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Show WARNED OF THE CYCLONE. Telephone Just a Few Seconds Ahead of High Wind. Onco upon n time a Kansas zephyr broke loose and meandered about (he country, picking up various things. 1)111 Ilnumgartner's telephone, 20 miles away, rang: "Is that you, Hill?" yelled an excited voice. "Yea. What'B the matter?" "Tills is Flank. We've, got a cyclone down here, mid It's bended your way. Look out! I " Frank's volco broke off suddenly. Hill heard n crash and n sputtering, then all was silence. He gathered up his family and rushed them to a deep rnvlnc. They wcro Just In tlmo to dodge a funnel-shaped cloud , that wrecked the house, picked up his barn, two cows, nnd n couple of miles of fence. Hampton's Hroadway Magazine. Maga-zine. I |