| Show THE aloe cloe tL OE IN I 1 N IN I 1 JS N DIA bla D I 1 A this cyclone was unequalled unequal led within the experience of pen per persons solis soils who resided in india for forty years ii it burst ov o or v er calcutta on the uth ath of Ov october Lober loben and desolated a tract of couii country try one hundred and twenty nive five miles long out of more than two hundred vessels in the hooghly river only eight or nine escaped serious damage and many lives were lost it appears that during the whole night of tuesday october 4 the weather at calcutta was marked by a succession of squalls and heavy rain from the north northeast and it maintained the same game character till past 10 on wednesday morning gradually increasing in violence the wind then veered to the tho east east bast and began to blow more more steadily and with increasing fury the weaker trees were uprooted or broken short but for the first hour or eo so no greater damage was done between eleven and twelve a noise holse like that of distant dismut thunder gave warning as it gradually increased that something worse was coming in about two minutes from this time the true cyclone was upon the town wherever there were trees they were either uprooted and fell carrying with them in many cases walls railings failings rai lings and buildings s or their branches were snapped oft like ilke ke reeds and hurled away with the wind carriages and were upset and strewed the roads mingled with the debris of roofs verandahs verandas veran dahs gates and fillen fallen trees curro gated iron roof ings were torn doubled doubled up and blown away like sheets of paper by two the eastern and southern suburbs of the city and those parts of it to the westward which from their proximity to the maidan and the river were the most exposed were vere more or lesi less a wreck excepting cocoanut coco anut and other palms scarcely a tree was anywhere to be found standing the tho beautiful avenues in fort william were entirely tirel y destroyed the eden gar gardens dens turned antof into a wilderness in tank square the trees and shrubs werd were were blown away and in many parts the I 1 iron ron fallings torn up and overthrown in garden reach beach the roads were blocked up and rendered impassible from the trees that fell across them the splendid avenues of trees in the compound of tho the school op opposite pos t e st james church some of which must have been four or five feet in circumference was wag entirely destroyed the tr being sn snapped ia pe off above the leavel of the wall wail wa pil vhf chich c h protected them but which is now no longer standing DISASTERS TO SHIPPING LOSS OF LIFE with few exceptions the shipping were driven from their moorings and cast ashore or jammed together on the opposite side of the river while several were sunk in mid channel and others stranded by the storm wave high up on the calcutta shore several ships are ashore in garden reach beach and one sunk a little below the garden house the old hindostan hindustan Hind which was used as a hulk and floating church sank it a appears that having broken adrift sha sho sg fouled the nemesis doing her damage and finally rolling over and over wei woj went down opposite the king of house the ships that have foundered are the lady franklin Govind pore poro azemia Aze miaAnne anne royden boyden zoo loo choo vespasian aslan asian ville ville de do st denis merrie mernie england 1 ind and the the tul tug tug Ete amens amera her hercules hercules cules fire queen bans banshee ce bakelite Bat Sat elite linnet and hindustan the Moul mein which was generally supposed to h have a 0 been lost is adrift great loss of life it is to be feared has attended these foundering many european sailors were to be seen during the gale floating down the river on pieces of wreck and wo we have heard the number lost estimated as high as two hundred the scene presented resented by the chippi shipping ing says the calcutta calcutta englishman of the loth is indescribable there must be at least one hundred ships ashore all huddled together in tangled masses in inextricable confusion yards and masts are hanging about in in every conceivable cei vable form of wreck and the scene is one of the utmost desolation and ruin the loss of boats of every description is also enormous probably nine out of ten were capsized and sunk by the storm wave which followed the change chango of the jv wind ind from east cast to south and many of the remainder have been cast up on shore the utmost difficulty is from this cause experienced in comma n g with the shipping 1 tes ELSEWHERE 16 e appears utta at it late lati r than f al ulta utta ata ala it Q I 1 pi a rs to have tra travelled traveled vOled i in ii a we terly direction at barrack pore the park was stripped of its finest trees the barracks are unroofed and all the bungalows were injured the mass of vegetation tation on the vez vey ground is to be dreaded creade especially as heavy falls of rain have since taken place the loss of life has been awful and whole villages have been swept away the East eastward rard erbun grants have been entirely destroyed it is feared that the people at the granta grants on the island islan have all been swept I 1 away the whole of the river bank from to kedgeree was strewed with the dead bodies of cattle in great numbers and a great number of the coolies who terl Teri perished shed on onboard inboard board the aliee alice were still lying between her decks on the ath it is reported that tho the large village of has been so entirely swept away that the spot on which it stood can be no longer recognized thirty thir ty lives were lost in Kidder pore and seven in cooly babear THE LINE OF THE CYCLONE it is worthy of remark that though the cyclone took six hours to travel from kedgeree to calcutta its arrival at calcutta and burdean was as far as can be judged from the information received simultaneous or very nearly so it is evident from this that a line from kedgeree to calcutta was coincident or early nearly coincident with the line or progress of the storm while a line between calcutta and burdean was at right angles or nearly at right angles angler to it and the cyclone was travelling velling tra in a northeasterly direction this is confirmed by the account received from Koosh tia I 1 a from the direction of the wind at it appears that that place must have been traversed by the extreme no northwest edge of the cyclone |
