The Awful Cyclone

Boston, July '28. - Tbeflourishingcity of Lawrenoe was visited Saturday by one of tlic most sudden and destructivo velones known to the Bastera States, and eight persons were killed, sixty serlously injured, seventy buildings were wreeked or destroyed and öOO people made homeless. Such is the summary of the catastrophe. The property loss will aggregate about $185,000. Un fortuna tel y, it will fall almost wholly upon the lndustrious poor, and in only a single case was it insured against tho elements. The path of the storm was only about 400 feet wide, but starting frora the Itoston & Maine railroad station in the southern section of' tho city it extended parallel with the Merrimac river four miles clear into Andover. The force of it ceased as Buddenly as it had appeared. On one side of a road where it ended the windows and blinds of a farm-house are wrenchedandshattered, while justacross not as mui'b as a vine or rosebush is disturbed. About a mile of this path lay through South Lavvrence; the ground was low and new and during the last dozen years has been covercd by the cottages of the mili employés. They averaged about 82,000 in value, and the wind swept tliem down like so many card hom-es. The storm struck the city sbori.., bef ore 10 o'clock. The northern boundary of the belt of destruction was but tbree streets south of the lofty milis, with their busy throngs of tbousands of workers, showing how narrow was the escape from more appalling loss of life and property. Buildings were crushed like eprgshells. Sotne were lifted from their foundations and dashed to pieces. Others were tipped over or blown from their posilion and moro or less damaged. The air was filled with flying debris. Most of those who met death in the wreek were killed instantly. Many lay unoonscious or groaning in the ruins of their homes. The survivors were too much terrifled to know where or when the cyclone ended its course, but the train of ruin in its path showed that it touched the earth at or near the cricket grounds, crossed Emmett 3treet, Hroadway, the railroad and Parker street, and entered Springfleld street at its southwest end, traversed its entire length, demolishing nearly every thing in its course, including one house on Foster street and twoon South Union street, where they cross Springfleld street, passed from Sprinp-fiold street into Union square, leveltng over 500 trees, and thence ovor Shawseen river into the town of Andover, where it exhausted its fury on trees and fences. [South Lawrenoe is that part of Lawrenee which lies on the south side of the Merrimac river. It contains g,01J Bores. Being attractive as a home for the employés of the milis, It has, of late, growD rapidly. Althóuga recognized as a district for homes, there are several tnanufacturing establishments on that side of the power furnishing atream. Along the banks are the milis of the Farwell bleaehery, the Stedman & Smith Company, Clegg & Fisher. Butler & Robinson, Merrïmac Paper Company. Monroe Paper Company and the Sutton fiour concern. On the south side, too, are the passenger station of the main line of the Boston & Maine railroad and the Boston & Maine oar shops. At the eastern end of Springrteld street, which marks the center of the path of the storm is Union Park, an open pleasure ground containing 1H4 acres. From this square the street extends two blocks to the Boston & Maine car shop property. The city of Lawrenee has once before sustained a disaster. On January 10, 1860, the Pemberton mili, a flve-story building, feil without warning on account of the thin walls and inefficiënt support. Of the '00 persons in the mili at the time 114 were killed and 411 injured.1