Show SAW STORM AND PEOPLE KILLED passengers ON burlington TRAIN GIVE GRAPHIC description OF CYCLONE saw baw houses collapse Col lapie heard tho the groans of dying victims and anda al salted in picking up the do DOM AV and in injured aured chicago stories replete with thrills and pathos were related in n chicago monday hy by every eyo eye witness of the tornado which swept over ever parts ot of nebraska and iowa ana anu illinois sunday night killing and injuring hundreds awed and horror stricken tho the narrators ot of these stories lad had sat fascinated in coaches ot of a chicago but bur lington quincy railroad train watching a great dark cloud claud skipping fantastically tactically at its work of destruction in several villages they helped pick up the the dead and dying the wounded and the slain mutilated groaning dying were placed on the plush covered seats and in the carpeted aisles of the cars until the train reached omaha here they were removed and taken to hospitals or morgues on the way in the injured told heartrending heart rending tales ot of suffering and narrow escapes which seemed to them miraculous william koon president ot af an automobile company ot of lincoln neb gave a graphic description of the tha storm as he viewed it from the platform of the observation car for miles it seemed as it if the train were being pursued by the storm we were approaching ralston alston It when I 1 arst noticed a strange copper coppel colored cloud mounting toward tho the sky said koon keen before that it had been dear the cloud grew grev rapidly and was traveling at tre tremendous mendo a sed toward ralston it assumed assume d the term form of a funnel anti and the air was filled with a curious noise something between a hiss and a moan nut but very piercing then the funnel seemed to grow black and the smaller end that ne near arthe the ground was about a halt half a mile in diameter it swished across the railroad track and swept toward the little town then the storm struck tho the town houses collapsed the roots went sailing away and the sides eldes tell fell in th the passengers sat eat as though glued to their seat beat when the cloud struck then as thy they comprehended the desolation wrought a cry of horror went up from everyone it was a feard fearful ua sight then the engineer brought the engine to a stop and the passengers ran over to the wreckage of the houses bouses we could hear the groans gioana of dying men and the walls and shrieks of injured women and children I 1 entered a house or rather what had been a house bouse and beneath me lay a woman I 1 looked and I 1 knew that she was danad we govall of jhb injured out of the ruins and brought them to the train we were about to leave when our attention was called to a little house bouse some distance from the other side bide it had been wrecked and moved from its foundation but we found a mother and her little baby lying upon a bed uninjured another man was in a basement ills house had been carrial away bodily and he was waa left standing with a very surprised look on his face in the open anin uninjured jed 1 I saw a box car carried along tor for a quarter of a mile when it split open six or seven men who turned out to be part of a repair gang dropped out some ot of them lay still while others othera feebly crawled away i the next station our train passed through was denson benson where the scene was still more appalling there were several large factories there and all were strewn in heaps we picked up a lot of injured and I 1 dont know how many dead we left behind the cloud wheeled and made towards south omaha we were not far fa behind b but our oui way was blocked by the debris the tornado had bad thrown upon the tracks then too we stopped frequently to pick up the injured there were ome forne with their limbs torn off and all were cut and bleda ing |