A Remarkable Storm at Bethany
Bro. E. Kreamer, of Harrison county, Mo., sends an account of a remarkable storm that recently visited the town of Bethany in that county, as given in the Bethany Republican. About half an hour previous to the arrival of the storm, faint flashes of lightning and the distant rumbling of thunder were noticed. At noon a thin, dark cloud from the west, hovering close to the ground, approached rapidly and grew more massively terrible in appearance as it seemed to crawl along the surface of the earth, and as it drew near darkness accompanied it. A man could not have recognized his wife at the distance of one foot. In fact, it was total darkness at noon. The streets were full of people running in all directions. Lights began to show from business houses and residences, and the deep guttural roll of thunder was well calculated to unnerve the strongest man. Finally the water and ice fell to the earth in perfect torrents. After the darkness had prevailed about fifteen minutes, a dark green atmosphere took its place, and gradually faded to a sickly, awe-breeding yellow, when finally the sun broke, and brought forth, as it seemed, a new morning at midday. A heavy fog hugged the earth, and a heavy, low storm-cloud passed over without driving the fog before it, and the immense density of both obscured the sunlight entirely. Or, to use a scientific term, the sun-rays were absorbed by the density of the under stratas of atmosphere.