Peculiarities of a Tornado

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1886

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 20

Peculiarities of a Tornado.

A RESIDENT of Minnesota, who has seen several tornadoes, says that their most peculiar feature is the singular sucking movement. Buildings are sucked up into the clouds entire, and soon come down in fragments. After the great Rochester tornado, a farmer twelve miles from the town found an uninjured marble-top table in his field. Another found a very large sheep that had come from no one knew where, and had been deposited in his yard unhurt. The Minnesota man further said that he had seen a board into which wheat straws had been driven until they stuck through on the other side. Also, he saw a plank driven through a big tree, and a piece of pine moulding driven through a small butternut tree.—Sel.