Death Dealing Cyclone

Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 27.- A funnelehaped oloud appeared out of Lake Ontario a little before 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and, gathering force as it carae from the lake, swept over the Niágara península from northwest to southwest. Running parallel to the Weiland canal, it cut a swath 300 feet ■wide from lake to lake and did incredible damage. At least flve persons were killed and about flfty more were injured. The damage is enormous, and may reach $1,000,000. The greatest damage was done at Merritton, a manufacturing village one and a half miles south of St. Catherines on the Weiland canal. There are two large paper milis and a cctton mili there. The Lincoln paper milis were demolished and in their ruins two lives were lost and several persons were fatally injured. The Ward schoolhouse, containing seventy-five pupils, was overthrown, one girl killed and a score badly injured. Merritton was ruined. Grantham, a township to the south of Merritton, was also visited, and two Eisters named Aiken, were caught in the fall of their house and have since died. The destruction of isolated farmhouses is inevitable, but nothing more can be learned. All the wires are down, save one from St. Catherines to Buffalo. St. Catherines hospitals are fllled to the choking point. The killed: Ina Moffatt, a small girl, killed in the Merritton school; Clara O'Neil, killed in the ruins of the Lincoln mili; Mrs. John Bickley, wife of a St. Catherines newspaper man, killed by the fall of Orange hall at Grantham; the Misses Aiken. The fatally Injured: Robert Bradley, Mary O'Neil, Jennie Nester, Mary Welch, James McCarty. The fatally injured ones were caught in the fall of the great mili. About twenty children were injured in the fall of the Ward school, but none will die.