Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-23
MARKED by RUINS
Appearance Of the Late Mime
sofa Twister on Its De-
structive Errand.
Startling Instances ofIts Gigan-
tic and Merciless Force
Described.

WELLS Mimi, Special, June oO.-The
queer antics ola cyclone seem almost be-
You'd human belief and yet people who
have been very near to one and witnessed
the work of destruction are ready 10 believe
anything. SO it is in the case OF the resi-
dents around this place and the various
points visited by the whirling funnel. This
one differed little from its fellows and was
guilty OF many a strange and startling
freak, showing more conclusivcly than ever
that cyclone is as rcnarkn BILE and uncanny
as it is destructive.
For instance, between Winnebago City
and Wells, young lad named Burton,
aged sixteen, started across the field from
his home, and had walked more than
mile before he paid much attention to the
peculiar conditions of the atmosphere.
Suddenly the roaring, shrekins sound
| came to his ears and the scene changed in
stant!y. The sky or black as night al
most and the boy saw the huge writing,
road speed. Almost before he had
q chance to think tho funnel was
upon him. II caugh, him in its embrace
and 4whirled him high in the mir, across
fields and trees and with rapidity that he
| will never forget. He IS carried nearly
halfa mile anu then deposited near u fence
scarcely q quarter of Is mile from his home.
Strange to say, he was not hurt in the least.
His descent to the earth was not sudden.
and in little while he recovered sufficient
ly to go home and tell his strange story to
his
TERRoE-srRIcKEN RELATIVES.
who believed him dead. They had seen
the cyclone approaching HIM and were al
most crazed with griet and horror when he
disappeared from view. Strangely enough
the house was passed by. The boy was un-
able TO give All iuteiiigible account OF his
airy flight. 1t ali happened so quick. and
he was so confused and frightened, that he
was unconscious during his remarkable
| trip. 1t is q great wonder that he did no.
| die of fright.
Ten miles south of Vim baso City
| farmer, named Emerson, was at work in o
| field with his drill and IL team OF horses
He noticed the gathering clouds and the
queer color Of the sky but thinking that
only an ordinary thunder st, -m was APP
preaching he kept on until it was too late
WITH AN ANGRY ROAR,
as though mad at the tarmer's unconscious
| defiance. the tunue!-shaped cloud seized the
man and the drill and whrled them over
! the top OF q two-siory house and depos. ed
them almost as soon again. L.: farmer
| was thrown face downward in the mud,
where ne was almost completely covered
| with earth. water and splIuters from the de-
moished house. His fall had not injured
him much, but his body had been twisted
almost like one twists a taper for the candle,
and US usual his greatest rains were in Lis
back. Emerson will live. The drill was
an indescribable mass of wheels iron and
wood. Strange to say the team was not
touched. The only injury to them was
several trivial cuts made by the harness
and tugs rs they were torn away.
| About mile off the Omaha road and
about two miles northeast o! Winnebaeo is
large orchard owned by man named
Rckart. The cyclone passed directly
through this, and utterly destroyed every
| tree in its path. Not only 1T, but 1t
CARRIED THEM AWAY
| and left q clean lane directly through the
| center OF the orchard. 1t W s rs clear as
| though human bands had cut it out. The
trees along the side were entirely stripped
| OF their bark and branches and presented
nude and lonely appearance.
| Just little while be.ore the cloud struck
| the school house at Sherburnc, one OF the
little school girls WAS noticed comm. across
| field with her books under her arm She
| was perhaps 500 yards distant when the
| school house was struck and destroyed, and
| the teacher believed her lost
when he started to look for
her after the aw.1l monster
| of wind and rain had passed. Not so. She
| was found lying against large tree near
| by. crying as ii her heart would break, but
! not injured in the least. In some remark
able manner the cyclone had suddenly
shifted its course after Destroying the
school, and thus the little girls lie was
| spared.