Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-15
ABOUT cycloNEa
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In Kansas.

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while crossing Kansas somebody intro-
auced the subject Of cyclones. .Don,t you
i've IN perpetual dread Of those devasta-
unR WIND storms-those terrible manifes-
ea.,ons OF the angry elements, Commonly
parson. as'sss
wei, not TO any great extent.p an.
1900 ehe passenger from Sedgwick coun.
~ ,ou see, we all have a cyclone hole
look little too manifesting for comfort
we take to kiver till the shows over yo,,
don't mind cyclones great deal After
you've lived right among 'em for 4 whiIe.
and besides, back east you only hear half
the story. Cyclones, especially Kansas
cyclones, have their good freaks as we'll a.
Dad They amt always bent on deyilmept.
put often do man big favor when he's
IN tight place. Why, last summer. when
niii Simkins, whose ranch jiDes mine. wa
snort OF help at harvest time, cyclone
came prancing along just as be finished
cutting his i've hundred acres of wheat
gathered every sheaf up clean and stack ed
IL round his thrashing machine Purtiest
stacks That were ever seen in SedRwick
county, too; people came thirty miles to
see 'en."
That reminds me Of favor cyclone
did me back in the spring Of 49, said the
passenger from Sumner county. II was
then living up on the Smoky Hill river. on
rented land. The outlook wasn't yery
giittering. and SO made up my mind on.
morning to move down to Sumner county
and take up quarter section. talked It
over with my wife, and before long we had
our traps together, ready to start, Well.
that night a frolicsome but gentle and
obliging cyclone picked up the house and
entire outfit and set 'em down safe and
sound almost before you could say 'scatp
on the best unoccupied hundred and sixty
acres in Sumner. Swept up the old ranch
clean; didn't leave behind thing that was
worth bringing away, and didn't shake 4
brick of the chimney. Found my AK and
wood pile right by the back door, too, as
usual"
did it move the wells" asked the con
sumptive passenger.
We'll, no." answered the passenger from
Sumner county; you see, the we'll be-
longed to the man who owned the ground. /"
Il remember that cyclone" said the ed
itor OF the Wakarusa Bird Of Freedom.
But have in mind another cyclone whose
work was far more miraculous, and which
saved many valuable lives. including my
own.
II was returning from Dodge City, where
had been attending as delegate state
temperance convention. just little bit
west of Florence the engineer spied wild
freight coming round 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 braced ourselves for the expected
crash, and though probably it was not
| more than five seconds, it seemed to be a
| year before could draw another breath.
Then somebody looked out of the rear
door, swung his hat and gave three cheers.
The freight train, which a moment before
had seemed to be coming down on us like
the wolf on the fold, was now speeding
away behind us toward the setting SUM-
| "A bob-tailed cyclone, which had been
lowering in our rear for half an hour or So
| had saved US
! AT the very moment our destruction
had seemed inevitable the cyclone had
caught up with us, our train had beer
| lifted from the track, while the wild
freight had passed under us, and we had
been set down again on the rails so softly
that not even my pocket flask was broken
Then the cyclone had gone on its way re-
joicing
''Of course the engineer stuck to hi.
post, and we pulled into Florence on time
Conductor Brady growled little, because
as he said, the 'thunderbolt was entitled
to the right of way; and, according to rail
road regulations, the cyclone should have
lifted the freight and allowed our train t.
pass under; but, you may believe, we wer'
| all mighty glad the thing turned out a
well as it did, and none of us carried home
any hard feelings against the bobtailet
cyclone. "-Scott Way in Puck.