The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-05-23
House Containing Six People
Turned Upside Down. -0ccu-
pants Slightly Bruised
Seven Miraculous Escapes From D, ath---BIack
Cloud With Ragged Edges Swept Over City
Weather Bureau Instruments Show
Wind Only 80 Miles an Hour

j were rescued ny Gus and william
Pahike, two brothers. who live ar
BY. They are employees of the Buche
aching &C.. They had been wat IN
ing the shower fro..l their windows
and saw the house turn over are
going out upon the street heard agon
izins cries for help. After getting
into the horse they found graa,
mixture of women. children and
household utensils and had some dill
ficulty in getting through the debrs
TO reach them, Everything in the
hou is resting on the ceiling, ex-
ccnting one iron bedstead which is
seen upside down attached to the
floor in some maner. The piano lies
on its side on the ceiling.
Wehn the storm struck Charles
Linquist's house. No. 725 Thirty-sixth
street he was sitting at the piano
playing, his wife was singing and his
boy was sitting on chair near the
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approach OF the storm until he felt a
tremor, then heavy a heavy jolt and
his house was turned partly around
and off the foundation. All the pie
lures on the wall fell to the floor and
all the chinaware and breakable
things in the house were smashed
and con iderabIe damage was done
to the house. Mr.. Lindquist's house
was standing near the sidewalk and
the wind iammed Il against the fence
so hard that it was some time bsfore
it could recover itself. Mr., LiniQuist
says the storm lasted only a minute
or two and the tornado part of ii 4
few seconds. A large tree on this
street was pulled up by the twister.
roots and all. OFT Of the ground aud
so many trees were barred OF branches
that they covered a hundred feet OF
the Big Four track a square or more
away and a gang Of men had to be
put to work to clear thetrack SO
trains could pass.
William Wise and wife and three
children of $50 Thirty-sixth street
had tough experience. Mr. Wise
says that tat the time the wind com
menced to blow, the family was in
the sitting room and he rushed to the
door to close it, and hold it, almost
as he did so the twister struck the
house tearing off the entire roof and
wrenching the house from its founda-
ton. The wreekage in this house
was almost complete. Mr.. Wise spent
most of last evening digging out the
good stuff OF his belongings and has
moved into the Eichenberger house.
No re Thirtysixtl street. The
main section OF the roof was carried
five hundred feet away and other por
ton were scattered along the path
OF the storm still farther.
The Cairo & Thebes railroad com
pany have large lot of ties near the
Big Four track in the line of the
storm and the wind played jack
straws with some Of them.
Mamie Phelps, who owned the big
barn that was flattened out like a
pan cake ami spread over the back
yards of his neighbors, John Stort
and many others, will have to give up
his work on certain invention that
he has applied him elf to for some
time. Some people think Mamie
has been building an air ship or
something equally as important, TO-
he has been at work in his workshop
behind locked doors for some time
Todays rising sun may reveal to the
curious Just what the thing Is he is
guarding 30 carefully, as the neigh
bors will be up early to get glimpse
Of Il If possible under the wreck
age.
When Phelps big workshop was
caught by the wind large portion
of II covered little water closet In
the rear of John Stout's house In tic
closet were Mr. Stout's children,
strange to say they escaped unin.
jured, but had to tunnel ovt OF the
place and reached the house before
they had been mis- ed. Mr. Stout has
a few babies and had overlooked
these two.