A Terrible Storm.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 175, 30 June 1883, Page 3

A Terrible Storm.

FHIGHTFtJL DEVASTATION.

On the 13th insi, a disastrous tornado struck White Oak, a email town m Arkansas, and left baton* house standing, and that one was not eqoare m the track of the storm. The wind blewifrom the south -west, and its force and fury were bejqnd desstif tion. The side of an arjjneeufc mountain that was well wooded has not a aipgle tree left. Great onk« were twitted, broken off, carried off and away; loaded railway Cars on a pi^inf? werf lilted off : the rails and dashed to pieces some distance from the track. In one pi ace even the rails were torn from th»ir beds and twisted out of shape. Fortunately no person was totally injured, though a good many were hurt. . On the 'l 4th n terrific wind and hail storm struck Jpfferson City, the capital of.Mtssouri. Peveral houses were unroofed, a few stores gutted, and then it seemed to rise over the city and pass away wi h a terrific nbi&e. .[ On the 14' ha storm passed' over a portion of Kansas, near the City of I'opeka. In its track it licked up every-thing-—houses, f bees, cattle, telegraph poles, and even grass. On the 14th the storm again touched the earth m JSrbraeka, near Om*ha, wth the usual results, save that here tbe**e was more rainfall. Here it crocs* d the Missouri, Riverinto lows, and came jlown upon the village of Anita, and there levelled every building of value. , The people h«d been apprised of the. coming storm, and took refuge m caves. This was evidently th« same storm riepchetting over the face of the country like a bounding, cannon ball, In shape a tornado is very much like a water* spout ; small when it touches the earth and spreading out to immense propor. t'*oiM at tie top. The noise of the wind, as ■ it (tweeps m circular, motion, is .simply terrific. The ,t p resembles a d?ns. cloud, m which the pealing thunder and ight^ing call to the mind of the beholder Dante's pictnre of th« Inferno.