| Show A WIND STORM IN INDIA THIC THE OF DACCA ALMOST AND MANY PERSONS KILLED details have now been received of the tremendous wind storm which has lately devastated dacca le rain fell early in the eve evening n i ng akl then ceased halt achour I 1 aber densely black clouds IOU clou do bud suddenly da illy appeared in the so southwest ohm es t and almost immediately immediate ny a hurricane cane of terrific force swept through gli dacca destroying every obstacle in its course it lasted bar barely y three minutes and was succeeded cee ded by a complete calm fortunately tuna tely ay the width of the storms track was only about feet it struck the west of the town and nd after completely wrecking the large stone po and a large number 0 of f huts hats crossed the river and made a circuitous sweep utterly destroying several villages then re crossing the river it attacked with unabated lurry the magnificent palace ol of tile the leading Mabom ot of dacca sir abdul garni mia it then pursued its course coarse through abe most densely populated quarter the appearance of of dacca is described as like that mat ot 01 a bombarded city the largest and most massive houses are heaps of ruins tile the west wing ala of the palace is a mass of broken masonry the tae splendid furniture being beina entirely destroyed balls bails of flame are said to have been observed accompanying the hurricane the college the church and other public buildings bail dinga dings and the houses occupied by europeans being outside the track of tae ane storm were uninjured up to this date dead bodies have been recovered and 1000 cases are bein being treated in the hospital boa pital tile the loss of of property is estimated at rupees the es estimated timatea loss is rupees he has generously subscribed rupees to the relief fund his european engineer had a narrow escape for thle the root fell on him and a native by his bis side was killed by a falling failing beam storms of this character are almost aamodt unknown in india toe weather has baa however been abnormal owing to the fact that d during u rin march aud and april there was an stort en ti absence of the usual local storms london times |
