Show CYCLONES AND TORNADOES dispatches in this issue describe another terrific cyclone which visited portions di the southern states yesterday these destructive storms are becoming so f frequent that one would suppose the people in some secil ons must be gettin used to the mitat their frequency increases rather tbt ett diminishes the terror they t tornadoes are quite as frequent if I 1 not more so than cyclones and are much more destructive destructs ve than the latter according to the extent of country over which they respectively sweep there Is a considerable dlf dif ferenze different between a cyclone and a tornado that ignot is nod not generally understood anex an explanation Is giverson gi given velion verion on the subject by blout finley linley of the united states signal corps cyclones YC 1 one are ocean storms moving I 1 landward d war d he says while tornadoes are land storms although they sometimes pass out to sea a considerable distance before their furT tury is exhausted the cyclone is a tropical pro product duct and is comparatively unknown in summer while the tornado comes I 1 from roi rot u cool regions and Is most destructive in phe he warmest weather the cyclone has great breadth and a ship may float in it without injury while the track of the tornado Is narrow and nothing but adamant can resist its dis truc tive power the cyclone which swee sweeps ps over the atlantic from the west indies in september or october is the same as the tile typhoon which ravages ages the coast of japan but in origin course and destructiveness it Is wholly unlike the tornado to whose re revolutions tremendous atmospheric pressure is said to give a speed of 2000 miles per hour |