The Kiel Press. (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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TIDAL WAVES
Call and 6illie Texan roast
Wl] • u. 1-, <; most disastrous
in h. .ustory is deficient in the
reeor v'f such tragedies in human life,
hut tae records are written in physical
geography, and are found in the con-
formation of shore lines, here anil
there, around all the continents. It is
impossible to estimate the number of
lives lost through inundation since
mankind began, for purposes of com-
mercial intercourse, the development
of seaports. Doubtless the total would
run into the hundreds of thousands,
and might reach into millions. Geol-
ogy is quite sure that the rough Nor-
wegian coast, pierced at inte*""^ls of
every few miles with the fiords or es-
tuaries which penetrate, in many in-
stances leagues into the land, tell the
story of many cataclysms such as that
which has just occurred along the
northern coast of the gulf of Mexico.
Science, however, taking no note of
the traditions of folk-lore of a people,
antedates all human life on the Scandi-
navian peninsula in setting the time
when this great rising of the sea
against the land took place.
The Atlautis.
The world, with the lapse of centu-
ries, has not even been able to outgrow
the tradition of the lost Atlantis. Per-
haps this is the oldest of all the tradi-
tions of cataclysms which have blotted
out cities and continents It may be
that it is because this one comes hand-
ed down to us from the illustrious
liahd of Plato that we yield to it a ven-
eration which prolongs its life. Cer-
tainly it can never be more than tra-
dition, without a return to the age of
miracles. Our lately found expertness
in deep sea soundings has given us no
new light on Atlantic. And yet we
cling to the old story, and are loath to
turn from the spectacle of a continent
iu the agonies of a watery burial, or
to take down from the walls of our
brain cells the pictures of a submerg-
ed world iu which sea moss trails over
and around great temples and monu-
ments. More than half the world be-
lieves that there is a lost Atlantis.
The Egyptians believed so. long be-
fore Plato's day. It is in the month
of an Egyptian priest, talking to So-
lon, that Plato puts the description of
the vanished island. That description
makes of Atlantis a land larger than
the Texas of today. The Greek phil-
osopher located it off the shores of
North Africa, a little to the south-
west of Gibraltar. The Platonian de-
scription of the interior of the Atlantis
of ancient times is surpassingly beau-
tiful, but not more so than the rare
imaginative power with which Plato
writes, of the country and its people,
a moat fabulous and engaging history.
On Kngllsli roast*.
That the coasts of England have
been visited by many and disastrous
tidal waves there is abundant evidence,
in fact, the ocean bar, which surrounds
nearly the whole of England and
Scotland, is evidence enough that the
entire shore line as it exists today is
itself the result of a great submersion
or series of submersions, which ages
ago overflowed the old coast, rushed
in-shore, made new land lines and,
hollowing out between the new line
and the old, a new ocean bed, leaving
what had been called the coast line to
be forever after called "the liar."
One of the greatest cataclysms ever
occurring on the British coast was that
on the coast of Lincolnshire in 1571.
This has been commemorated in verse
by Jean Ingelow in the poem entitled
"High Tide Off the Coast of Lincoln-
shire." The Lincolnshire coast is al-
most uniformly low and marshy—so
low, in fact, at some places that the
shore requires the defense of an em-
bankment to save it from the en-
croachments of the sea. A sea wall
had been built when the great tidal
wave of 1571 came, but it appears to
have been absolutely useless as a de-
fense of the country and the people at
that time. At the present day the
fens of Lincolnshire are defended from
the North sea by some of the finest
engineering works in the world, and
yet it is much to be doubted whether
they would prove effective against such
invasions as that which h s jus. over-
whelmed Oalveston.
Tide* HOd F.Mrtbquike*.
Many of the most fataljdidal waves
of which we have any history have
been accompanied by earthquakes.add-
ing to their horrors, but making it
impossible to say whether the earth-
quake or the inundation has been the
more fatal and destructive. ?he great
earthquake at Lisbon in 175i was ac-
companied by a tidal wave which, roll-
ing up the Tagus river from the ocean,
submerged all the lower parts of the
city and destroyed thousands of lives
which might possibly have escaped the
earthquake shocks. When the earth-
quake came to Curaccas in 1812 there
was a tidal wave at La Uuyra, the en-
trepot of Caraccas, which destroyed
many lives. Five years ago a series
of tidal waves, accompanied by or al-
ternating with earthquake shocks,
visited some of the most populous is-
lands of Japan. The tidal waves reach-
ed from fifteen to t went miles inland,
being of such height, fo* and volume
ten miles from the ocean, particularly
when restricted to narrow valleys, as
to be capable of destroying much life.
