The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-20

the children, and caught some hailStones
that came somewhat faster and larger than
before. In minute or two there came q
body OF folks from the other house, point.
ing, exclGiming, shouting, and waving
their hands toward the southwest. How
ard ran out, and they seemed SO excited
that l followed, and my heart went down,
down to my boots at the sight Of
THE DARK CONE COMING DIRECTLY TOWARDS
Us.
l believe didn't scream, but that 1
won't swear to. l knew | asked II we
should go to the smokehouse, and How.
ard and Tom said, "Not quite yet; we'll
watch minute" looked at the dear
babies standing in the porch, and thought
that | would give everything had in the
world to feel that they were safe and out
OF danger. For few minutes | bore the
sight Of the hanging tongue licking the
ground in circle, then cried out that it
was unbearable, and turned my back, then
put on my waterproof, Clasped Hoddieand
rushed over to Toms. Kitty met me at
the door With pale face. Kate, behind
her, carried Ged's puppy, the idol of her
heart. Both had cloaks on and the boys
hung around in despair. The hail began
to come iast'and very large, and the other
folks came back, saying the cyclone had
veered and was going north rapidly. We
bad not time to do more than dodge into
the shed, for hail fell that broke on the
roof with report Hike . gun, and louder.
Hoddie jumped, and then said, IA shib-
ba," with o little chuckle. Tit had been
inCeSsant
EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN LEvRLED,
but they came wiae apart, though you
could pick upa pailful in a few minutes.
We measured one picked up, and it was
twelve and aDe.half inches in circumier-
enCe, half an hour alter the Storm. But
above us where the storm ragged, they
weighed pound. Our biggest one was
four ounces. We didn't weigh the l24
inch ono, but it couldn't have been more
than six ounces, ! think. As we stood in
the porch and the hail ceased dropping,
the wind increased and blew Kittys bed
room into fearful state, from the four
broken windows-I mean the four broken
panes Of glass, Twas listening TO that &C.
count from Fred, and was watching the
whirlEipl, which still
MOVED on IN IFS MAD WALTZ,
when Howard drew our attention to the
cloud over US, the eastern end OF the
whole trouble. He saw it first, and
quoteR few words from his letter to Lizzie,
as he know It from the first movement:
THE eastern end Of the cloud now began
to show signs OF uneasinass,. 10 enlarge
and swell, and slowly TO reyolve in large
circles" Oh, heavens! so 1t did 1t
makes me feel sick and faint rs l did then,
when Howard spoke in the cool, quiet
voice he and Tom used through it all. Ev.
erybody carried 8 white face, as we looked
above us, directly oyer US, at the rev0iv.
ing, twisting, heaving green and gray black
mass. Tho
CHASTITY FASCINATION OF THR THING
was beyond measure dreadful. 1t was
like boiling pot OF horrible mixture,
with tongues and ragged edges, that licked
around the edge and shot from the sides,
all at last meeting in the centre in fun.
nel-shaped trunk leading to the internal
regions above it This hung over US for
several minutes, while the thing still
swung around, then slowly it began to
drop, slanting little at first. Still, at the
northwest, the one kept on, almost at the
river now, and looked at my baby chatter,
ing In my arms, at Helen and Kate picking
up hailstones with unconscious serenity,
at May trembling and moaning with fear,
and | togl Howard that We must go TO the
smoke.house for Of least the shadow Of
safety. l took May and Helen, and as we
turned the edge OF the walk q blast came
down that seemed aslt 1t surely was upon
us, but it was not yet 1t was surely be-
ginning to move, and to move over US,
going north. l was in the smoke-house
with the children, and Howard, stationed
at the door, told me not to fear any more
1t was passing away,
REVOLVING IN ITS DESTRUCTIVE CIRCLE
as before, but had not struck yet. When
we went down threw a comforter OF wad
dies over the children's heads, thinking II
the storm broke and tore the roof to pieces
the falling dirt might not injure them sc
much. May thankfully covered under it,
but Helen tossed it of. my, dom
want that old, hot thing over mem shI
said, contemptuously. It was the ont
CLEAN Of humor in the whole thing and
believe | did smile forlornly ut the differ
ent characters Of the two girls set forth b.
this incident. Well, we saw 1t strike thl
hills the other side OF the river, and know
now that 1t tore the Disney home to pieces
linjuring every member in it, and Mr.
Disney Is now probably dead, The docto
| onid n yvaS not nossible for her recovery