Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1890 — THE RAGING CYCLONE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAGING CYCLONE.

FACTS FROM PROFESSIONAL HEALERS BLHIGH WINDS. '1 What Is a Which the iSriifl f ! May Some ExtTaowliiiiirjP' EffXts xtlie wvfiut' May Produce.

li'MLl.k never seen »tornaffo 'or a cyclone have very I‘little idea what wind ? conceive the umouut of force that is expended. and the man-* .nar in whion rt nets j-j little understood, ttfo Ivafi*' ' th* 'former is a i evolving Btdrrtt/trfiVeliwHbout >aS e ibarff k to nnanhifn nnlm a

ometrir, Where there’s absolute calm, the tzreateat force of tlib Wn<Wrilngf found at the qdge of this circle Of quiet. Tpjj area of inftnen'de inav be from ope hundred to sevfen hundred miles in diarrietbr. rind aa a'< rule the smaller thp ( <di«meteh ,tb,«igr«atar the wind’s velocity.' , ' ’ ; The tornado it a lorittl dhsturbiririO, 1 often, accompanying in the, interior the progress of a cyclone, Sometimes the track otthe sornado is limited to a few hundred feet, and itrnrely has a width ot half a.mile. ‘ Tne cyclone carries With it a velocity of as much as MO to 140 miles an hour. It sends a certain amount of Warning ahead of its track, and the acceleration of the wind’s speed at any given point is gradual. The toynado falls almost without notice, or'rather the indications pre often so similar to those ot an Ordinary thunderstorm that only a skilled and careful observer can detect the difference. "The circular motion of a tornado is believed to produce an extrotnelylowrpressure in thO Center.” said Ptof. Beall, of the United States Signal Service’. In a recent lecture before the Chicago Academy of Sciences, “l or iristarice. wh ere the barometerregisters thirty inches on the outer edgeot a tornado.it is probably not over, twenty Inches in the center. With the barometer

■at thirty atfbirt 2,000 pounds-to Itha isquarei fbpftp barometer is at twenty inches the. e »* isll*l3B pontiffs s t& 'the sqilare~ foot. ,The difference between, the atmospheric pr'essur»in, the, center and tjiq outer edge pt '< I tornado is, • therefore.' (itifi fhjinds to the eqiiare fQPjt, eq that .when bire I M thfese «|- terrors .passes over :a, house I. there4s (Mi effb’rtof the air insfap tne house 1 is that there Is a pressure something, lljae- , tdx hunxhfed r, poiiW»d 'to 1 bvbty Square fdot’l f; It is on this thieoryof different pressures that obgpryprp aqcquntfoj; ftw ip pheuomMuC as finding sticks driven through > treed.< . hqueds luatotat ilMide 'tdSiiß Am ■> literally fpltJked ‘«Vbt¥ ; fdafjhw-'lWm |tt 'i&A **** ** *** It is no.',little satisfaction tb lertrn thnt •Chicago is pot likely to suffer, jKotn-iqfnti-■does The reason for this is that few eases mrykriowufwheru'-a great tormado has been fJFQjP’sdSttdcitkilf'h” W° Ut. l.uaj j The phenomena and effects pf cyclones In the Wbst Indfes havo long been subjects of ptqdy and observation. As the center approaches a ship she is assaulted by wind of a terrible fore- and'a sea that is almost indescribable, The water no longer runs in waves of regular onward motion, but leaps “up in pyramids and peaks. The wind swirls

any »4d qtfiiwa.ii wtfwiiWHr tachs remarkable.• Beats f.oF a )AsJJhe |tlprtexj attlved thmai® ipribsure outside was so suddenly dimimshjed that the air inside the houses fordml' Tlre ;audjthen as soon as the calm center had passed the violent wii-1, having an inflating and U' ting effect through the open apertures, lifted many of the roofs off- ... » cwwivf .. .i a* The local tornado that so frequently plavs havoc with property*and lipe in the' VVbst is. like the cyolono. A:revolving force; but,if

carries with it a variety of phenomena wholly distinct from those that accompany the larger storm. Many of the effects of one tornado are wholly absent in others.

