New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-19
he SLEPT THROUGH 1T ALL.

From The Chicago Record.
Sol Pitcher who lives at Rushvle, Neb., whsfs
Kiniev has been unkind enough to eliminate hin
from the public service Is renowned as the so1He
wSak' paltry and vaciating way may sleep
through the hours past the time Tor rousas 0o
once he was n Long Pine attending knd
OF shs 10 h on Pr l nG beore he day
for his departure that il he aid catch The north;
hound b train at @ Of he = Sne G' term o court
SO he went to the proprietor OF the hotei anu
10 be woke up at $50 in tn the I mS5nns
Look here, my friend said sol: n you YOU. h s,at
OF writing number down in a book doesn't gsI
me out Of bed. You've got 10 give the tnns pI
steal attention. and don't rely on any uhus'""'"
i assure you that you'll be up to catch thai
III don't I'll be a mad man." =, .,.
quite right. too; BE assured ma, u, nt wskns
cumstances will | escape gong IN ana "a""'
And don't go away I'll I'm dressed" b.. r,s.a,
The landlord said he would obey ana ne meaA s
n 700 Sol went 10 bed and was soon dFeiihl.s
that he was running against WestoveI ior Sou ~.
IHoS9 n yIriorslv hot day but although other mea
sleni t,reasIiy pitcher slumbered win the swest,
ns cp W wbo an had been tossing resessy about On
their beds were reused by yen from the NM =,
a IT,
treat wind and all hands made for the ceiis'
Pitcher alone remained undisturprd a.. ,.,,,,x
The house taken up ~ tHe ,ilsh' rsa
cyclone and blown about iorty r0Hs HoHa4 ~. .a,o,
road track where IL cOllided with n grain eIsVato
Roth buildings cola sed with thGndeFlnS ctasaaes
beginning at that instant and coninpns ioT os rs
r,,iuufes empty freight cars were bloWh az"
toward th, nucleus Of disaster ana plled W y.
nyran,id OF debris Several corncr.bs were Nalts..
That wayand for half an hour more OF res, -,Sst
az though the world was COMING 70 an emu "s'
there i'm the Elkhorn yard at Long Pine. ..
II was O'clock I'm the morning before the ~
pie Gained down from their excitement shu "a
ihcy set M work digging among IN" ucpiiss 4,
remove whomsoeyer might BE- there. althousn
wns nrctty we'll established that all had escayss
The cxcaVators had reached the fFeign,cAi s Zoo,
nm, when one OF them came upon human '0v ~
and yelled about IT, They were encoufasea III. ~
believe the person was alive because o, me ian
or tho flesh and after awhile IL was round lhas
lot of timbers had fallen In a trusslike mhsna,,N
and that whoever was underneath was p'op""'
fairly shielded ,, .r, hauled
ont In nm apparently unconscious condition sish
iust as they got him into the drug store W."
had escaped humiliation. he opened MS eye. hs
THUNDER and lightning. Is II sun-up !, me
roared. looking out at the blazing siare "
September sun. ,,,,r tone
Rest easy. don't think you're badly huIs wv
Won must be quiet. It's IL o'clock ,sa
Eleven? Eleven In the morning. Get out On u, bs
road people told that man Id Hex him , in
didn't wake mo In time for that ! CLOCK man
sleep till II when he made special pont - I'm
TO be reused at $50. Who took my clothes'
going 70 fight" 49,, alan, on
But when they explained that he had slsy, . "a
through A cyclone Sol notified ana cot.,"''
that perhaps the hotel man had done his pest