The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-01
CYCLONE FREAKS.
Experiences of Persons Who Have
Passed Through the Ordeal.
Fine Field for the LOng-Ransed
Liar.
Some Shafts From the Long Bow.

Aler all that has been written about CIV.
..lones and all the pretended scient.fc ex.
rlanstions of them that have been given
no one who has not seen one, or come
within its whirl, can have any sort of real.
;stc ideas of their fury. We are told that
they are the products of opposite wind
currents meeting and converted into yor-
tay and that the force they display is only
a wind force. But this is not satisfactory
How can two opposing wind currents i'm
n.rt 10 the whirl they resolve them.
ssyes into ten times greater force
than they themselves possessed? What is
the real explanation OF the tremendous
lifting, twisting, Frustrating and thrusting
force they exhibit, aud OF the curious
minute discrimination they sometimes dis
play The statement that during the
cyclone of week ago last Friday in Mont
gomery, Warren and st. Charles counties
"a this state, large trees were seen lifted
several hundred feet in the air, has been
laughed at as an absurd story; but the
sober reports given by the country papers
are of such an extraordinary character as
10 rob this story of apparent absurdlty and
make it one of many similar strange actual
occurrences.
Persons who have had some experience
of cycones before, say they "peyer before
saw anything like this, anu it is wonder
how any body came out of it alive Mr.
John W. TAYLOR, an old seaman living in
Montgomery county, describes it as "a
huge mass of cloud, fog, dust and vspor,
funnel.like in shape, with the top leaning
northeastward at an angle of As degrees,
bouncing right and left, with general
thaast LII a
at sea with the addition of mass
Of wood, dirt, leaves and brush which
Il had gathered" Mr.. Thomas Davis SAYS
il resembled an immense turnip, with the
root down" Mr.. A. S. Northcutt saws
when the cyclone passed his house 0it
looked like large turnip with the little
end down, and travelling a little ahead balls
of fire in the centre, and smoke and flames
streamed out behind" Mr.. Daniel Cole.
man estimated its diameter at rs wards at
the lowest end, and $50 yards at the upper
end; color black. with occasional balls of
fire emitted from it, DR. Jameson speaks
Of horrible grinding and cracking
noise" that accompanied it. Some Of
the houses injured were "splat-
tered with mud mixed with green leaves"
Twisting and splintering were fayorit.
methods of exhibiting its force, and in
~ ~, ,,ooS ,,n;a,, 80 no. neu Wy the
ni.caa 4 nasSed nnsr Nv, I.ae , ~ AZ some
w;.t;ns ths;r n ma hro aops Vi me trees,
me their leaves. IN ntSars anu scorch
out of the ground by the roots, lifted them
into the air and carried them to a distance
Of hundred feet. On one farm it lifted
alternate fence posts planted two feet in
the ground without disturbing the others
In John Godfrey's orchard, near Jones'
war s' %t "a nv rs thn oot iu diameter
mia off NJ rbarIaa ,I II IAN anu carried
s,asd was cnn,n,ota,,, 1u -. i.uuihes nome
tmbsrs shattered t ur,,;t", anu broken
canned truit Glasses &c ;aiit grocery,
bricks clotbinS and f. Jemy, n,ea,ns, stones.
Sa,har IN smoh !. ,,o ,o"oo rams neaped TO-
Ssfora m onotha m" Is, as was never seen
nsd co,t,a onS rs 'ni ;i horses were Grip
pIncked clean If footha ea , anu aead fowls
bean. The track ia descr,h 5eat lying IN
swatb fifteen yards w;da e, as ciean-cut
lN wards wide in anothar nrG Gn neo pace; as
smother Some Of I tho tra.s anu Loo yards IN
three feet in diamerer Cstt,o ap,o ou were
M and borne n nnarter ~ a'sie I'VE We're caught
and in one Instance a mia Sn a nile
Der sixteen feet long and o;ohtf Iaret .im-
of A mile IN Uanrv $50. see quarters
grndstnne was hinr,, . i,ians pace
ifly wards. A two hv ten no nuu ;a;a, anu
found after the storm thrnst i in tbJ Jus. was
to deptb of fonr fact. - ' " ~ vne sr9uno
have come from tho wat nC 10 SUPPOSED 10
miles distant in the d;rect;ou IL nuhse .hree
cyclone was 'N' taeoIiun III when the
one Of ""s sevors ail"'ei'ls. ms is
which objects wora instances nIi IN
ward in tbefrack of the Stow, oa'iteu Dack-
house was caneht , nn ; IN III. "a carriage,
some distance and town ~ - 'no ar carriel
csrr;o na auon anu toIh 70 pieces, but the