| Show TORNADO STATISTICS The tornado season is just opening Slay and June are the harvest months for cyclones Every year the United States is visited by about tventyfive ablebodied storms that may be classed as destructive So we are informed by Professor I F Bigelow of the Washington Wash-ington weather bureau They are not only accompanied by mal fatalities in some instances scores of bodies have been strewn along the path of a single cyclone but great damage Is caused to property in the densely populated and wellimproved districts of the Mississippi valley I The record shows that from 1SS9 to 1593 property to the value of 31008000 was wrecked As much as 23000000 of this can be chare to three tornadic hurricanes which passed through re ions of dense population One of these visited Louisville March 27 1890 destroying de-stroying property to the value of 001 f00 The St Louis tornado of May 27 1895 cost hat city 13000000 and the one which swept through Washington D C Sept 29 iSIS destroyed 7000000 worth of property The latter storm is described as a hurricane with tornadic I lectures The rotary velocity of the wind on thE occasion of the St Louis I tornado was 175 miles an hour which is equivalent to n pressure of ninety I pounds to a square fo t I |
