South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-05-25

which the West is 30 fatally subject
swept over parts Of Wisconein and
Illinois on Friday cvesiny lsst. Lake
those that preceded it this sFsiag it
carried terrible ,levastatiouia - pstA
The city Of Kacine. Wisconsin. suffer.
el greatly. and toe Losses thus sis-
tanned, following as they do the de-
structive fire that laid in ushes many
OF its isrgest business honses . year
ago. must be seriously detrimental to
its prosperity The IRE spared the
section of the city inhabited by the
working people. The cyclone has
laid that section in ruins, aud has car
riei mourning into many families aud
death into not O few. The list OF
killed aul wounded. = majority Of the
latter MORALLY, sumo up, ~ far ~
heard from, more than one hundred
pcrsons, Of all ages, the list of chill
dreu stricken down being unusually
large. Accounts from Illinois are c.
qually distressing. The reports alrea-
dy received put the number killed at
over fifty aud the wounded vt two
hundred. A signal service report for
1882 gives table of ak hundred tor
nadoes that have occurred in tho Uni.
ted States since 1894. The deductions
drawn from it are. first, that no sea.
son or month Of tho year is exempt
from the occurrence OF tornadoes, that
they are most frequent in June. and
that summer is the season Of greatest
frequency. The Sun has frequently
had OCCASION ID remark that certain
Western States are peculiarly liable
u be devastated by tornadocs. The
signal service tables give emphatic
confirmation Of tits fact. They show
that the greatest number oftornadoes
have occurred in Kansas. After Kan
sas follow Illinois and Missouri, the
relative frcqu sncy being in the pro-
portion of sixty-two in Kansas to 81
IN Illinois and forty-four in Missouri.
vi tue States in which tornadoes have
proved unusually destructive Kansas
also takes the lead. In list Of one
hun ed AM il;:r.y.four Of such tor.
nadocs twenty. live occurred III Kan
sas, fifteen in Illinois, twelve in Iowa
and twelve in Missouri. seven encl in
WISCONSIN and Ohio. six in Nebraska
and five each Michigan, Alabama.
Mississippi and South Caroline, In
continuing the table of. relative frc
q1ency, bat smaller dcstruo:iveness
thirty tive torna,iocs are reporte l TO
have occurred in New York AMI 50
IN Georgia. The area of greatest
frequency within which turnadoes are
developed is that part ot tho great ba.
sin lying west OF the Mi ssissipl,i, aud
including (as we have already shown,
the States OF Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska
and Missouri. 1t ID within this region
also that torn.IIOes are most destruc.
tive, as the figures we have given in.
dlcatc. There arc two other areas
laid down i'll the chart accompanying
the civil service report within which
tomatoes occnr with q marked degree
of frequency. The centre of ono OF
these Is New York, the other Georgia
But the damage done by the storms
that arise just son;L Of the lower lakes,
and which, pass thence across the State
OF New York, is relatively very small,
while. as respects Georgia, where
sometime, tho warm, moist southerly
currents from the gulf in passing o.
yer the State encounter the cold north
erly wind coming from the AIpala-
cham range, only four unusually de.
struciive tornadoes are reported in
the list of one hundred aud thirty .
four previou5ly referred to; ninety
three of the whole number dcvastat.
Ing sonIc part or other of the Western
States, and, notably above all others
The States of Kansas, Illinois, Ms
souri, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska.
In the suggestions made in the signal
service report as TO the best method OF
avoiding tJc violence OF these lorna
does, the only possible plan appears
to DC 10 prepare places of refuge, 9th
err in tic shape OF underground Cham
bers at short distance from the hous-
es, or by excavating caves in hillsides
where the conditions are favorable for
making them. 1t is further suggest
ed that these caverns or their under.
ground retreats shall be kept during
TIE months of April. May, j une, July
and August in constant readiness fol
the reception of II family and its most
valuable portable property In some
cases these suggestions lave been II.
doptcd; i'll o;herafamilies are still trust
ing 20 the dubious security afforded
by their cellars. Bat the question tc
US who arc secure from the dreadfu
effects oi these tornadoes is whether
life is worth living in those regions
most exposed to the track of these an.
Dual 4 often repeated storms, with tho
ever present apprehcnsions TO which
they must necessarily give rise?-Bal
timorc Sun, May u.
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