The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-04-25
A SOUTHWESTERN ZEPHYR.
The Results of an Unexpected and
Entirely Unsolicited Visit.
Unroofed Houses, Wrecked Trees
and Fences and Destruction
Generally.
Narrow Escape From the Hungry
Nav of the Raging Missouri.
Heroic Conduct of Two Gentlemen
Who RiSkeG Their Lives to
Save Others.
A SOUTHWESTERN ZEPHYR.

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The STORM or young tornado, as II miSht
the mora appropriat.ly De called, WHICH
struck tbs DEVOTED ciiy-the recipient OF so
MANY like occurrences-was somewhat In the
uafure of a regular Old Socsdolaser, ana
things Iooss-d serious FIR awhile. The rain
came down in perfect sheets, and it vas an
inter Impos,ibiIity to see any distance what
ever.
rTCANE LIKE A FLASH,
almost. and the tetting up was sudden as
tte canning IL had been lowering all day,
and the people had been expecting some
Thing In the ordinary coune Of things, but
when the town was struck all in a heap, a.
Il were IL was a surprise in more ways than
one. and created considerable CONSERVATION
The storm could not have lasted over quar-
Ter of an hot.r but TO many IL seemed five
times as long. From all appearances il came
from the southwea the same direction from
which came the famous tornado of May 5th,
ls7s hut look a wider ranxe OF destructive
ness Than did its predecessor although the
amount of damage inflicted was not so large.
a HEROIC ACTION.
short time before the saorrn struck, three
small boys ranging in ages from fourteen to
sixteen years named Charles Mum, residing
ON North Third street, between Seneca and
Miami streets, Abel FRANKIE. living on Third
street, between Shawnee and Delaware
streets. and Martin McCarty, residing at the
st louis House. Shawnee street b-Aween
Second and Third streets, went out for a sail
an, the river 1rb.r had no Ibeus IN of danger
and bpy-like yuUld srui,abIy have gone out
even ifthey had known what was coming
II WAS simpl. careIessness, almost fatal in its
CONSEQUENCES and which will tend To teach
Them something for the future. They were
ont nearly In the middle OF the river about
opposite The. Planters Hourr toward the Kan
s,,s side with the sail up, when the storm
sfnck them and in a moment they had lost
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"xpefienc-- Inc bravery displayed by
Messrs- '''iih ANA hhoA WIS me subject Oh
chiihii'u p'"l>e "'i''h 'iie i''e' vi '"eif nav
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thiit can De sait "i iiein' as 'i"ir ',c'i"h was
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ana Started on ms perlious tour Win me III
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WAS the iorce Oh 'he VIM NJ tiat tihhe- that
just as tue uoofs Oh the engine mouse were
thrown open 10 AUNT 'ie Passise oi 'he en-
slhe, the Pohuerous ihac"ine was "iiho>'
'li1eu from It's "hee's ana u'shed against 'he
r-snt sue Oh me door wall hao 1t ho' ooe"
'of 'he wall IL Wouiu most 'ssareuis n''Ne
gone over, anu ou'ins tue IMP uo"n rum
'tfee' 10 'iie hie '"e ho>e esIiiase h'o sever
hafro" ESCAPES rom oeihe oNei'u u
ouahiase was uo''e " '''e D'' &C. !" ou' 'iNe
'Seii OUT STORM NOTES
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Large pieces oil sidewalk on Second Ihird
ND Fourth Streets between ohoc'aw anu
Walnut streets, We're hited oodiss ana hurieu
ato the middle oil the street, Out iofluhateiS
one was hurt. Instances of damage TO
sdewalks in other parts of the city occurred,
a some cases the force OF the wind being SO
erong that whole sections were hurled into
ne air and nearly across the street.
One entire end of a residence on Pawnee
rect, near Fifth, was torn OUT, but none of
le occupants Oft house were injured.
A large number of the pupils of the Morris
.hn,i who we're oat upon tie Government