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Show CASUALTIES, DisfiNiera hy Wind aud Water. Memphis, Tenn., 22. On Inst Thursday night while a party of men were engaged in cutting a back levee near tbe lower end ot lake Bolivar, in Bolivar county, Mississippi, and let oil the heavy body of water caused by unprecedented raius, tbe whole party werB caught in the s'uice aDd, with the exception of Captain Briscoe, all were swallowed up in the vortn. Briscoe was rescued after being more than an hour in the water and quick-Band. quick-Band. Ban Francisco, 22. Tbe brig Faloma, from Tahiti, reports that on February 7th a hurricane raged, in which about 120 people were killed and much properly destroyed. Gaiesburg, Ills,, 22. Last night a terrible rain and hailstorm struck this ciiy, hail beiug of prodigious Bize. One stone measured by business men waa said to be eight inches in circum- many fruit trees were badly damaged by hail aud rain. Wall Lake, Iowa, 22. A fierce tornado Btruck thia town yesterday, destroying a part of it. Three peraonB were hurt. Storm Lake, Iowa, 22. A wind storm did Berious damage here yesterday. yester-day. Several persons iu this vicinity are reported killed, Dubuque, 22. A storm at Pomoroy, a 3!ii:ill KtnioQ on the Illinois Central in Iowa, blew down a number of houses, killed a son ol George Wallace, aud a son of Mr. Pearce, and wounded fifteen or twenty other persons. The details are meagre. Miles of telegraph were blown down. At Galeaburg 2G0 lights in Lombard university and all other unprotected glass lrontiug north and east were broken- by hail and wind. Torrents of rain fell and several bridges wer destroyed. Cincinnati, 22. About noon today tiie walls ul Bavia house etableH fell in I burying four persons. Two of them ar dangerounly il not fatally injured. A Ud wub sliehtly hurt. |