TORNADO FREAKS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2714, 23 June 1925, Page 9

TORNADO FREAKS.

CAR AND PASSENGERS WHIRLED INTO AIR. NEW YORK, March 30. America is engaged on the mournful task of counting its dead in Illinois and adjoining States, which, as reported yesterday, were swept by a tornado. So far 823 bodies have been recovered, while' the injured in 36 towns are estimated to number 2990. The tragedy was marked by hundreds of bizarre incidents. The tornado, rising and falling in waves, rushed over the' towns and villages like a giant stepping on ant heaps. One man reports that he was driving with his wife and two children. He turned into a garage to escape from the wind. As he stepped from the seat of his car, the roof of the garage whirled away,, and he himself was lifted high in the air, and carried a quarter of a mile, alighting uninjured on a railway track. Meanwhile, the car rose into the air with his wife and children, who later were found only slightly injured in a freshly-ploughed field. The car has not yet been found.