Show t f 7UIiAUo lllIUVS Lat wiek mill tamp of the dee Oucllve epistle of Id air Imparts pedal Inttroit lo an ifflclil r ter on Oho tornado history of Ibo I United Htalei by Jleul loley of ho weather turciu and Just now summarized by the Chicago TlroieHtMld This hit J lory li of coon not cimplcle forth tetlod nmodn bloodroot 7ult1 necettarlly could nit bi slur thi western loll of the continent was hardly known > t ill at the tint lbs oampllallon cl material tor lbe work began Ilia year 1794 lint it boa very plainly that there ate lerlalu iicllon peculiarly subject to tornado violation while other irctloni no aimed absolutely exempt Tm former aria of Eretlnt frequency It 1 a narrow pac between Ibo meridian S9 and 101 degree and 1 belwten hllludei tli and 41 degrees north and Includes parts ol Kinm Mluourl Ion llllnoli and III ecst 1 I OlD edge of Indiana foil la I there hit vetted the tornado district par ex cllltuor The dlililolot next grtattit I frcquincy Ii 1 New York and then n OCDIII Clecrgla 1 Noting ilx hundred lornadoe which have occurred principally during tb > lilt thirty year when records and t obiervalooa bare bean more accurate ri If krp Ibo weather hlitorlan rematki that their average length 1 I teas about twenty eight milt and their average width about a Ibouiand fell they have varied In length from two tulle to 1 two hundred and filly the former t species being called bouncen et whit Ibo width bat varied from a few yard In I nearly mile If In the table given Ii below Dakota meant the Iwo isle II line formed It I will bo eta Ibat not t a tingle stale cut of Ul bat tecapcd entirely these terrible vlitlalloni f while to the nut of our longitude longi-tude the only exemption ale In the caioef Oregon and Waablnglon Utah cf count dote not figure In the table at alIbe tornado or cyclone bath no I place In our hlitory Our northern neighbor Idaho li equally fortunate but the destroyer has whirled all around ui on every tide The following follow-ing table to bleb should be added Colorado California Indian Territory Terri-tory Nevada New Mexico Montana llbod Island West Virginia and Wyoming with one each will balu terttllox at showing when Iltut 1lnley found his nearly ill hundred tornado and olio a ibowlcc where Kansas get Hi repatitlon v I M i tI t 7 < w ok h11I I W k I UbIO 1 00e15 lndlayAt arohpa t Itonuoolro Laotorir e 1 I r 1 Ilu Ida a 1a 1i to r u0 D i1 e 1 |