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Commercial Advertiser.
The Cyclone at Calcutta.


The Calcutta payers and correspondence OF
Oct. 10 are full Of details Of the catastrophe
which occurred on the 9th. Of which We have
had brief mention in our foreign news BY teie-
Graph. The following is from the LONDON
Tiuss' Calcutta correspondence
4 cyclone Of unparalleled fury broke over the
district and ragged for five hours without inter
mission, and when 1t had concluded hall Calcutta
was in ruins, the hut- Of the NATIVES were nke
wisps Of straw, there Is scarcely q ire; staining
for miles, and now all around mere i q scene u
GesJIatiOn 80 appalling that no words could give
YOU an ADEQUATE idea of It. The river IaE=I
and tossed like : SEA, and It's power may De
iudged Of when l state that, Of the large steamers
Jf the Peninsular and Oriental Company, one
The Ben1dI, was laid high on shore. aud two
others were dismasted. Large ships shor up the
stream in blocks Of FIVE and ten, lodging here
and there In the mud. The natives We're paralyzed
by this fearful scene and could so nJthI z Even
now. Eve davs after, they CRY like children, for
there is not a home for miles. and the loss u lie
among them - terrible. One Hac sunk with
300 Of them on board, q little way above my
own house another fat sunk with 200 natlScs
IN il, and their bodies are washing up and down
incessantly- We are cut of from the rest Of the
world, for our telegrapEs are broken, no steamer
has been able 20 move til to-day, and the very
roads are chOked with fallen trees Already
the exhalatiOns from the mass Of dccaving vege-
tatiOn are insupIOTtable, and II Will BE- u mercy
If . dire fever does NOT follow close upon the
storm. Ear as the eye can reach there Is un-
broken waste and gloom. The Botanical Gar
dens IT Calcutta no longer exist. The Govern
ment dOckyard l. a pile Of ruins, and, in short,
there Is not 4 building which has escaped. To
increase the horrors VI this storm, a " bore Of
unusual size and force came rushing IN while II
was at it, height, and drove the helpless vessels
together in q heap. The HudoStqu, q large
Peninsular and Oriental steamer, sunk "a also
did tie hospital-ship, the BeHtIHck- 1t would be
tedious 10 pursue the endless catalogue Of mis-
chief >nob IN Inv no. V4-r- eAnv -. mr.-
Bengal before, and many a year must pass before
the traces Of ii are gone.
The Calcutta EllHshDtaH says: Between eleven
and twelve O'Clock a noise like that of distant
thunder, which probably may have been heard
from as lar as two miles, gave warning as il
gradually increased that something worse was
coming. In about two minutes from this time
the true cyclone was upon the town. Wherever
there we're trees they were either uprOOted and
fell. carrying with them in many cases walls,
ratings, and buildings, or their branches were
snapped off like reeds and hurled away with the
wind. Carriages and pulkees were upset, and
strewed the roads, mingled with the de51is Of
roof, verandahs, gates, and fallen trees; CORFU
gated iron TOOfngs were torn, doubled up, and
blown away like sheets Of Taper. BY two
O'Clock the eastern and southern suburbs Of the
city, and those parts Of IL 10 the westward which
from their proximity TO the MADAM and the river
were the most exposed, were more or less 81
wreck Excepting cJcOanut and other palms,
-CdICety q tree was any WHerc 10 De 1Juul stand
ing The beautiful avenues In Fort William
were entirely destroyed the Eden-gardens turned
into a wilderness. In tank-squarc the trees and
shrubs were blown away, and III many parts the
IRON ratings torn up and OverthrOwn. In Gar
den Reach the roads were blocked up and rem
dered impossible from the trees that fell across
them. The splendid avenue Of Us0h (DofyaHLeq
tongtoHa) trees in the compound Of the school
opposite 1T James's church. some of which must
have been four or five feet In circumference was
entirely destroyed, the trees being snapped off
above the level of the wall which protected them.
but which - now no longer standing. The
damage dome 10 buildings was considerable.
Among these we notice that the roof of the Free
School was blown away, the upper part of the
Roman Catholic Church ut the upper end OF the
Bow BaZaar-road entirely DESTROYED. and the
steeple of the Free Church Of Scotland. The
minarets of the Mosque in DhurrumtOlah were
all blown away, St. James, Theatre waS uuroofrl
and nearly destroyed, the roof Of the Cathedral
rs much damaged, the sheds Of the East India
Railway Company are unrUUfed, and NIessrs.
1hacker and Spink's premises seriously damaged.
In fact, scarcely, Il PUcka house in Calcutta has
escaped without Injury, while the native nuts,
in the suburbs, were almost all blown
down. The telegraph lines are interrupted in all
directions. All these losses are sufficiently annoy .
ing and lImentable but II i on the river that
the storm has been attended by the most disas-
trous consequences To give an accurate or
account Of the loss 10 the shipping Is
as yet impossible All Is confusion, and IL is
scarcely known what ships have been entirely
what are irrelnediably damaged, and what
safe. .