The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-11
CLUNG TO ASAPLING
Thomas Schultz's Choice Proved to
Be Most Fortunate. -
THE STORM BROKE THE BIG TREES
Rev. w. w. Wells Was Another Who
Had a Thrilling Experience
at Harriet.

How much safer is the modest little
tree compared with it's towering mates!
This excellent moral lesson and a bad
cold were acquired Saturday evening in
the Lake Harriet tornado by Thomas
Schultz, who travels for Ford Brothers,
207 Washington avenue N. =
. But. Mr.. Schultz was not travelling
Saturday evening. He was fishing with
his wife in a rowboat anchored near the
west shore of the lake opposite thea pa
vilion. He saw the clouds coming, and he
informed Mrs. Schultz that 1t was going
to storm. He, served five years at sea
aboard merchant ships of various nations
and he can smell storm without,a a glass.
Yet, he fingered too long, relying upon his
seamanship and ability at the oars. He
wished to extend his string of fish, which
so far had consisted Of a doundertng rock
bass. - -: - : ~e'.@2's ':.rsjc art@,
:"But we hardly got under way, heading
SOU by! SOU west recounted Mr.. Schultz,
to-day, when the cyclone struck the
lake. The wind fairly f1attened the black
water, tore off strips of foam, and whizzed
andrscreamed exactly like a. typhoon.
II. kept her steady, but / was pretty
near blown, and we were both soaking
wet with the waves that broke over the
rail, when we ran into a cove just south
of the boat dock below the pavilion. e.
"We tried to climb the bank to the road
and we Immediately fell over, keeled
down by the gale. But crawled up
slowly to the wire fence and opened the
wires 80 my wife could get through, and
about five inches in diameter, little no
account tree with fuzzy head and a
weak back, apparently. But it was the
best anchor in reach and / locked both
arms around it and lay fiat on the grass,
my wife beside me, holding on tight
around my neck. The wind roared
50 couldn't hear her speak,
but could feel. her heart beat
ing, with excitement. In a. minute
there came tremendous crash a. few
feet distant, and Of course she gave a
scream. big! tree, perhaps eighteen
inches thick, and standing high above ou1
own little tree, struck the earth beside US
broken SQUARE off a few feet from the
ground Soon we heard another crash and
saw another big tree tumble: But oul
little fellow with the weak back held or
splendidly, though he moaned and cringed
as If it was dreadful hard on q young fel'
low of his age. .-
eve lay there on the ground for twenty
minutes and next we sat two hours on a
trolley car and dripped water like street
sprinkIers until the first car left the
lake. Since then I've been taking cold
cures. Please excuse me-1've just heard
of new drug store" s. :. ...-- X
But before Mr.. Schultz hurried away he
said that his was the only boat. on Har-
riet during the storm. <. - i -
=. Equally soaked after this tempest was
Rev. W. W.. Wells, curate of Gethsemane
church. Mr.. Wells with his daughter, Ii
years old, and Mrs. Houlgate, were pic
nicking in the grove north Of the Lake
Harriet pavilion when the storm began
They attempted to find shelter beneath
+ the street railway tracks at the park sta
tion and were crossing the open space
before the pavilion when Mr.. Wells heard
a noise. He looked about and saw both
the young women prone on their backs
blown fiat by the ungallant wind. He
realized that he would feel better lying
down. So he threw himself on his face
between his daughter and her companion
and stretched out hand on each side tt
keep the ladies from blowing away. A.
few churchmen were walking about In th.
vicinity at that hour the curate and hi,
fellow worshipers retained for nearly hal
an hour their more than humble attitude
sThe girls said some little prayers,
believe" the curate, told afterwards. !"
felt our he1plessness sufficiently, I hope
but was chiefly busy in keeping wet sant
out Of my collar. Talk of q hair shirt
What a pity such modification didn'
| come in Lent. zg4s ,5.ass $50
After Mr.. Wells had escorted the ladie
to a street car he poured q quart o
water from each Of his shoes"