Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-08-30
NEW VOL. l5---N0. A.
fiji of one fourth, aud turned out upon
the world as tramps, three millions OF
wealth producing laborers.,
Very Truly Yours,
JOHN A. THOMSON.
Summit Point, West Va
WORK OF a CYCLONE.

MANY kOFLE hli.LhD OK w oUNDED-
OVER ElaHrr HOUSES DESTROYED.
At Buctouche, New Brunswick, about
one o'clock on "Wednesday afternoon
the sky was covered with dark thick
clouds and heavy thunder claps wers
heard in the distance This presaged
tempest, but nobody expected the ter
rife one that plunged tho people of
North Bank in terror. Some thick
clouds ploughed the sky, and two, espe-
cially enormously large and black, APP
preached each other from opposite di-
rections snd came in collision at Rich
Cove, about two miles above ST Mary's
Church. The shock was terrible, form
ing a waterspout, conical in shape, and
frightful in size. The cyclone moving
towards the east traversed several small
woods, uprooting and razing everything
in the course OF It's passage for width
oftwo acres Three farm houses, with
barns and stock, were scattered about
the fields.
After describing circle towards the
north the waterspout fell upon barn
and completely demolished it. the zig
gag course saved 81. Mary's Church, the
Presbyterian Church and their depen-
denotes, which thus by good fortune
escaped otherwise certain destruction.
Advancing towards the east in zig gag
fashion the waterspout in the twinkling
of an eye reached Buctouche Church,
where il wrought its last destruction on
the side of the Firth aud lost itself in
the sea. On the river the waterspout
lifted two arches from the top of the big
bridge to the south OF the channel and
launched them hundred PAGES below.
The covering of the mill on the south
side and partially on the north side was
carried of and the crown was injured.
Returning to the river the cyclone
moved back TO strike the convent, tho
church and presbytery, aud il is here
especially that the ruins are enormous
and the destruction indescribable. The
convent was considerably damaged. The
church steeple was razed on one side
many feet and the church itself was
otherwise considerably damaged ont
side and in. The presbytery is nero
mass of ruins. The violence of the cy-
clone was tremendous Houses were
raised thirty feet and dashed TO pieces.
At st. Mary's Church trunks Of trees,
poles, pieces OF wood, etc, traversed tho
air with the rapidty of Lightning A
large heavy hay cart that had been left
near barn at ST. Mary's was trans
ported quarter Of mile and car
riage was smashed 10 atoms. Kicks Of
hay containing twenty tons nearly dis
appeared before the tornado. One Of
the gallery benches OF the Buctouche
Church was carried through a window
into the presbytery.
The number of dead aud wounded,
large as it appears, is wonderfully small,
considering the circumstances. AmcDg
the dead are tho wife Of Etrenno Dup
lessis, who was confined TO her bed with
sickness and was found dead in il in her
demolished house; Jean Squaw, wife of
Thaddeus, who had her head broken by
stones from chimney; two-year-old
child Of Alexis Roy, who died yesterday
of wounds received. Among the wound.
ed arc Alexis Roy, dangerously bruised
all over his body; Mrs. NJ. Girouard,
whose skull is fractured and who re-
mained insensibIe until this morning,
Narcisse Chesse, wife and two daugh-
tiers, badly bruised; little rirl Of Philip
Coemier, burn. foot; two ..ttle girls OF
Thomas Ward, legs crushed; an Indian
widow, fractured skull and other injur.
les and expected TO die; two young In
dian girls, broken arms, young Indian
wounded in the leg; child Of Vi,ol
Girouard, fatally injured. The number
of houses destroyed is more than eighty.
Tho losses amount TO fully 100000