Word: tornadoes
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...tense silence, which made people's ears ring, and a sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...
Such was one eyewitness' description of what happened one noon last week when a low-pressure area formed in the sultry atmosphere over eastern Missouri, creating a Cave of the Winds, and loosing upon a residential section of St. Louis its worst tornado since...
...gratifying to be able to state that, so far as we have observed, there have been no efforts to interpret the devastating floods in the Mississippi valley as punishment inflicted by an outraged deity upon the sinful dwellers in the lowlands. If the calamity had been a tornado, a fire, an earthquake or a tidal wave, doubtless there would have been the usual outburst of piously blasphemous explanations that the divine patience was exhausted and that the sufferers were getting what was coming to them for their intolerable iniquities. It was so with Galveston, San Francisco and Florida...
...Tornado. Last week Don Griffith, 10, of Rock Springs, Tex., noticed a "funny feeling" in the air. It had been raining all evening and the sky looked "queer." Said Father Griffith: "It looks like a storm coming." Then came a roar, a crashing sound as of houses falling, and beneath the feet of the Griffiths the floor lifted up. Don heard his mother call to him, then everything went black. Recovering consciousness, Don found himself lying in mud amid the ruins of the Griffith house...
...suffered a broken leg and shoulder he might have risen, seen other ruins, walked through the streets of what a few moments before had been the town of Rock Springs, Tex., which was now a tornado-twisted ruin with less than ten buildings left standing. Of its 800 inhabitants, 56 were killed and from 150 to 170 injured. Texas, a tornado-play-ground, experienced 15 other "twisters" during the week...