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Abstract

ANOTHER of those disastrous hurricanes which occasionally visit the West Indies and United States at this season of the year has to be recorded. On the 8th inst. a storm of great violence struck the coasts of Louisiana and Texas, and owing to the thickly populated districts over which it swept and to the high water wave which accompanied it, immense destruction to property and lamentable loss of life ensued. The fury of the storm is said to have been felt for at least a hundred miles inland, but up to the present time scarcely any details have arrived as to its character and the exact path that it followed. This part of America is one of the three regions referred to in the works of Prof. W. M. Davis from which tropical storms move into temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere; but we must wait for further details before it can be stated whether the one in question was of the nature of a tornado, which differs from an ordinary hurricane chiefly in its excessive violence over a small, instead of a large, area. From the description so far given, and from its duration, the storm would appear to have been of the nature of the worst West India hurricanes.