THE CYCLONE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 8690, 14 January 1889, Page 5

THE CYCLONE.

ENOBMOTJS DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. THE LOSS OP LIPS. r&7 ELECTRIC T£LSeSArS,-COPTniGm.l [Spboz as, to Pbbbb Association,] [Received Jan. 12, at 1.10 p.m.l WASHINGTON, Jan, 11. The damage to Niagara suspension bridge by the cyclone is estimated at hall a million dollars. Fourteen bodies were recovered from one building-in Pittsburg. The damage to the Beading Bailway amounts to 80,000 dollars. One hundred persons were recovered alive, but more or less injured, from the rains of the silk mill destroyed at Reading. It is feared that the steamer conveying naval officers from San Francisco to Mare Island will have been caught in the gale. Further particulars show that the tornado took an easterly pafch r covering a track only two hundred feet in width, through the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Besides those killed, many thousands of people were injured. Beading railway station was razed to the ground and set 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 half a million dollars. The explosion is supposed to be due to electrical disturbance consequent on the tornado.

(Received Jsn, 14, at I.SO a.m.) NEW TOEBVJan. 13.

It is estimated that the damage done at Niagara by the recent tornado will amount to a million dollars.