NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3103, 14 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

New Youk, January 10. It is estimated that 70 persons, principally girls, were killed ac the silk factory A Beading, which was destroyed by a oyclono. The tornado was' severely felt at Pittsburg and Williamsport, besides Beading, arid mores of buildings, including churohes were completely wrecked, Hundreds of persons were killed, The cyclone wrecked the suspension bridge at Niagara, and oaused huge buildings to fall, just like a bouse of cards. It is believed that the loss of life will exceed the estimate. In many instances where houses were wreoked they caught fire, and the occupants were roasted alive in the ruins,

Washington, January 11. The damage to the Niagara Suspension bridge by the cyclone is estimated at half a million dollars. Fourteen bodies were recovered from one building in Pittsburg. The damage to the Reading Railway amounts to 80,000 dollars. One hundred persons were recovered alive but more or less injured from, the ruins- of the silk, mill, destroyed at Beading. It is feared that a steamer conveying,; naval officers*from San Francisco to .More Island! will have been 'caught iu the gale.; Further particulars show that the tornado took an easterly path, covering a track of only. 200 ft in width, through the States of Ohio, Peusylvania, New Jersey and New York. Besides those killed many thousands of persons were injured. Beading railway station was razed to the ground and sot on lire. Telegraphic communication was interrupted in all directions. Snow and rain followed the cyclone. Three gasometers in Brooklyn exploded and threw the city into partial darkness, and damage was done to the extent of half a million, dollars; The explosion is supposed to be due to the electrical disturbance consequent on the tornado. London, January 10. Mr J, L, Carew, member for North lildare, has been summoned, on a charge of inciting, The Duke of Portland is seriously ill.

The Chamber of Commerce Journal advocates the granting'of a constitution to Western' Australia, on condition that the colony is thrown open to immigrants.

The spe journal points out thai 160 millions of money has beer spent in Great Britain on paupei relief in fifteen years, and urges thai the State should provide for th< emigration pf 100,000 people everj year.

Mr E, Harrington, who refuses to comply.with- the prison regulations, asserts that the authorities have no right to submit him to the indignities pf a common malefactor.

•A most disastrous gale has raged around the coast of Great Britian, and numerous wreoks and fatalities are reported,