FEARFUL CYCLONE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1840, 15 January 1889, Page 4

FEARFUL CYCLONE.

New York, Jan. 10. It is stated that seventy persons, principally girls, were killed at a silk factory by a cyclone. The tornado was severely felt at Pittsburg, and Williamsport; besides Reading., and scores of buildings, including many churches, were completely wrecked. Hundreds of persons were killed. At Reading, in Pennsylvania, fifty people were killed. It struck and destroyed, silk mills in which 250 people were at work. Only part of them escaped. The cyclone wrecked th» suspension bridge at Niagara, and caused tho huge building to fall like a house of ccrds. In many instances where houses were wrecked they caught fire, and the occupants were roasted in the ruins. Jan. 1-2. It is estimated that the damage done at Niagara by the recent tornado will amount to 1,000,000d015. Appalling reports are being received as to the destruction of property and loss of life in. consequence of the snow storms and cyclones experienced in New England, Michigan arid Wisconsin. Tho oldest residents assert that nothing approaching such violence was ever remembered in the States. Most of the railways are broken, aod the damage will amount at least to five million dollars. Washington, Jan. 11, Fourteen bodies were recovered from one building in PiUsburg. The damage to the, Reading Railway amounts to 80,000 dollars. A hundred persons were recovered alive, but more or less injured, from the ruins of the silk mills destroyed at Reading. It is feared that a steamer conveying naval officers from San Francisco to Mere Island will have been caught in the gale. Further particulars show that the toroado took an easterly path covering a track only, two hundred feet in width through the States of Ohio, Penosylvannia, New feray, and New York. Besides those killed many thousands of paople were injured. The Reading Railway station was razed to the ground and sot on fire. Telegraph communication was interrupted in all directions, Snow and rain followed the cyclone. Three gasometers in Brooklyn exploded, and threw the city 'into partial darkness. Damage was done to the extent of 500,000 dollars, The explosion is supposed to be due to electrical disturbances consequent on the tornado.