Word: tornados
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...Tornado freakishness was plentiful. At Cassville, Ga. chickens were stripped of their feathers. An automobile owned by a Nashville, Tenn. family went hurtling through the side of a barn without puncturing a tire. Luther Kelley of Sylacauga. Ala. lost his second wife. His first died in the tornado of 1917. At Cleveland, Tenn. an infant was snatched from its mother's arms, dropped into a well, drowned. An Alabama farmer hung on a barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there...
...Last South Carolina tornado, that of 1930, is recalled by Negroes as the ''chainaberry" storm." Reason: many a chinaberry tree, its close-twigged top offering purchase to the wind, was uprooted and whirled aloft over the country-side...
...propelled is tremendous. Dr. Carl Anderson of Caltech estimates, by observing how cosmic rays shattered certain atoms in his laboratory, that cosmic rays strike earth with 50,000,000 or more volts of power. The effect is analogous to a quill being driven through a plank by a tornado...
...TIME, June 8, under "Tornado v. Train," you tell of the accident to the Great Northern's Empire Builder, where said Builder was dumped over on its side by the tornado, and you use the expression "a wreck unique in U. S. rail-roading...
...best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...