Show views a tornado ornado from the interior farm farmer er gazes into center of F funnel U anel and escapes unhurt dodge city kan the the T tale of q a jiuu who saw tile the inside of n tornado nod loveil unhurt to tell ot of hla his experiences la Is contained in a 0 rot re port ninde made to io alonzo A Justl tile the weather wen thee bureau office here ily 1 v will heller a filmier farmer near ann mr keller explained that oil on the afternoon or of jutie june 22 1028 lie noticed the approach h of a dark cloud and said saw lint that it consisted cf not only one br jindo but three after hurry ing tits his bouilly to tile cyclone cellar he 1136 pall paused sei tol to w watch the tip approach qt one of the funnel funne shaped clouds which was coming ilare directly 1 efly toward him 1 I 1 have seen been a number of of these things and lieve never become panic stricken when near them so I 1 did not lose my head fiend now though liou gli tile the approach approaching Ink tornado was meed nil an impressive sivo 4 sight lie said the sur surrounding founding country Is lovel level and there was nothing to obstruct the view th there ee was little or no rain iraln falling from the cloud aou d two of the tornadoes were some di distance stancie away and looked to me like kite great ropes dangling from tile lie clouds but the lie near one was shaped more like a tun fun net with ragged clouds surrounding it it appeared to be much longer and moril more energetic than tile the others nn it occupied tile the control central position of the cloud the great greal cumulus cut aUlus dome being directly over it sees lower leiwe erid end rise As I 1 paused to to loots oh I 1 saw that this lower lowe rend end which had bleu sweeping the ground was beginning to rise I 1 knew what that meant so I 1 kept my lay posit position lop I 1 knew that I 1 was comparatively safe and 1 1 knew that it if the tornado again dipped I 1 could drop down donn and close cloe the he door before any lindin could be done steadily the tornado came on oil the end arn gradually dually rising above the ilia ground I 1 could lac ave stood there only n few seconds abut bu so impressed was as I 1 with what tans 1 t 9 on oil that it seemed a long time thae at last the great shaggy end of the lie funnel hung directly dir pelly avei over b head ad E everything v ery thing wits was ns na still as 1113 death there wits it strong gassy odor rind and it seemed that I 1 could not breathe there was a n screaming hosing sound coming directly troia from them the end of the lie funnel 1 I looked up and to my asto astonishment nish I 1 saw right up ul into the heart of the tornado there was a ell circular cular opening in file he center of the funnel about fifty tifty or feet in diameter and extending straight upward for it of at least one half mile is as best as I 1 could judge under the circumstances cum curn stances the walls valls of this opening were of rotating clouds and tile whole was ninde made brilliantly visible by constant of lightn lightning IlIg zigzagged front from side to side ind had it not been for the lightning I 1 could not haq hao seen the opening no not i tiny any distance up into jt any anyway wity around thel the ibm birer cr rini rim of the great sma itol toti rin does were constantly and d 1 away these looked like ilke balls na as they writhed their illel way ay around tile the end of the funnel it wits these oat annile the hatsing noise Ro rotation tatlow anticlockwise 1 I noticed that tile of of ro of the great whirl wits ant but jie small linail twisters rotated will both ways some one way and colne mother another the opening was entirely ent ively hollow except for aln which I 1 co 1 I not no exactly make out all hut t suppose tant it ans a deta Hied wind wilid clotil tills this tiling was in the center and was moving up and down tile tho tornado wits not traveling raveling nt at a grent grant speed I 1 tind find plenty of 1111 timeto leto getil ge n good mew of tle tile whole thing inside wid ond out olit it cunie came franj the he dl al of if which town Is 6 airee ree miles west and one mile north of my iny place lis its course abs not in b a straight line but it aged across the country in it a general north northeaster enster ly direction after it passed my peace it again dipped arili struck and demolished tho the house unit anni of a barnier hy the name of evans the evans film ily P like ourselves ours elies had been out looking I 1 11 9 over their hulled out wheat rind suit sart the tornado tori indo coming coining not having time to 0 o rench reach their cellar they took refuge under a small bluff that faced io to lie ilia leeward leenard of the approaching tot toi tornado nado they lay down lat flat on the he ground and caught hold of some plain bushes which fortunately grew with in their reach As it was they felt fell themselves lifted from the ground mr evans bvans said that ho could see the wreckage of lot tits house holise it being the cook stove going round rind nod round over his fiend tile eldest a girl of seventeen being tie the most exposed had tier her glo clothing thing completely torn on rut but done of the file family was libart mr air justice indorsed endorsed Indor sed mr kellers story with etli the following lj ag words mr air keller kellers s reputation for ful ties unil und Is of 0 the best apparently Apparent lv he la Is entirely cli pable of direful careful ant and reliable observations |