The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-04-27
ELECTRIC ENERGY THE CAUSE
George W. Warderss Theory OF Earth
quake Phenomena

George W. WardeF's Theory Of Earth
quake Phenomena
Geo W Warder in Kansas City starr
Since the recent direfuI destruction
OF san Francisco BY earthquake ana
fire. many persons have requested my
opinion as TO its cause. Ny theory
is very simple There is 40 difference
IN the law OF mode Of operation Of
electric energy in a cloud in a Tolca-
no, in an earthquake, in an electric
light or in a mans body The same
natural results follow when one lights
the gas with q fash Of electricity from
MS finger as when a meteor blazes,
a comet flares out in space or a sun
ming vibrateS the air, an earthquake
Vibrates the surface OF the earth It
is the same force that man causes to
run along a telegraph or telephone
wire and which prOpels our street cars
when taken by the brushes from a
revolving dynamo.
1t is the same force and operates
under the same law or mode Of force
as the electric life-giving currents that
come from the sun constantly in an
omniDOtent tide Of power The light
ming that cleaves the clouds and vi
brates in thunder through the atmOs-
phere has its exact counterpart in the
earthquake which CleaveS the noun
tain and plain and Sibrates the earth
with reStrOy1ng energy The earth
has its positive and negative hot and
cold electric currents just as the at
mOSphere above il has, and they Op-
crate in the same way As there are
storm centerS in the atmosphere there
are also storm centerS in the volcanic
pockets and cavities IN the outer crust
Of the earth These volcanic storm
centers in the United States are in
Charleston, in southeast Missouri and
on the Pacific coast Here the law
Of electric repulsiOn at times predOm-
mates with such dynamic force as to
produce the ruin Of an earthquake.
While electric attraction holds the
earth and its elements in organic form
II IS along intervals overcome by cleo
trio repuIsiOn which produces the
earthquake and volcano, just as the
same forces in the air above produce
the tornado and cyclone What then
causes an earthQuake2 I answer:
Electric repulsiOn which results from
opposing electric currents in a re-
sisting medium which engenders heat
Heat is a dynamic repulsive force
which meltS igneOuS rocks, eXplOdeS
natural gas and oil in the earth, Great
ing volcanoes, earthquakes, geySers
and hot springs An opening or vent
in an earthquake we call a volcano,
and when this opening is made, the
pent up elements cease to shake the
earth, but send forth molten elements
We call lava, and thus build up vast
mountains
Earthquakes may be caused in
many ways, the principal cause be-
ing water from the ocean or rivers
perculaung through the earth until
they mOisten the clay or other sub
stance between two or more vast min
eral beds Of mines or ore Water is
necessary 10 the diffusion OF electrf-
city and no animal or vegetable or
ganism can exist without il, and it
brings together the opposite electri-
city in the beds Of metallic ore in the
earth and engenders heat, evolves and
explOdes gates and causes expansion
which lifts and VibrateS the earth's
surface, destroying towns and cities
As differences Of temperature can
be converted into an electric flash,
and electricity can be converted into
heat, an earthquake is like a flash OF
lightning touching of a powder maya
zine in the earth.
There are igRaceOUs rocks and varf-
Gus elements in the earth that evolve
heat when water SeepS into them To
Illustrate A curious incident caused
a great cOnfagratiOn in city It was
the dropping Of an icicle into a barrel
Of unSlacked lime The Stacking Of
the lime caused a fire The hremen
came and the more water they used
the greater was the heat generated
from many barrels Of lime in the
warehouse until an explosion occurred
and the whole neighbOrhOOd was
wrecked and burned. In like man
ner water in the assures Of the earth
acts chemically upon various minerals
and substances and produces similar
destructive results.
The eruptiOns Of Vesuvfus and
Mount Pelee were purely electrical.
Electrical repulsiOn with its dynamic
force shot forth the lava from Vesu@
vius and blew of the top Of Mount
Pelee- The electric current spanked
and the whole region was aflame.
What caused the san Francisco
earthquake were the same electrical
conditions The waters Of the ocean
seeped into the volcanic elements be-
meath its surface, evolving heat and
gases with their repUlsive expansion
which tore up the trembling earth and
rocked it like a cradle, shaking its
buildings into crumbling rubbish, and
creating the most direful disaster
ruin and havoc in the history Of this
continent
Did the volcanic action Of Vesuvius,
and the volcanic eruptiOns in FOTmO-
sa, and the Sandwich islands have
anything to do with the California
earthquake? Certainly they did. This
is an electric universe bound together
by invisible electricities and not vi
bratiOn OF the air, or the fall of a
sparrow occurs, but their effect is felt
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