Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — Prodigious Force of a Cyclone. [ARTICLE]

Prodigious Force of a Cyclone.

Careful estimates of the force of a cyclone and the energy required to keep the fuli-tiedged hurricane in active operation reveal the presence of a power that makes the mightiest efforts of itoan apepar as nothing In comparison. l A force fully equal to over 400,000,C00 ‘.orse power was estimated as developed in a West Indian cyclone. This is about fifteen times the power that can bo developed by all the means within the range of man’s capabilities during the same time.