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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-25
The News

Is growing steadily, and rapidly
enough TO positively assure its
owners that il will within the
second year of its existence equal
the best record ever made in
Providence by an afternoon
paper.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-25
The News

Believes in the future greatness
OF Providence. All its energies
are given TO advancing the in.
erests Of this city and state.
-Nor Providence and Rhode Isl
and, is its motto.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-25
The News

Prints more news abOut rro'i
dence than either OF the other
evening papers, and often more
than both of them together.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-25

An anonymous writer TO the German
press predicts that the peace Of Europe
can hardly last beyond the fall Of 1894. -
Woonsocket Reporter.
IL must really be that he is going t.
publish "a poem on that date.
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THE NEWS'S TURN NOW.

The exhibition of joy which the sight
OF Mr.. Cleveland causes among patriotic
Democrats is loyelier Co contemplate now
than 1T will be later.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Toadyism always has an object in view.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-25

That young Khedive ought to make ar
rangement to borrow a small section Of
Gov. Flowers backbone.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Wait until the youngster gets his
growth. There is no telling what he may
develop.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-01-25

The Orientals have slaves to dance for
them. hut at an American dance all are
on the same footing. p. V. ID. Times,
Hardly. The audience is the slave here.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-22
tn emselves Will.

were demolishing their house. They
came out of the cellar to find only a pile
of splintered timbers in lieu OF what five
minutes before had been a pleasant home.
TACKLINa AN OLD ELM.
The next structure to receive the shock
of the storm was the house of William
Walker. This stood upon a ridge, and to
reach it the tornado must climb a wide
field sloping gradually to the northeast.
Walkers house was of brick and built
after the substantial manner of forty
years ago. 1t was two stories high
with a wooden addition in the rear. Back
of the house stood a lordly elm tree, old,
tough and defiant. On came the tornado.
Only for a moment did the old elm with
demon of the storm is on it and around it
in a moment. Whack, crack, and the old
tree is in ruins. The house mex receives
the battery and wrench of the storm and
it crumbles like a fragile toy in the hands
of a giant. The wooden addition is lifted
up and thrown over an hundred acre field.
One of the window shutters OF this
p1TU OI Iut HOUSE WIS lOulu ueaT Sdpbs
Todhunter's over three miles away
The family attempt to reach the cellar
but are driven back into the house there
to be crushed and mangled in the general
ruin.
The artist has given a faithful repre-
sentatlon of the ruins, but neither pen
nor picture can convey an adequate
idea of the wreck and devastation that
appears along the path of the storm where
the debris is hurled by its violence. For
rods northeast OF the house this is strewn
while the ground looks as if a mighty
flood had swept over it, then subsidized
leaving its drift to mark its course.
Northeast of Walkers is a ridge. Around
the northern base of this winds the
Pacific railroad, about se~venty-fiye feet
below the level of the ridge. n small
branch flows near by which is still lower
by twenty feet than the railroad. Direct
ly in the course of the tornado stand the
coal shed and water tank. After demol-
ishing the coal shed and %unrooiing the
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In the nomenclature of m~eteorology
the word cyclone is used to signify any
extended area of low barometoric press
IRE. Anti-cyclone means a high barom-
eter. A low barometer generally fore
casts a storm. A high barometer indi-
Gates cooler, dryer weather. An isotherm
lisa line of equal temperature. An isobar
is a line of equal barometric pressure.
A tstorm center is the lowest point of
barometric pressure. The wind blows
to the right of the storm center, hence
the air reyolves around a storm center
in the opposite direction to the SUMS
course, or the hands Of a watch. A
cyclone is generally calm at the center.
A tornado's greatest activity is at the
center. Tornados, says Buchan, differ
widely and radically from cyclones. The
largest tornadoes are of so decidedly
smaller dimensions when compared with
the smallest cyclones, as to admit of no
shading ofthe one into the other.
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mound OF drift and sandstone. The
mound slopes gradually to the north
westward, but it's eastern and south
eastern planes are quite abrupt though
not p~recipitous. The height of this mound,
compared with the valley east OF it, in
which the tornado was formed, is nearly
two hundred feet.
A PATHWAY.
One standing in the valley east of the
mound and looking to the southwest
beholds n long draw, guarded on the
southeast by a high ridge. This is the
watershed of Davis creek and the main
fork of Tabo. On the northwest side OF
the valley is the ridge that terminates in
the mound at Mayhem. At the head OF
the valley are the sources OF the waters Of
Davis creek which flows to the southeast,
and Sni-a-Bar, which flows to the north
ward. Turning TO the northeast one
looks down the fertile valley of the Tabo,
which is about ninety feet lower than
the ridges on either side. One versed in
storm action would at once say: "here is
a natural track of a tornado"
There are reports of a stiff blow over at
Chapel Hill, fifteen miles southwest of
MAYHEM, in which a farm house was
destroyed, several people hurt and a
school house blown away but this was not
a tornado. s
We are fully satisfied that the tornado
had its genesis in the valley that is
described above, and that the mound at
MAYHEM was one of the agents that pre-
cipitated it. An eyewitness says the
black funnel shaped cloud seemed to form
n few hundred yards south OF this mound.
Here a few trees were blown over, some
fences demolished and a straw-shed torn
away.
THE GENESIS OF DESTRUCTION.
The first house that was damaged was
that of A. II. Kelley, which stood one-hali
mile east of the mound. This was a one
story, wooden house of four rooms. 1t
was carried forty feet from its foundation,
Three of it's walls were torn down. One
fell to the south. The others were carried
clear away. Many trees were torn down,
some uprooted and blown away. The tops
OF all of them lay to the east or northeast.
The lighter debris of the house was
strewn over q field to the northeast to the
distance of a thousand yards.
From Kelley's, the storm now 2 perfect
fury in destructiveness, sped to the house
of William Stone which it hurled against
two large oak trees where it lodged.
Four hundred yards north of Stones is
a deep ravine which runs almost at right
angles to the curse of the storm. Rush
ing across this it veered about twenty
degrees to the left, climbed a ridge and
struck with full force the house OF Mrs.
Susan McElroy, who was living there
with her son-in-law, John Roach. This
was a one and a half story frame house
with an L. 1t was strongly built and
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Walt monroe Honored.

