The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-01-12

fe11Q4l4 mo 3lVe0 through tue re-
cent torundo that swept over this
section ere telling their experiences
and what tke1 did when they saw
this latest s&mple of Kansas wind
rushing md tearing towards them.
1--WE ho1 49, finished supper"
said Tom Co1e. who lives on the
Dousherty vankh. eight and one
half mile 1thwest of Larned. 81
heard : ro61<4g noise and went to
the poreh o11I could see it coming.
l rtsheA - ~ got the family down
into IL 0o1lnE 1t sounded just like
severol a. trains roaring and
clatoorin4 lA the clickety click
I noio6 Gi< trains cross the joints.
ssoof ~ Is merely a hold I'M
i der - q the house, extending
labouk ~ IT. four feet deep. l got
~ M = the two babies into this
ho1S huddled together next
\ e ~ NM I was trying to shield
In ~ - UetWeen US. Inc next
ulni{k n truck and the house went.
~ MI me, hut don't know
I n r. Gems like an eternity,
III 4 49, have been over in just
Eu mother Experience.
Wn1n the family crawled from the
hole they found their house. barns
and IN outbuildings swept clean
from The place. Pieces of furniture
were found three miles away. While
& Cole and his family were budding
ii that hole the suction of the tor
nado In some way took the hair off
his head In patches, peeling his
scslo - the blood.
Aaother experience. even more
hafyuWins, was that of Archie Schon
81 south Of Larned. He was work
Ing ~ the Israel Burger farm. The
family ware at the supper table when
theY heard the storm coming.
HE next thing l knew | was ly-
NJ - 81 my back in draw, with
t01N xmx legs broken so l couldn't
4N ND Schon, relating his ex-
pqR}cncoo at the Larned hospital.
"a IN NIL was beating down into my
l1o}S kried to drag myself over to
~ ne hail. but the pain in my
4 49, too much. All | could do
~ ~ yell for help"
Hen help arrived the bodies of
And Mrs. Burger were found
". They had been killed out
& "a t66y had seen the tornado APP
3h1In&b and had a chance to run to
GF 0&cgN1 5cellar all three, would have
& @0G<6fd. There was a cave within
M1It i dozen feet of the Burger
Q6e and the door on that cave was
of even blown open.
sSs. The twister came down from be-
ID 2I d sandhill, about rs yards
Ill 1ehwest of the Burger home, and
III ~ had no warning of its APP
4 Ii 16ech. About year ago tornado
IN through this same district. AT
h time Mr.. and Mrs. Burger ran
US ~ q draw and lay there and
&o<d. although the tornado passed
<H&fr home and did no damage.
& Ai ElIis time, by freak of the storm,
\. "a Xere carried to the same draw
had once before been their ref
y md their dead bodies were
n there amid the wreckage of
IL cme also carried into the draw
" Raced With Tornado
I'M ~ of the thrilling experiences
z1hst of John Brown of King
a 5svho was driving in an automo-
ear the Burger farm at the
6:of the tornado. With him in
They say the tornado APP
m Ajng up the road, and Brown,
~ Vas driving. opened up his car
kx34he limit. The six cylinder car
~ not been making very good time
01 The roads were bad anyway, but
~ ray that car hit the pike was a
1tjon. Brown said
I've were in front of the Burger
N60xk when we saw the twister COM
~ over the hills said Brown
~ Seemed to be inst about a mile
a1lad of 1t. Looking back we saw
II hit the Burger house. The house
just few up into the air. The
tWfeter came STRAIGHT ahead after
u. md | let the car out a little
more. 1t would have caught us if il
hadn't swerved and taken a turn of
ocrrrs the fields.