TERRIBLE CYCLONES AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 35, 18 October 1882, Page 3

TERRIBLE CYCLONES AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

Terrible cyclones ate reported from the Western States. One naif ot the. town of Grinnel (Iowa) has been destroyed, and 70 persons ate believed to have been killed. Other casualties in Central lowa increase the number of tficiims to over 100, while large numbers of per-ons have been s. rii.usly injured. During 'he hunicane a goods train was (down off the line iv lowa, ill p. guard and a lother official being killed. t«'riat damage to life and property lias also been caused by storms in other parts of the country. 200.000 dollars damage was done dud several lives were lost at Kansas < ity, Missouri, and five women were killed at Leaveinvortli, Kansas. The wind blew 00 miles an hour at St. Louis, but no .serious damage was done, beyond the distinction of the telegraph wires. Two steamers on the river were sunk, a d six were badly disabled, eat of St. Louis, where several dwellings were aUo destroyed. Eijjht in n were killed at Malcolm station ou the Rock 1.-land Railwuv. In its destructive course the cyclone performed many curious freaks. A stone was forced off tbe Congregational College at lowa. vV ooden buildings were scattered over acres ot space, planks were driven two teet into ihe ground - trees and Lelegra^h poles were twisted clean oH; in one case a mother and child were carried hi j h into the air ami a distance of half a mile, the mother being dropped »enfly. but the child was killed. — 'Fri co lost