The Penn's Grove record., 1894-11-16
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81 don't believe that fright evel
turned q persons hair white of
hand" said Henry Wetherell, an en-
ginser OF the jersey Central Ra lroad.
Iii such o thing could happen these
locks would not be as black as yor
see them now, for / will venture tt
say that no man ever went through q
mdrs fear-inspiring experience than ]
did once. Toll you the story? Why,
certainly. Bnt / am not very good
at a yarn, and ] can onlygive you the
bare facts without descriptive orna.
mentatiun-
ut happened this way: The yeaI
was 1878 or 1879, / forget which.
Anyhow 1t was sometime in July.
The weather had been pretty hot,
and II was just the sort Of day fol
breeding q tornado
ssEutI sm getting ahead Of my
story already, not being very expert
In the way Of anecdote. was work
ing on a one.hoFse road In Southern
Kansas Tho Superintendent wired
me to fetch my engine a distance Of
about seventy miles to q place called
PsterxSown 1t was wanted to haul
q lot Of perishable freight, mostly
market produce, which had shunted
Oh by some accident onto a side track
and was in danger of spelling. A
suit against the company might have
followed, and the business had to be
attended 10 In q hurry. There were
only seven. locomotives on the road,
barring two or three that were dis
abied.
well, not to be too long-winded, !
got fuel and water aboard as quickly
a. possible and started for Peters
town taxing 1t rather easily, be-
cause the track wasn't In condition
to stand fast running well. / was
about IN hour out from my starting
place. and had gone sixteen miles
pc. haps when l noticed some queer
clouds on the western hors
lion.
THE day was exceedingly sultry,
aud there was q curious sort Of glare
over the landscape whieh&maae 10
ots ~ iossaH 'ngnA
ma 49, ~ 49,. s.
~ aoo u
rs,ssn 80 No. III haS haay
brought up In that region, and he
said chat 1t looked like a tornado
coming. He ought to have been a
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aid ,1as 80. WA wise. ~ ssa 11
lot be likely to bit us But he was
IS pale al . ghost Says he,
"sDon't you nee that, it Is directly
OF usP'
why, certainly, I replied.
What OF that?,
"'They always travel northeast
said. and we are right in the
OF IL
"'Then We'll run away from it II
.uess says l. pulling the throttle
iothing-only watched the clouds In
he distance.
by this time the pointed cloud
lad got very much bigger, the lower
OF It nearly touching the ground. |
i grew rapidly larger and larger and
to be approaching at ! great
ave OF speed. while the rest OF the
lew toward the west and southwest
became blurred to the eye, 80 that
lothing could be made out clearly. u
aw that it was a tornado that was
ominE. and NO mistake. for the |
srA-s- ~.e;-oh had the shape
4 2 sissp a. e pi insy blacEusalstinctly
,utlinsa n ~ Snr. / begass againss
The genersl e ortnntsned myss.to feel
badly i.ls could take mNow
asd ~, sne a,o0 wnS i looked at the sys