AN INDIANA HURRICANE.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 70, 4 October 1884, Page 5

AN INDIANA HURRICANE.

Exansville, Incl., August 29th. — At 9 o'clock this morning the most destructive hurricane ever here burst on Enansville, doing damage to the extent of not less than $250,000 in the city and vicinity. Houses were blown down, roofs carried away, three or four steamers badly injured, thousands of shade trees torn up by the roots, and other injury. It is impossible at this hour to give the amount of damage done. It will probably not fall short of the figures given. The steamers Josh Troop and Silver Thorn were badly damaged, the former almost wrecked. Several churches suffered severely ; also one new school house. Chicago, August 29th.— A " Daily News" special from Evansville, Ind., says : The steamer Belmont, a transfer boat, which leaves here at 8 o'clock every morning, was struck by the storm about three miles this side of Henderson, Ky., sinking her barge and cars to the bottom, blowing the chimney off, and sinking her almost instantly. It is reported that over thirty people were on board.and only three are reported saved— a newsboy named Pang, the cook, "and the pilot, who swam ashore. This information was received from a man who came up by land. All the wires are down, and most of the boats are crippled so as to be Enabled to go to the scene of the wreck.