Terrible Cyclone.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 148, 31 May 1883, Page 2

Terrible Cyclone.

A DISASTROUS VISITATION TOWNS DESTROYED. FEAEXTJL DESTRTTCTIO>r. ..• •; [Post's Correspondent.*! •; v V-Nbw Obleans, April 23. . A ftigfhtful cyclone paused ovei -Wesson and the town of Beauregarc about 4 o'clock yesterday evening, Th< wind for the past three days had beet blowing a gale, with lowering clouds, the approach of the cyclone waaknowr for some minutes by a deep... rumbling j3ound, and by th« windows of dwelling -rattling so violfintly.^that many thoupfhi it was an earthquake. The thunder lightning, and wind, were terrific. jPtnces were torn down, trees uprooted and cast 100 y*rda away. On the easj side of the railway, the damage is Tight .bat m the western portion of the towr the destruction is awful m its character In the ' Peach' Orchard, where 'are larg< numbers of houses m which the operatives of the Mississippi mills ar< domjtnled, ; | the greatest destrdctioi occurred!. The groans of the woundec .beneath the ruins were appalling. Thi dwellings were.blown.to atoms, and th< pine forest just- beyond has been bio wr. out of existence. . Une person living ii m the vicinity died from .excite.ment It is estimated thatthe number of killer is twelve. ._ Two or three children art raissinsr, and twelve to twenty dwellingi are b'pwn^ down.. The number 7oi people with^ broken limbs is estimated by the physiciaus »t 15. The. wounded were removed as fast as possible t<* th< houses ; which; had; escaped injury, 'Several wounded lay out m the violent rain more than an hour after the storm The dead are now all laid out, and wad; coffins are/ bein*j r made for -them, The citizens are doing all m then power for the wounded, but many," itu feared, will die. Special trains, with tihy£ictanßxfrom i M'Coinb City ■ i anii Brookhaven, have arrived, and anothni extra special is coming with addition a help from IVion^olia and the Summit, All the physicians go to Beauregard where , the destruction of life and pro^ perty is simply indescribable. Among the killed m Wesson are Mrs Causly 'twdrohilvfrpnTTantl servant* "-'■"'tte r 'cEiH'rei of 3. E. Gibson, one of whom was found crushed uuder a chimney ; twe persons so mangled as to be unrecognisable, and severable others whose names could not be obtained. A littk boy was found m the woods several hundred yards away, unhurt. Wesson, save m the locality mentioued, suffered little except m the destruction of fencps and trees The scene Is appalling m Beauregardi. The town is literally ja mass of fuiofe With difficulty one can ride through, so thickly are the trees strewn across the road; No tree of any size is standing . m the whole place. The timber is scattered for miles around, even out m the country two and a hall miles away. Later- reports of destruc« tion by-the.cyolone are that at Wesson 13 .were killed and 60 wounded; Beauregard, was entirely swept away, i The suffering is very graat. The town ot_ Tilman ' was ■■ also destroyed ; several persons were killed and wounded. The Vickburg and Meridan Railway and the town of iLawrehce suffered terribly. Reports from other places and from the country show that the storm was very widespread and destructive. The telegraph wires were blown down for miles* ;, . ' April 25.;, Latest reports, from the section of the Mississippi, country devasted by the late cyclone shows that 83 persons were killed, and about 300- wounded, many dangerously. J The loss of property is unprecedented. The cyclone passed up the Maple River Valley. A Roman Catholic thatch' was- wrecked, and three houses blown down. Other minor damage was inflicted, but no loss oilife-oecurxed. iaJthat .district..