The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-29


sAess eaya Tkers are uncuessscnahiy
years Of excerstenal disaster. and this
s~efns 20 be one Of them There Is no
eonssctson whatever between an acca-
dent such ~ that at Victoria and those
disasters which have visited the people
nearly stx weeks scarcely = day has
passed without furnishing rs quota u
casualties. most Of them due to atmcs-
rherfe tisturhaaess-
The expsrssncs Of an VINO have observed
tn course q tornaAoss n Iowa Illinois
ana Missouri ccrrobcrases most precisely
the theories nov generally accepted -
furnishing . true definition Of their cause.
The whirling y due 70 the meeting Of
two winds passing each other as they pro-
coed In opposite directions and Of 4 dif-
ferent Temperature. due 70 causes with
which the people are now pretty gensr-
ally familiar. Tornsdo~s and cyclones
or whiriwfnds. can be seen from a cis-
tsncs. and one may pass within fifty 10
LOO yards Of . vhiriw1nd and watch IL
than that Of The suction caused By .
passing train. One has been known to
cross . railroad track. cutting cut two
freight cars. then swfriinG back. pass an
intervening two and cut cut two beyood
them One sf thoss described within the
past few days broke up . buggy and fired
the axle through = telegraph pole - II
the shaft had been an arrev. On another
oceasfon Il took q soft wood iath and
drove ~ through pisos q hard oak t~o
inches thick. leaving part sf the soft
vssl Embedded. This seems IN impossi-
BILE thing TO DO. but the force used may
b illustrated By the veil known expert
nent of airing taliov candle through
plank Of wood.
Tho cyclone may Be watched forming In
the e,ou1s They approach with more or
less speed. ana a. they meet THE terrible
vhiri 10 created. hanging down. ~ II were.
from the clouds and swinging around Ike
the head OF i've snake held sioff by the
tail The more common form is the sp,-
raj. witch PUSHES through n narrow strip
Of territory like a corkscrew. sometimes
tearing TO pieces and scattering around II
whatever comes across Its path, and At
others catching mp men and animals. car
rying them OF IN the hollow Of It's swirl
ana ofssn eroprsrr them gently ana IN
hurt long distance OF.
The tornado extends cver q wider area
the wind seeming TO travel IN one direc-
ton ans then 20 swing around and return
TIA path IL sometimes very clear cut. and
IN. phenomena observed I'm St Louis are
due 20 tbs DETECTION caused by tie strong
buildings which resisted the force and
csrromea. as II were. at angles from the
buildings. thu. directing the fury Of tire
wind against objects situated outside It's
main line
Fran man T. utterly heinies. IN TIRE pres
ence Of such force; no ordinary precau-
ton. he can take win srrrce 70 ward OF
= storm such as those which have lately
prevailed. They serve 70 afford some con-
eersson % the ssupen6ous forces which
range through the universe ana which
must be gradually ie.sen'ne IN their work
upon the earth. or human life could no.
exist Many os the ercen,rici.ses observ-
abs on the esrth's surface are probably
due as much 70 aero-dy mamie convuislors
az 90 volcanic e-sint,on-
The tornado g, 81 Louis seems 20 hsve
been Of very exceptional violence. nns
probably not within FIFTY years ha. 90
much carnsr- been tons within srch q
limited ares II - positively appalling
and the people should receive much syrn-
PATTY. rot only because % the su-erfne-
they have already endured. hat secan..
% the terror IA wh'cA they VIII I've Until
the memory % the disaster dies away.
without nippancy. such occurrence,
should tend 90 make IN. people who ar.
fortunately free from then. more con-
tented with their io,. New England I. re-
| tcscfns that tire extreme Eastern state,
are free from tarnaioss and earthquak>s
hut the people of the extreme Northwest.
ern states not only enjoy immunity from,
those cNismi,ics but are spared su-er;rs
| from either extreme beat or extreme cola
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