and the indications that in one base have been followed by a terrible; disaster are not Infrequently fbund at other times to presage merely n heavy thunder shower. The freaks of atptnado ape wholly unaccountable. In some cases not an object iq its Struck will fail to feel itk'pbwrit for long distances: in other instances it will s&m to act like a edrinon-ball that ploughs up the earth oh striking. then rises and strikes again. leaving the space between hntouch-, ed< Sometimes It will go through a forest leveling the trees as thourh. Agtirig of axmen had plied their tools on linqs. laid out by i surveyors,: nothing outside the track being _ torched: but again, ji| similar windfalls there will be found occasional pockets scored in the Wrest growth! jutting off tbe right Hue,, like small lagoopj opening into a flowing fjtreain. 'Th£se seem to have beeh' caused by a sort of attendant Whirlwind— a b l*J&J <^W i ß® if h b maiqrimonster. which, hitvlng qpnihgaway from the ichiet djisjuribanoa, tsedops >n - bole in the ' Woods Um e ht'^^ rCS or original , I,haye seeh cm of the most vtdUn't!.' rind, so to speak, qorapreesed Of .these storms, thit a road through thick woods so that at a j distuuers 1 mo ledgbi 4rttood owt&vcfi’hfrand sharp, against; sky as wpu|dthosy.of-a z Railway ‘cifttlng th bugh ■.'pjmtli. Trees standing at tire fiidgeibf thio'tnfck’ hAd their branqbps cleau-sweptroh one side, while on the other'there -was no perceptible disturb-;anagpf[tWimHa-i.Jnilf <G Ifß ; tkio"£ Sometirpesftlm fcornadq-aots filfe qipppor~ mbiis Acaop; catching tip eVeiy movable ..Vuuff «jd usrtwiiing -ft miles aWim-land preparatory td grabbing' up a new careoH These effects nre pHriticu-, Irirly notlcehllte in the' tornado tliai goes by jumpjp oWheit: lit «Dlktefc land- 'i bio tbs g' mass o< deb' is it seems to., like a projectile that grazestlie sujf.ice; Eprjifspage th«rb /; wA||[ bes very ;higfr wind* rind spme'daulhge, But no'such disaston he, the torn ad tl brig pffetibilAl'yNvrwglft/''C>ut heavy? niissites qpd deluges of water?, Tliqn.down.. Rphsilheitoaiftbo Again! scattering by its own force and destructive npwar by a l attery.ot .tfhibersf and. other objects i|s #nd.riopisHt» ilMtirdvjtfiXnpertitUAiJ' J j - tornwdo)S'f>Hth. sini'hitlle Wdrk <l'rifli ! b>y 'the’ [ ( Jla/sinei!<WJs..iiF aiPet'UfnHry W TSSffiC I .' i,ff fee Will Tfief. 'Tne H bie- < ginneed from such a round and elastic tricts ot Southern Minnesota -lowa!'Kahsas. and Nebraska. exeayatep^ i .4pxkWsellat beneath their houses .and coyer if.with hertyy4imbmias. i|;plftc l 3 oftrtfWgsiTortheir fttp .not qlWdVAiio, Theta i to close the trap-door, have been exposed to the .storm’s full fury by the tornado getting intO’xlie ripening and lilting off the whole nbof.af ter having first stye pt away

-..noJ/rio euoxmi .vw « rfiiw sis a broq uH MSMStSSttg wwaean* pitted ttite wate r da t>bt' kit IfiiSfe ’lf® dtrf& fcedUida. WJ eiaob one oxfsaxeq Some of the Western tor.rujd®es y 4a'r&ca|f eomnanied by electrical , itfAnUesfat;on« to WHeibaititfcnt Kd JarigiskQlea' alß«tfef in hfiOiMfomer have &o*-’berfrt',riotfdeldi OU erfj bna enl io obia bea eilf jb qpsw

- - tornado’s track, but nlso at some distance from it. In the ruined houses all the iron work was found to have been strongly magnetized, so that pokers, flatirons and other metal objects were found adhering to each other. Just off the tornado’s track the same effects were noticed, and several persons experienced shorn electr cal shocks during the passage of the storm. Afterward it was found that the magnetic influence whoso strong that clocks and watches were stopped ana rendered whoUy useless. The scoo j ing action of the tornado sometimes makes considerable changes in the topography of the count y. as when it gathers up the water of a large pond or water course and makes a new pond or opens a new chanel. At Wallingford. Conn., the water in a pond of very large size was taken bodily from its bed. carried up a hill and <lropped nearly in one mass, so that guilies and ravines were cut in every direction. • Many are the glories told of the way in which objects are curried away by the rwind and left In strange places. In one Illinois tornado two children and an infant were caught up. The dead bodies of the two children were found only aiewhundrp<l feet distant, but tne infant was picked "up alive more than a mile away from the spot where the tornado swept the child up. Aft cord ion that must have come a long distance—for it was never cla med—was found so entangled in the branches of a it was alternately pulled apart and pressed together by the wind, creating -such weird and uncanny music during a whole night that an already sufficiently scared settlement of negroes were kept in a state of frantic dismay until daylight revealed the cause. In ahdtbdr case a farmer who followed thp tornado’s track in search of missing cattle was astonished to discover one of hlB eows standing about twenty feet above the groupd in the branches of a half felled inaple.