The number of human lives lost at
that time has never been stated in any
English newspaper, but that it ran far
Into the thousands there is no room
to doubt. Ten thousand is more apt
to be an under than an over-estimate,
such were the ravages of the combined
seismic and cataclysmic terrors vis-
ited upon that part of the world dur-
ing nearly a week of days and nights
of horror, which, fortunately, come but
seldom in the experience of the race.
The affliction of Texas, while much
less than this, is still monumental,and
will always rank among the great ca-
tastrophes of history. Perhaps there
have been events more destructive of
life, in times or places where it was
impossible that any record of them
should be left. But few such are known
in history. Nor is it likely that the
future will often bring to any part of
the world a severer affliction than that
which lias fallen upon our gulf coast,
A of Ga/'Vesfon Ao1 It XO<xj.
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SEALY HOSPITAL AND GALVESTON MEDICAL COLLEGE, WHICH WERE COMPLETELY DESTROY-
ED, SHOWN AT THE EXTREME LEFT. THE CITY, FROM THE HARBOR FRONT AS FAR BACK
AS TWELFTH STREET, WAS ALSO ENTIRELY WIPED OUT.
13he Causes of Uropical Hurricanes.
Tl « Mftiatlnt*.
LadicM IIomk Joi'HNAi for Soptem-
ber has articles upon the trials, duties,
vexations, etc., of ministers* wives,
mostly contributed by themselves.
They are all of especial interest to lady
members of all church organizations
and church societies. One of these
contributions is here given: 4,It is
safe to say, from a wide acquaintance
with ministers' wives, that they are
not sometimes, but always, imposed
upon; they are laid upon the Procrus-
tean bed of "ought t«> be.' and anatom-
ical considerations vanish before the
joy most people feel in the cheerful
I task of stretching out or lopping off
one or other of the privileges which
' the majority of the other women in the
| parish possess to an unlimited degree.
Kvery department of this number of
the Ladies' Home Journal seems to
excel in interesting articles.
' Ainsi.kk's for September has six ex-
! haustive articles on the subject of
Trusts, written by Cyrus C. Adams. It
covers the subject under the general
I head of Trusts in Kuropw, as they serve
i as a companion with our conditions at
j home. It would be difficult to name
| an authority more deserving of atten-
tion. Other subjects represented 111
the September Ainsleo's, or some of
them are: "Cattlemen and Sheepmen,"
by Captain .Tames II. MeClintoek. late
of the Hough Killers: a fascinating
melodrama of the Far West—the war
of the* cattlemen against the sheep
owners. Then there is much about A.
II. Stickney and what he has done and
written, and said in railroads, city and
country life, in the cause of the work-
man f the to be desired doom of com-
petition. etc.
OrnjfG for September has a long list
of articles and stories, from which it is
difficult to choose a limited number for
special mention. The whole number
is full of interest to its regular and to
its casual readers. The Sporting Spirit
Ancient and Modern, by Mr. George
liibbard, is a clear statement of the
principles which should underlie vic-
tories in sporting contests. In these
days when fanaticism is playing so
large a part in determining native ac-
tion in the far east, Mr. Kit/Gerald
Leathers' story, The Quin Ahtsk's
Quits, has special significance. So lias
Casper Whitney's contribution, The
I {oats of the Far Fast. Its portraiture
of Chinese river life, which is just now
>f so much interest, is vivid.
Victoria Mill Jury Music.
An English journal says that Queen
Victoria is fond of the stirring strains
of music of a good military band. She
pave one of many recent evidences of
this liking when, not long since, the
band of the First Light Guards was
playing in the Grand Quadrangle at
Windsor Castle. Her Majesty was
wheeled out from her apartments, and,
after listening for a considerable time
with evident enjoyment, she sent for
the bandmaster to say how pleased she
was with his band.
COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS.
SaiuM City.
CATTLE —Hoavy 4 it as «
HOOS—Chotoo to heavy.... r> "i."« 8 5 ■< -' i
WHEAT—No. 12 hard 70 W
COKN—No. J 87 V# W
OATS—No. 2 i#
HAY—Choto©timothy 'fa 9 •" "
Ghoioo prairie 7 Ml ti IHI
HUTTElt t* ■* S>
BOOS 1 ii$
OhlCHKO.
