Disastrous Cyclone.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 30, 3 August 1895, Page 3

Disastrous Cyclone.

o The New York correspond eni of the Age states that a recent cyclone in lowa caused the death of nearly 100 persons, and destroyed several villages so completely that not a single building remained in them A school house withits occupants was swept away, ibe teaoncr and two pupils being found dead ru.ly a quarter of a mile from where |he building stood, «nd the bodies of other pupils were scattered over a considerable area. One woman wes blown into a tree top. and so severely injured that she died a few hours after boing discovered. Seyeral other Tictm<? of the fury of the storm were found lodged in trees and more or less injured. Two young men were carried bodily into the air for about half a mile and then dropped to the ground. Strange to say, they suffered very lHtle injury, and were able to render assistance to tho^e less fortunate than tliemseives Wires were stripped from the posts, and in some 'u^ stances posts were torn up by the force of the wind; horses, cattle, and vehicles were hurled through the air like chaff, trees were uprooted, fine residences were swept away and reduced to kindling wood, and fields were strip* ped of sprouting grain and the soil in which it grew. Railway trams were blown from the tracks, and in one instance a heavy locomotive was turned on its side by the force of the wind.