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Show Ths "Ejs" of mi Awfol auras. Tho observations of Captain Carpea- ter, of the Itoyal Navy, ihow that the hurrlcano which destroyed more thin ' 17,009 homes and hundreds of lives In tbe Islands of Barbados and St. Vincent Vin-cent last September had a calm "eye" at Its center four miles In diameter; Tho phenomenon of a central calm at tbe core of n whirling storm Is characteristic charac-teristic of tbe West Indian hurrlcanos. Tbe dismster of the storm center, In- 5 eluding the circling winds that enclosed en-closed tbo eye, waa about thirty-fire miles during tho period of greatest de-itxuctlon. de-itxuctlon. Alter the hurricane paned St. Vincent, the storm center enlarged to a diameter of 170 mllet, U |