The monster tornado that wrought such havoc in Omaha leaped across the Missouri River and swished its wicked tail through Council Bluffs.
After the tornadohad passed, corpses with hair stripped from heads and divested of every thread of clothing were picked up.
We were not far behind, but our way was blocked by the debris the tornado had thrown on the tracks.
Leaving desolation behind it the tornado swept at a rate of possibly one hundred and fifty miles an hour into Berlin.
Wrenching warehouses to fragments the tornado passed to the river front, leaving a broad swath of wreckage and dead bodies.
A perfect tornado of shell was being directed upon the Belgian shore.
Viewed from a distance it seemed impossible that a frail aeroplane could exist amid that tornado of shell.
Literally making her way through a tornado of shot and shell, the Vindictive passed between the pier-heads.
Fritz would be sure to let fly with a veritable tornado of "hate" upon the brilliantly-lighted target.
The tornado is occasionally seen in Europe: but in the few instances recorded, it has been much smaller, and moved much slower than the same sort of storm in America, though quite as powerful within the territory traversed.
This is the phenomenon known as “jumping,” which may be repeated till the widening of the center leaves the storm too weak to promptly restore the current at the ground, and the danger from the tornado is over.
The tornado has been observed, to some extent, in this country for more than a century: but only when our central states were well peopled did it attract very great attention.
This will be better comprehended if the reader will recollect that the tornado of the northern hemisphere rotates in a direction contrary to the hands of a watch.
The narratives of some of the survivors will serve to show that while the tornado comes without warning, the heaviest wind is not just at first: and a cool head may sometimes profit by the interval to escape.
Often it is possible to trace the path of a tornado through the forest a century or more after its passage; for the reason that trees once destroyed are usually replaced by different varieties.
The tornado forced its way in the rear of the upper stories of my building, and with impetuosity unequaled forged through the apartments against the front wall.
The havoc on all the crossings in the limits of the tornado was remarkable.
But the narrow-path tornado comes so rapidly as to produce little atmospheric change beforehand; while directly at its center the barometer may stand as much as two inches lower than in the surrounding region.
It formed at the junction of two streams, a few miles southwest of Marshfield; and, like the South Carolina tornado of 1761, owed its immense power to the union of two lesser storms that had traveled down the valleys of the respective streams.
He was to work the foresail if they had to tack, or let down the mainsail if a white squall or a tornado struck the ship.
The hush that precedes the tornado even now broods over Europe; nations slumber the heavy sleep that preludes the earthquake.
Who may predict the precise moment when the earthquake shall rock, the tornado sweep, the red lightning scathe, or the lava flood desolate?
And this tornado of man was let loose on a few acres which contained, perhaps, two or three thousand troops, and continued for the space of about four hours.
He had passed by the spot during the preceding autumn, and noticed that the logs were scattered and thrown down, as if a tornado had passed over the spot.
Then came the tornado of water, leaping and rushing with tremendous force.
At 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon we were sitting on the front porch watching the flood, when we heard a roar as of a tornado or mighty conflagration.
I heard similar declarations when Chicago was swept by its tornado of flame.
It is evident that the tornado of suffocating gas which wrecked the buildings asphyxiated the people, then started fire, completing the ruin.
The same tornado drove the ships in the roadstead to the bottom of the sea or burned them before they could escape.
The boys remembered that he did not scold them so sharply that afternoon as he had been wont to do since the tornadodisturbed his temper.
There, again, the tornado had done a brisk business; the bridge was destroyed, the side of the road gullied, and the river swollen.
But the noise waxed broader and deeper, until it resembled a tornado sweeping through the oak, and making one great utterance out of the thousand and thousand of little murmurs which each leafy tongue had caused by its rustling.
With the tornado of his breath, he could have stripped the roofs from a hundred dwellings, and sent thousands of the inhabitants whirling through the air.
It often rides on the whirlwind of faction or on the more dreadful tornado of fanaticism.
Demagogues may rouse the angry passions of the multitude to a curling flame but it requires such men as Franklin, Sherman and Clark to ride upon the whirlwind, direct the tornado and rule the storm of passion.
The tremendous revolutionary tornadothat was then sweeping over our country, charged with the dismaying materials of terror, is a partial one and the true cause of this quailing error.
In his retired domicil he is less exposed to that corrupt and corrupting party spirit that is raised by the whirlwind of selfish ambition and often rides on the tornado of faction.
Revolution is a tornado rarely chastened by prudence or discretion to neutralize its baneful effects.
The former fails when strong commotions and angry elements agitate the public peace--the latter can ride upon the whirlwind of faction, direct the tornado of party spirit and rule the storm of boiling passion.
Amidst this scene of dreadful carnage--this tornado of angry passions--La Fayette stood calm and undismayed.
No one could more effectually excite the populace--when incited to action it needed a cooler head to direct the tornado and rule the storm of passion.
I think I can muster courage to die, unloved and unmourned by any; but I have not enough to enable me to live in the face of the tornado of indignation which I know would confront me in this community.
The whirlwind has started, and a tornadowill wind up the scene.
He might as readily have checked a tornado with a lady's fan as Harry Wallingford, by reminding him of the danger into which he was rushing.
The tornado is soon over, it is true, but hailstorms are to be preferred.
The tornado is a phenomenon we can very well do without, and we sincerely hope the clerk of the weather will give us ample notice of the very faintest indication that one of these inanimate monsters is coming our way.
Even at the best, the collections of the tornado were falling about us and on the clearing, and an increase of the dismal howling indicated cruel results, in which both Lentala and Christopher might be involved.
When he stopped, she did not join in the tornado of applause, but sat motionless, looking up at him.
Nothing perhaps could have made so plain to him how in this tornado of his passion the world was drowned.
I'm goin' to git these youngsters their breakfast before there's a tornado or an earthquake.
Won't there be a tornado when the General sees these in the morning," he exclaimed.
The noise of thetornado was terrific and they felt the earth trembling at the fury of the storm gods.
The tornado will be on us in another five minutes!
The noise of the oncoming tornado beat on her ears, but she dared not look toward the west.
The tornado had swung away from Rolfe without striking the town itself and was lashing its way down the center of Lake Dubar.
Dear Miss Blair," it started, "enclosed you will find check for your fine work in reporting the tornado near Rolfe.
There's a common belief that the hills and lake protect us so a tornado will never strike here," said Tom.
We've had a tornado near here this afternoon and I thought you'd want the facts.
There were her stories, the one about the tornado and the other about the high standing of the local school.
Their father's illness had been a blow and to have the Herald plant destroyed by a tornado would be almost more than they could bear.
And there he stayed, philosophically waiting till the tornado should choose to blow itself out.
For be it known that the tropical tornado passes through the stale baked air at intervals, like some gigantic sieve, dredging out its surplus heat and impurities.
Every one knew the tornado was approaching, and both the worn and haggard white men and the sweating, malodorous blacks hoped for it with equal intensity.
In a Northern country such a furious outburst would have filled people with alarm; but here, in the tropic wilderness, custom had robbed the tornadoof its dignity; and no one was awed.
There had been no tornado to clear the atmosphere for nine whole days, and the country was unendurable accordingly.
First, his claim against the Tornado Casualty Company had been approved, and second, he had been informed on credible authority that they had got the wrong boy.
This theory is also sustained by the overthrow or injury, in the recent tornado at Natchez, of the houses whose doors and windows were closed, while those which were open mostly escaped unhurt.
