisden
went in about 150 feet to observe it, but received such a shower
of burning sand upon their face and necks that they ran
affrighten to the house.  Mr. Baisden says that he cannot
account for this strange pehomenon, and it certainly frightened
all who saw it.  The strange part was that it contained fire,
yet did not appear to burn the corn that it did not tear up,
and its sulphurous vapor sickened and burnt all who got close
enough to get a full breath of it.
--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/