p. 9 | TORNADO ALARMS by T.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 25, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 43.

"TORNADO ALARMS."

By T.

A RECENT editorial in the New York Sun says:—

"Some towns and farming communities in the Passaic River Valley, New Jersey, were visited by a tornado last Sunday. Considerable damage was done to buildings, and a felt mill at Browertown was wrecked. Many imagine that tornadoes are confined almost wholly to our large prairie States, but the Eastern States really have their proportion of them. The tornado statistics which the Weather Bureau has gathered for twenty years show that Kansas, Iowa, and some other Western States have each been the scene of more tornadoes than any Eastern State, but some of the so-called 'tornado States' are each larger than the whole of New England, and, area for area, the East has had its fair share. The last number of the Monthly Weather Bureau says that the chance of injuries from tornadoes is just as great in the East as in the West."

There has been a prevailing opinion that the dread tornado was confined to certain regions. But the stern facts in the case show that these storms are beginning to frequent all parts of the world. And now men are trying to make out that it has always been that way, and that Kansas, Iowa, and some of the other Western States have been advertised too much as storm centers. But men living to-day, and they need not be very old either, can tell from their own memories that storms of an unusual character, and of more than ordinary violence and destructive energy, are bursting forth in many places where such things were never heard of before.

For instance, on October 4 there was a severe cyclone in Lewis County, Washington, the first one that was ever known in that locality. And these storms will continue to break out in unheard-of places until the whole earth will be in one violent turmoil of stormy commotion. We say this confidently because we find it in the Word of God as one of the predictions for these times. The thing for us to do is to believe God, and get ready for all that these things mean. T.