Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-01-02
ABOUT uYbLoNEs.
Interesting treats of Frisky Wind Storms
-~ in Kansas.

interesting FREAKS OF FriSi>y Wind Storms
in Kansas.
While crossing Kansas somebody intro
duced the subject of cyclones. Don't you
live in perpetual dread of those devasta-
ting wind storms--those terrible manifcs-
tatlons Of the angry elements, commonly
called cyclones?" asked the Massachusetts,
parson.
We'll, not to any great extent" an
swered the passenger from Sedgwick coun.
ty. "You see, we. I'LL have a cyclone hole
in the back yard, and when the elements
look little too manifesting for comfor.
we take to kiver till the shows over You
don't mind cyclones u great deal after
you've lived right among 'em for while;
and, besides, back east you only hear half
the story. Cyclones, especially Kansas
cyclones, have their good freaks is we'll rs
bad They amt always hs.,t on devilmenr,
but often do man big favor when he's
in tight place. Why, last summer, " hen
Bill Simkins, whose ranch jines mine. was
short OF help at harvest time, a cyclone
came prancing along just as he finished
cutting his five hundred acres of wheat,
gathered every sheaf up clean and stacked
1t round his thrashing machine. Pur.iest
stacks that were ever seen in Se:lgwick
county, too; people came thirty miles to
see EN-
"That re:--int.s me OF q favor /, cyclone
did me back in the spring Of rs" sail the
passenger from Sumner county. Il was
then li7ing up on the Smoky Hill river, on
rented land. The outlook wasn't very
glittering, and SO l made up ray mind onc
morning TO move down to Sumner county
and take up u quarter section. talked i,
over with my wife, and before long we had
our traps toget her, ready to start. Well,
that night IL froicsome but gentle and
obliSing cyclone picked up the house and
entire outfit and set 'em down safe and
sound almost before you could say 'scat'
on the best unoccupied hundred and sixty
acres in Sumner. Swept up the old ranch
clean: didn't leave behind Il thing that was
worth bringing away, and didn't shake Il
brick off the chimney. Found my AK and
wood pile right by the back door, too us
usual"
"Did it move the wells" asked the con
suciptive passenger
We'll. no." answered the passenger from
Sumner county: "you see, the we'll be-
longcd to the man who owned the ground"
II remember tina: cyclone said the ed
itor OF the Wakarusa Bir1 of Freedom.
But have in mind another cyclone whose
work was far more miraculous, and which
saved many valuable lives, including my
own.
ii WIS returning from Dodge City. where
had been attending as a delegate state
temperance convention. just little bi,
west Of Florence the engineer spied wild
freight coming round a curve toward us
with the throttle open.
Some of the passengers. who were look
ing out Of the windows, saw it almost at
the same moment with the engineer, and
| their cheeks blanched, you may believe.
We bruced ourselves for the expected
crash, and though probably it was not
more than i've seconds, it seemed to be y
year before could draw another breath.
Then somebody looked out OF the rear
door, swung his b at and gave three cheers.
The freight train. which n moment before
bad seemed to be coming down on us like
the wolf on the fold, was now speeding
| away behind us toward the setting sun.
IA bob tailed cyclone, which had been
lowering in our rear for half an hour or SO,
had saved rs
"At the very moment our destruction
had seemed inevitable the cyclone had
caught up with us, our train had been
tlIGCO lTOHl Guc tflCA, "ulIc tIc W iII
! freight had passed under us, and we had
been set down again on the rails SO softly
that not even my pocket fli,sk was broken
Then the cyclone had gone on its way re-
| joicing.
"Oi conrse the engineer stuck to his
post, and we pulled into Florence on time.
Conductor Brad growled IL little, because,
as he said, the 'thunderholt' was entitled
20 al ~ II.
road regulations, the cyclone shoald have
| lifted the freight and allowed our train to
pass under; but, you may believe, we were
! all mighty glad the thing turned out as
we'll as it did, and none of US carried home
any hard feelings against the bobtailed
cyclone. "--.Scott Way in Puck.
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