TERRIBLE SCENE AT A WEDDING PARTY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

TERRIBLE SCENE AT A WEDDING PARTY.

One of the most tragio features in con. nection with the recent devastation caused bv the cyclouos in the United Statoß was the calamity which befell a wedding party at Riee Station, and in which the bridegroom and nine other perrons were killed. The principal .state which haß suffered through the great storm waß Minnesota. It appears that just before the cyclone broke over the town of Rice Station a wedding party had assembled at the house of Mr John Schutz, a farmer, whose daughter had beon married an hour or two before. In the midst of the merriment, the cyclone struck the place. There wero then assembled about forty guests, and in five minutes the whole place was destroyed, the dead and dying lying in every direction. Of the party ten were killed outright and several injured. The bridegroom was amongst the former, while the bride escaped with some injury. There was not a building left on the farm in which tho survivors could placo their dead friends. The sad affair cast a gloom over the place. The corpses were afterwards collected and placed in the Rice Station schoolhouße. Many other houses and buildings in the town wore destroyed by the whirlwind.

An import" t water-colour drawing, oxecuted by Bossetti in 1860, and entitled •' On the Sands." has just been acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum,