The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-03
Old Man Earth Has
Just Come Thru Bad
Attack of the '.Munaps "
Case Was Complicated by Intermittent Fever But in Spite
of Crises, Reapses Etc. It's All Over Now and We Are
Due for Open Winter Says Meteorological Sharps

vailed owing to the obstruction of the
suns rays. Some of the dust from
Krakatoa was suspended in layers in
the upper atmosphere for years.
Now whether the world wide heat
wave is due to some terrible paroxysm
OF nature, such as volcanic action in
some remote region of the earth or
seismic upheavals in the depths of
due to sunspotS or some other cause
is entirely problematicaI. 1t is only as
recently as last December 16 that
scientists were cudgehng their brains
to solve the mystery of an earthquake
estimated to have been $500 miles
news came of an earthquake in far off
kanh-Su province. China, four times
that distance, in which two thousand
persons perished. The explanation
given was that there probably had
been two distinct shocks each widely
separated. and from that day to this
seismologists speak of the '1ost"
earthquake. The present tempera-
lures may be due to it.
Many Big Disasters.
1t is a fact, however, thar. what
ever the cause, this terrestrial ball
has been subjected of late to rough
usage. Notwithstanding that the war
Is over. A resume of some recent dis
asters and natural phenomena shows
the following.
Two million Koreans starving in
Manchuria, owing to drought-ruined
crops.
Three hundred buildings wrecked
and many killed by hailstorm and
waterspout at Baez, Cuba. Three vol
canoes, Villarica, Llaima and Lanin,
spout flames more than a thousand
feet from craters. Drought kills fish
in river Seine and France suffered
most severe drought in forty-seven
years.
Rhine and Moselle rivers do great
damage in highest flood in 1876 years.
Cioudbursts and hailstorm damage
at Rome, Italy.
/ earthquake shocks felt from Leghorn
! to Lake Lugano.
| italian destroyers carry inhabitants
! to safety as volcano, Strombol, re-
sumed activity.
Damage of several million drachmas
| done in Greece by severe hail storms.
Earth slide blocks Corinth canal.
] Cyclone devastates three towns in
Haiti
! Volcano Kilauea in Hawaii spouts
| immense fountains of lava.
Activity of the volcano Popocatepetl
| in Mexico increasing. Earthquake
sha Res Vera Cruz and four other. cities.
/ lightning strikes oil wells, causing
millions of dollars damage in Tampico
and other districts.
| Drouth in Mexico.
Mexicans pray to water goddesses''
to end drouth.
Volcano Colima in Jaliseo is in erup-
ton.
Many lives lost in waterspout which
DESTROYED part of Tangier. Morocco.
Volcano Masaya in Nicaragua in
eruption.
Typhoon and floods in Philippines
land especially on Island of Luzon do
great damage.
| Six new craters opened in Mount
! Izalco, Salvador.
Waterspout in Maia-Doura province
of Spain damages crops and villages.
Heat in the Alps causes glaciers to
4 shrink and nine mountain climbers
are killed.
| Seventy-five dead in tornadoes
which sweeps southern United States.
Flood foundations at Pueblo, caus-
ing S1O,O00.0O0 property loss.
! Forty-seven perish in San Antonio,
Tex, flood.
One consolation of the freak wealth
er, however, is the prospe of an
i"open winter"