350 Track of a Cyclone which passed over | April, 
and I supposed there had been a great battle between two hostile 
tribes of Indians, and that these mounds were the graves of the 
unknown braves. There were not the very faintest trace of fallen 
trees in connection with these graves, so thoroughly had they 
rotted away. I found by applying the string to the map that 
these graves were in a line with those I had recently found in 
this (Parke) county. 
On the 8th of July following (1885) I was making a survey in 
the north-east part of the county, in Section 29, Township 17 
north, of Range 6 west. While at the dinner table I told one of 
the land proprietors that I had recently got upon the track of an 
ancient storm which, if it had kept on the course I had observed 
should pass over the ground we were then eating our dinner on. 
I asked him if he had ever noticed any trace of it. He said, 
“Yes. When I was a boy and young man the ‘Indian graves’ 
out in that field [pointing south-eastward] were so thick that I 
could jump from one to another all over that part of the farm.” 
I asked what course the storm was going, and explained how he 
would know by the position of the mound in relation to the pit. 
He said north-east, and told me what farms it crossed, and about 
where it crossed the county boundary into Montgomery county, 
which was close by. This was over fifteen miles from where I 
had first discovered the track, and I had not missed its location 
where I am now speaking about more than seven hundred feet. ~ 
ae The next day I was going to another part of the county, and 
had to travel south-westward several miles, and crossed the storm 
track. -I saw a man in the edge of a field harvesting. I told him 
g what I had discovered, and asked him if he had ever noticed it. 
_ _He answered, “Yes. When- I was a boy the Indian (‘Injun ‘) 
= — graves just below that sugar camp [grove of sugar maples] were 
as thick as stumps in a new clearing. We boys used to count 
_ them to see how many Indians had been killed in battle.” It was 
_ the general belief of the children of the early settlers that these 
were Indian graves, and that where they were numerous, as in 
-a storm track, that there had been a battle between tribes. 
~ place he pointed out was in the track I was looking after. 
~ I may here remark that after the land is cleared and cultivated, 
_ the plow in a very few years destroys all trace of these graves- 
_ Hence my inquiries of persons who had known the country from 
the days when it was an unbroken forest. 
