Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
FACTS ABOUT CYCLONES.

ey-two vessels sunk
The only house untouched In n street
in Iowa was the one that carried cy-
clone insurance.
The best place of refuge is the cellar:
the next best is on the ground fiat on
your face in natural depression.
At BONN Island In 1854 a cyclone had
the effect of frost or electricity. Grass
and vine leaves wilted and turned
black.
The storm of Aug. Is, 1888, swept
from the Gulf States to Nova Scotia;
$1,0o0,000 worth of property was de-
stroyed in its path.
In 1854 cyclone in Knox County,
Ohio, felled $4,000 trees in half an hour.
1t would have taken man twenty
years to do the work.
Cyclones have peculiar fondness for
churches. The roof was lifted from one
near Indianapolis and deposited on
neighborng haystack.
As stump puller the cyclone is n
success. The forest in Knox County,
oiiiV, was iSddy loi lHc piVW WhSh thc
uprooted trees were removed.
Do not be deceived If there comes a
sudden calm In the midst of violent
storm. You are probably in the center
and the other half Is coming.
A cyclone is n whirlwind-that is, a
wind having circular, rotary move
ment around small central area In
which comparative calm exists.
The cyclone is not as broad as 1t is
long The weather-wise believe the
disturbance and spiral motion may
reach "A depth of the earth's atmosphere
of about sixteen miles.
Face the wind, and If In n northern
hemisphere stretch out your right arm;
the center of the storm is In tina direc-
ton. Your flight should be with the
right side to the wind, not the back.
Sept. 10, 1875, Indianola, Texas, was
swept away. The wind was still blow
ing eighty miles an hour when 1t reach
ed Cape Hatteras two days later. In
dlanola was again destroyed In 1886.
A falling barometer indicates the ap-
proach of high winds. If you live In
Kansas, Nebraska or Iowa, occasion
ally in Ohio, take out n cyclone insur-
ance on your house and climb in cave.
Fifteen years before, Aug. ID, 1873,
the Nova Scotia terror" destroyed over
1900 vessels and killed 900 people.
The fishing industry of Canada and
New England was seriously crippled
and $4000,000 worth Of property de-
molished.
Down in Texas a cyclone lifted
house from it's foundation, twisted 1t to
kindling wood and scattered 1t over
several counties. A baby In the house
at the time was found on the floor fast
asleep on feather pillow with it's toys
around it.
In Snake River Valley, Idaho, accord
ing to Mary Halleck Foote, dust cy-
clones are SO frequent at seed time that
the husbandman goes FIVE miles to
windward to plant, otherwise he would
have to look for his crop and top soil
in the next county.
A scientist puts 1t like this: A cy-
clone is really vast steam engine. The
furnace is the sun and the rivers and
lakes and swamps the boilers. This Is
using the superfuous heat of the earth,
giving us less vapor above and less
liquid on the surface. 1t is the univer-
sal cooler of creation.
The cyclone season has opened with
a regular blowout in Kansas, and
Iowa has added one to its laurels. This
is taking time by the forelock, and in
cidentally pulling it out by the root 1t
is due to the unprecedented warmth
of April this year. Cyclones reach
their greatest number and violence in
the United States in August and Sep
tember.
In Kansas and Nebraska the north
and south winds meet with such vio-
lence that tornadoes are cast off from
the main body of the cyclone. These
are little, but, oh my! They are usually
stopped by the mountains of Missouri
and river bluffs. The main storm trav-
els ON eastward picking things up here
and there at random, and occasionally
reaches the ocean.
The great cyclone factories of the
United States are located in the arid
regions of New Mexico, Arizona and
Southeastern California. Not one in
hundred ever reaches maturity; the
ninety and nine perish of thirst in the
desert. Their capacity for water is as
that of the caravan of the desert, in
proportion to their size. A big drink Of
several tons lasts one for days.
Cyclones in the United States usually
travel from the southwest to northeast.
There was one notable exception to this
in '73 in storm that, originating in the
West Indies, began at Charleston, S. c.,
and left us at Portland, Me-, describing
a parabola in its journey. Another ex-
ception was a cyclone that began In
Florida and unfolded it's finished tail in
Manitoba.
Literary Man.