Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-09
WHAT A CYCLONE DIp.
Scene In q Side show IN North C.r.,,a.
During Gale.

scene In Side show In North Csrolfos
During Gale.
Prom the New YorE World.
Astrolling Snowman had sc, up his tent near
the railroad depot IN North Carolina town.
All along the front Of the tent were
pictures of "a, women ossihed men, boa
Constructors, living skeletons. mermaids
and other choice spring and summer
fabrics, and business promised 90 be good.
'ns' before noon a qaeer-looking cloud came
up IN the southwest There was a roar and n
grow and young cyclone came tearing along
IL blew down old mill aud barn OF two and
'heh struck tue tent When n PASSED on there
WASH any tent left There wasn't atv show
man ihere. There wasn't the slightest truce Of
a Tat woman. living skeleton. a C,reassian Girl
or tee only guyastieutus ever born in captivity
IN North America. The site WAS swept bare
crowd of Us went down from the hotel an
soon Us u was known that n cniamtty baa &C.
cured and We began searching. Ne found
. .ue PROPRIETOR ten rods away. lying between
Two saw logs. He wasn't much hurt ana a.
sool as he had taken min OF whisky he vas
| tSE 70 direct the search after his curio.i-
ues. The fat woman. who Was down on the
oi,.s as weighing 500 pounds. was found in a
cornheld across the railroad tuaeks Sic v.,
cut aud bruised. but no bone. we're broken A.
Restrain ms tears
! ao"A az her. he said % me a. he threw IN
v,.'.,' ,..i'es fortv minutes ago that woman
TT.iHn'u close on TO So0 pounds a-d was the
! Una btr,.iSst fat woman IN IA. world shc's
Ios' over ERli her weight and la. n,ra ton
4 years. III she hain't had 400 iouuJs lioved
r'shs or her then I'm no Exhibitor OF living
lew minutes later party found a., liy;,s
| sAeietol- down in a gravel pit b. nina "a. col.
| 'oh factory He had escaued anv srrio,.s ,,i,rv
ab.- as a. 'heeifui ne could be expected Il
| Dl h",utuI OF bones under the circumstances
| "u.is ne was being brought IN under a MACS
am he declared that he was hungry lo- The
NJ tiuie IA twenty years. and when tie how
| cried out: ~ - "''' ''id nc
ITS just my Consumed luck. He,u D.
hoilerln for pork and beans In i.gs'n an Lo,r
ana a,ofe the woek Is out he'll gain twcnty
| Po"hHs ana Won b. living skeleton no ,,,.,r.i
tenii!.onheh haven't wept In over forty years
out We got 10 weep now
| The ClrCassian glrl had been ,r, ao,-- a..
! ROAD ana lited over fence into an ,rrb.-S
| Hau tne distinguished honor of escort,p,, ~,
oach she had lost her Circaasiau Wiz, "a
| me- H'net a'ucies necessary 60 become CircaSsian
TO foot She had never bacn banll.a -.
way and II wasat in the cou;f.ct
| uIeat snakes, but look at herr Jas, LOU
a. ,, her. walled tie Snowman as led her Ia
10y minutes ago she wa the bo-sest Cir
cassiah glil ever exhibited in th,s ,.oun,-,.
| under canvas She was ri-h; from Cir,.ss.,.'
where they sell en- for s2OlO npiere bn,
@hat Is she now? lake her away be.ore nv
| heart IS broken 'N'e my
The boys found the boa constructor ia
was quarter OF a mile away In a negro mas
garden. lie was dead. He had h,ep dol
great man years. though he Was Kent cotlcd ms,
IA siass case. and there was a sign r.a,,i,et
DO not agitste the Implacable repiile vino can
crush an OK IN two minutes" They cam. drag
ging the stuffed skin behind them. ana as t1o
| snowman saw the many rims ami -. "a
noticed that the he al was missiur, bts ,,-,,, -,
| came nm and he had to ait down on n vssn,
wheel While some of us were irving 10 rap-
| sole MIN by figuring out how ne coIld ,,rt the
poa constructor up and make three or four
anaconGas of the pieces. a coloreG mn,, brou,,It
| IN the mermaid--''the only genui,e s.,,,,.,,s
| ever SHOWN on the American continent ~.
had been found IN q cotton field. 81, MAS
stone dead She seemed TO have ben .p,il,nr
al some joke the living skeleton had got of on
.ne IA, woman Just as the cyclone came into
town, Tor there a grin OF ples.ure
on the crevice supposed 90 r,nr,sent
her mouth She had died hsppy but
| when the negro laid her down before ~. sbovr-
man In four chunks and three pieces and one
| SPLINTER, the poor man turned his face away and
| was undone. Nothing else could be found We
hunted all that afternoon for th, cu,a.ti,.,,,,.
ana the cuaderango. but they had probably
| escaped to the woods 10 howl for gore ms tie
darkness fell and become .,ying terrors until
hunted down by determined men. 4 offered 10
| collect a band and search the county for lie
ossliied man, whose bones had been turning 10
chalk for the last twenty-eIght wears. and the
sherln saic be d raise a posse and go out and
look Tor the wax figure OF Gen Jackson lickiny
| TIE British at New Orleans. but the Snowman
said 1t was no use. He had been crushed 10
earth, and though he lad 400 pounds of fat
woman and Pretty fair living skeleton 20
start life anew he could not do the phanix act
| for shucks