WHEAT—No. 1 liar.1 75 (i TBVff
COKN—No. i ft ti
OATS-No. 3 i
St l.oula I.ive Stork.
11EEVES 4 15 <* r.
RTOCKKRSAHEEDKKS.... IS oil (ii 4 70
SOUTHERN STEEItS <£ 4 '-•>
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Ualva.ton lUu
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While interest is rife and the com-
/rnunity stajids aghast at the appalling
loss of life caused along the gulf coast
hy the recent West Indian hurricane, a
abort history of these great storms, to-
gether with their cause, may not be
amiss.
Hurricanes or tropical cyclones may
be said to be children of the sun in
their incipient stages, growing by de-
grees until they become leviathans of
the deep, vast whirlwinds, dealing
death i'.nd destruction to everything in
the'r paths.
The North Atlantic ocean, six to
eight degrees north of the equator, to-
ward its warmer westward side in the
vicinity of the Windward islands, ap-
pears to be the favored locality for
their formation, the months of Au-
jfust, September and October being
those of greatest frequency. This la
the region of equatorial calms or the
doldrums, a belt lying between tho
trade winds of light variable winds,
frequent calms and thunderstorms. 1h-
air of this region being quiet becomes
r:\pidly heated and charged with mois-
ture, this producing an unstable con-
dition of the atmosphere and a grad-
ual convectional overturning, and from
this the development proceeds, the
•spiral rotations of its surface winds
being caused by the deflective force of
the earth's rotation to the right in this
hemisphere, or contrary to the motion
of the hands of a watch.
The hurricane being once started, a
variety of causes tend to its rapid de-
velopment, the principal one being the
latent heat released during its exces-
sive rainfall. The storm center ltaelf,
with its radial inflowing winds, gen-
erally moves at the rate of eight to
ten miles an hour northwestward to
libout latitude 25 or 30. where they gen-
erally recurve to the north and east,
being carried along in the general
trend of the upper currents.
The recent hurricane pursued a
track .-iftldom traversed by this class
of storms, its deflection across the gulf
being caused by an area of high bar-
ometer overlying the eastern states,
which probably saved the south Atlan-
tic seaboard from its ravages.
Fortunately these storms break up
or diminish greatly in intensity on en-
tering the continent, the sea, the great
storehouse of their energy, being with-
drawn.
While in all great hurricanes the
wind attains a velocity of 60 to 100
miles an hour, yet the greatest loss of
life is invariably caused by the high
tides forced inland by the winds and
waves and carrying death and devasta-
tion to all before them, and had not
Galveston been situated on a low ly-
ing island, subject to the high tides,
while the loss of life by wind would
have been considerable, the appalling
disaster due to wind and wave would
not have resulted.
The Passion fc Speed.
Speed is the American's passion. So
train or steamer can go quite fast
enough to satisfy him so long as he
believes greater speed is attainable.
He is pleased to learn that faster time
can be made on American than on
English railways. He takes an inter-
est in an ocean steamer which "breaks
the record," even though he may nev-
er expect to cross the Atlantic. The
news that the Deutscliland has cut
down by four hours the time required
for a trip appeals to his imagination.
Benjamin Franklin may be to some
extent responsible for this American
peculiarity. He bade the young trades-
man "remember that time is money."
That admonition has been repeated so
often that people have come to believe
that if time occupied in traveling is
diminished they have saved money.
ALVEOTCt!
MAP SHOWING SHORE LiNE FOR MATION AT GALVESTON, TEXAS
THE CROSSED LINES INDICATE RAILROAD COMMUNICATION
WITH HOUSTON.
Immense Tartlet.
Six turtles, each weighing from 400
to 450 pounds, are said to be about 250
years old, were recently shipped to
Walter Rothschild, M. P., for his pri-
vate zoological garden in I^ondon.
They were captured in the Albemarle
islands. South sea. Mr. Rothschild
now owns eighty-four tortoises of va-
rious ages and sizes. He has been col-
lecting them for years from all over
the globe. En route the tortoises re-
ceived a whole cabbage a day for food.
California Orange Yield.
The California orange yield Is 15,000
car loads, and next year it is expected
to exceed 20,000 car loads. The total
amount invested in orange property in
California twenty-five years ago was
$23,0*0; now it is $43,000,000, and is
annually increasing by $2,000,000.
