Telegram-herald., 1891-07-19
TERRIBLE HURRICANES
Will Prevail Along the Eastern
Coast This Fall.
THE WARNING CONES IN GOOD TINE
Thoughts the Eruption of mount
Sesasius Interesting Coiaeid~nees
In Great NatarAi Mossaassts-
kieetsieity the tause

ST. JosErn. No.. July lS.-My last
letter gave forecasts oil the stotm wave
due 10 cross the continent from 18th TO
I'D and The next will 10 due to leave
the Pacific coast about the 2tth. cross
the Rocky Allegheny valley from 18th
Ia 9th aud reach the Atlantic coast
about the 18th. The important feature
OF lnis storm wave will be that IT Will
complete the last heavy rain period OF
the 1871 crop season. do not mean To
say there will bee no more rain but that
Tor about fifty-two days following Au-
gust lst the rains will not be general.
Inc center of this storm wave Will
probably enter the continent about the
north line of California and pass
through Montana, South Dakota and
eastward along the latitude of North
EN- Iowa and ONO and the heaviest
rams, halls, gales and tornadoes Will
occur south OF that line. The storm
Will be st It's greatest force on the 2ith
and 18th when Its center Will be IN the
Rocky Mountains and Will gradually
decrease IN force AS II moves eastward.
The destructive force OF these storms Is
usually manifest from 500 to 100 miles
southeast OF the storm center.
The storm forces will be more evenly
distributed during August and where
local drouths shall have continled TO
the close of July there will be great
danger Of injurious drouths IN August.
But these local drouths are not ex-
pected to cover large areas and will
probably be confined TO lands near sea
level.
The storm wave of July 9th TO 10th
developed 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. l have not
yet learned the periods of these trOpi-
cal hurricanes, but will repeat that
1912 will bring more of these danger
Gus storms than have been experienced
within the same time tor sixty years
past and they will be awfnl!y destruct-
i've 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 dealers will suffer vastly from
these terrible hurricanes during Sep
tember, October and November and
whatever can be done tO protect life
and property should have immediate
attention. This forecast is not neces-
sarily sensational and will he found to
be Tar short of portraying the serious
results that will come from these great
storms. Whoever will study my fore
casts of the destructive storms of last
month, published in 1890 and early In
this year, will realize that Am not
guessing at these important weather
events, and / feel 1t to be my duty to
give serious warming of dangers ahead.
Whoever heeds these predictions will
not regret that they did 30, and who
ever scorns and ridicules them will see
their own folly when it is too late.
These hurricanes will seriously affect
the weather aud crops in the United
States.
Weather and Science Notes.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius
suggests that volcanic action is in
fiuenced by the same forces and from
the same sources that are our storms.
An investigation OF this subject will de-
velope h remarkable and interesting
coincidence IN great storms, great sun
spots, great activity in volcanoes and
earthquakes, great displays Ill auroras
or northern lights and In unusual elec-
trio disturbances on the earth. The
theory l advocate declares that all
these disturbances are caused 10y elec-
trlcal forces which reach their maxi
mum influences by certain planetary
positions. In making revolution
around the sun each planet causes at
least two of these disturbances, Mer-
curry every forty-four davs and Nep-
tune every forty years. THESE electri-
cal disturbances are probably OF regu-
lar occurrence throughout the universe
IN all the relations OF our sun with the
other stars and OF each star cluster
with every ether. Cur sun revolves
around the center Of our star cluster IN
about %. 40 years aud that center must
be n great Lody of concentrated elec-
tricity. Taking that center ms our
suns primary the sun would pass its
equinox every 1880 years and half
way between these periods pass through
the center OF our star cluster cr through
the plane of the milky WAY. THIS would
place the great disturbances at 6435
years apart. and | will suggest that sci
entiiic Research may yet reveal that
Noah's food and the great cataclysn of
fire and grsvel--about winch so much
evidence Is found IN geology, III the
Bible books OF Genesis and Job and in
the legends of all races and peoples
may yet be fo1nd to have occurred
when our sun last passed its equinox.
Electricians say that currents of
electricity move west IN the surface of
the earth and that the strongest cur
rents pass under the active volcanoes.
Another step IN the same direction Will
lead them TO admit ali the truth and
that electric currents e. u = the heat We
find i'm the earth. which causes the vol
canoes by ignitiug the earth's comeust-
ibles. W. T. FOSTER.
\ Harp of Wood.
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