Terrible Cyclones

This week bas been a week of terrino winds aud cyclones in various parts of the couutry, and never has the work of these cycloueá been more terrible and death-dealing. Sunday night a cyclone swept through Central Iowa killing 41 persons and doing an immense amount of damage. Mnnday night, the great wind storm struck Michigan, tearing through üakland and Maoomb counties aud leaving a list of 45 dead, scores badly iujured and $1,000,000 property destroyed. Wednesday afternoon a cyoloue raged for thirty minutes in St. Louis Mo. , and East St. Louis, inflicting millious of dollars damage and killing over 400 people and injuriug thousauds. In Michigan the work of the oyclong Monday was through the northeru part of Oakland and the sontheru part of Lapeer couuties aud southeast tbrough Macomb county. It croseed Lake St. Clair just beyond Mt. Clemeus and did some destractiou in Canada. Several viHages were destroyed or badly damaged aud its path is rnarked by ruined farm houses and barns. Forty-five persons are dead and more will die froin the terrible injuries inflicted. Two f unnel shaped clouds met at 6 30 o'clock seveu miles nottheast of Ortonville and neat Grand Blauc. Awonaau was killed in the flrst house Btrnck ; a woiaan aud two small ehildren were killed in the second house in its path ; two adults and three childreu were killed in the third house; the owuer of the fourth house was fatally injured ; the owuer of the fifth house was carried fifty feet and left dead, his wife died withiu a few bours aud other iumates were badly injured. Froin here on the storm swept everythiug iu its path, injuring inauy, though the fatalities were not quite so thick. Iucludiug these, eighteen were killed about Ortouville, nine at. Oakvillo, sis aD Thoruville, three at Thomas, two uear Metamora, one at Fairgrove, oue at Whigville and one in Mt. Ulemens. Over a hundred persons wereseverely injured. Fariña were swept of their live stock, deadsheep, horses, cows, and swine were to be seen everywheie. The vil! age of Thomas, which ooutained 150 inhabitauts, was eutirely destroyed, there not being a house left standing. The loss in Oakland county is estimated at between f300,000 and $400,000. In Macomb county the loss was $300,000 and iu Lapeer over $200,000. Mt. Clemens was the only laige place to suffer fom the cyclone which did considerable damage and a nnrnber of persons were injured. The funeral of ten of the victims near Ortonville was held at the Baptist church there Waduesday and sis more were buried there yesterday. The cyclone at St. Louis, Mo., started at 5:15 o'clock Wednesday evening and did its damage along the river front wheie it followed a valley, doing damage about ten blooks wide. The fury of the storm was especially feit over a space six blocks wide. Jumping the Mississippi river and tearing every vessel loose from its moorings, wrecking part of the great bridge aoross the Mississippi, it spent its fuiy on East St. Louis, UI., where factory af ter factory went down and over 200 people were killed. Fire added to the horrors of the wind and reaehed many buried alive in the ruins. A passenger train crossing the great bridge was overturned but fortuuately without loss of life. The grand stand iu St. Louis feil, but the pólice had done good work aud fightiug the mob like héroes, kept tbem from going to tbeir own destruc - tion. The gas works were swept away, columns of burniug gas leaped high iu the air. A promiujut hotel with its guests in East St. Louis was swept into a creek. A poorhouse coataiuiug 1,030 patients, was uuroofed and the tower crashed 'through to the basement bnt not a life was losr. At Rushville, Mo., at fonr o'clock a school house was demolished and 50 children killed. At Darke, Iil., a school house was also demolished aud S0 children killed. The latest estimates place the loss of life at 400, witb thousauds injured more or less severely. The exact number will not, however, be ktiowu for many days. The greatest damage was inflicted in a three mile strip along the Mississippi. Mauy buildiugs collapsed from the force of the wind, miles of telegraph and telephoue wires were torn down aud the screets in the storm district are covered with dabris, in many places 10 feet deep. The hurricane carne at a time when the business center of the city had beguu to send its woikers to their homes, and the destructiou aud ' devastatiou of livos aud property is awful. Th i great Eads bridge across the Mississippi had the upper portion for a distance of 50 feet carried away. Great iron girders were twisted like strings aud tons upon tons of masonry were tbrown upon the tracks. A Chicago & Alton passenger train was oaught by the wind and tnrned upside down, and three trolley cars on the upper portion of the bridge turned over severely shaking up their occupants. Many steainboats are at the bottom of the river and others are wreaked and dismantled. Steps to relieve the iininediate necessity of the residents of the stricken city have been taken in Chioago, many citizens coming forward with noble offers of peculinary assistacne. At Washington the house and senate coucurred in a resolntion that the war department send asuffioient number of tentsto St. Louis to afford temporary protection to those without homes. Andrain county, Mo. , was also visited by the oyolone but the damage done there was not so great although several were killed and injnred.