The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-09-22

pluck as you
see them now,
for. will venture 70 say that, no man
ever went through more fear-inspiring
experience than did once. Tell YOU
the story? Why, certainly. But / am
not very good at a yarn, and / can only
give you the bare facts without lescrip-
tive ornamentation.
at happened this way: The year was
1873 or 1879, forget which ANYWAY.
1t was some time in July. The weather
had been pretty hot, and it was Just the
sort OF day for breeding tornado.
But ] am getting aheAd of my story
already, not being very expert In the
way of anecdote. was working ON 4
one-horse railroad in southern Kansas.
The superintendent wired me TO fetch
my engine distance of about seventy
miles to place called Peterstown. II
was wanted to haul lot of perlshable
freight, mostly market produce, which
had got shunted off by some accident
onto side track and was in danger Of
spelling. A suit against the company
might have followed, and the business
had to be attended TO in hurry. There
we're only so,a,, l,,,c,,,,..,.....' - =,
road barr,n nr ,,vo . ~ 49, E, ou .ne
disabled. s'.s "sse
"Weu. mat IN he TOO lo,,,. ,,,,,,,>;, I,
got fuel and water aboard ! 3 o,,ie,.,, r' s. :
possible and started for Peterstown,
taking 1t rather easily, because the
track wasn't in condition To stand fast
out from INV st,,rting Mace an, /, '1 hss
gone sixteen miles ,er,ars sy,,sn ' ~,
ticed some ancer.lools,n, c,o,,as -, ~. ~
western horizon, 49, - 80
..The day was exceeainolv sr,t~
and there was \ curions sort "a r.,as,
over the inndseane yvl,;ch nal. i, ,ss,s,.
sort 81 feverish i ean,t lbinI, iii Ne, bat
ter word for describing d There Svss
something unnatural abonf tha' I ,,aa y =.
ance Of evervthinp. Nv brennan IN, ne, =
bow who had been brought mn In that
region. and he said that Il ,oata5 III, Laa =
tornado coming ne orsbt - 'i hs.a
been n good indge n ,tbs s,,,n,,. 80
because the Whole ~ bis fariin -,
Gather with all their nronertv and i've s
Stock. had been y,ined MI Nv 's,,ot a
.swisser', as thew cal ,en wb sasn he =
WINS hardly old enop,h - toad,. Nc
"pr ,he ,,ne ,.s,s 1870 : s sss,.,,. .,.., .
o. ten miles f,rthsr = S.nse ~ S.e e,sa ~
sio,ds haS 1901 - 800 -. sasa III ~
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pa 1880 " : ,.s.s - .ha. :. +, ,,-,.
on you 80 &c snas ~ . aifeesty
so !, .Iwn.s s =. as. 1T. .y,
"ns' pi'eu- "nae
% !. .T,.ar .,,,,r. .,.,sI na..h.... ~
ey always sl a; i raEe /; ne eh ne ne
s sa,a' anu We A'e ~ - 'He 'fasA u
".Then we'll run away from 1t, /
guess says !, pulling the throttle wide
open. But the hoy, he said nothing.
only watched the clouds in thedistance.
.sBy this time the pointed cloud had
got very much bigger, the lower end of
It nearly touching the ground. It grew
rapidly larger and larger and seemed to
be approaching at great rate Of
speed. while the rest of the view to-
ward the west and southwest became
blurred 10 the eye, so that nothing
could be made ont clearly. saw that