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Show FREAKS OF THE STORM. Ground Swept Clean in Pathway of the Tornado. VERNON. Tei . May 11 The first train from Snyder Klnce tho torno.io struck that town Inst night arrived hero nt 4 o'clock thl afternoon raj.H.'iiKere on thin train tell a Btory of fonrful loss of life and property. Ground Literally Ploughed Up. Snyder Im about a mile quar. The tornado tor-nado Mruck tho town Just it little west of the nouthwrnt. corner of tho townshlu. Its pkthWky ns ahout a hnlf-inlln wlJo. and In thin strip n'.i a vestleo of anything la left, and In placet- tho ground If literally plowed up. To tho weit of th pathway everything every-thing Is devastated, with the exception of one or two stone stores. The courro of tho tor-rudo tor-rudo wan due northeast. Stone Roundhouse Disappears. rhi innnp.e snild st.nif 'Frl-C' roundhouo was completely demolished and not a stone that was In tho structure has Tot boon o-( o-( ated Not an engine wan in the roundhouse at the time. A h-.x-rsr loaded wilh sacks of cement that wns near the roundhouse was demolished and tho Content wns scattered over two miles. Another bOX-COX, loaded with hroonistraw, that was standing ly the bM "f ei-ment was overturned, but the brooms t raw was not dio-turbed dio-turbed hy tho wind. Boiler Stripped of Fittings. The ttTO COttOn-Blni of the town wore crn-pletely crn-pletely denmllshe.i. On,. i,f the lollers loft tandlnc had all the team utiincs blown on, end tho Iron door of this b-.ller was found two miles to tho northeaat. As an Instaiu-o of tho motion fnrco of tho Wind, a tuhxtanllal Honu building In tho outhweet r,"r'i"n ot the place just east of where the tornado Ntru.-k thi town, had Its entire fr..nl literally pulled out. This building build-ing ll fullj twenty yards from tho path of th" tornado. Twenty people wore rescued from a storm coiiin title mornlnc, having t.er-n Imprleoned by light debris. None of them was injured. I.oss thnn forty Tarda sway, In another storm lollar. three pi la wore found dond Tho r.,of had been I arrlo-l away nnd wrcckugo was sc-nt crashing Into tho hole. |
