... that lone peak, motionless and horror struck for our country, we saw the awful work come on towards us. Slowly and relentlessly it ate its way. All the way here before us, from Edom northward to Broadway , and from ridge to mountain, lay as fair a land as ever met the eye of man. Awful tragedy! Barn after barn, at first in the distance as by some invisible hand, takes fire. Then horsemen become vi...