Elementary physical geography; (1908) (14782193594)

Identifier: elementaryphysic01redw (find matches)
Title: Elementary physical geography;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Redway, Jacques Wardlaw, 1849- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Physical geography
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ions of warm and moist air. Now,if the heavier cold air lies next the earth, no disturbancefollows. But if it conies to rest on the top of a thick layerof warm air the case is different. There will result anupdraught of warm air, and soon the tornado is in fullvigor. In about ninety-five per cent, of the tornadoes studiedthe whirl accords with that of other storms in the NorthernHemisphere. Almost always they move from the south-west to the northeast. In nearly every instance the tor-nado track lies south of a general storm. Major-General A. W. Greely, U. S. A., formerly Chief of the WeatherService, notes twenty-five tornadoes, in which the aggregate damagereached the sum of $15,000,000, while the loss of life was nearly fifteenhundred people. Concurrent with a storm that on February 9, 1884,crossed the United States, there were sixty distinct tornadoes. On thatday eight hundred people were killed, twenty-five hundred were wound-ed, and more than ten thousand buildings were destroyed.
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262 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY The story illustrated in the accompanying cut is grewsome. Thehouse was surrounded by a grove of trees. To the easl of the 1khi.scthe trees were felled and twisted from right to left; those west of thehouse were untouched. The house itself was demolished and the debrishurled into the creek-bed near by. When the tornado cloud swoopeddown upon the house, the family fled for their lives, but unfortunatelyin the wrong direction. At first they ran northward, a direction ofsafety. Then, one after another, they turned eastward—first a littlegirl, who was instantly killed; then an older boy and a girl, who were much bruised andpartly stripped oftheir clothing. Themother ran directlyinto the whirl andwas found crushedand dead againstthe trunk of a tree.The fat her. with thebabe in his anus,had reached a placeof absolute safety,but in his frightturned eastwardand ran into thewhirl. They werepicked up by thethrown several hundred feet, and instantly killed. An inspec- N