The Herald of Wales. — 1889-12-14 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WHIRLWIND-OF DEATH.  TERRIBLO CYCLONE IN NORTH CAROLINA.  A FACTORY BLOWN OUT OF SIGHT. A terrible ;cyclone, carrying death and destruction upoki its wings, has swept over a portion of Beaufort County, says a despatch of the 29th ult. front North Carolina. Reports so far received show that nine persons were killed by it, and that more than 20 were injured. The storm started in the upper or northern portion of the county and carried everything before it, cutting a aweth half a mile wide through timber, and strewing farms with debris. Largo oaks were uprooted and carried hundreds of yards by the wind, and cotton fields were swept clean, not even a 'stalk or rootbeing left. Farm- Arnemenn, the German dentist, who athouses were blown to atoms and the inmates in tempted to murder Judge Bristowe by shooting many instances had narrow eseapos from death, him with a revolver, at the Great Northern Farmer Wesley Edwards hoard the roar of the Station, Nottingham, on November 19th, was cyclone in the distance and called his family into again,brought before the local magistrates on the house. The family consisted of husband,. Wednesday, when the solicitor for the --wife and four children. The eldest, Miss Ellen, tion stated that his Honour was stih in too was to have been married to a neighbouring umedisfaqtory a comlition to permit his attendfarmer. When they saw that the cyclone was once to give evidence. The u.:m surgeon at moving directly towards the house the members the Hospital, where the Judge remains, exof the family sought safety in fight, but it was plainod that the palient was out of immediate then to late. The storm was upon them and danger, bat the risk to life still exists. The the house and outbuildings were swept away prisoner was further remanded for eight days. like chaff. Father, mother, and children were The Central News Hanley correspondent lifted high by the whirling wind and then telegraphs : Arrangements have been made to dropped back to earth dead 600 yards farther on. amalgamate the large collieries and blast furEdwards'e body was found impaled on,the linil, naves belonging to Earl Granville at Hanley ,of sullen tree. His wife's body- was found near Shelton and Etraria, with the Shelton Iron by. The-ehildrenled beeniarreed some distance end Steal Company, in which Earl Granville is further, said their bodies were terribly mutilated. one of the principal eta. The works emMts. Edwards's clothing hadbeenoompletely torn ploy se thousaml men and the proposed fromlier,andaheavytreehadfallenacroesherbely change is the meat important that has taken , Near the village af Waahington the storm atraic place in the history of the North Staffordshire ' a wooden-plate factory where many heads were iron trade. en-4ed. The nett.) of the machinery and the of the ehguie prevented the workmen A middle-aged man, giving the name of Lazing the approach of the cyclone until it Edwin Eaton Fordham' and with several =ewes upon them. The factory collapsed like a Am,. convictions against him, was I.o,flandea house of cards, and Joseph Elraerson and ' Thomas Collins were struck by flying timbers the Wolverhampton stipendiary on Wednesday a charge of theft from a dwelling house. and instantly killed. .A. • dozen others, whose names cannot be learned were badly injured, and rrisoner claims to be the rival of the celebrated Charles Peace, and boasts that he has committed same will die' The factory was '7'44 entirely mere robberies than any other criminal in Erg. away, nothing being loft to mark the spot whore hied. Ile was only releeeed from stage„a Gaol it stood except a few of the foundation stones. About a mile further on the cyclone overtook p n on Tuesday received at tho Mies Mat in Cleve, a young girl who was on Tuesday after a long imprisonment. Board of Agriculture a 'deputation the returning from a visit to a neighbour's. She of Newcaetle and County Council was whirled up into the air and is supposed to with regent hay* ed. Her body has not yet been to the losses from pleuro-pneumonia, the desirability Northumberland, of having inspectors acting from the Central Authority, and that compensation he paid from the imperial funds instead of the local rates. Mr. Chaplin said with mach that the deputation had urged he was heartily in sympathy. He agreed that great importance:l A