The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-01-19
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'FQR FOUNDATIONS
ol)o(Dstatloa Caused Europe's
Heel& Scientists Claim.
m llllARION CHIEF ACCuSER
ejaheoon Months Of Generalization
Due % Continued Bad Weather
caussd BY Thinning Of Trees,
eeonehman Asserts-Columbia Pro-
fesser Thinks Theory Farfetehed.

feoooP Thinks Theory Farfetched.
It is a long way from America to
central Europe. yet Professor Camille
FlammariOn. the French astronomer.
does not hesitate to say that the alb
normal weather conditions affiictin:
the old continent for almost two years
are due In great measure TO the winds
that blow from our shore.
The first three days OF this year
gave many Americans taste Of what
England, France. Italy. Germany.
Spain and Switzerland have been un-
dergoing for over eighteen months
Summer was hardly experienced even
- far south rs Italy and the Riviera.
Thunder was In the air. and scarcely
. day passed without a storm, some
times Of an hour. sometimes for
whole afternoon.
In France it il almost two years
Glnce good weather has prevailed for
Z whole fortnight. This began in the
spring Of 1900 and eliminated In the
terrific disaster in January. 1910. when
practically the whole country was
1ooded and Paris suffered in such
Heasure that for day or two 1t was
reared the whole city would be re
0uced to q mass Of ruins.
led Weather soresds
Switzerland followed and then Italy
and then Spain and England and Ger
many. With June the water subsidel
Everywhere. but none of the rivers re-
! Gumed quite their normal level. The
6kies were seldom clear, the crops
were spoiled. and summer frocks were
hardly worn at all.
During the first weeks Of November
Germany began to experience serious
Inconvenience. The Rhine rose seven
teen and one-half feet above its mean
level at Cologne. eighteen feet at
Mannheim. and two and thrce-quarter
feet at MOselle.
Madrid came next. after the first
week in December last. This time IT
was q cyclone that caused the floods,
Submerging Seville and all the low
lying districts as far as Malaga. de-
stroying railroad bridges, washing
away miles Of railroad. mining all
telegraphic and telephone communica.
t1oas. isolating many villages. which
yoeo left in q critical situation, and
causing great loss Of life and property
y ~ interior and along the coast
From London stories Of the flooding
q the Thames valley have been SEM
ont for over a month. 1t seems thai
beeh sides Of the river from oxford t
practically within the city Of Londor
are aooded for miles. All the villa.
eld bungalows that are SO typical IL
~ landscape Of the Thames are sub
merged, and most Of them will have I,
b rebuilt, because the water has un
0ermined their foundations.
Al Countries Affeeted.
Everywhere weather conditions seen
to be pretty much the same. In Rus
sta the Dnieper at kiev rose twent,
) 1eee quite suddenly and swept ava,
villages and houses, with their inhat
I 1tants. In its wild course.
The same reports Of rain and storm
!. come even from those countries wher
summer conditions should now prevail
:. Australia, West Africa and Bueno
Aires report the same weather.
TO explain this ominous state {
things Professor Flammarion made
startling statement in the Frenc
press.
"Deforestation in America is chief
responsible" he said, for whenev.
the barOmetrical pressure is low "
are subject to west winds, which bio
direct from america across the Altar
NC, practically following the course
the gulf stream. These winds collie
vaPors on the way. and these whe
coming III contact with our damp m
chilly land condense. thus causing ul
J. continuous downpour