The San Francisco call., 1898-10-09

l nesses say that they could not believe l their eyes. It fairly staggered them 1 and for a moment the thought came 1 that it was merely a fantastic cloud 1 formation.
 Tn a few moments. though, all doubt 1 of it's character was removed. The fun ] neI-shaped cloud began to turn and i then to leap. It rose high in the air 1 and came down with a reaching mo- ton. After it had risen and fallen a l few times, all the time coming nearer, 1 the spectators saw that it's trail was filled with all sorts of flying debris. It was then that terror seized them, and they stood spell bound in the face of the coming danger.
 For time the cyclone ragged over the fields and through the groves on the north of Stockton. It tore off the limbs of trees and gathered up the dust from the roads. At the. cemetery it seemed 10 pause a moment and trimmed off one side of a cypress hedge. The work was done almost as cleanly as if gar dener had done 1t with shears. One side of the trees was denuded of branches the other side was scarcely made to move, and certainly did not suffer the least damage
 Then the cyclone tore up a section of fence and bent a few telegraph poles, after which it jumped into Ambrust' $ vineyard. In @ corrugated iron build Ing number of men were at work and at the first rumble of the cyclone made a dash to leave the building. But at the door they stopped for the air out side was filed with flying boxes trays and farm implements that were being i thrown about like straws
 ! The iron building trembled from end to end. and the terror stricken men on the inside thought that their end had come. But the cyclone contented itself with lifting off only corner of the iron roof The steel rivets were snapped like matches, and as the roof went Whirling through the air it emitted a sound like the screeching of a steam whistle.
 After finishing it's work at the Am bTust vineyard the cyclone moved in scutheasterly direction apparently stopping here and there to do some damage Intll 1t reached the suburbs of Fair Oaks. where it melted away and left the air delightfully."- cool.
 The cyclone demolished every struc- ture in it's path that it struck-a dozen chicken houses, any number of small sheds, about twenty windmills and one small dwelling. The latter house was simply reduced to kindling wood. For tunately there was no one at home dur ing the fury of the storm.
 Along the cyclones course was left an array of the strangest freaks of storm fury that any man ever saw. There were traces of the most grotesque hap penings and almost unbelievable signs Of the eccentricity of the cyclones path of motion
 Near the West vineyard stood an enormous windmill, it's wheel being about 75 feet above the ground. The cyclone picked up the wheel. broke it from it's fastenings and carried it about 200 feet, depositing it uninjured against a barn. The tower on which it had been placed showed no signs of having been even touched by the cyclone.
 At the Broschi place there were three small buildings and dwelling house all in a line just in the storms path On one side, about 15O feet from them. was a windmill The cyclone in it's course first struck barn that was at one end Of the row of buildings. Then 1t swept to the right and turned over a windmill. Instead of continuing on that course it turned. describing a email circle, and came back. demolish- ing a chicken house. leaving the dwell ing and a small shed uninjured. At