Temble Storms

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 12, 10 July 1886, Page 4

Temble Storms

A series of fearful hurricanes an-d cyclones passed over Europe eiid America a few days previous ! to the leaving of the mail on May 21; ; In America, on May 14, forty persons were killed and many more injured while it is estimated the cyclone j damaged property to the extent of , 5,000,000 dollars. Town and oountry districts in Indiana, Ohio, _ Illinois,^ Michigan, and Kansas suffered most severely. In Spain a terrible hurricane swefct over Madrid and the neighboring company; the; number killed! being estimated at 100, in addition to. ■250 wounded. In many districts not a house was left . undamaged, apd trees were uprooted. The wind was •=' so terrible that it knocked d6v?n persons in the streets, and upset tramcars and large mulecarts. Falling tiles and fragments of roofs and trees killed or"injured many persons,- and tall chimneys were razed to the ground ' Germany also; suffered. The. town of • Crbssen, in the Frankfort-on-the-Oder tegion, suffered specially. There ' houses were unroofed and blown down and even a solid steeple was toppled over on' the neighboring tenements, killing some < of the inmates and seriously hurting others. Some; of the barges on the river with whole families on them were sunk, and in one case j a child was killed by being hurled by the wind against a wall. Frdih Vienna it is reported that great j damage was done and also at Eome, five persons being killed in the latter city.