Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
CHAPTER IV.
TORNADOES AND CYCLONES.
Unheeded law--Peculiarities of storms--Cyclonic storms--Theoretical Illustrations--A “cyclone hot-bed"--Traveling of a cyclone--Its curves in accordance with law--Features of the cyclone’s path--Great cyclone of August, 1888--The planetary equinox theory--Objections to it--Safe predictions--Sun-spots--Mysterious providences 48