Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-12
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Some sample Stories of Their Very Eccen-
trio Performances Told by q Lineal De-
aoandept of q. w,
Salt Lake Tribune.

NElC II
scendent of G. w.
Salt Lake Tribune.
A gentleman from Nevada and another
from Kansas were sitting with a Coloradan
on the Walker House porch Sunday evening
during the lively little dust storm which
drove everybody else indoors and filled all
eyes, ears and pores exposed with Utah
soil.
owe been here quite a while" said the
Nevada man, ''but I've never seen a wind
here that amounted to anything. / tell
YOU that Nevada is the place where they
have winds. I've seen the wind come up
there all in a minute and everything would
fy. Cobblestones and signs and tin cans
and barrels and goats and dogs would all
90 down the street together. One day /
saw the tin from a roof 100 feet long rolled
up like the diploma of a young girl gradu-
ate and carried the whole length of the
town in Virginia City, and as soon as it
got beyond the city limits, where there
was nothing to break the force ofthe wind,
il Just spread the roof out like a tableclOth
and tore it into Shreds like it was tissue
E'That's nothing, rsarcastically remarked
the Kansas gentleman, you can talk as
much as you please about high winds, but
I'm telling you that Kansas is the banner
State for zephyrs. Why, that's where we
have cyclones and corkscrew winds. You
read q good deal about cyclones in the
newspapers, but you never see q word about
the cOrkscrew gales; you bet you don't.
Any man who dared to publish a word
about them would be lynched! II people
outside knew about them it would stop
immigration and spoil the prospects of the
| whole State,
Those cOrkscrew winds Just whirl around
and Irvine into all sorts of places in the
most eccentric manner possible. There
have been several cases of people having
their necks wrung off Just like you'd twist
a chickens head of. People who under
stand the country all build their fences II
the tract of climate where the winds prevail
SOS to have their pOSt-hOles dug for them.
I've seen q pile of lumber stand near the
site of a fence for three months waiting fol
one of these breezeS, Just because the own
er was too slack and lazy to dig the holes,
and so kept waiting from day to day hoping
for a breeze. It's 4 risk, though, because
there might happen TO come along an un'
usually big blow and dig q cellar, but IL
that case the man would probably build &
house where he had intended to put
fence. I've seen one of these gales enter
window which had been left open and
corkscrew 4 baby out of its crib and twist
the bedclothes into q coil so hard they
could only be separated with an axe. I've
seen cook stove waltzed into the middle
of the room and all sorts of things like thai
occur during those kind Of winds. You
don't have much wind in Colorado, dc
yOu?'
well, no." said the COloradan, 1--WE
don't have any winds to amount to any
thing, but it blows Il few minutes there
now and then. The winds are peculiar,
too; | never saw anything like them any
where else. They are what you might
call discriminating breezes. They dOn't
have so much force rs some combined ali
I've heard of, but what they do counts,
They don't seem to penetrate like a New
England nOrthcrner, but still they do pen
citrate a little way, and they have their
effect, too. 4 northeastern, you know,
will cut right into q mans bones and mar
row and chill him to the quick. These
airs of Borcas do not 90 but 4 little way, Il:
they blow funny, too. I've seen a man &C
along the street, and it would be blowing
Il hurricane on one side of him, and IN the
other side it would be dead calm. I've
seen Il mule stand braced against the wind
blowing behind her, with her tail blown
right up straight, and one ear put away
ahead of her nose, while the ear On the
other side would be in u natural, calm pc
sition, and that side of the beast would be
sweating. 1t will take the skin off ont
side of your face and not touch the other
| saw a man with whiskers get one side o
his face shaved by Il wind like that, n
clean rs any barber could do it. A small
boy and n dog were walking up the stree
with him at the time. and they each lost
one ear. I'vc seen 4 man lose one leg O
his pants and Il coat tail, and get his hal
knocked all over on one side. They don't
do any particular damage, those winds
but they are as peculiar rs can be-"