Volume 15 , Issue 20

July, 1903 - The Doings of A Kansas Tornado

In the Summer of 1903, July 23, on a Thursday, The Wichita Daily Eagle reported on page 4, "The Doings of a Kansas Tornado." They were also reporting that Kansas floods were the biggest; tornadoes the most energetic; drouths the dryest; summers the hottest and blizzards the coldest on earth as reported back in 1903.

They had a tornado out in Kansas in the Summer of 1903, and the usual stories were beginning to put in their appearance in the Kansas papers. That state had a new settler since the last whirlwind, for three new stories had come to light. One tells of a farmer who was ploughing when the big wind struck him. What became of the rustic is omitted, but the tornado caught the slough in its vortex and whirled it round and round until the entire field had been nicely ploughed.

Another farmer had a lot of corn stored in a bin. In the side of the bin was a knot-hole. The tornado caught the corn and drove the cobs through the knot-hole, shelling the corn and leaving it in a pile on the floor.

The third story was about a wagon which was standing in another farm yard when the breeze came along and upset it and started the wheel spinning. The wind was so hard that one of the wheels was still revolving, and it was impossible to stop it.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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