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Show RIG CYCLONES. ! ! Itaton Rouge is Visited and Laid ! I" Knins. ! Reports From all Over the Country of i the Devastating- Effect of Last I Night's lliffh Wind. ! j New YoitK, July 6. A special from j Baton Rouge, La., says: A cyclone from a south-westerly direction passed through the residence part of the city . at G:.'iO this morning, wrecking manv I houses. The penitentiary walls were j ,,own in and many of the inmates killed and injured. Eight killed and twentv-eight wound- ed have been taken from'the debris at the penitentiary thus far. I iater I be cyclone passed over the! lower portion of the town unroofing I houses, tearing up immense trees and ' carrying pieces of the wreck through i the air lor many blocks. The bona-! yard is littered with trees that were ' torn up by the wind and pieces of : ..-i ioj, u ouier limners. The i penitentiary walls were blown down .and ten persons killed and thirty wounded. The factory building was de"-j de"-j niohshed and the hosm'tal and peniten-j peniten-j tiary are a mass of ruins, j The steamship Smoky City w-ts blown to pieces, there being nothing leit but the hull. Several of the crew were badly injured. i here were, forty prisoners at work in the pants factory at the time of the ! r,.';,.slb anJ of that number six were 'killed and twenty-two wounded, and horribly crushed. On the second story of the central floor was the hospital, where twenty sick prisoners lav.under- IKoiiis meoicai treatim nt. Of these I four were killed and fourteen seriously, If not fatally injured. A fire alarm ! was sounded, and the entire fire department de-partment summoned, together with citizens and officials, aided bv uninjured unin-jured prisoners. Thev worked vigorously vigor-ously to rescue the unfortunates. |