A Race With a Cyclone

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 129, 28 April 1892, Page 4

A Race With a Cyclone

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; '^r'Miqh^lDavitt tellsTa grilling story of a narrow escape a train in -which he; was. a • passerfger in Am|r^a had in a race with a cyclone. 'Phe : storin' cfoud was J gathering at the extreme' boundary of the prairie. Ob its descent to the earth it bore 'along- with irresistable fury, tearipg up trees, demolishing houses, barns, and other obstacles, which were sent spinning in the air like so many i straws. The first feelings of surprise and curiosity^ soon turned to fear, as : it was seen that* the hurricane was bearing directly for the train, and must inevitably strike it broadside unless they could outrun its extent. The women shrieked, and hid their eyes from the impending- disaster, and even strong men's hearts quaked. The engine-driver ,at a; glance saw, it was a race for lite, and instantly 'he put on all steam, lhe track was fayourable, and almost instantly the: engine was tearing away at a ?ate of 100 miles an hour. Would she be able to get clear of* the stormfiend's wing-was the anxious thought in the passerigers' inind=. It was a question of only a few minutes, .or moments of awful suspense. .' %M e \ hurricane' seenied to be swooping upon and overwhelming them. A sigh of relief and joyous exclamations proclaimed that the cyclone had; missed them. It was a narrow- escape, though, for it struck the metal about fifty feet in the rear ol the ! last car, and scattered the. rails in- 1 all; directions over which ttie train had! literally flown only a second or two previously. Such an experience v in not likely to be soon forgotten. Mr Davitt can scarcely relate it without a tremor.