DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONES.
Since last mail there have been more than the usual number of those disastrous wind-storms, and the destruction of life and property is appalling. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina were visited on April 2, aud whole villages were blown out of existence. In the Monogahela Valley, a wire mill was ront in twain, and six mon perished in the falling ruins, and, among other
incidents, a large frame dwelling house, at a place called Homestead, was lifted from its foundations and carried half a mile without injury. At Huntsville, Ala., a Mrs White and her mother were killed, and the baby of the former was blown several miles into the woods, where it was found alive next day. Passing through Indiana, the track of the storm extended twenty miles in width, and everything in the way was reduced to spliuters. In Lynchburg, Virginia, houses were blown down in every direction, and tobacco warehouses flattened with the earth.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2403, 15 May 1884, Page 2
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