Wednesday heard the crash; and the crashing continued unabated throughout Thursday and Friday.

The papers of that hour in attempting to describe stock conditions drew exhaustively on such terms as "tornado," "blizzard," "simoon," "maelstrom," "cyclone," "landslide," "avalanche," and whatever else in the English language means death and devastation.

No one found fault of those similes, which were justified of the hopeless truth.

Values were beaten as flat as a field of turnips.

The best feature was that no banks failed; two or three of the weaker sisters wavered, but the big, burly concerns gave them the arm of their aid and led them through.
Days before the smash, that osprey pool had perfected the last fragment of its arrangements.