The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-13
THE TORNADO.


HumOrs of the Great Guile in Boston.
correspondent, writing from Boston, gives the
gale:- VI '"0 "''n'o's Vi Tue great
y, man entering the Boston and Maine depot. in
h hyarket square, suddenly had his coat tails lifted
% tne WIND aud pocket-book containing g36 slipped
ouS sinSS was taken up by Eous, and whsked out of
slgmy 10 the great grief or the owner.
Mhlle the gale was at its greatest fury, gentle
man nan hau occasion TO pass across Washington street
heSao, hear Blackstone where he met youngstcr on
n99Iseoack, leading another horse The horses were
gheend at the fury of the elements, but the Young
sn,, s.sf, un9smayed shouted out to the gentleman
mister. will you just Kick that horse and make him
start up? The request was not complied with under
the circumstances. ''''0'
AS Chief Engineer George b. Eaton. of the Cam
bridge Fire Department, was following in the wake
Ol an engine on his way to answer alarm of fire
the vehicle on which he was seated with q friend
was blown from the street, turned completely over
ana landed upon the sidewalk, without material in
Jury to either party or to the horse.
/ Several persons imagined themselves struck nv
FALLING objects. -Four men rushed into one drug
store with their hands to their heads and were much
Surprsed 10 learn that they were not bruised in the
least. All along the dOOrways, huddled in protesune
groups, and smiling at the provoking awkwardness
Oh ther situation, were men and women, boys and
girls, the old, the young, the ugly, and the fair All
on an equality then, just as they caught, some
with umbrellas which they dare not spread. and
which were as useless as cumbersome.
The ancient, historic, and storm-sCaTed elm,
winch has Withstood the shocks Of the winds for
centuries, did not, as we have said 90 down. For
wonder, 1t was not materially damaged, although
one large limb was discovered and fell to the ground
beyond the renee which inclosed IT, The limb which
was blown of was upon the northwestern side. and
was not so large but that it was readily dragged
away upon the grass plot to the nOrthward, by order
OF the City Forester A policeman stationed by
It, to prevent it from being torn into spnters by the
curiosity who locked to the spot during the
evening" hoping to secure some part of the fallen pOr
tOn amementO of the historic tree. As IL was. the
branch speedily stripped OF every twig and leaf
and only bare and crumpled branch was left for
the policemans guarding The old tree must have
felt the strain to its very CENTRE but il mpOs-
sble to tell during the evening" how vitally it was
injured The ground beneath entirely covered
with its leaves and twigs, which were easily gath
cred by a crowd of boys and young men, and there
scarcely an inch of the elm wood remaining. II
was really touching and poetic to the policeman
standing alone by the wrecked branch, while the gas
light fckered down upon the scene of devastation,
perceiyahle on every hand. The Old tree
has long been the object of greatest in
terest upon the Common, having been found there
large and vigorous by the founders of the city, and
it is by far the Oldest historic tree OF New England
1t is in its veriest old age and but for the artificial
means OF preservation which the city fathers pro-
vided years ago, would have long since pershed.
1t met with severe and almost ruinOus shock on
the Goth OF June, 1860, when nearly one-haf of the
tree was blown down; and 1t is really remarkable
that the venerable elm not utterly Frustrated in
last evenings storm A few rods off, a young and
handsome tree was torn up by the roots and thrown
directly across one Of the walks.