A Terrible Cyclone.
\ On the afcernoon of April 27, Ihe southern part of Montgomery and Greene Counties^Ohio, was visited by due of those ' terrible tempests that devastate everything m their course. Ttjis s:iid to have been the most destructive that ever ocpurred m that part of the country. It appears to "have originated near Wood me,. a small town smith of Day ton j and sin eye-witness desctibes it as appalling m its fury. The cyclone was formed by the union of two light storm clouds from the south and north-west, which immediately assumed the force of a waterspout, lising and descending; like wa.ves ofjhe sea, and destroyed everything m its way. A gentleman^ who was neai enough to /ibserye accurately, says it was fully one-eighth of a mile m width,' and moved about over the country like an immense cloud' of smoke, while eveiy where m its path the air was dark ..with trees and ruins of ' l honses. . Forests ., were mowed down like, weeds. When the cyclone, reached Jamestown, a -thriving village of 600.inhabitants, it levelled the . entire place, and killed &ix; people. ... ;..,.; -
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 13 August 1884, Page 2
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185A Terrible Cyclone. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 13 August 1884, Page 2
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