Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

CHAPTER VII.

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OTHER TORNADOES.

The tornado in East Kansas--In Southeast Missouri--Great damage in Illinois--Water-spout at Metropolis--Many distinct whirlwinds--Effect of forest and prairie fires--Tornado of Charleston, 1761--Tornadoes at Natchez, 1840 and 1842--The Marshfield storm, 1880--Remarkably small loss of life in tornadoes--Tornadoes in foreign lands 114