Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-16
FOSTERS WEATHER.
a Storm Wave VIII Cross the
Central Valley, Oct. ~.
A WARM PERIOD WILL FOLLOW,
No Real Winter viii Come Until the Middle
Of December, But January and Febru'
AIRY Will 30 Bitter Cold.
Struck the Earth.

bulletin gave forecasts OF the storm |
waves TO cross the continent from 18th |
10 10th and 18th 20 I'D, and the next |
will reach the Pacific coast about the |
2Sd, cross the western mountains by
the close Of the oath, the great central
valleys from 18th 10 9th, and the cas-,
tern states about the 29th.
This disturbance will inaugurate n
warm period, that will extend far into
November and the weather will aver
age much warmer than usual
The cool wave will cross the Western
mountains about the Goth, the great
central valleys about the 2sth and the
Eastern states about the 30th. We
will not have much wintry weather In
the northern states before the middle
OF November, and no real winter until
after the middle OF December. The
winter will be very severe in January
and February.
BIELA STRUCK THE EARTH.
Shehan q Upton's History OF the
great Contlagration OF lS7l,H speaking
| OF the eastern part OF Minnesota, says:
at is the universal testimony that The
| prevailing idea among the people was
that the last day had come. They could
give no other Interpretation to the
ominous roar, the bursting Of tho sky
with fame, and the dropping down OF
fire out OF the very heavens, consuming
instantly everything IL touched. There
| was pitiless rain OF sand and IL seemed
as II the fiery tends Of hell had been
loosened. II came in great sheets OF
flame from heaven, with great balls OF
fire unrolling aud shooting forth In
streams
A civil engineer doing business in
Prestige, says: "rhe heat increased so
rapidly, that when 400 feet from the
bridge and the nearest building, | was
obliged TO lie down in about two feet OF
water behind log, and by going under
water occasionally and holding my head
close to the water managed 10 breathe"
Near Port Huron, Mich, several
hundred miles east OF Chicago and the
fires above noted the conilagration was
terrible. Allison Weaver covered
shallow well with four-inch oak stud
ding and got into the water where he
remained until the fire swept over him.
The well was in ten-acre open space.
but the flrmes completely covered IL.
The fire did not run along the ground
or leap from tree TO tree, but was a
sheet OF flame reaching from the earth
TO the tops Of the trees. The planks
that covered him were on fire. and his
den so hot that he could scarcely
breathe. The earth was on fire in
B spots
I At Williamson's mill, Wisconsin,
thirty-two people jumped into we'll,
, and were there suffooated by heat.
= In Michigan fully 1900 people wore
7 rendered homeless by the fires, ana
their food, crops, clothing, horses and
: cattle destroyed, the same night that
| Al. L., nd
4 consin.
j or the Chicago FIRE Ignauus Donnelly
in his "RagnRrook,n says; "The fire
was spontaneous The story Of Mrs.
OiLeary's COW having started theooniia-
tion by kicking over a lantern, was
found TO be false, 1t was the access OF
gas from Biela's comet that burned up
Chicago"
The Chicago fire marshal testified
that be felt il in his bones that they
were going 10 have a FIRE, and further
said: "We got the fire under control,
, and IL would not have Como another
foot, but the next thing l knew they
; came aud told me that 81, Paul's
! church, two squares away, was on tre,
and then the fire broke out In Bate
mans planning mill" A writer in the
New York Post stated that he saw
buildings far beyond the line Of fire
and not in contact with II, burst into
flames from the interior
! On the same day OF the Chicago FIRE
the states OF Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana
aud Illinois were severely devastated
by prairie fires, and terrible fires ragged
In the Alleghanies, the Slerras, the
Rockies and the region OF the Red
River OF the North.
Shchan & Upton's "History OF the
Chicago Fire." says; ''1'he huge stone
and brick structures melted before the
iierceness OF the flames as . snow fake
melts and disappears in water, and
! almost as quickly. Six-story buildings
! would take fire and disappear forever
J from sight in five minutes by the watch.
y At the great union depot, the fire
burned half a mile against a gale Of
: wind which blew tornado and in
which no vessel could have lived on the
lake. Strange fantastic fires OF blue,
red and green, played along tho cor
nices OF the buildings
Hon. William b. Ogden wrote at the
time: ain the yard of one of the large
I implement factories was staked hun
dreds OF tons Of pig iron. This iron
was two hundred feet from any build
/ ing. To the south OF Il was the river
one hundred and fifty feet wide. No
large building but the factory was in
that vicinity, yet that pile Of iron
melted and run, and is now one large
u and solid mass
OF this great and strange conhagra-
' tion, Mr.. Doanelley further says; IAN
this brings wildly before our eyes the
4 condition Of things when the ancient
(. comet struck the earth, when the con-
flagrations spread over wide acres,
when human being consumed by the
Q million, when their works were oblit-
Q Grated and the remnants OF the multi
y tude fed before the flames filed with
d unutterable CONSERVATION, and as they
= jumped pell nell into wells, 60 we have
: seen them in job clamoring down
+ ropes into the narrow-mouthed bottom
! less pitt
Who shall say how often our atmos-
phere has been affected BY accessiona
from celestial sources, causing contia-
I grations, pestilence, failure OF crops
3 | ed far