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MYTHS OF THE WINDS.
PAGE.
Old Greek fancies--Their modern traces--Man seeking mysteries--Personifications--The "air-mothers" 17
CONSTANT WINDS.
PERIODIC WINDS.
Modified trade winds--The monsoons--Local winds--Sea and land breezes--The simoom: its terrible effects--The khamsin, and similar winds--Moisture in the air: its effects--Rain and hail--Clouds: their varieties--Mountain winds 34
TORNADOES AND CYCLONES.
THE LOUISVILLE TORNADO.
Perspective of news--Amusing conceits--Distress at the door--The tornado--Warning of the Signal Service--The storm strikes Louisville--Its course--Wreck of Falls City Hall--Rescuing the victims--Fire breaks out--Personal narratives--At the Union Depot 65
INCIDENTS OF THE TORNADO.
The poor to be remembered--Peddlers, publicans and sinners--The freaks of "Providence"--Deaths in the storm remarkably few--Wonderful escapes--Explosive effects of confined air--Strange pranks of the wind--The storm at Parkland--At Jeffersonville--The mammon worshiper--Generosity and independence 87
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