Excerpt from Notes on the Tornado of August 19, 1890, in Luzerne and Columbia Counties: A Paper Read Before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, December 17, 1890 Late in the afternoon of August 19, 1890, the attention of many people in the Wyoming Valley, and in that broad valley which stretches away to the westward of Wilkes Barre and includes the western portion of Luzerne and most of Columbia County, was attracted by a peculiar movement and appearance of the clouds. The day had been warm, though not unusually so, and now a thunder storm which had been sometime hovering in the north seemed almost to cover the lines along which the tornadoes swept a few minutes later. Those who noted carefully the cloud movements saw that a low and very open stratum of clouds was moving rapidly to the north or perhaps a little west of north, while the heavier and darker stratum of storm-clouds was moving to the south above the first layer. Both these strata of clouds were Open enough to give occasional glimpses through to the upper air where a third stratum of thin white clouds floated quietly as on a calm summer afternoon. The air at the surface of the earth was moving northward as a brisk breeze. Doubtless there were many who felt an ominous dread of the coming storm, and not a few spoke of their fears, yet, had nothing extraordinary succeeded, all might have gone on as usual and all trace of forboding have been oh literated from the memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.