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Show 1FHEATCS OP CYCLONES.' 8MA8HE8 CHURCH AND WOR. BHIPER9, SPARES O AM DLLRS areraata I rllfl. Tent lnhalm.,1 llr.a lllowa Uln allar T.p of IYn,. I I'll tartU-d Mil and nn 1 llrouahl Hack. (Special Letter) The Iron ot tale frequently appear 'In the antics of the cyclone la the Soon of Shanghai, lit there atood slte by tide a church and a ealoon A nar-Irow nar-Irow alley separated theui On a certain Sunday morning the church was mini with worshipers the saloon with gam blore inside the one were elxly-flvo devotees of religion Inalde the other were the devotee to game of chance called poker A .tornado descended 'upon the town and struck In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of these two buildings The church waa demollahed Ita occupanta were killed Not a shingle on the aa-'loon aa-'loon waa dlap aced The gamblers were unharmed. They ran outalde, when the solae of the wreck next door reached tbcm, and bualtd themaelvea dlggtng out from the rulna the bodlea of those who had aaiembtcd Just acrosa 'tie alley to be aaved Between Napoleon and Veraalllea Und, a party of emigrants cumped In a forest, which drew the wrath of the wind coda one dark night. A path 'fifty yarda wide waa cut through thla dense man of treea, throwing tho tall tlmbera aalde like straw flying from the alckle of a mowing machine The 'tent containing a party of campera waa In the middle of thla road of ruin Not a thread In Ita canvas waa raveled, not one of Ita sleeping Inmatea waa maimed On May 27 a wind alorm vlalted the vicinity of the Uljou bills. In South Dakota. Everything In Ha courae waa torn up or driven Into the ground The ground happened to be honeycombed honey-combed with cellara, and these received re-ceived loada of men and women aa fast aa they could drop Into them. All the woodwork In eight was swept away A family named Clothier occupied one cellar. Mr. Al Clothier heard some thing whiz by hla bead, and, on looking up, beheld the blade of a large knife quivering agalnal the wall. The blade of It bad mined him by an Inch and burled Itself In the Mat earthen aurface agalnat which he waa standing. The knife bad been blown from the Cast-man Cast-man place, a mile away. In the same storm the Noble family escaped to a cellar, only to havo a horao blown In after them None of the family sustained Injury of any description. de-scription. A large stovo fell In upon a party that had taken refuge In a basement base-ment under the Danish Luueran I church at Chamberlain. S. D, Injuring no one. Every monument In the ad-Joining ad-Joining cemetery was blown awajr. In Newton, Ma, on April 27, a family fam-ily at dinner were transported In tbelr t bouae 100 yarda acroaa a stream and 1 set down on the opposite ahoro with jjrvtir TrtEE3FELL TENT STOOD. such force that the oulldlng fell to pieces Tho floor of the dining-room , duicended to tho ground with Its load and remained Intact, without upaet- , ting anything except tho spoon holder 4 and cream pitcher on the table Tho ' S Wlls of the house How away with tne .5 wind A Dakota twister lifted a cot con- 1 talnlng two children out of n falling cottage, carried It unscathed through j bo flying debris, and set It down two ? blocks away Neither of the children waa etcn rolled off tho bed nor In tho , 1 least the worse for their perilous flight among the storm kindlings I A crooning baby was found In a J field far from any house after a cy- K clone In Wyoming It was lying on I Ita back, wholly unacratched, and when 1 Ita dlaoomert approached It gazed up I Into their faces and smiled Tho par- 1 ents of the waif were found nearly a quarter of a mile away, burled In tho 3 ruins of tbelr home " A small boy In Kansas was caught In i the tall of a whirlwind and carried a mllo away, turned with a reversal of a tho storm, and waa brought back to d within twenty feet of whero ho had I bien picked up Ilo waa unhurt, savo J for a shaking up of his nervoua ayt- M tern. |