For a <*reuter Chicago.
Chicago is a radically expansion city.
She hopes some day to annex Manila
as a suburb, take Havana into the cor-
poration. and make a park of the Ha-
waiian i3lnd3.—Portland Oregonian.
McMonnJes' New Honors.
Frederick McMonnies, the Brooklyn
sculptor, will be awarded the gold med-
al of honor for his exhibit at the Paris
exposition, which consists of seven
pieces—the historic "Bacchante," "Sir
Henry Vane," "Shakespeare," "Venus
and Adonis." two groups of horses and
a marine and an army group.
Lives of Animals Without Food.
A horse will live twenty-five days
without solid food, merely drinking
vtiter.. A bear will go for six months,
while a viper can exist for ten months
without food. A serpent in confine-
ment has been known to refuse food
for twenty-one months.
Vanderbilt System of Ko:t*l*.
The Vanderbilt system of railways is
now the largest in the world—cover-
ing 10,410 miles, against 10,392 of the
Pennsylvnn' • and 10,018 of the Cana-
dian PacliiL
Whflat: October
Com: October. '
Wlcliltu I.lve stouk.
HOOS 10; hetut enid 4 .a <a 5 to
CATTLE. .. •• <4 ....
Chicago I.lve Stock.
DKEVKA |l 50 <<9 ti HO
COWS AND IIKIFKKS :: III! lk 4 ID
STOCKEKS A FEEDERS , i <§> 4 (U
TEXAS PKDI1EEVKS 4 III ( 5 111
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF
I log cholera is raging in Vernon
county, Mo.
The railroads are combining to malco
things uncomfortable for tramps.
The population of liutte, Montana,
is 30,470, as against l(),T'.':t iti 1 S'.IO.
Belgrade, Montana, is nearly wiped
out by tire. West Riley lost his life.
The United States embassy at Merlin
sent S.'iOO to the Galveston relief fund.
From three to five new cases of
plague are reported at Glasgow daily.
Eastern Missouri Presbyterians aro
opposed to a revision of the articles of
faith.
Jefferson City, Mo., failed to giva
the required two-thirds vote for a city _
lighting plant.
Currency shipments to the south
and west lnive been heavy during U19
past fortnight.
t
Anthracite coal cannot be had to tha
amount of the usual demand in tho
west for this winter.
The Canadian Pacific is preparing ti
| make Boston its winter terminus, over
the Boston & Maine.
Ex-Governor Walcott, of Massachu-
setts, lias declined the offer of the post
of ambassador to Italy.
The Cuban elections so far as heard
from were quiet and perfectly orderly;
no disturbance anywhere.
A. F. Pape won the championship at
San Francisco by hitting the bull'.-i
eye IDS times out of "00 shots.
The Ute Indians are stealing horses
and the governor of Colorado has told
the federal government about it.
Chicago dealers raised the price of
anthracite 75 cents a ton on the first
day of the strike in Pennsylvania.
The anthracite producers are taking
no contracts for coal beyond their stock
in hand; or jintil it is ready for ship-
ment.
Seventy-two new coal mines have
been opened in Prussia this year, in-
creasing the output for 1000 by I.'.fiOO,-
000 tons.
Word has lieen sent out from Gal-
veston that there is no necessity for
more trained nurses and physicians to
go to that city.
Grand Chief P. M. Arthur says it i*
not likely that the brotherhood engi-
neers will refuse to haul anthracite coal
mined by non-union miners.
The Camp Bird mine at Ouray, Col.,
is sold for thirteen million dollars to
an American and English syndicate.
General French has captured 03 loco-
motives anil other rolling stock from
,he Boers.
A11 agent of the Transvaal at Naples
says that Kruger is coining to Europe
to negotiate a settlement with Great
Britain.
The India cotton crop is reported ex-
cellent anil a good harvest of food
grains is in good prospect. There is
already a reduction in the relief list.
Missouri gives 75 per cent of liquor
licenses to the highway fund. Indiana
builds highways by special assessment.
The largest cottonsced oil mi.l in
the world which v.-as at Houston, Tex-
as, was damaged Siio.ooo by the storm,
and later was completely destroyed by
lire. The tire started by spontaneous
combustion.
Susan 11. Anthony is seriously sick
at her home in Rochester. X. V. Col-
onel 1). 1!. Anthony and wife, with
other relatives are with her. Mis^
Anthony is SO years old.
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