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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
107
Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1878:
In
a
tornado,
in
Wisconsin,
May
23,
1878,
"a
barn
and
a
horse
were
carried
completely
away,
and
neither
horse
nor
barn,
nor
any
portion
of
either
have
since
been
found."
After
that,
which
would
be
a
little
strong
were
it
not
for
a
steady
improvement
in
our
digestions
that
I
note
as
we
go
along,
there
is
little
of
the
bizarre
or
the
unassimilable
in
the
turtle
that
hovered
six
months
or
so
over
a
small
town
in
Mississippi:
Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1894:
That,
May
11,
1894,
at
Vicksburg,
Miss.,
fell
a
small
piece
of
alabaster;
that,
at
Bovina,
eight
miles
from
Vicksburg,
fell
a
gopher
turtle.
They
fell
in
a
hailstorm.
This
item
was
widely
copied
at
the
time:
for
instance,
Nature,
one
of
the
volumes
of
1894,
page
430,
and
Jour.
Roy.
Met.
Soc.,
20-273.
As
to
discussion--not
a
word.
Or
Science
and
its
continuity
with
Presbyterianism--data
like
this
are
damned
at
birth.
The
Weather
Review
does
sprinkle,
or
baptize,
or
attempt
to
save,
this
infant--but
in
all
the
meteorological
literature
that
I
have
gone
through,
after
that
date--not
a
word,
except
mention
once
or
twice.
The
Editor
of
the
Review
says:
"An
examination
of
the
weather
map
shows
that
these
hailstorms
occur
on
the
south
side
of
a
region
of
cold
northerly
winds,
and
were
but
a
small
part
of
a
series
of
similar
storms;
apparently
some
special
local
whirls
or
gusts
carried
heavy
objects
from
this
earth's
surface
up
to
the
cloud
regions."
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