INDIA.
Dreabfui, Visitation.—The Calcutta Englishman publishes an extraordinary account ot a whirlwind at Rung-pore. Three hundred persons are said to have been killed. A bungalow was blown across the river with two men on the roof. The men survived. Dead bodies of men, women, horses and caitle are lying in lieaps amid fallen trees and ruined houses, tt hole families are said to have been swept off, and the alarm of the natives lest the calamity should recur is excessive. The track of the tornado was about 800 yards iv width.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 198, 23 September 1854, Page 3
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91INDIA. Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 198, 23 September 1854, Page 3
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