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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3778, 5 February 1881, Page 4

A remarkable spectacle was witnessed on the Hudson Biver, America, it being nothing more nor less than a heavy storm s of flies, similar to the one recorded in the London- Telegraph as having been witnessed at Havre a week or two ago. The steamer Martin, bound south, encountered the fly storm between New Hamburg and Newburg. As described by the London Telegraph, it was like the Havre storm, seemingly " a great drift of black snow," and it reached southward "from shore to shore, as far as the eje could reach and as high up. There were millions upon milHods of the flies, and they hurried northward'as thick as snow-flakes driven by a strong wind. They lodged upon the clothing of the passengers an the steamer and were minutely examined. They were long and black, and had white wings, and the cloud must have been miles in length. The "steamer Mary Powell ran into the fly-storm off Haverstraw, and first mat© Bishop says that he never witnessed sudi a sight.