The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-31

are you going to get out? Shall l drop
some food down the pipe?
"Smithson told him that we had not
eaten anything for ten hours, and we
We're beginning to get up an appetite.
and the next minute bundle of pork
and beans was dropped down to us.
If you can tunnel south of your
house for 20 feet. you'll come out on
clear country. III go home and get my
shovel and dig toward you. and you
ought to get out SOON
"Smithson thanked the dominic, and
we tackled the baked beans, and they
tasted like Neapolitan, ice cream. Then
we felt like working. But l was feeling
pretty serious. because 1 knew that
Arabella was beginning to worry. How
ever, fell to with a good will and after
two hours hard work we met in the
snow tunnel. the minister and me- and
minute afterward we walked out to
open air and saw the strangest sight
that could be imagined.
North, as far as the eye could reach,
the country lay covered fifty feet deep
with an arctic swonfall. South of us
the grass was just beginning to show
green, and skunk cabbage were already
pushing up through the earth. And in
front of us stood the parsons lonely
house, with box of church next door
to it and not another building in sight.
1--WE grasped the parsons hand and
told him he was white man if ever
there was one. and then l asked him
what chances there were of my being
able to get back to Laramie.
He told me that the road to the sta
ton was completely blocked, and it
would be two days before / could get
through. Two days! 1 instinctvely pulled
out my watch. 1t was $3.50. In ten min
utes, parsonS said /, my wedding will
be due in Laramie. and Arabella is even
now waiting for me-
HE was expressing his sympathy
when We heard a roaring noise, and
Smithson said. Run for your lives A
cyclone.
THE three of us instinctively dived into
the snow. Then we heard a muffiing roar,
and the earth shook and it was all over.
Just to make sure, we lay in the snow
for a few minutes and then we crept
out. Such a scene as met our gaze! The
church and the parsons house were the
only moveble things that hadn't moved.
Trees were leveled on all sides and the
plains in front of us were full of debris
from various States.
Just i'm front OF me were half a
hundred crates of eggs. whipped to an
omelet by the wind; bunch of bananas.
a white horse and a library of books
labelled Cheyenne Free Library" And
stuck in the snow bank was a woman
in gray travelling dress. The parson
pulled her out, wondering If it was a
neighbor, but !, catching sight of her
face, recognized her as Arabella! Ara
bella in her wedding dress, my friends!
"Of course the next days papers all
over the country had full accounts of the
awful cyclone that had struck Laramie
and had run northeast into the Dakotas,
but not a word about Arabella except
the fact that she was missing and her
mother was frantic.
Now, you may say that 1t was her
woman's love that guided her on the
back of the storm to where I was, but
even if so it was q remarkable occur
renee.
I'm a minute she opened her eyes, and
then she sat up, and then she saw me.
She was always quick to take in situa-
ton, and she held out her arms to me.
I kissed her just once for luck, and then
1 looked at my watch. 1t was 1853;
Parson,' said /, the church is
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