Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...s.PROVIDENCE has of late been exceeding kind to our beloved University in preserving to us the lives of three of the Holworthy Aristocracy. These gentlemen were visiting Barnum's World's Fair at the time when the terrific tornado struck the canvas palace, filling the hearts of all with terror and consternation. Amid the howls of the affrighted animals, the shrieks of women, and the thunder of the elements, they rushed round (as did several thousand others) with a stoical indifference to their personal peril, and besought all to calm themselves. It was owing to their superhuman exertions that only...