Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-19
CROPS MADE.
The Last Heavy Rain Period of
the Season of 1892.
MORE TROPICAL HURRICANES.
Shipping Interests VIII Suffer Terribly
During September, October and No
vember-Serious Warning of
Danger Ahead.


Special to the Gazette.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 1s.-My last letter
gave forecasts of the storm wave due to
cross the continent from 18th to 22nd and
the next will be due to leave the Pacific
coast about the 24tn, cross the Rockville
gheny valley from 18th to 9th and reach
the Atlantic coast about the 2Sth. The i'm
portant feature of this storm wave will be
that it will complete the last heavy rain
period of the 1891 crop season. l do not
mean to say that there will be no more rain
but that for about fifty-two days following
August !, the rains will not be general
The center of this storm wave will proba-
bly, enter the continent about the north line
of California and pass through Montana,
South Dakota and eastward along the lati-
tude of Northern Iowa and Ohio, and the
heaviest rains, halls. gales and tornadoes
will occur south of that line. The storm
will be at its greatest force ON the oath and
25th, when its center will be in the Rocky
mountains and will gradually decrease in
force as it moves eastward. The destruc-
force Of these storms is usually manifest
from 500 to 1000 miles southeast of the
storm center.
The storm forces will be more evenly dis
tributed during August, and where local
drouths shall have continued until the close
of July, there will be great danger of in
furious drouths in August. But these local
drouths are not expected to cover large
area, and will probably be confined to lands
near sea level
The storm wave of July 6 to 10 developed
a tropical hurricane on the Atlantic and the
gulf of Mexico, which greatly affected the
weather in the United States, causing very
cool weather in the Northern states. | have
not yet learned the periods of these tropical
hurricanes, but will repeat that 1912 will
bring more of these dangerous storms than
have been experienced within the same time
for sixty years past, and they will be
awfully destructive during October of
this year. Along the coasts of the
Atlantic and gulf of Mexico from
the mouth of the ST. Lawrence
river, Canada, to Central America, the
shipping interests and coast dwellers will
suffer vastly from these terrible hurricanes
during September, October and November,
and whatever can be done to protect life and
property should have immediate attention
This forecast is not unnecessarily SenSa-
tional, and will be found to be far short of
portraying the serious results that will
come from these great storms. Whoever
will study my forecasts of the destructive
storms of last year, published in 1890 and
early this year, will realize that L am not
guessing at these important weather events,
and l feel it my duty to give serious warn
ing OF dangers ahead. Whoever heeds these
predictions will not regret that they did so,
anu NuoeNeT SCOTHS anu tucIn WILL
see their own folly when it is too late.
These hurricanes will seriously affect the
weather and crops in the United States.
WEATHER AND SCIENCE NOTES.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius sug-~
gests that volcanic action is influenced by
the same forces and from the same sources
that are our storms. An investigation of
this subject will develop remarkable and
interesting coincidence in great storms,
great sun spots. great activity in volcanoes
and earthquakes. great displays in auroras
or northern lights and in unusual electric
disturbances on the earth. The theory
advocate declares that all these disturb
ances are caused by electrical forces, which
reach their maximum influences by certain
planetary positions. In making revolution
around the sun each planet causes at least
two of these disturbances, Mercury every
forty-four days and Neptune every forty
years. These electrical disturbances are
probably of regular occurrence throughout
the universe in all the relations of our sun
with the other stars, and of each star clus-
ter with every other. Our sun revolves
the center of our star cluster in
about twenty-five thousand seven hundred |
and forty years, and that center must be a |
great body of concentrated electricity.
Taking that center as our suns primary,
the sun would pass its equinox every 12,S10 |
years, and half way between those periods |
pass InrouSu tHe center Ol our STAR cluster,
or through the plane of the milky way. |
This would place the great disturbances at |
6435 years apart and l will suggest that |
research may yet reveal that |
Noah's flood and the great cataclysm of fire |
and gravel-about which so much evidence
IS found in geology, in the Bible books of |
Genesis and Job, and in the legends of all |
races and peoples-may vet be found to
have occurred when our sun last passed its
equinox.
Electricians say that currents of cleo
.ricity move west in the surface of the
earth, and that the strongest currents pass
lnder the active volcanoes. Another step
n the same direction will lead them to ad-
nit all the truth, and that electric currents
,auSe the heat we find in the earth, which
,auses the volcanoes by igniting the earth's
,ombustibles. w. Z. FOSTER.