A surprising account

Letters from Paris give a surprising account from Amiens, of a man and his wife and four horses being killed, as they were at work in the harvest field, by something which came out of the earth, and of which no traces were afterwards to be found, but only the smoking hole, from whence it issued. Two or three other people were struck down, but not much hurt. The surgeons, who inspected the bodies of those who were killed, did not discover the least wound, but only a considerable swelling, and great deformity of the features. The woman, who was young and handsome, appealed a very shocking spectacle.