In tue arrangement OF the programme
for the Missouri Press Association, re-
Gently made in st. Louis, Walt M.
Monroe, of the Upton Times was hon
ored by being placed on the programme
to discuss the advertising Department
of a Model Newspaper" He was also
elected a delegate to the National Press
Association meeting in Chicago May
meeting of the National association
could be selected than Walt Monroe, and
the Gazette. is heartily glad that he will
repre-; ent the press OF Missouri at the
press meeting in Chicago. - Sedalia
Gazette.
Walt Monroe is n of the brightest
journalists in Missouri, a state that
can boast of a number of able and
piquant writer's. The INTELLIaENCER
joins with the Gazette in congratulating
Walt upon this recognition of his merits.
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SCHOOL LAW CHANGES.

The following are the changes that
were made in the Missouri school law
by the late legislature. 1t will be seer
that some very important notifications
have been made:
The institute may be held in May,
June, July or August.
Each institute is to determine by vote
when, where and how long the next
institute shall be held.
Each institute shall continue not less
than two weeks. "
Salary of conductor shall not excee
$37 so per week-instructors, $500 per
week.
Examining board to consist of com :
missioner, conductor and instructors.
No fees allowed board except commits
sioner who gets $40, and if he is not
conductor or instructor he gets $50
additional.
First grade certificates valid for three
years in county for which issued; second
for two years; third for N year.
One years experience necessary to OBJ
tain a first grade certificate.
Persons who for good and sufficient
reasons did not attend examinations
held by institute board of examiners can
be examined by commissioner on pay
ment of institute fee and $1.50.
Last three days of each institute to be
set aside as examination days.
Certificates from other counties may
be Endorsed by examining board without
fee.
Commissioner may endorse certificate
and charge 81 for same.
Training school abolished by striking
out Sees. 8, 6 and z of institute law.
Conductors and instructors of colored
institutes appointed by state board of
education. Compensation same as those
OF white Institutes. State auditor to
issue warrants for payment of such
conductors.
County court to appoint the two mem
bers OF the county institute board on OF
before the first day of May.
The commissioner the only member of
the institute that can serve as conductor
or instructor OF the institute, or receive
compensation thereof.
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and corn stalks and spattered with mud,
lay packed against the fence an inextri-
cable mass. AT places the fierce vigor OF
the storm broke through the elastic bois
dare, at others it played the bad boy at
the circus and "crawled under"
HOW IT WORKED AT FOUNTAINS.
The next house encountered was that of
Will s.. Fountain. This stood upon a
tongue OF land lying between Brush creek
and one OF it's tributaries, and near their
confluence. To reach Fountains the
storm had to veer a little to the left. This
led it up a slope, along which ran a rail
fence. For Two hundred yards the fence
was simply pounded to the ground "A
shapeless mass.
The currents that ragged around the
house would be difficult to describe. They
seemed to gather from the south, the west
and north all at once, and concentrate
their energy upon the coy little home of
Fountain and his wife. The house was
picked bodily up in the strong hands of
the storm and then hurled to the ground
twenty five feet away where it lies to-day
a shapeless mass, bearing mute testimony
to the irresistible force of a tornado. The
barn north of the house was torn from
it's foundation. A buggy and machine
house was demolished, and a straw shed
standing beside it was left untouched.
The trees that were uprooted or blown
down all fell with their tops to the south
' e asst. Fountain and his wife were in the
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protected by fruit trees. The storm
demon passed around an out house and
striking the dwelling with Irresistible
force shook it from its foundation and
battered it over to the northward. II
battles observation-disclosures and trees suf-
fered the fate OF the house.
Four hundred yards north of Mrs,
McElroy's was the house OF Hugh Nc
Elroy. This was also a one and q hall
story frame building. McElroy saw the
storm coming, and with his family took
refuge in n cellar. The house was as
complete a wreck as could be made. South
OF the house was an orchard in good
bearing. About half this was destroyed.
Trees lower down the hill pointed their
tops to the east. Those further up, to the
north. East of the house was n stalk field.
This was swept clean of all rubbish and
looked as if it had been drenched with
water forced through a mighty nozzle.
The two last houses were out of the
direct course of the storm. The defiec-
ton was caused by a depression in the
crest of the ridge. II seemed to seek
points OF minimum resistance.
A QUEER FREAK AT MEYERS.
One mile from McElroy's house stood
