Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-06-27

Till dIlu saw Tile ndNOC WIOuSHO
and was thankful that his life
had been spared.
At this point the cyclone seem
ed to head due east and the resi-
dents of Quinter who had been
watching felt the thrill of real
danger and sought shelter.
Every available cave was filled
and few hopes were entertained
of the towns further existence.
At this juncture a little twister,
which became separated from
it's parent, swung around south
of town and picked up Barney
Kessler's chicken house and
dropped it down with thud
several hundred yards away,
strewing pieces of it in every
direction. J. j. Hickman barn
was also ripped up like a piece of
rotten cloth. J. c. Sterret's
chicken house was visited and
across the track the twister
made another effort and showed
Dan Ikenberry'S barn eight feet
from its foundation. An anus
ing episode occurred here, as
Dan was watching from his cave
the course of the big fellow, the
little one was acting up behind
his back Joel Ikenberry got
taste of it, and at Eli Younce's,
where the small and the large
cyclones met, they damaged his
property, made their peace and
apparently satisfied with the de-
vastation they had wrought,
joined hands and with bound
mounted from the earth and dis
appeared from view.
To come back to the big fellow
again. After wrecking the Ston-
er place, it reviewed the situa-
ton looked back over it's course,
saw the fallen and twisted fences,
telephone lines, windmills, ETC.,
stuck boards and furniture in
growing fields, scattered cloth
ing and dead chickens, the latter
stripped of every feather as
though they had been scalded,
then leaving the little one to de-
stroy Quinter, it bounded in a
northeasterly direction and bore
down on the Feiler home. Mrs.
F'eiler and her children were in
the cave, which was all on the
place that was not destroyed.
The house, a fine % feet square
building was lifted up in the ali
and dropped on a large tree,
broken up and it's parts spread
over a tract of at least a mile
The big barn endured the same
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and cattle, were plaStered with
mud and carried considerable
distance, some deposited alive
and some dead and several with
broken limbs. One animal had {
half of it's head knocked off. The
!, devastation here was complete
everything being literally tori
to pieces and scattered every
] where.
, The Boyer place was strucl
. next, after the railroad had beer
crossed and telegraph wires sui
fered from it's passage. Thu
house withstood the storm blu
windows were badly wrecked
Sections of surry, buggy ant
farm implements were found il
different places, one piece of
harrow a mile away. No rain O.
hail had fallen up to this time
but here hail stones were foun,
that were nine inches by actua
measurement.
The cyclone raised after leay
ing here, passing over the Rein
! ecker place dropping again a
McKinley's and from thence t
] Younce's, where it made it's fna
stab.
To watchers at Quinter it az
peared that the tail of the cy
clone seemed bound to reach tn
town while the upper part wa
forced away by a wind whicl
had started from the southeast
The tail was not very large but
circled around over a territor
of perhaps 100 yards. DR.. Stor
err was at his fathers place yer
quickly after the occurrence an
was immensely relieved to fin
him alive and well. Dave Blacl
we'll made a quick drive from tn
south and got in town in time
get his family in Reinecker'
, cave A new railroad tie wa
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