Howling Winds

THE CTCLONE'S TTRATH. Movnt Carmel, 111., April 26.- A violent Wind-storm passed about a mile north of this place Friday evening, resulting in tha death of two persons, serious injury to sixi others, and a monetary loss of about Ï50,000. The killed and injured are as follows : Killed- John H. Wirths, a boy ten years old; Lewis Kerstein, a young married man. Injured- Harvey Riggs, seriously; twoHutchlns boys, one seriously ; Miss Maggie Wirths, seriously; Mrs. John Kellar, badly wounded; John Price, cut on head and face. Twenty-tlve or thirty houses and barns and two school-houses were totally or partially demolished. Some of the finest orchards in the country were destroyed, several b?ing coverod with the ruins of adjoining buildings. The velocity of the wind was fifty miles per hour, and every thing in its track was swept from the ground. Some of the largest trees in this vicinity were snapped off like twigs, and in the ruined barns and outbuildingsr many cattle, horses and hogs were killed. Growing crops also suffered severely. The main track was eventy yards wide, but iü cleared up orchards and fences for a width of half a mile. The proparty destroyed is estimated at over ï5f),ÜOO. Evassville, Ind., April 26.- Friday night a tornado passecl up White river, crossing the Evansville & Ten-e Haute railroad at Hazelton, thirty-eight miles north of this place, doing great damage to property and killin? Jamas H. Knott, a fisherman, ahd Scott Selby, a mechanic, working on a barn, and fatally injuring another man. Larga quantities of corn in cnbs were blown into the river. The small village of West Buena Vista was seriously wrecked, only two houses remaining uninjured. THURSDAT'S BLOW IN THE WEST. St. Louis, April 26.- The details of the destruction wrought by Thursday's cyclona are still coming in and the .indications ar that the loss of life was much greater than, first reported. The storm ravaged a strip of torritory 500 miles long and from half a mile to a mile wide. This path is covered ■with the debris of thousands of homes. Scores of isolated hamlets oft direct Unes of communication aro known to have been visited by the storm, but the disastrous results have not yet been ascertained. The cyclone was first heard of early Thursday afteraoon at Colony, Anderson County, Kan., about forty miles uorthwest of Fort Scott. It was preceded by a rumbling sound sush as usually accompanies an earthquake. The color of the cloud was a combination of green and yellow, and without any warning except the noise referred to it swept down on Colony and tore the little town to fragments. Ten thousand dollars' worth of property was destroyed, and one aged woinan who was sitting in a farm-house doorway was killed. The storm dashed over the southern jortíon of Anderson and Lian Counties, traveling due east until it reached Prescott, a town of about 1,000 inhabitants in the southeast corner of Linn County. Tha cloud had at this time, early Thursday evening, assumed the funnel shape that indicates its most destructivo mood. In its progress through the town it razed 200 buildings, killed fifteen persons and maiuicd twice as many more. Houses were picked up from their foundations, carried from 100 yards to a quarter of a mile, and then dashed violently to the ground. The dwellings in nearly eyery case were shattered to fragments, and the loss of life was caused as much by flying timbers as the violence of the storm. Only one-fourth of the houses in the village remam intact. A dispatch from Prescott savs' Thera are eighty destitute families, and tha physicians treated 150 persons who were suffering from severe injuries. Several hundred dollars was raised at Pleasanton and Blue Mound, but the sum is not sumcient to even temporarily relieve the destitution. The path of the cyclone on each side o( the town is littered with ruins. Wagons filled with the injured have been coming in all day. The villaga cf Miami, a few miles north ol here, Is completely wiped out Only two buildings are left standing, and not a trace ofthefortyorflfty that stood previous to the advent of the cyclone can be found. A few timbers are scattered here and there over the prairie, but it is an actual fact that nothlng but oetlars and foundations remaln to show that a villagewas located on the spot. The inhabltants acted with more Judgment tban the people of Prescott. Upon the Ürst observatlon of the storm they suspeeted lts character and took refuge in cyclone oellars and deep eellars beneath their nouses. Three persons are reported to have been killed outright. Extreme destitution prevails at the place, and the farm-houses, erops and live-stock In the vicinity have been annihilated. The coantry is very thickly settled, and the reports of the awful result of the cyclone have only come in from a radlus of ten or twelve miles. Beyond that it is supposed the destruction ts just as great as here, and the list of dead and wounded will receive many more accessions when the details from Wie territory referred to are received. Humble Station, on the Paciflc road, was destroyed, only one building being left standing. About fifty houses were destroyed at Sprague and nearly 200 persons injured, many of thetn, it is believed, fatally. At Ozark, Clarksville and Bearcy the loss of life was appaüing. The loss in property is estimated at 11,000,000 in KanBas and Missouri. Additional particular from the stormswept district near Nevada, Mo., showthat over flfteen persons were killed in Blue Hound and Osage townships, besides the lives lost in other townships. It is thought the loss of life in the path of the cyclone will reach forty. Boliver County, Miss., was visited by a terrible hail-storm, which killed manj oattle and horses and inflicted serious in jury on a number of colorad people. Beveral large buildings were wrecked and total damage of $5,000 done. Montreal, Can., April 23.- Montreal and the valley of the St. Lawrence in the immediate vicinity is again inundated. An ice-gorge, caused by an immense field of lake ice which, crashing into the basin immediately above Victoria bridge, caused a movement in front of the city, soon became jammed at the head of St. Helen's Island, causing the water to rise four feet in as many minutes, flooding Point St. Charles, Griffintowti, CommisBioner, St. Paul, McGill, and all other low-lying localities. The Nun's Island is under water and 300 head of cattle reported drowned. The nuns themselves had to nee for their lives in their night-dresses. In the poorer quarters of the city the suffering is great, as the poor people have no means of obtaining food.