The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
TORNADO HUNTERS.
The Government Will Place Weather
Observers in the West Indies.

Washington. July 13.-The most radical
extension of the weather service yet made
will be operated Immediately by this gov
eminent, by the establishment OF syS-
coast for the benefit of all nations whose
interests lie in that region. Between ten
and twelve new stations will be organized
and the corps to inaugurate the new serv-
ice and man the stations will be Dispatch
ed to the field in few days me IOl-
lowing have been selected for these i'm
pOrtant posts;
In charge-Profs. Park Morrill, of the
weather bureau, Washington, and w B.
StOckman of the Cleveland, o., office
Local Officials-Franllin G. Tingley of
Indiana. John W. Tower of this city.
Thomas Crawford of Jacksonville, Fla;
Frank A Davis of PhiladelphIa, Louis
Dorman of Pittsburg and John NJ. Ryl1er
of Galveston.
The others have not yet been finally Sc
lected- All are to be trained weather OBJ
servers and expert weather sharps ana are
TO be taken exclusively from the present
service. WhiilevHnder the general, super ger
reau, there VIII be a central station 10
Gated at Kingston, Jamaica, but possibly
at either Santiago or Guantanamo, Cuba,
instead, winch VIII consutute the mead
quarters of Messrs. Morrill, and Stock
man, who will be in direct control There
vana, with which weather warnings are
even now exchanged every day between
the two countries surprising as II may
seem, and Kingston and St. Thomas. The
location of the new atoms IS contemplate
ed include Barranquilla, Colombia. St
Kits, southeast of St. Thomas: Trinidad
the Barbados. There will be several
stations on the north coast of South
America Il has been found that tOrna~
does, which are especially to be looked
for, beginning around the equator, fire.
quently either cut a slice off the corner
of South America in their progress north,
cut over past the Windwards, in either
ton will be secured by the new service
and rushed ahead with a gain of many
hours over the relatively slow moving
storms, whose course of invasion in the
next "A hours could be easily defined in
quick Geographic warnings.
Reports, forecasts and warnings will be
regularly issued from all these stations,
through the central station, to the bureau
in Washington, and thence wired from
there generally. and vice versa. Those
in charge of the central office, seeing the
preInat ure symptoms of a tornado about
the Barbados or Trinidad, in such ext
gencies will be empowered to order the
observers at points involved to send re-
ports at intervals of two hours or so for
the benefit of the commercial interests.
The object of this sweeping extension of
the weather system is to gather all regu-
lar observations, to make weather charts
of that region, locate storms and make
for the United States alone, but for all
nations in that quarter of the globe the
weather service explaining that the serv-
ice is aimed at the future great commerce
expected to be built up there The work
will effect complete chain of agencies
for weather intelligence that embraces the
entire section from Central America to the
Caribbean islands and from the southern
coast of North America to the north coast
of South America 1t will be begun at
the earliest practical moment