HOW A CYCLONE LOOKS.
[PHILADELPHIA PRESS.] The recent terrible cyclone ifl Macoupin County, Illinois, is thus described by Engineer Cutter, of the Chicago and Alton express train, which’ was running at full speed, and met the tempest at Carlinsville. Mr Cutter saw out on the prairie what he supposed to be a straw or haystack on fire.. As he approached it, he saw that it moved rapidly towards the track, and then realised that it was a cyclone of a= most appalling character.. It was a' dark funnel-shaped cloud, reaching from the ground high in the air, where! it disappeared into the clouds. It #as black and • dangerous looking, and whirled with terrible ' velocity.' Its* voice, heard even in the distance, ab6v& the rumble and roar of the train, • was frightful in the extreme. The cyclone seemed to travel at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and was so fast approaching that the moving train must in a moment inevitably strike it. Mr Cutter shut off his engine and applied his air-brake just in time; for, despite the
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Kumara Times, Issue 1447, 18 May 1881, Page 2
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