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...Tornado v. Train" (TIME, June 8) you say that "in the string of eleven Pullmans there were 119 passengers," etc. The inference is that the one man killed was a Pullman passenger. Such is not the fact. The unfortunate traveler rode in a day coach. Fear-stricken, he jumped through a window; the car a moment later was blown over on him. The Pullman Co. is proud of the fact that last year (1930) we carried 30.800,000 passengers 12,814,000,000 passenger miles (1,183,669,000 vehicle miles) and only one of these passengers was killed...
...string of eleven Pullmans were 119 passengers, reading, napping, playing bridge. Beyond Moorhead, Engineer McKee eyed the sky apprehensively. It was turning black, blacker. It was shot through with greenish-yellow light. Wind clouds bellied down to earth. Without hearing its far-off rumble, he knew a tornado was near, jerked his throttle wide-open to outrace it. Out of the murk it came, an infernal funnel of dust and cloud, spinning along toward his train across the prairie...
...Tornado and Flood Insurance have been taken out to protect the holders of this issue...
...Bureau officials had foreseen these storms, but had not warned the public. Last week they explained why: it is impossible to tell just where tornadoes will strike, therefore "to predict them would cause more trouble by the unjustified anxiety aroused than is likely to be done by a tornado itself." To this the New York Telegram retorted editorially...
Georgia Tech's Golden Tornado petered out against the hard-running members of Carnegie Tech's pony backfield. Carnegie Tech 31, Georgia Tech...