The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-15
A man THROWN TWO HUNDRED FEET.
Antics of the Storm on Its Way
Through the Dominion.
An Indian Village Blown About as
Though Made of Cards.
One Million Dollars Damage Between
Montreal and Toronto.

MONTREAL, January 1t.-RepOlts arc jusi
coming in from the surrounding country Of
the extent of the damage by yesterdays cy.
clone. Thousands of barns have been COM
pletely demolished. hundreds Of houses have
been unroofed or partially blown down,
miles Of fences have been strewn about the
country. and entire orchards have been
swept of the face of the earth. Telegraph
wires are still in badly mixed up condition,
and in some Instances the railroads have
suffered severely,
At st. Therese, the man who was blown
off a Canada Atlantic train last evening, was
fonnd in snow bank 200 feet from the
track this morning. He was dead. There
are no tracks in the snow about, and it is in-
dspntable that he was blown the 200 feet.
Both legs and shoulder were broken, and
his face was scratched and clothes badly
torn, as if he had been pulled through the
branches of trees before alighting. His
identity has not vet been learned. 1t is ru-
mored this morning that one of the passen-
gers on the train which was blown off the
track at St Hilaire yesterday Is missing, and
a search party will be organized to 0verturn
the drifts in that locality.
At Cauginawaga, the Indian settlement OPP
posite Lacbine, where are congregated the
last remnant of the once powerful Ir0quois
tribe, peculiar scene presents itself. The
cyclone dallied with the village for fully ten
minutes before settling down into steady
hurricane, blowing at the rate of go miles an
hour. 1t threw the small frame houses of
the Indians about as if they were made Of
cards, and made matchwood of everything
movable. A regular panic seized the vii
layers. Fully 50 houses were unroofed, and
perhaps 100 of the villagers more or less
seriously injured by flying boarding and
Debris
There was much suffering last night by
families who had been rendered homeless by
their houses being demolished, and as the
gale continued blowing all night there was
very little rest for anybody.
At Beauharnois and Valleyfeld, on the
south side of the st. Lawrence and through
Chauteaugay and Huntingdon counties, at
the head Of the Adirondack range, the cy-
clone seemed to come twisting round from
its fercest fury upon the Canadians who pre-
sumed to live so close to civilization within
sight Of the Adirondacks.
In these two counties, and in Beauhar-
nois, too, there is hardly a fence standing.
Barns litter the fields and roadways, and the
cattle and other stock suffered severely. The
temperature. which was in the fftles during
the height of the storm, began falling at
dusk, and by 8 a. m. today was down to ze-
ro. The roads look like barbed wire road.
ways Will IdllS SbiCkiuR Uut VI tucuIs WHcIc
the debris stuck in yesterdays mud has
frozen there during the night and many of
the roads ON this account were rendered i'm
passable. For short time on the north SIDE
of the river in the peighborhood Of Corn
wall and Prescott and Kingston, and as far
down as Coteau Landing the cyclone had
things alls its own way. The Canada At
lantic bridge over the st. Lawrence at the
latter place was badly strained by the force
of the wind, and force Of experts were
sent this morning from Montreal to examine
it. 1t is feared that the structure is injured,
though it is the strongest of its kind in the
country. A heavy freight train
bound to Boston from above
Ottawa was crossing the bridge at
the time the storm reached this part OF the
st. Lawrence, and those who were near by
say that the span swung as If 1t were sup
ported by loosely hanging ropes.
IL is estimated that S1,000,c00 will hardly
repair the damage done between here and
Toronto.