The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-06-22
WILD WINDS.
A House and Its Occupants
Carried Many Miles by
q Tornado.
Miraculous Preservation Of the In
mates tor Several Days on
Cows Mix

4 Telegram ih,> morning ssys: a small,
two-.tory hon-e. twenty iset square. Wa
fonnJ in a farmers orchard, in Dearborn
county. Indisns. last right. jus, SITTER tor
nsdo. and II Ia. bell impossible to ascer-
tain shere i, can. from, -sen after dilis-ni
search Ia the track ~ the uIIicAns."
! Yesterday evening, stoa, Elk o'clock, ~ a
BAzoO reporter stood an the back steps III the
Office, wondering which way To Ga for news.
! he Observed what VA no doubt the huiidins
above mentioned, sailing through the sir,
moving esstwssh A. IL came over Seds-
liza IL dipye.i downward while near The ia
( zoo Office, AID :h- reporter sss iwo men
| sitting jus, inside the frnni door, playing
seven up &C. determine, a. he inferred from
their loud l,nsu 'g-, which vi them should
he LEI iowa ;o get something 10 drink. The
reporter yelled At them: ''helip, their
come down; hitch yonr house ard put mp
with the BAAOO over night. lie nearly dark
aud you might run acr0.- the right OF way
81 u tornado in the direction in which Won
are going; you want To avoid those wind
s,orms in the night time"
Then one VI the men laid down his hand
Of cards. discarded hi- cud IL fine Gu, and
leaning down out Of the door, replied ::
"rh.nk. Ia the Il z,o for proder~d hospi-
tsii,y, but ~s can't very we'll tie mp. A.
TO evading iornadoe-, we crossed the track
| IL live che shile il was grinding near
lexark.ns, Ark, recently, IL dissrrsnxed
our furniture somewhat, stood nv hair on
end, blew N couple cf window shutter.
! and q chimney, but Olhes~ise we rode &C.
! renew through IL. IL ws- . Wild Whirl !:
| d. ing climbers, screaming huna. beiU.:s,
c,ui-, bird, scaring apparel, wsre ali
! xhir.inx around the b"u-e I; one old white
haired m.m and fiddle a4cended pasi the
house ard he ~. vigorously playing The
| Aikan-a- Traveller On the fiddle, wUhou,
missing q note. Thu man you ace inside
/ the house. whom have Just s,e ,ien in eight
consecutive games al seven up. for the
! drinks and whom you can -ee irnD where
! YOU stand has four. i've, SIX, seven. eight
sud nine -pot caTi- and none of them
! trump. (Oi, he can't plsv csr,,s.l he
va. tossed mp by . tornado onto nv roof ..
! ! -aiiei along md he dropped him-eli
do~n into the hcu.e through the broken
| topped chimney. Two miicl, co~-, lot
! Il army h.r.i tack were also hurled into
ih- house n~,r T.xsTksns." Where are
the cows no.!' iGquirsd the Try. rter.
"We killed "ae, he replied, "snd the
hard tack, steak and milk of the surviving
cos m,k-s Ia good. square mesl.. The
cos and hsv sc keep up stairs. Bill"
said he, addressing his partner. clay ~ssy
your hand III cards. milk the cos aud nay
her an! get supper, and so0n the
smoke was rolling ons of the broken Chin
ne~. and the smell of trying meat was per-
I cev,tibie. Our only trouble, stranger, be
| continued, lie IN getting rome hing 10
/ drink: yen could not hand IL mp some Of
the "a he yiul,' cr'uId you" II. Of the
Bszp" handsd him up soose of Due. MOI
rows bel Kentucky ~h,-ky; he sampled
! IL and said. "I that t,siss very much like
-.me whisky we got from a COW boy over in
the IEdi an territory; that touches the spoi,"
rubbing his hand oser his loser vest hut
ton. "Whs;'- the news down iB the country
o--r which you have passed. qno'h the
! pencil Pu-h-r.
! House Occupant.-"ln the cities and
! towns we hear them talk great deal about
The Cincinnati convention there il univer-
sal re- ,rst expressed AZ Sey mours Withdraw
al; still! the feeling il general thst the party
can ne led on Ia victory by either oi several
men n sgain>t GARFIELD with his Credit
/ Mobelier and salary -gr.b record. and Ar
thur with hi- custom house fra uds; we have
heard several ssy this: IL the democrats
wouid nominate Grant he would bex, Gar
/ field; the conversations arising from the
I fields in the country are, o. course, differ
I -ni farmers are in The midst Of harvest,
-ni are sll working hard 10 get their crops
ca, snd csred for; they are all happy over
she outlook .. TO good crops in Texas, and
in TACT the entire southwest, the great
! smonn. of railroad building Is astonishing;
the new lines being built through there
| will tap and develop . rich country and
place them on an equal. commercially. with
older aud more favored sections" At this
point Bill yelled, supper ready the re-
porter being invited To come up. accepted.
II course, aud took supper With them. The
meal cousi-lsd III fried meat, h.ri-tscs and
milk: there WIS little furniture In the
honse aud it shOse,i sig,s Of having been
badly shsken up by the winds; hr heard
~
aud bawiing up stairs.
Reporter What you have heard in
psssing over Missouri, Who will be our next
GOVERNOR
House Tenant" Ton Criiienden."
R.-"WheTe do you GIT the prop~lling
power 10 carry your house through the
air ?"
II. TT was in the house down By the
Mexican line, a tornado struck il,
gave it whiri, aud sent il
north ward there vas another house started
irvm that place at the same time there
~ere two lsd,-s in H.; they rode aide BY
side wiih us until we reach Fort Scott
~hen their bou>e fell: ve hid q pleasant
time converting n We rode through the
air I mis- them very much. Near Fort
Scott ve .sw the old man again that told
You sent mp pat Va nv Tex.rkans in q
tornado az ~hiri-wind playing the
Ark .nss~ traveller" On idle. He va.
Just coming down hear Fort Scott; he
looked tired but he Vas sti,i 6Idling; he
.as then playing on the home stretch If
that good old tune I doui know hov
much further this house ~ill eo-it il -till
p~ls il. In the direction IL has b~en re-
Gently hearing !, will Iand in Indiana
about Dearborn county, ] should think"
The r~io,ier thanking them for the square !
meal and giving them what 6ne cut he /
hsd left. descended. ''Hsve you Q BAzoO |,
Of to-day in yonr poke, - inquired the |
aerial traveller. The reporter handed him |
on. Jus, h-re q colore,i boot black csme /
along. looked mp 1t the hou-e and said,
"Gud Lsvd, vhst is !, :" The man reach.
Ell dosa. took him by the ear and drag
e~d him up INTO the ho1se, saying:
"we'll want Onr boois blscked inst before
se land, - yell just tske YOU along. Kid"
The men then ho'h yelled good bye" to
the reporter. picked up their hsnd- Of
csrds, and resumed their half-6nished
e ,me of sev.n-up. end while the bout black
srsesm~d. md thst coo kavied, Z . house
.vo.e and moved slosly and majeslicaily
"a eastward. And there II no doubt bat
thst this hcuse was the acme one REFER. 4 tn
in the telegram 6r.s abOve mentioned, shich