Iron County register., 1886-09-30
A DAKOTA CYCLONE.
Ine Playful Storm1et Which Blew Over
Prosperous Coyote Crossing

a DAKOTA CYCLONE.
1ne Playful Storm1et Which Blew Over
Prosperous Coyote Crossing.
A week ago we had a remarkable alb
sence of calm in this vicinity, a cyclone
went over this town. might be al
lowed to say went under it-and have
Just succeeded in recovering from the
debris, and getting together enough of
myself to put in an armchair and hold
pen to try and give you small idea
OF the way things around here went, and
you can rely on it that things went.
The houses in this town were built not
only to shed the rain and cold, and
every thing heavy that could be put on
them to keep them down, including
heavy debts, were put on, and some
people tried to hold them down, and
many men had their buildings in their
wives names to hold them. but it did
little good, as the last cyclone was the
only one we had for two weeks, and it
had had chance to grow and get big.
!t was not so very wide, but it was the
longest wind you ever saw and
you coaid see it very plainly.
1t looked Ike all the winds in the world
had gathered together for one blow,
and that it was certainly dead calm
elsewhere over the universe. The nails
began to fly out of the weather board
ing, and soon afterward the boards. of
course, commenced to go, as there was
nothing to hold them. Some of the
strange freaks of the cyclone would be
hard for you to believe if anybody else
but me was telling it, and many of the
people had marvellous experiences.
Stepping thoughtlessly out of nav
door Twas picked up and blown through
narrow crack in the fence and splash
ed against a neighbor's brick house SO
that people who looked out and saw
me thought | was circus picture past
ed there in advance of the show, and /
could not bulge an inch to get away.
and it was well could not, for would
have been SO completely obliterated
that my name would not have been left
even on my tailor's books. The only
thing that saved me was the house 90
ing down with me into the cellar
Jlnkinson was blown across the fence
and into the sltGng-room of neighbor
who had threatened to lick him
the next time he caught him, and
who took advantage of the occasion,
which added much to the din. John
kins was found after the storm on the
soft side OF Il stone house, dead drunk,
but he explained to his wife, who
was unfortunately spared, that he had
been blown into a saloon, and, as whis-
ky was flying all around the room, he
had inhaled some of it. My friend
Niggins, after the storm, went down to
look after Il house he owned but not
only found no sign of it but discovered
the lot also had blown away and left no
sl.a f,~ Il
house was missing and also two months
back rent. Wiggins was much rent
over the matter. People who went into
cellars out of the weather, actually felt
the cellars, deep as they were, give and
shake. and threatening to move over on
neighboring lots; in fact the whole town
has shifted about one hundred feet east,
and Il new map will have to be made
l have Just heard that the canal was
lifted up bodily and fell, landing in an
other drec ion across the county. The
man who tells me this is reliable hui
morous writer for Eastern papers and
can not be doubted. Cows that tried to
bawl for help as they faced the wind.
were suddenly blown up with deafening
reports, and not roast left. Joneson
meeting a man he owed told him truth
fully that the cyclone had invaded
his pocket. unclasped his pocket
book and blown all his money out
This is SO, for he showed the pocket
book, and there was nothing in it
but wind. Little children were i'm
PEELED up the chimneys, the draft was
so powerful. A large canal boat was
blown out on land and went along at
great rate, and nothing but the good
steering of the steersman prevented it
from running into trees, etc, and being
dashed to pieces.
II there had been rain it would have
dampened the wind, and, of course,
made it 90 slower, but the clouds were
all blown out of the country. In fact,
most of the family quarrels in the town
blew over, and s"ved a good deal of
domestic trouble. The wind made the
big and little rain-spouts along the
street sound like several calliopes, and if
the wind had ever choked up and gorged
in the street it would have been much
worse than it was. 1t took the water
out of all the wells, and for five hours
it was very dry town, as no one could
travel to the saloons. One man had all
the holes blown out of his coat, and it
had a lot of them. The county treasur-
er and two bank cashiers are missing
along with the funds, and it is insinuated
that there is something in the wind. 1t
was bad draught to sit in and take
cold.-A W. BeRaaC, IN Detroit Free
Press.