Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-10-28
LONG SIEGE Of
FREAK WEATHER
World Is Slowly Recovering From
Severe Attack of Meteoro-
logical Mun1ps.
EXPECT PATIENT TO SURVIVE
United States Suffers Chiefly From En-
cess Of High Temperature and De-
fieieney Of Moisturs--some
Recent Disasters.


as the earth IL emerging from what
some human diagn0sticians might call
n severe attack of meteorological
mumps. II has been accompanied by
an intermittent fever. manifested In
worldwide heat wave Of unusual
length and intensity. In spite Of crises
and relapses. earthquakes. tidal waves,
cIoudbursts, typhoons, wnterspouts,
hailstorms, floods and hurricanes In
many widely separated parts, from
kamchatka to Cape Horn and from
Guam to Guadaloupe, the doctors are
confident the patient Will recover
Meanwhile the United States for the
last year has been suffering chiefly
from an excess of high temperature
and a deficiency of moisture, n condi-
ton unprecedented In the fifty years
history Of the weather bureau.
Suffers Hest Waves.
The persistent higher temperatures,
for which number Of speculative ex-
plantations have been given, began In
August, 1920, and for the succeeding
monthly excess above normal Of "a
degrees. March, 1921. an unusually
warm spring month, had an excess sy-
ernge OF 1913 degrees. The first slight
break In the record occurred last Au-
gust, which was slightly below normal.
In the nine months period beginning
In October. 1918, and ending In July,
1919 the average monthly temperature
was III degrees above normal, and
this was a record until sun spots. sea
bottom upheavals or other Hypothetical
causes sent the mercury still higher
recorded In this country for the month
Of March, weather officials say. was
4S.3, In March. 1921.
The average temperature for April,
1g21--55 degrees---was the warmest for
that month In half century. May aud
June were not unusual hut July broke
all records for the preceding eleven
years.
Weather bureau 0ficials here de-
ciincd to discuss the possible connec-
tion between the present high tempera-
lures and disasters Of nature In many
parts of the world.
A glance back for recent disasters
and natural phenomena shows the
following:
Two million Koreans starving In
Manchuriu owing to drousht-ruincd
crops.
Three hundred buildings wrecked
and many killed by hailstorm and wa
terspout Mt Baez. Cuba.
Three volcanoes, viilarica, Llama
and Lanln. spout flames more than .
thousand feet from craters.
Drought kills fish In river Seine and
France suffers most severe drought In
~ years.
Rhine and Moselle rivers do great
damage in highest food In 1855 years.
Cloudburst and hailstorm damage at
Rome, Italy.
Mount vesuvius shows activity and
earthquake shock Is felt from Leghorn
to Lake Lugino.
Italian destroyers carry inhabitants
to safety AS volcano Stromboli re-
sumes activity.
Damage of several million drachmas
done in Greece by severe hailstorms.
Earth Blocks Canal.
Earth blocks Corlnth canal.
Cyclone devastates three towns In
Haiti.
Volcano Kilauea In Hawaii spouts
immense fountains Of lava.
Activity Of the volcano Popocatapetl
In Mexico increasing.
Earthquake shakes Vera Cruz and
four other cities.
Lightning strikes oil wells. causing
millions Of dollars damage In TamplcO
and other districts.
MexIcans pray to "water goddess" e
end drought.
Volcano Colima In Jalisco 10 in erup
ton.
Many lives lost in waterspout which
destroyed part OF Tangier. Morocco.
Volcano Masaya in Nicaragua In
eruption.
Typhoon and foods In Philippines
and especially on island of Luzon, d,
great damage.
Six new craters opened at Noun
IZnlco. Salvador.
Waterspout In ia-Dours, province
of Spain, damages crops and villages
Heat In the Alps causes glaciers I,
shrink and nine mountain climbers ar
killed.
Seventy five dead in tornadoes whicl
sweep southern United States.
Flood mandates Pueblo, causing $40
100000 property loss.
Forty-seven perish In San Antonio
CTexas) food.
One consolation OF the freak wealth
er, however, Is the prospect OF al
"open winter"
Find Buried Treasure.
Berlin.-Twenty million mark:
worth of gold and silver, which is b
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