CYCLONE AND WATERSPOUT AT NEW BRUNSWICK.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 245, 27 October 1879, Page 4

CYCLONE AND WATERSPOUT AT NEW B RUNS WICK.

i An extra edition of thfc "Moniteur Av&Jien " contains the following pattiealfira of the great storm at Buclouche :— At about one o'clock en WednesJay afternoon the sky woh coverei *jth «J«rk, 'hick cldu.Js, and heavy ihunderchps were Lean! in the distance. This prfsosert n tempee', bat nobody expec eJ the terrific onn which plungsJ tie people of North Bank ia terror. Some thick cou.i3 'ploughed the sky, and two, eFpecially, enormously large and hlnr-k, apprcarhsi each oiher from opposite directions, and came in'o collision at Rich Cove, about two milea abov* St Mary's churcK The shock was t tribe, lonrli»g i Waterspnui conical in ehane and frightful in eii\ Tde c>clone moving towards the east traverse) «? Vt-r.il ema!l woods, uproo;in<j end i aisin j cvi rythina in the course of its p.s3.iga for ihr width of two a, vj«. Thne turmLou-es with barna ami giock were scattered • boot the fi-lds. Afur describing a circle towards iho north, the waierepoui fell upon a barn ond completely demolished it. The t\-i zia c uiso j.vd St M«r>'uan'i the Prcfi'-yierirtn churches and their dependencies. Advancing towards Ihe east in a zig zag fushitu, ia ihd twinkling cf an eye it reached Bnctouche church, where it wrought its last destruction on the s <Je of the frith, and then lost iisrlf ia the sea. On (be river tlu waterspout lifted two archeß from the top of the bi^ bridge to Ihe Bouth of the channel, cnJ launched them a hundred paces below. The covering of the mill on the south sido ana partly oq the north side was earned off, and the crown was injured. Returning to the river the syclooti moved back to strike the ctnvent, tht; church, and the presbytery, and it is here especially that the'ruiDS are enormous and (he destruction indescribable. The convent was considerably damage J, the church steeple was raised on ono aide many feet, and the church itself WBB otherwiee mach damaged onteide and in. The preSbytery ia a mere masa of ruins. The viclenca of the cyclone trae (remeodoue. Houses were raised thirty feet and dashed to pieces, Ar, St Mary's church trunks of trees, poles, and pieces of wood, etc., traveree.i ihe ftir with the rapidity of lightning. A largp, heavy bay cart that had been left near a barn at St Mary ; u wa* j transported a quarter of a mile, and a ! carriage was smashed to atom?. Rickß of hay containing twenty tons nearly disappeared before the tornado. One of the gallery beorheß of the Buctoucho Church was carried through a window into the presbyterry. The number of | dead and woundeJ, large as it appetre, 18 wonderfully small considering the circumstances. Among the dtad aru the wife of Etrenne Dupksais who wbb confined to her bed with sickness, and waa found dead in it in her demolished house ; Jean Squaw, wife of Thadeus, *bo bad ber head broken from 6toces from a chimney ; a two-year-old child of Alexis Boy, who died ytsterday of wounds received. Among the wounded are Alexis Roy, dangerously bruised all over bis body ; Mrs M Girouard, whose skull is fractured, and who remained insensible until this morning ; NarcieseChesee, wife and twodaoghters, badly bruised; Aoseime Attain, sick in bed and much bruised; a little girl of Philip Cornier, burned foot; two little girls of Tnomaß Ward, legs crushed; at, Indian widow, fractured fckoll and other injuries, and expected to die ; two young Indian girls, broken arms ; a young Indian, wounded in the leg ; a child of Vilol Girou»rd, fatally wounded. The number of houses destroyed is more than eighty. The losses amount to fully lOO.OOOdoIs.