the new frame residence of Christ Meyers.
Meyers oldest boy, August, saw the
tornados' approach and gave the alarm.
All started for h cellar but were unable
to open the door. The destroyer was
sweeping northward here, but when q
little northwest OF the house it z~ig-zagged
sharply to the southeast and catching the
house fairly in its grasp dashed It madly
to the ground. The ruin was complete
not even the brick of the foundation were
left where the mason had placed them.
The family were crushed in the wreck,
then scattered around with the debris
which was hurled far and near. The
oldest ,girl was found one hundred and
fifty yards away out in the field. All were
hurt, but none fatally.
North of the house, running east and
west was a thrifty hedge fence. Against
this was thrown the lighter debris from
the house and outhouses, and it was O
sight to behold. Boards, splinters, lath
~kindling wood, doors, shutters, shingles,
scantling, pieces of broken furniture,
scraps of clothing, cooking utensils-a
a thousand things mingled with straw
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house and both badly hurt. The wonder
Is that they were not killed. While the
house was left a jumbled mass in one
corner of the yard, the lighter debris was
carried out into an adjoining field.
LIGHT OF A COOKING o V
From Fountains to Weltman's the next
scene OF destruction, iseabout one mile
and n half. Here the family were pre-
pairing supper, but seeing the storms
approach adjourned to the cellar. The
house was a strong one, but not for a
moment did it withstand this demon of
death and destruction. 1t was wrecked
and its timbers strewn out over the yard
in an instant. The cooking stove was
carried up in the air to an altitude of two
hundred feet where it turned over and
spilled the fire out. 1t was deposited in
u field an hundred yards from where it
started. At this place two oak trees
twenty inches in diameter were snapped
off like pipe stems while a chicken coop
was LETT unmov we'd.
Across the Tabo a short distance from
Weltman's was the home of John Wolfe.
This was also directly in the course OF the
storm, but fortunately for Mr.. Wolfe and
the little Wolves there is a good storm
cellar there, and into this they all betook
tn emselves while the raging elements
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a force it could not resist. This was a
strong suction or current still in advance
of it which was swirling along the
isobaric OF 29.30 above alluded to.
1t was this influence that directed it
down the draw between MAYHEM mound
and the elevation over to the southeast.
The same force drew it out of the valley
of the Tabo where that valley changes its
direction to the north and pulled it over
out of that over the ridge east of Dover
where it ceased its terrible work.
WIND VAGARIEs.
A mirror was picked up in the barn at
Nettlewood. Whence it came no one
knows.
A pair of spectacles was found lodged
in a tree twenty feet from the ground and
uninjured.
A red table cloth was recovered a mile
from the line upon which it had been
pinned to dry.
At the Hutchinson place a wire bird cage
was blown u quarter of q mile and hung
on a barbed wire fence.
A coat was blown from the Walker
place and hung upon the fence of Mr..
Lillis' farm, having travelled two miles.
A string of seed corn was found a mile
from home, every grain of corn gone from
the cobs which were still hung together.
At the Lucke place where the entire
house was wrecked, a bottle of whisky
ctondinr n a SnIniI fable was uptourhad
Mrs. Lucke's body was found fifty yards
from the house, and beside it was the
cooking stove over which she was prepar-
ing supper when the storm come.
A tin wash basin was blown from the
Kroeck place and landed on the back
porch at Nettlewood, having travelled a
quarter OF a mile through dense timber.
A thimble lost some weeks before in the
yard at Nettlewood, was carried on the
point of a splintered plank into a hole
less than six inches in width, which was
torn during the storm in the weather
boarding of the house.
ayes, sir, gentlemen said Mr.. Fast
talk, as the George Washington club was
deep in n discussion OF the phoro-nomic
electrical phenomenon accompanying
storms, "Yes sir, gentlemen, l can assure
you that electricity was generated to a
most powerful degree in the last tornado.
l have positive proof of the fact myself.
Why sirs, l was terribly shocked when I
heard of it although l was ten miles
away"
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Gov. Stones address before the New
York board of trade was set up for last
weeks INTELLIsENcER, but crowded
olt for want of space, and appears in
this issue. The fact that II eloquent
g,yernor's remarks stirred the goldbugs
a I'd their eastern and western organs up
in lively n would indicate that he
said something worth reading.
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THE TORNADGS' TRACK.
What an Intelligencer Man saw
of its Work and Actions
in a Careful Survey.
VARIED SCENES AND INCIDENTS
Badly Crushed BuiIdmG-Ruins too
Desolate to PhOt0grapI-Many
Queer Happenings III Which
the Wind Played II Part.

