CYCLONE IN AMERICA

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8742, 31 March 1890, Page 2

CYCLONE IN AMERICA

DREADFUL DESTRUCTION OP PROPERTY. SEVERAL PERSONS BURNT. 2000 HOUSES BLOWN DOWN. CATHOLIC CHURCH ENGULPHED. fPER PKKsS ASSOCIATION.]}' New York, March 28. — further reports of tho cyclone experienced along the left bank of the Mississippi state that the Railway station at Louisville was swept bodily into the Ohio river. Two thousand houses were levelled to the ground, and trains and trams were blown of! the tracks. Owing to the houses being wrecked, the city was speedily in ilames at many points, and numbers of unfortunate residents who were unable to escape i'rom the debris burnt to death. A party of Scotch tourist farmers and several English travellers were killed. Metropolis, a town in Illinois was destroyed, engulphing the Catholic Church, which was full of refugees. The lowlands of Arkansas and the Mississippi were flooded, and. hundreds were drowned. New York, March 29. — The tornado affected all the Western States, and was felt the worst in Ohio Valley. In Indiana the cyclone swept everything in its path for a width of 500 } r ards. The towns of Bowling Green, Jcffcrsonville, and Newport suffered greatly from the tornado and floods. The mortality of Louisville is estimated at under one hundred, and the loss to property at two million pounds. New York, March 30. — The loss of property is enormous. Only a few houses are left standing, the cyclone having either wholly or partially destroyed the rest. A large body of water enveloped Marburg, and it is believed that the dam burst. The hills are covered by the inhabitants who were rescued. At Texas all the principal buildings were washed away, and a man named Grayen was drowned.