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Show Anoi'hi:i: or those funei-al-shapal tornado clouds, the counterpart of the lute lowaatlair, has visit ul Smthern Illinois. Icainii in its trail denth and dot ruction- Hid Klines; were torn to pieces, trees uprooted, holies and cattle carri.il from their feet and dashM lifeless apiinst the earth. fences leveled, and several pci"sons killed, while a yreat iuuuKt were hadly hrui.setl and maimed. 1'iinnt; the pi-ealenee of the storm the rain fell in torrents, and streams oversowed rarryinii away culverts and hrii!i;es. These terrihle tornadoes are ptvper Mihiecls for seiemilie investigation hy '0U I'mhahiHiies" of the signal ser-iee. ser-iee. He has done o well in pmliet-inj pmliet-inj eoniiui; events twenly-four houi-s in adanre, that pet ple naturally look to him for some explanation of these land water-spouts. |