Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-08-17
How a orolous Acts.

The editor Of the Springfield. Ill.
Round Table thus graphically pictures
the cyclone.
A cyclone is an electrical wind on 8
tear. II starts in mildly at first, likt
the inebriate tasting his first drop. ant
then, gaining courage 1t strikes out for
something stronger and keeps on going
down until it pulls tho wells up by the
roots overthe territory which it sweeps
A few days ago one of these storms
started in Texas. brushed up through
Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indians
and the coroners only know where else.
We have some landed interest in an adj.
joining county. The blow swept ouI
dwelling house and barn out of the town.
ship in which they We're located and
spread them over ten or twelve miles OF
country in the next. 1t will cost 81, DOC
to repair the damage done. We would
not care if the cyclone had acted fair
about the thing and made clean sweep
but it didn't. A miserable. scrawny
smoke house. not worth thirty cents on
time, was left standing and almost
totally uninjured and at point nearer
the cyclone funnel than either the house
or barn. No one was killed in the
house as the family, large one, had
providentially gone to attend a surprise
party at neighbours, half mile dis
tant 1t was big surprise all around.
When the family returned home they
couldn't find the house and thought they
must have lost their way. 1t was the
first time in years that they had all been
away at the same time. and never be-
fore to surprise party. They say,
God bless surprise parties" Huge
hedge trees with immense roots were
twisted out of the ground and >whirled
away like weeds. chickens were strip
ped of their feathers and many of them
still live, stock was killed in great num-
bers. wagons were broken into kindling
wood, hay stacks carried off and fine
destruction scattered over the plains for
many miles to either side of the calam-
ity. Ii will take more than two weeks
profit of The Round Table to make
good our losses. We do not wish to
discourage you, but we had no insurance
and we don want any for cyclones and
lightning never strikes twice in the
same place-they don't have to. We
have never given cyclone culture that
careful thought that is due a new
product indigenous to a foreig soil, but
for starter we think that our first born
cyclone has been bowling success.
Next to raising mortgagesis raising o.
clones. We do not remember whet16r
this cyclone was planted in the dark of
the moon or in April, but it bloomed
beautifully. Home raised cyclones grow
to an immense heighth, and AZ they go
about suckingi in the country they travel
.'incog, ''and in a Hades of a hurry. Their
schedule time is about sixty miles an
hour including one stop at the end Of
the line. The flashes of electric light
that illuminate their way are said to be
as large as straw stacks, but this is prob
ably little big. The best time to har-
vest these cyclones is when they go off
visiting in other states. If it is all the
same to the managing editor of the
grand cyclone system, who has it all in
his own hands to reject or publish. we
would thank him for bunch of "June
calms'' in exchange for an assorted lot
of Jimicanes, Hurricanes and Cyclones.