Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-14
A Nebraska Tornodo.


The telegraphic reports in no way exaggerat-
ed the tremendous force of the storm which re-
Gently devastated a portion of Nebraska. In
the country near Omaha serious mischief was
done. A number of people were killed, and a
vast quantity of property destroyed. The house
of a farmer, j. r. Jester, was lifted bodily from
its foundation by furious blast and whirled
through the air five rods or more, stunning and
bruiSing the frightened inmates. In the same
town nearly every house was unroofed the
wind tearing the roofs off like pasteboard For
miles the corn fields and wheat fields have been
ruined. Says the Omaha Herald:
A procession following the corpse of Lewis P.
Thompson was oyertaken by the tempest about
four miles west of this city. Mr.. ireland was
the first to see it coming and, being strong
man, he jumped out hoping to be able to hold
the carriage to the ground. But his efforts were
fruitless, the vehicle being twisted out of his
grasp, and overturned. Nearly every team was
lifted bodily from the ground. A carriage, in
which Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Ireland, Mrs. Scott
and other near relatives of the deceased were
riding, was eapSized. The horses ran down into
a hollow where shelter was afforded. One lady
was taken up from the ground and carried
distance Of twenty feet in the air before she
could regain her feet. The men could not stand
up, but were thrown about at the mercy of the
wind.
The afternoon train on the Fremont and Elk
horn valley railroad was struck by the storm
coaches were lifted from the track, thrown
down the embanklnent and turned upside
down in the ditch. One side of the engine was
lifted eight inches from the track, but the coup
ling broke and it fell back again. Nearly every
passenger was more or less injured But one
mile from the wreck of the train, the house of
Nathan Austin was picked up by the wind,
carried about one hundred feet, and torn COM
pletely into pieces. Mr.. Austin was crushed to
death in the wreck by falling timbers. His
daughter escaped with her life, though she was
severely injured. The Union Pacific railroad
express train, which had drawn up
at the water tank at Long Tree, was
backed away from the building when the
approach of the storm was noticed, and
not moment too soon, for the windmill
and building fell Immediately afterward with
fearful crash. As the storm swept about the
train, shaking it tremendously, the employees
OF the company hurried through toward the
sleeping cars, which were considered the safest
from being the heaviest, and they said that
the passengers were nearly all on their knees
praying for mercy, for not one expected to es-
cape alive. Immense hail stones fell from this
point, and dispatch received from there said
that none were smaller than coffee cups. One
was found that actually measured IL inches in
| circumference.
In the city, IL houses were blown down and
| destroyed. The roof was torn from the back
side of the depot; the kitchen of the hotel was
blown down; the telegraph poles were torn
from The ground; box freight car, standing
on side track, was demolished; the frame was
blown Idown an embankment, and the truck
was taken up by an opposite current of wind
and thrown on the main track; piles of lumber
| were Whirled in every direction. The operator
telegraphed that "a woman was picked up by
| the wind and carried quarter of mile at the
rate of thousand miles minute"
THE ART OF DINING.--The following sensi-
| BILE advice in the art OF dining is from the pen
of Prof. Blot:
"The mind has its diseases as well as the
| body, and think Vegetaranism is one OF them.
| 1t is by practical experience that we learn
what food is proper for us, and not by chemi-
cal analysis. Every thing we eat with the
| exception of salt, can be turned into charcoal;
| yet who can live on charcoal2 An experiment
has been made by the great chemist, Magendie.
He fed geese on gum only and they died on
the 10Th day; he fed some upon starch only,
| and they died on the oath day; he fed others on
boiled white of eggs, and they died on the
46th day; he fed others on the three kinds
mixed together, and they fattened instead of
| dying. SO we must vary our food as much as
| possible in order to supply the waste of every
| part OF our system. In cooking vegetables
| green vegetables, such as cabbage, spinach
etc., should be put into water at its first boil
| ing, with salt. Dry vegetables, like beans
| peas, etc, should be put over the fire in cold
| soft water, after having been soaked in luke
II.
| Potatoes shonld be steamed but never boiled
| Steam with the skin on. Bear in mind that
| potato must never be pealed; the part i'm
| medlately under the skin contains the most
nutrment. Cut out the eyes or germs if any;
| if young and tender, the skin can be taken off
| with scrubbing brush; if old, scrape the
| skin off and then roast them. In selecting the
| potato, remember the smaller the eye the better
the potato. By cutting piece from the thick
| est end you can tell whether they are sound
| They must be either white or pink, according to
| the kind. Always select beans without spots
| Milk and eggs partake of the nature of animal
| as well as vegetable food. Fish is less nutritious
| than meat containing only twenty per cent of
| nutritious matter, but ought TO he partook of at
| least twice week, 1t contains more phospho-
| rous matter than any other food, and is very
| good to supply the waste of our system, especi-
| ally of the brain, The brain of an idiot con-
| tains about one per cent of phOsphorc matter,
1 while that of persons of sound intellect contains
| from two to two and half per cent, We need
not fear, however, of losing our senses from eat
| ing too much fish, 1t supplies the waste, but
does not augment the proportion Of the phos.
phoric matter"
The chemistry of the matter might perhaps
| DC stated with more precision, For instance,
| instead of saying that everything we eat may
| be turned into charcoal, it would be more accu-
rate TO say that carbon, being the one solid of
the four organic elements, the Others may be
driven off by heat, leaving the carbon behind in
the form of charcoal
A lecturer undertook to explain 10 n VILLAGE
audience the word phenomenon. "Maybe YOU
don't know what phenomenon is. Well, III
l aAxt Ia