A Destructive Cyclone

Chicago, June 5. A cyolone occurred nonr Masón City, Illinois, last Friday niorning. An inkyhutjd clond or smoke like colaran was observed gatlicring near the cnrth's BUX&oe On ai d[); :i prairie six miles from that plM!e, and í'l'ohi this column soon iroso fchree aamrwer and spire-like ploud columns! which continuad to ascend rapidly until they rcachod and seomed to attach tuouiaelvos olosoly to a passing cloud above. Tlüs friglitful app;u-ition moved slowly toward Masón City, but fiiially changed its OOurse, much to tho relief oí' the poople of that place. A mile away from its track an odor mnoh like that ot buxning sulphui was in'u.ilüd by severa! petaonSi A gentleman who stood a hundviíl yards Erom tbe oyolone when it paased saya tHat gtuall flashes of eleotricity were consfctntly visible in the storm column passing from tho oarth to the clouds above, and that lapid popping, cracking reporta were IiínuiI, rouünding Iiiiii most í'ovcüily of an infiintry regiment in battle tUing thoir muskete is rast ::s poesible. The pathway of the oyolone was neady three milos in length and from twenly to thirty feet in width, and in that pathway not ;i gpeai of grass, nut ;i stuik of com or wheat, not a shrub, not :i partióle of vegetation was left alive. For diataaoe the earth was litcrally plowed "P to the deptb. of six inches. The i-nhmni of whirling air must have been intensely hot, as every groen thing in its path was literally driod to a crust. Anothcr feature of tho cyclone was that while its rotary motion must have been of ineonceivably great velocity its progrsesive motion was not above tho rato of six milos an liour. The outlines of its jiathway were so well defined that five (eet iVora the outer line of total dostruction of vegetation of every kiud uot a vestige of its effects could bc soen. Fortonately no housos siood in the torntulo's line of marcli.