Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — Wiggins—His Storm. [ARTICLE]

Wiggins—His Storm.

New York Son. A special from Ottawa says: Wiggins to-day gave the theory on which the storm was predicted. He says: “This storm satisfies me that the theory of the opposite tide, which I advanced in 1864, is correct, namely: That it is caused by the vibratory motion of the ocean from east to west If you look at a terrestrial globe and see the peculiar position of the Gulf of Mexico, and the tendency of Cape St Rocque to glance northward the tides moving west, yor. will not wonder at my claim, when observing that the moon’s forces have been increased to the greatest possible extent, and that, too, when she is hastening with other planets from south to north across the equator. This was exactly the condition of things during this storm. And only one element was lacking to have made this a terrible affair for the people of America. For, mark it well, if the moon’s conjunction with the sun had taken place at 1 o’clock on the meridian

of London, instead of 4 o’clock in th morning, London time—in other words, if the conjunction had taken place over the Gulf of Guinea instead of the China Sea—the whole American coast—granting her to have been, as she was, in perigee—would have been put under water. A time will come when this will take place; and should Venus and Mer jury happen at that moment to be at their inferior conjunction, and Jupiter, Saturn and Mars at the superior conjnnotion,the breakers will roar in the streets of New York City, and Florida will be under water. All astronomers, from the Astronomer Royal down, will please make this explanation to show that my system of foretelling storms is not only founded on science, but on the earth and heavenly bodies.”