AMERICAN TORNADO

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN TORNADO

TERRI EYING EXPERIENCES

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5. Personal experiences were encountered by many who saw the freakish performances of the “ twister which had such grave results at St. Louis. Edward Steinhauer was collecting hills when the tornado broke. “ Things suddenly grew dark,” said Steinhauer, “ and I could hardly see where L was going.

“ I saw a big automobile parked at the kerb and I made for it. i throw myself down on my stomach and crawled under the car where! thought 1 d be fairly safe. But in a few seconds a two-by-four scantling came whizzing in under the ear and struck me square across the face. “ 1 was dazed for a little while, hu not very badly hurt. When the storm passed over I got up and helped t > carry three bodies from ruins ol houses.” William H. Burs'll, a railway postal clerk, was in his loom. ” First came a dash ol rain that looked like snow, then cairie the fill ions blast of wind,” lie said. “T saw things flying through t lip air outside ami hacked myself up against the east Wall of the room. The west wall ol the house next door was blown down and a brick hurtled through my window, hut missed me.” C ordinal fans to-day grievingly temarked upon the ironical coincidence yesterday when the tornado blow down the flag pole at Sportsman Park just as the world’s champions took a defeat at the hands of Cincinnati and thereby virtually lost their chance of hanging a new pennant from the tall pole. The roof of the new pavilion at the park and many iron girders were torn loose and hurled to the ground. SEEN FROM A STREET CAR. From a point of vantage in a street car a newspaper man witnessed the antics of the tornado and describes it as follows : “ As I hoarded the car I noticed Llmt the huge black cloud over Forest Park had been vomiting rain. The lightning was being succeeded by a yellowish green colour and there was a sharp line of demarcation between the blackness and the apparent coming ol brighter skies.

“Suddenly tho car staggered under the impact of the wind from behind. The front lifted from the rails, hut was set hack on them again with scarcely a jar. It rocked from side to side on tls springs. ” A tree fell just in front of it as the molorman stopped. Two automobiles standing at the kerb began hacking away alarmingly; one of them turned neatly across the north kerb ot the street, to come to rest in a front yard. The other travelled hall a block and stopped. A big truck crashed into the rear end of ihe street car.

“ The swaying of the car now began to have its oll’ocl upon the passengers. 1 was busy looking around when a wail from the oldest and lattest ol the women indicated that she loured the end was coming. Her three friends seemed in little hotter shape. \\ o rushed to reassure tho women and soon the wind quieted down. *• The whole thill's was over m less than a minute. One blast I mill the powerful bellows the wind god was working was enough to oiled all the destruction he had in mind.”

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