Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-08
THE PATH OF STORMS.
The Source aud Course or the Great hur.
ricauc on The Atlantic Coast.
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coast Of Florida on Sunday. Swinging
around itom the starting point, il struck
the middle Atlantic coast Just be-
fore daylight "Wednesday morning.
simultaneously n considerable harom.
etrical depression WAS moving eastward
from the lake region, and when the two
areas ot low presSures mot they united
and formed m elongated trough which
extended nearly north and south from
/ the Carollnas tar into the Dominion Of
Canada Tho greatest force of the
storm appears 70 have been spent in
New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
The Storm-ceuter moved directly north
from this locality, and NJ midnight was
lowering over Montreal.
In connection with the source and
course ~ this hurricane, some reniuis-
cenceS of the great storms of the past
viii he interesting. ON the Sd Of &C.
tohor, l1S0, cyclone arose south of
Jamaica, passed across that island, Gu
In and the Bahamas nearly IL right
angles, and expired ON the 9th day in
mid-soa, 900 miles due east from the
Jersey coast, having travelled about
thirty five degrees from the spot Of its
origin, on moi far from 900 mile,
y day.
The famous storm Of October. l1S6,
which lives in nautical history as the
great hurricane, struck Barbados on
the l2th of the month, reached Havti
ON tho lith, and Turks lslarh in the
Bahamas, on the 18TH. II was there l,-
I Elected IN u sharp curve TO the northeast,
taking the general course Of the Gulf
Stream, and finally stopping i'll mid
/ Atlantic half way between Cuba and
the Azores, on tho 18th Of the month,
without having touched either Cuba or
the mainland
On the 10Th Of August 1880, n storm
appeared On the outer edge of the An
titles and descended grand curve of
7O' of progress, stopping near Cape
Race, N r., on the seventh day, touch
ing only the Bahamas, but sweeping
right up the Gulf Stream and the path
of shipping
In September, 1880 a cyclone also
arose north of the Little Antilles,
whore these storms generally make
their appearance, and without striking
land nj all il travelled more than forty
degrees in three days, swinging around
under the influence Of the Gulf Stream,
approaching Hattcrns, then expiring
oil tho mouth OF the Gulf of st. Law
renee.
On June -, 1881, acyclono appeared
near the usual starting place, close hy
Trinidad. Az il got into the warm basin
of the Caribbean sea, nenr the South
American const, and touched no land
until il reached Yucatnn on the 9th,
il was not DETECTED III MI into tho Gulf
Stream, but continued on into Mexico,
where IL was followed no further.
On the 18th oil August, 1915, another
cyclone appeared east of tho island "
Guadalupe, advanced nearly IN II
straight Inc across all the large Antilles
and III ak days struck the coast Of Tex.
NJ, between the Rio Grandc and lndi-
anoa. II was uuniluenccd by the
number Of mountainous islands IN it's
passage and by the Gulf Stream, and il
was not followed west Of the high nlti-
tudts of Texas.
In 1916 cyclone appeared il tho
Caribbean sea, off the coast Of Guatc.
mala, and, striking the western part Of
Cuba nj right angles, missed both the
gulf stream and the gulf and landed
il Florida; thence IL made n clean
sweep up the land parts of the Atlantic
coast, between the coast cities md tho
Allegheny, and was eight days reach
ing the latitude Of Philadelphia, in the
Susquehanna valley II expired III
eleven days on the palisades of l.abra-
dor Another land-travelling cyclone,
in 1904, began in the Little Antilles and
expired in the bay Of Fundy mt the
close Of IL week, running over Charles
ton, Richmond the Chesapeake PENN
sula, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
OF late years, tho cyclones originating
in tho vicinity Of the West Indies have
generally been deAected towards the
Gulf Coast, where they have almost IN
varinbly been very destructive. Tins
was the case especially with the storms
OF September and October, 1860; Octo-
Der, 1865; July, 1866; October, 1867, and
September, 1875. The lastnamcd htlr-
rcanc started south Of Cuba, on the
10Th Of September, and struck the coast
Of Texas on the 10Th, with terrific yio-
lence. Half Of Galveston was flooded
from the gulf, while the town Of In.
dianola was completely Frustrated, and
besides the vast destruction Of property,
400 lives were lost.
In August, 1871, however, cyclone
starting in the West Indies was de-
Elected up the Atlantic coast, and was
specially destructive between Key
West and Charleston, being most severe
Mt Savannah This storm-unlike the
recent great galc-was predicted sew
eral days in advance by the signal ser
vice weather bureau.