New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-01
A STORM IN INDIA.
From The Calculus Euslishmsn

From hs
The following report from correspoh.en" oh WYNN no
can RELY. Of an awful phenomenon happily o.Ano"n Il"
temperate climates will be read with ostonshmen,'
"AtsP. NJ of the 10th of April while we were messur-
ing the circumference of large hail stones mat Tell sny
about terrific storm passed to the southwest OF inc
station about miles off, The accounts brought by
natives next morning were so strange that od nor
Them but after gentlemen had visited me spe' anu
confirmed ALL l. too went 10 the wreck LETT by the hur
ricane. As some days had elapsed since the occur
renee. / found it impossible TO approach the
bodies. An eyewitness told me that, WINE II
was blowing pretty stiff from the southwest JET
IIack mass Of cloud towering high alo and almost touch
ing the ground, seen TO approach enother s9sr
mass advancing rapidly from the opposite direction lhey
whired round each other, the heat became intense ana
enyeoped in the greatest darkness houses, DaoooS
frecs men women and cattle hurled IN the Whr
wind dashed in all directions against frees nipaleu o
bsmboos or buried in the ruins On the sioes oi ,us
az tbe storm hinge haistones fell OF tho SIZE oil or'hs'
r. tscL was about 500 Yards broad its length IS nos
know n nor the extent Of the devastation asceraneI W
dead bodies counted by gentlemen VINO wsn' hc
arms and legs are In hospital Report says iha SUI nave
bee killed, besides end of cattle think very pr,
probable. AS the natives build Their hoasIs, IN
family in little separate farms hid IN cups OF oamOoo
with intermediate fields the scene presented Is tna VI
numbers of undstinguishable OF cumps OF pam
boo and trees up crossing each other IN every ee
ton and blocked mp with earth and materials that nag
formed houses entirely broken up that nothing coud
be recognized having formed roof sides La iaet
hexes beds and things made of planks were 50 broken
into peces of foot two and thrown about that was
not ALWAYS easy imagine what they had belonged TO-
Fem under The mases of rubbish aokals and vu ures
were pulling out the remains OF human beings and ca.
md rotting The fields were covered with the s&ee-
TONS Of human beings while the short thick branches
If trees that stood leaess ana oarSless supported
nrhsrs of xultures Vultures covered the plan,
TOO gorred TO fly at our approach, and hundreds
were soaring in circles high overhead IN the clear SKY,
marking In the heavens the course OF the storm on9
roor }emshed distracted being with head bandaged
and body scratched all over, bruised and cut mapped up
10 me; ne had lost all his relations-father mothe we
end where they had been carried away Ii woad require
hundreds Of men the piles of uproced oaeooH
&C. that mark the honestesds OF the missiny u n
Them will probably be found those that were killed. whc
some probably, had a living grave, heping-aas IA
vsin-tbat rescue would at last, or imagining Pos
sibIy that the whole world had been destroyed pun
cslov of a zemindar at Dumduma, on the River u so
ehu was blown in smiihers across the nver-vo yaus,
"a tie roof two men found flying passage and s'a"so
to say survived"