ivas a‘A uctivri h'eifer^ f 4s Mi ctuiu)j»<sight Urhef;--j t'V(her f) ' a [ torhado passes oVMr'- A’ odri*ddera j

sweeps up a mass of water that goes whirling over the surface with tremendous writhlngs aqd gyratipn-. ,Just .after the close of the war 1 was lying in the Chesapeake in a' sloop-of-War. A boat heavilv laden with a swimming yarty h,a,i been al-, lowed tb go ashore, and just as it was te-, turning a terrible cloud caniA ddtfrn one of the small creeks at a. ( hei hl, .iyjnipmtlyeof•only a few tttthdred reel. ‘As it leachpd the' open bay a leaden-cdlbred; sbakCifuro teol- . umh sprang up to meektbe cloud, andeamo" twisting and squirmfng .straight ,for the bout. wai io'sc^owdbdrth’ui^ily s shiptn Jfi ’/flf - 6 dtewttvw* i 199! pit <1 lomfeone djffl®r«fMlfe Watdr- f ship itself if the waterspout struck vMnbut* iws' t^BTi<ikfnp)iijen«imssWhbi’e4i eJiiqt warn glo£dj’f(drtf&eai'«h4Of<*ae ySWfPMte&wfofod atiißi autwiraiafo.< i ifthul.ftU Ira ■ .MPlf¥ bfe$ e >$ t t o OTObefo&ta& aMeKiinfe; S MW i I .just missed -the beat, and.though .neaxlv : HOBiegb bsifloibai Jfsan i ! ’ A somewhat remai kable incident nan-i i pened-htfhb<terrfb'i6 jjdiifsrtlle tornddd b' S^R r iW v Al-i aJWrinijfcfoh; fcg«wpo.. inorq] < ibydiWs. simemakjrt-.Ti', gqid-teraofii

tion. In one corner of the ruin, completely sheltered by the beams and boarding, which had formed an arch above it. sat a chubby 18-months-old baby. It was cov-

ered with dust and hemmed in on every side, but not a hair of its little head was injured. When the searchers uncovered it the pudgy face broke into a merry laugh, and the little hands dropped the chips of timber they had been playing with and were extended to the rescuers. A meteorologist in the employ of the United States Signal Service was asked re-

Oently if a cyclone had ever been photoigpaphed. ■i, “Never, I believe.” he replied, “although itqiossibly eould be done. With a tornado 'tgsiease is different. The latter is a conaMiively limited affair, although it has endous power compressed initsnarjptfjaunel. A tornado’s track will sorneRnjesibe not more than a quarter of a m+le wMe. lJ while a cyclone lakes in a much larger territory, frequently many miles. Both arp generated by the intermingling of cold and warm air currents, and both have the MWB nqt»ry motion. Tho gyrations of the ternadp may be distinguished a consider - abW’dlsfhnce off from the actual scene of L dists>b>iniß.’i Tornadoes almost invariably .fplkiw. in tyiottraek of a severe storm- and *go in.il northeasterly direction. Their veiloßUflPffWie’S from 50 to possibly as high as fTHe°protii6iiitions of a cyclone are a in from the >outh, with , aiuffru q;mpsnhere and banking clouds to i’nb north tor northwest. These indications Wfteaccohrranißd'ibv a gradual fall of the s. ore c .r. c AVbenhairliy started the cyclone will travel immenpe distances, sometimes over 1.000 I nrnesl ■ Its rotaty motion is similar to that (Otjthe tornado, but less concentrated, owing tb its wider expanse. Its line of progniarked by curves, showing a swaying .movement where it has encountered epnflieting and either overcome or avoided them? A peculiarity of all great pgfp)onisxßiormsfis*thaC. while the storm itselfmay be traveling at the slow rate of tefi or twelve miles an hoU r r. the wind may be rushing ahead ait a velocity of 100 miles an hour. No cyclone or tornado ever begins-earlier than 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The atsmospheric conditions are never present be'bre that' hour. Nor will a cvelone ever (Otteiiutte later than sundown. ; Should one come after that you, may set. it down as a Wlbitdr tn ht has traveled ever, Since after[iijQp#, pf)d which will keep on traveling anyji thb-supply of material is exhausted. In

IjAafltid. pJobmf ntidw ;,9ioffl rh°°d fib sib 1 w«M<bd If i' dßj# noon. tpere is.a wahm, southwest wind,and Cth&feStJrdSHuH 'di'twrhiife 1 clbuds; anuarati the same time there is a bank Btf,d«afk cipuds gradually rising,in the northwest,' ■tnes©siMi!^aUliniAHit4V ! that' nvtten the lilptt » fire Sants- W/ ritid be 340 t&d already in a place of safety. ‘'. 4 no f ' _ - _ . r • tn > i

PATH OF A TORNADO THROUGH A FOREST.

THREE PIERCED BY A FENCE RAIL.

"I NEVER ALLOWED SHE COULD CLIMB A TREE."

A RACE WITH A TORNADO.

REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF AN INFANT.