| Show THE HURRICANES POWER The frequency of hurricanes or cyclones cy-clones especially In the central great valley between the Rocky and Allegheny Alle-gheny mountains ought to lead to the adoption of a new style of architecture though what can be Invented to resist the force of those terrors It Is hard to conceive Of com so rooms underground under-ground can be provided but anything above the surface that can resist them has not yet been Invented They arc supposed to come from the Gulf or the Caribbean sea The people who live in the West Indies say they start under the Andes They rage In the West indies In-dies as they never yet have on our main land and the force with which they sometimes strike the islands is Inconceivable One In the Barbados is described in Crams Magazine Here are two extracts No thunder was at any time heard had the cannon of a hundred contending armies been discharged dis-charged or the fulmSnallon of the most tremendous thunder peals rattled through the air the sounds could not have been distinguished Again it says that a bar of lead weighing 400 pounds was picked up and hurled a distance of 1G60 feet and apart a-part of a childs tin trumpet was driven into an evergreen tree where It burled itself in the trunk That was not a twister that exhausted Its fury in a few minutes but a hurricane that held its awful course for three and a half haUlS But the most terrible one struck the town of Savannah la Mar Jamaica in 1711 The description says That thriving town rich with the gains of sugar and rum on land and endless frcebootlng by i ica waSJn one hour so utterly swept from existence that not ono dwelling not one soul nor ox nor hose vas left us a reminder of the furies that saw tho sun GO down on a thriving community and its place covered by morn with many feet of sand cast up by the mighty tidal wave that had como as n fitting climax I I There the underground refuge would I < have availed nothing It was a storm like that only a little less in intensity that smote Galveston and as at the Jamaica town so at Galveston a tidal wave gave the finishing blow It seems like tempting Providence to build another city on that sand spit but then who knows where the next blow will fall We is all poor critters crit-ters |
