AMERICAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 294, 5 November 1875, Page 2

AMERICAN.

A terrib'e cyclone s-^ept over Texas destroying life and property. In Indianola, out of three hundred houses, only five were left standing. Dunns, one night when the ttorai was at its height, the water in the river ross six feet in two hours. The gale drove the water and brokers through the city at the rate of 15 miles per hour, sweeping everything in its way, and scouring the pldn h „S e * ear 0f lhe cit y for ten mi'es to the depth of seven feet. Several/ small settlements were swept out of existence, mskinc a totUot 400 lives lost. The atencMnSf cit from the putrefying of the dead, Aether with the a'ench from d.ad animal.: was srd 9^* ol6^ U A P"ty of Mexican on Sunday began to rob the dead bodiea wbieh , were mm oa to the plain fow Jo * TSSj

lo the back of the city. The scoundrels chopped the fingers, hands, and ears offi men and wome i to obtain their jewellery. As soon as thia w *.s heard of a party of citizens went out and k lie I five Mexic >ns whom the? caught at thCr devilish work. The lowtst birometer occurred on the afternooa of Sep*ember 16, when it stool at 29 88, with a maximum velocity of wind of 87 miles per ho sr. Thousands of drowned cattle were strewn over the prairie south of the town. Sevi-ral light coasting steamers are Iving from i?tx to ten miles inland. Galveston* and other places were submerged, but the most serii us loss was atlndiaaola, a t>wn of 1500 inhabitants.