Show a SIOM mi S I 1 hake A E KILLED PASSE UN aUR LANGTON TRAIN GIVE GRAPHIC dear description nip saw houses collapse heard tho the roans oy of dying victims and As picking up tho the deaca nand and injured chicago stories replete with thrills and pathos were related in ahk achl cago alonzay by every eye witness of the tornado which swept over parts of nebraska and iowa and illinois sunday night killing and injuring hundreds awed and horror stricken the narrators ot of these stories had sat fascinated in coaches of a chicago dun bur quincy railroad train watching a great markcloud dark cloud fan tactically at its dorkof destruction in several villages they helped pick up tho dead and dying the wounded and tho the slain mutilated groaning dying merw were placed on ion the plush covered seats and in the carpeted aisles of the tha cars until the train reached omaha here they were removed and taken to hospitals or morgues on the way in the injured told i elheart rending tales of su suffering and marrow escapes which seemed to them miraculous william koon an auto obile company of lincoln neb gave a graphic description of tho the torm as he viewed it from the plat I 1 p orra of the observation car for e emillea allea it seemed as aa it if the train were u eing pursued by the storm le we were approaching ralston lofy 0 hen I 1 first noticed a strange coppak copper I delored lored cloud mounting toward the t oky sa said koon before that it had ae cn clear the cloud grew rapidly n id was traveling at tremendous oed toward ralston ailt assumed tc aie lie form of a funnel anid and the air was i led with a curious noise something i abeen a hiss and a nwan moan out dut very fercl eming ng then the funnel seemed to black and the smaller end that 4 doear ear the ground was about a halt half a it stalle in diameter it swished across 3 itt inthe Icille railroad track and swept toward I 1 inythe little town yav tivo then the storm struck the town k bouses auses collapsed the roofs went sail mail ga g away and the sides tell fell in the asen gera sat as though glued to I 1 1 ye belr beir seats when the tha cloud struck K d aaen I 1 k e n anthey compre comprehended headed the deso T thaon h 0 wrought a cry ot of chorror went IP froat r fro mt everyone it WM waa a fearful fra jhen On then the ille engineer brought the on n ei t e to a stop and the passengers ran r to the wreckage wreck aga of the houses bouses IVear ea could hear the groans of dying not dd and the walls and shrieks of in inq ral women and children I 1 ente entered redi adi di J a or rather what had been a ionae iou ae and beneath me lay A woman looked and I 1 knew ew that she was aej d rad we got all of the injured out a dead ot te the ruins ruin sand and brought them to the train we were about to leave when our attention waa ailed balled to it a house some distance from the other side it had been wrecked and monedi from its foundation but we found a mother and her little baby lying upon a bed uninjured another man was tin jn a basement ills ilia house had been carried away bodily and he was left standing with a very surprised look on his face le in the open uninjured 1 I saw a box car carried along for a quarter or of a mile when it split open six or seven men who turned tamed out to be part of a repair gang dropped out some of them lay still while others feebly crawled away the next station our train passed through was benson where the scene was still more appalling there were several large fact factories orlas there and all were strewn Inbe in heaps aps we picked up a lot of injured and I 1 do dont nt know liow bow many dead we left behind the cloud wheeled and made towards south omaha mahn we were not far be hand but akur way was blocked by the debris the tornado had bad thrown upon the tracks then too we stopped frequently to pick up ua the injured there were some with their limb s torn lorn off offard and all were cut and bleen ing |