The record-union., 1892-06-01
WATERS And WINDS.
A Tremendous RainStOrm Visits
Central Indiana.
STREETS OF INDIANAPOLIS TURNED
INTO SMALL RIVERS.
Reports From the Hurricane at Maui
ritius Confirm Former Telegrams
as to the Enormous Damage Done
Twelve Hundred Lives Lost and
Thousands of People Rendered
Special to the RECoRD-UNroN.

special 10 the RECORD-UNION.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 31.-This city and
Central Indiana have had few such rains
as fell last night and early this morning.
IN effect 1t was cloudburst. The streets
were filed with water, which flowed
over the curbS into the yards. Rogue's
Run, which runs through the city, be-
came raging torrent, and many people
mad to flee for their lives. The electric
ears plowed their way through the streets
! like steamboats,. White River and Fall
| creek are on the rampage. Several
northern suburbs are reported under
water.
information received from outside the
city tonight indicate the loss of at least
! three lives, Carl Weaver, John Hender-
son and the latter's little boy being
drowned in Fall Creek. The rain con-
tlnues tonight, and the rivers are rising.
! Many houses in the lower part of the CITY
| are flooded and great damage done The
| 1oWlandS in the Wabash Valley are COW
| cred, and the corn and wheat crops de-
stroyed. At Wabash the manufacturing
! establishments have been compelled to
close because of the high water, and re-
ports OF damage come from all the towns
Z
ing much inconvenience.
TWO PEOPLE KILLED BY A TORNADO.
1NDEPENDENCE (Kas.), May 3I.-The
tWo-story stone house of James Sullivan.
near here, was demolished by a tornado
last night, two people being killed and
six others slightly injured
TERRIBLE Loss OF LIFE.
MARsEILLEs, May 3l.-Malls which
nave just arrived from Aauritius con-
firm the statement that l 200 persons were
killed and 1000 injured in the recent
hurricane.
The hurricane was preceded by n yio-
lent magnetic disturbance. The sea rose
nine feet, the highest level since the CIV
clone OF 1918. Scarcely a house in the
colony escaped damage. Many churches
and public buildings were DESTROYED.
The Church of Immaculate Conception
IS IN ruins. The Cathedral, by strange
chance, escaped.
The dead include a large number of
the leading Inhabitants. Fearful sights
were witnessed in the streets A factory
on the Martin estate collapsed. killing
200 Indians. Half the sugar crop is de-
stroyed. The planters losses are in
calculable. About noon the storm broke
with furious kissing, and for ninety
minutes the pitiless tornado ragged, ac-
companied 10y a deluge of rain. Build
ings collapsed, roofs We're blown of and
trees blown down.
The barometer suddenly began to rise.
the wind lulled and many people went
out, believing all danger passed. Al
O'Clock the wind burst again in ten-fold
violence from directly opposite quarter.
Inc Jury was maintained for two hours
At O'Clock the weather was again
calm, but fires then broke out in the
eastern suburbs and destroyed what the
wind spared. The country districts suf-
fered heavily, but as nothing compared
with Port Louis. Here the residents who
survived the disaster were too dazed
and unnerved to be OF much assistance in
the work of restoring something like or
der out OF the state OF chaos which existed.