Show CLONES the A awful experience of at carmel ita mi vernon illinois chicago ocean the terrible disaster which on sunday last devastated the pretty arld thriving sit vernon tile i eat of jet jerson county and and capital of southern illinois has never been excelled for dealto and desobe lion in tile history of that part of the state the horrors aber indescribable almo almot t every circle has been touched and the pearly or quite tit 0 score of killed mith the uncounted injured a make the catastrophe appalling bw on alunday afternoon between and 4 oc loLk june 4 1687 an as fill storm struck the little city of mount carinel wabash county illinois there were many of the leading citizens killed or serf y injured churches sch ass business blocks reel deam etc and property to the value ef destroyed alt vernon is about leventy miles west of tit car ner on nearly the me parallel it wat be said to belong to lite same climatic zone and to be denb jeer to tile usual atmos phe I 1 c I 1 comens as r e rail in that heltor tie bild lild part of the pr t ate the sit carme J mortn va as at its in live capital of wabash county as that on balod was at mt vernon but its course was traceable trace alle throughout a district nearly a hundred miles square the mt vernon but its course was throughout a district nearl y bundred miles square the alt ernon sterrit was not so extended bu t wal more v ment alt carmel slid vernon recall tile discussions and scientific invests pathom had beveral years ago on the characteristics and origin of fine atoms r t h a conned lion to read what ant finley of thet signal service co 1 on thin same out eject in t I 1 year 1884 the general direction of movement lie says in speaking of from a in the southwest to a point in tile not theart th east the tornado cloud as of a dinall end drawing near to or treating upon theearta the earth this cloud and theair ba neath it revolve about a central verti cat axis with inconceivable rapidity and ala ays in a direction contrary to the movement of the bonds oi a watch the destructive violence of he Is sometimes confined to a path a few bards in width as biben tile mall or tail end just touches the earth vi hile on lite of tier hand as the body of the cloud lowers more of it rests upon the earth the violence increases ani the extreme limit of eighty boils roils the for nado hardly an excel lion occurs in lite afternoon just after the hottest part of the ay the haur of greatest frequency 4 p m tornadoes very rarely if eyer begin after 8 p m A tornado c about 5 may continue its io violence u al it 8 bibich meana only that the after 6 ci clock or after 71 but it does not develop that is make its ranee for the first time after hours at any point along the storms path here there Is opportunity he tornado cloud to display ra power the disposition of the I 1 ais presents signs of an action of the wind such as in iltha be called rotation from tile right through the front to the left abou arou ad the centro from data carofill caro full y colli atod from I 1 to 1880 Itse erns that of twenty four states and all of tew england illinois stood during that period at the head of the list nh L v ze gium her per year of hornad oos fo r 1 0 miles the next on the list was aetta illinois was and massachusetts the loleat averages were arkansas and or one fifth of one taking the w hole united states to g e t h e r I 1 t f ou i e r lo 10 n 0 f greatest ct jis nd frequency th ace alst per begs year p e r square i 1 e r t h e ta t a of georgia illinois Li dlana lo 10 w a katims and ohio the fact that the storm at mount in mid tain ing in its short feign of terror him deeds of fat alies out of houses and leaving bun reds of people wounded and belille he lille makes the disaster the does are follo ed by suh su h v eather its makes exposure it matter of campara ING little importance blit a winter tornado like that at mount vernon is followed by vi eather that entails sut ferington fer ingon tholo driven from shelter for this reason the bawor from woun t vernon should be P ly and responded t q the 12 year old son of dr john scott of sherman texas found a dy cartridge in his fat tiers biece and the weil occurred to him that if he could get the contents out the shell would make a nie ni e bistle his tle it largo needle and began to jab vigor at the aforesaid contents being under the impre selon that it would he hard work to get it out ile found he was ile fact that said contents was only walting for a ana that it was even to come foith and fosnot yo snot at all to habig back to be pulled pushed T boosted by anybody it emerged in several places ana and oliree or for of the boys fingers and 4 thumb have timi to itt go until they got cleat across the room the boy thors than I 1 0 did his a different profile and in time hyill arear it large A nevy set rom faul ture ball wed t i I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 |