One day this week an INTELLIaENcER
attache made a minute examination of the
work of the tornado hat swept across
Lafayette county on h evening of the
18th inst. He followed its course from
house to house, across ridges, ravines and
fields, through timber lands n over
water courses. He was accompanied by
Judge Robert Hale and Luther Saunders,
the photographer. He describes his trip
as follows:
Mayhem is a thrifty, growing station
on the Chicago and Alton railroad, thirty
eight miles from Kansas City. The east
ern portion of the town rests upon a high
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tank, the demon OF destruction dipped
down into the branch and played wild
havoc with the scrubby oaks that lined
it's banks. These were smashed down.,
pulled up, rolled over and whipped to
shreds. A post standing twenty-five feet
from any other obstruction was wrenched
from the ground and hurled up the
opposing hill slope. How is one to com
prehend a force that can thus seize upon
an isolated post and draw it straight up
out OF its socket in the firm ground?
DIRE DESTRUCTION AT HUTCHAsoN's.
Up the incline thirteen hundred yards
to the northeast, cresting the shapely
ridge that parts the waters of Tabo and
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-22

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Miles, the eminent Indiana specialist,
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it attracts the attention of the millions
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completely cured after twelve years suffer-
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The Waverly Mill, a 10 barrel roller
mill in good running order. will be sold
publicly in Waverly May 1st, 1893, to the
highest bidder for cash, unless sold pri-
vately before that time.
WAVERLY MILLIN Co,
WaVerly. Mo.
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only 27 per cent of the whole number OF
people in the country. This enormous
disparity, he said, was TO he found rela-
lively the same all along the line,
whether in reference to banks other than
national, to bank clearings, TO loan and
trust companies or what not, He called
attention 10 the significant fraternity
between the west and south, TO the
meeting Of southern governors to be
held at Richmond aud the congress of
the western states beyond the Mis-
sissippi.
lie warned his hearers that the west
was already the seat of power and of
empire and that the states of the Mis-
sissippi valley, unified and cooperating,
coula dominate the republic. Public
sentiment there, developed along a sin
gle line and moved by a common pur-
pose, would become omnipotent and
overwhelming. lie said that the people
of the west preferred peace and invited
cooperation with other sections, includ-
ing the Feast, but that they were CON
sclou5 of their power and were preparing
for conflict.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
1.-The law of self-preseryation," he
concluded, lis no less imperious in the
west than in the east. 1t is supremely
important that mutual confidence, re-
spect and interest should link these
mighty states of the Mississippi valley
to this glorious metropolis of the west
crn hemisphere, and that you join us
and aid us in removing difficulties and
in solving all these complicated, con
fusing and ~stupendOus problems in a
way worthy of ourselves and best for all
the sections and for. all the people of
our. beloved land"
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Newspaper editors have to be very care
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room for the following testimonial
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The elegant book, "New and Startling
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striking the mound at Mayview was con-

striking the mound at MAYHEM was con-
verified into n whirlwind, IL rotary storm
n tornado. or course, other conditions
favorable to tornado energy prevailed.
There was a violent electrical tension.
The atmosphere was abnormally humid.
The temperature was high and the topo-
graphy n positive agent.
While the tornado had to cross a ridge
here and there it was still in a depression.
1t always crossed ridges Mt their most
accessible point and twice or thrice
variedits course to enable it to cross with
the greatest ease.
Left to itself it is possible it would nave
soon run its course, but it was drawn by
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Guaranteed Cure.

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